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Ep. 252: The Deep Life Stack

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Importance of Discipline

A directory, a folder, a drawer, and a desk where it's going to be the one place where you keep track of everything that you've committed to doing your life. At the beginning, you could just have a folder on your desktop. You're starting to practice having commitments that are about long-term value not what you want to do in the short term. The thing I want to emphasize here is don't worry so much about getting this exactly right because when we're done with this stack, we're going to add one final piece, which is iterate.

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