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Ep. 220: The Two Types of Ambition
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Michael Kriton's Busy Ambition
Michael Kriton was a doctor at Harvard Medical School in the 1970s. He wanted to write a nonfiction book about hospital life, and he asked for time off from his final year of medical school to do so. The dean told him it would be hard because he had already published four books during his first three years there. This is when Kriton did his mic drop: "I don't think you realize how hard it is to write a book"
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