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Ep. 133: How Do I Defeat Distraction?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Having Too Little or Too Much Time Is Related to Lower Subjective Well Being

i want to look a ltle bit closer at this because though i get the base superstructure theory approach, as we've learned in the hundred and 50 years it's been since this theory really got articulated. And so to have a more nuance look at this idea production outside of work being good or bad, i want to briefly mention a study that a listener of this podcast recently sent to me. Let me build a canoe in my garage. Let me go a train for an athletic event. That this is itself negative. Is just the part of this culture of production that is really in the tive. Therefore the revolutionary act is to resist this false drive towards production and just look at the

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