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Ep. 229: Developing Discipline
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
The Illusion of Slow Productivity
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- Those who do slow productivity, we're, we're always working at a reasonable pace, but constantly sort of patiently putting in time towards things that are important to us.
- Over time, a lot of different types of accomplishments pile up.
- Use these books. Here's these New Yorker articles. Here's these academic articles. Here's this show you do the human instinct is to take all of the supporting effort for all of these different accomplishments that were patiently developed over time, flexibly slowly and collapse them and imagine someone working on all those things at the same time.
- A man, you must be writing books at the same time you write New Yorker articles at the same time that you're doing academic articles at the same time you're doing this show. You must work all the time. This is the illusion that slow productivity creates because if you zoom out to larger time scales, even a very reasonable, flexible pace can aggregate a lot of interesting work.
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