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Ep. 158: LISTENER CALLS: The Story of My First Book Deal

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Deep Life - The Hard Part

The deep life is about living your life in radical alignment with things you value. The idea, briefly, is to identify the important areas of your life and focus on them for a few weeks at a time. Arshall recommends taking each of these buckets in turn and giving it four, six, maybe eight weeks. It's not trivial but is also tractable. These keystone habits should be something that advance, is something you care about in that bucket.

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