Hello, I hope your Christmas New Year's spread is going fantastically, and we are continuing

with episode three of four great hits from 2024. It's Cal Newport. So often listeners say I've

just got too much going on. It's crazy busy. Well, Cal shifts that perspective, that paradigm, flips it on his head and shares how slowing down.

In fact, not only ease its stress, but boosts productivity such that you get more done, more results, more impact, more goodness, and actually by doing less.

So that's a message I love hearing.

And I find it deeply soothing when I

return to it. So now we represent episode 950 Cal Newport, slowing down to boost productivity

and e-stress. Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job podcast.

That's the core of the knowledge work dilemma, is we're focusing on visible activity Your Job Podcast.

That's the core of the knowledge work dilemma is we're focusing on visible activity in the moment as opposed to quality accomplishment over time.

From that fatal mistake comes like almost everything negative about the current

knowledge work experience.

If you're producing stuff that's valuable, not only does that give you security,

it begins to give you leverage to slow down your definition of productivity, because the more you can

point towards, I do this and I do this really well. But that's also why I'm not just in the emails

all day in a bunch of meetings. Hold me accountable for this, but in exchange for that accountability,

you've got to give me more autonomy. That's a fundamental exchange of trying to negotiate for a more sustainable, slower definition of

productivity. That's Cal Newport. He's a professor of computer science at Georgetown University and a

founding member of the Center for Digital Ethics. He's best known for his best-selling books,

including deep work and digital minimalism,

and his latest book is called Slow Productivity. So you'll learn one, why we're measuring

productivity all wrong, two, the surprising math showing how doing less means achieving more,

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