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Ep. 130: LISTENER CALLS: Leadership vs. Availability

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Taking Breaks Between Big Projects

I'm a big believer in what i call multi scale seasonality. That is, having back and forth seasons between intensity in your work and rest from that intensity. On the daily time scale, there's going to be periods where you're working very intensely. And you want to compensate those with periods during your same day where you are recharging not doing that type of intense work. I practice a friday sundown, the saturday sundown work shabot.

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