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Ep. 69: How Do I Find Joy in Leisure?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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How to Do Research Really Well

"Parkinson's principle will be at play here, that if you just let those fill the time available before you think about research, there won't be enough time left," says Sohan. "You can be an incredibly good teacher and on top of your reasonable service requirements in that smaller footprint, if you're organized." Work with senior people who already produce really good works to earn from them how they tackle this type of work,. Find important, but hard questions, as opposed to non important, but tractable questions. And then really, really grind on that question of how to make progress, because those are going to earn you tenure in the end?"...

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