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Ep. 119: Does Accomplishment Require Overload?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Slow Productivity Is a Line With Our Nature

There's a seasonality at different scales, which is much more natural. Our mind likes accomplishment, but we need concreteness really to extract that full satisfaction from accomplishment. So fast productivity works against our nature. Slow productivity alins with our nature. And maybe there's a month w are working really hard on this thing, but then a month we are basically doing nothing.

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