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Ep. 269: Don’t Get Started

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Treating Your Mind Like a Private Garden: Controlling and Cultivating Your Thoughts

Treat your mind as a private garden, carefully tending to what you allow and keeping out unwanted thoughts. This idea is more relevant now than ever. Your experience of the world is constructed inside your mind based on what you pay attention to.

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