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Ep. 171: Is Slow Productivity the Solution to Burnout?
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Are We Doing This to Day?
Hunting was a very skilled activity. Whe when you don't have very sophisticated a weapons like rifles, rites, you're doing skilled but important work at a natural pace. There's no notion ofa 18 things i'm trying to get done as a paleolithic hunter gatherer. And then that i dod basically what we did throughout most of our history. Now, compare that to where we are to day. We constantly have this overloaded list of things that we have to do. This causes three problems, three problems that were not faced by our paleolithic ancestors. One is just the simple short circuiting of the centre of brain that is dedicated to making long term plans for goal
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