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Ep. 199: Quieting an Ambitious Brain

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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How to Stay on Your Game When You Have a Baby at Home

You need to be on your game from a productivity perspective while you're at work, especially when you have a young baby at home. You want to be very organized, really clear and scheduling and setting expectations so that you can keep work constrained. And then finally, the advice i always give new parents, if you both work, you have to sleep train the kid. All right? They're not going to magically sleep train themselves. It's one year. One year, your career will be fine. But also, there's things that are just as important. Everyone in the family has to sacrifice, uh, to keep the lights on, the food on the table. You have to get

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