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Ep. 209: Email and Living with Purpose
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
You Need to Do Less
If you're trying to make progress on all those things at the same time, you will ma meaningful progress on almost none of them. We often incorrectly think that as a linear function, no matter what we spend our time on,. But that's not actually how it works. If this function was simply linear, then spending one hour on ten separate projects would give you the same reward as ten hours on one project. So i'm going to give you a two step process here. One, i do think you need to simplify, especially in that world of hobbies, et cetera, and maybe outside your professional life. Next, you want to have one point of major focus that is getting
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