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Ep. 65: Is Productivity Bad?
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
The Colored Folder Effect in Career Advice
People are very bad at extracting accurate, prescriptive lessons from their own experience. So when people are put on the spot, they will come up with answers that are internally consistent but may have nothing to do with what really mattered in their experience. What i learned pretty quickly when researching my book was not to ask the straightday student, what's your advice for studying? But instead to say, what is the last exam that you took and got a good grate on great, lets talk about how you did study for it. Lests, just walk through the time line. It's a journalistic approach where you're basically trying to recreate what the subject did to get their successful solution. And...
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