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Ep. 126: LISTENER CALLS: A Tour of My Home Offices

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Do You Have a Physically Difficult Workday?

You have a pretty limited window of high quality cognitive activity open to you after a physically demanding day. You can probably get in one good session, 60 to 90 minutes, probably it. And also, your mind just is not going to have thephysical energy to go much longer if you have a really demanding day. So there's two things to do here. One, i think you could probably get 60 to 90minute of high quality reading, with high quality note taking, soso reading that's very productive towards your dissertation,. done early in the day, if you're creative. But i want you to get in this habit of getting in these sessions - and they need to happen as soon

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