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Ep. 213: The Art Of Saying No

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Getting the Motivational System to Work on More Acute Stimuli

Our brain does not understand i i understand. Our motivational loops are meant to function on much more immediate and clear stimuli. The mismatch can create a literal anxiety for many people. We have some trouble literally getting the motivational system to put the right chemicals into our system that gets us up and moving. If you get rid of your time block planning during the daylike, let's just rock and roll, so i don't have to have the anxiety of having something scheduled, you're opening yourself up to a much more existential anxiety. This is not, from a physiological perspective or a psychological perspective, a better subjective experience. It's a deeper existential anxiety you're going to feel. You'll get

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