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Ep. 177: Is Ambition Worth It?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Struggle Over Ambition

i'm increasingly feeling that the answer is going to be cutting each other some slack and seeing ambition as this complicated, wonderful, terrible, interesting piece of the human condition. So i don't have a nice, clean story to give you. I don't know if that's true, but i think that's one way of trying to get at this this fund mental, novelistic, tragic, inspirational, tuga war that is at the core of so many people's life. This is what you should do. Do these three steps, put this card on your trello board and use a time block plan er. Boom. Your good with ambition. All right, chessy, well,

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