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Ep. 92: LISTENER CALLS: The Perils of Coercive Productivity

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Creating a Time Block Plan for Your Future Self

When you're building a plan for your time, what you're really doing here is working alongside your future self. The way that people sometimes try to use productivity systems is to set up a coercive relationship with their future self. So i can be very specific. You need to get this done during this block. That sword has to be sharpen there. Now you can't escape what this block means. I have coerced you into doing what i think is the right thing. Work is hard. Are you working on the right things? And then it's a disciplined issue. And by doing the work i need to do, even though it's hard,. It's not one you're going to

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