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Ep. 127: Does Productivity Diminish Leisure? (with Brad Stulberg)

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Groundenes - A Metaphor for Struggling for Enlightenment

Research shows that if you pursue work from a place of curiosity, in openness and freedom, you're significantly more likely to experience flow. Ancient eastern wisdom traditions were all over this: If you string the lute too tight, then you don't get harmony. Eloot is a metaphor for striving; yit can be striving for anything. So what groundenes tries to offer is a pathway and some practices to string that lupe so that there's this balance between wanting to strive, because striving gives meaning to life,. but at the same time not doing it from aplace of compulsion.

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