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The Jordan Harbinger Show

975: Cal Newport | Reclaiming Time and Focus with Slow Productivity

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Talk Radio, Business, Science, Education

4.812.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

How can we achieve work/life balance when we're always so dang busy? "Slow Productivity" author Cal Newport helps us achieve without burning out here!

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It's productivity poison.

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We just tell ourselves this story that I'm just answering messages.

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But it is torture.

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And when you think about it, you realize that.

0:20.9

Like it's the thing that exhaust us most is a diverse inbox of a bunch of

0:25.8

different stuff which by the way this is why if you're doing fewer things

0:29.4

everything gets better because you have less things generating email and

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meetings so the emails you have there's less context represented here you now

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have the space to work on one thing for a while I mean it makes all of the

0:41.8

difference it's a light switch difference in both what you're producing, but in just the subjective well-being you experience while working. Like getting fewer things on your plate at once is like the biggest positive change you

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could make in your knowledge work life.

0:59.4

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