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Ep. 39: DAVID EPSTEIN on Skills, Practice, and the Subtle Art of Cultivating a Meaningful Career

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Skill Acquisition Engine in a World in Which Work Is Cognitive

i transform everything into advice, because that's my disorder. You you're advising towards essentially a becoming a like you'ra training, skill acquisition machineik. Not on the world's best, but just this notion of i can do that deliberate action. I so it's like the spena skill acquisition engine in a world in which work is cognitive, i guess. All these things are hard. Let me learn this. Let me take this fiction writing class. Lemme o k nowm, i'm doing the crime. Beet le meu figure out how to do that. Well, and nle what soething else. E on niht, when i think about you and

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