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#594: Cal Newport and Tim Ferriss Revisit "The 4-Hour Workweek" (Plus: The Allure and The Void of Remote Work, Unsustainable Behaviors, Burning Out, The Cult of Productivity, and More)

The Tim Ferriss Show

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The Thrust of the Four Hour Workweek is effectiveness

i think technologists and those who are mesmerized by technology, are very prone to getting extremely efficient at doing things that are not important. But the thrust of the four hour work week is what you do is more important than how you do it. And put another way, being effective is moreimportant than being efficient. So let's think really hard about the 80 20 principle, otherwise known as prato's law,. such that if you focus on the highest leverage things, even if you fuck up every which way from sunday, you haveSuch a margin of safety and such a disproportionate output for the time that you put in, it's ok. Have to define productivity very carefully, y

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