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Ep. 216: Deep Walking To Work Less

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Do the Hard Work of Writing the Proposal

Robert Newport: The biggest pitfall people have when they enter into these type of creative pursuits is that they create the rules they want to be true. He says if agents don't want to represent your book, you probably shouldn't be writing it in the first place. "You follow those real rules that are going to be more likely to succeed," he says.

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