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Ep. 140: LISTENER CALLS: Frustration and the Deep Life

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Importance of Discipline

When it comes to discipline, scale matters. Even the most disciplined people in the world do not have that ability to say, on the small time scale of this minute, that minute, i always do the right thing. A lot of effort has to be involved. It's complicated to get habits to stick. Causei it's a game you have to play o be tractable. And if i see my systems aren't working, my habits aren'to working, whatever, i'm knot oany results. I'm not going to give up until i have something that works. That hain is never broken.

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