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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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Are You Trying to Improve Your Strength or Your Weaknesses?

Alsos: There's not a strength weaknesses, binary it's this particular skill where i need it to be or not. Alsos: You're taking skills that are not where you need em to be, and you improve it. It seems like its maybe needlessly confusing, actually, if you're thinking about skill improvement through that framework. What's your goal? Do you have any idea of what's needed to perform at the level you aim for? How do you make sure that you get there?

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