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Ep. 232: The Lumberjack Paradox

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Last Component of a Workday

The setting, the stress, the clarity and the control of your work all matter. We should engineer for the characteristics of our work just like we might engineer to get in better shape or live in a place that has more activities that make us happy. So what I want to do is go through those four characteristics again and for each give you a concrete example of someone who has engineered their career to push that characteristic in a good direction.

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