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I'm Rufus Griscombe.

And I'm Caleb Bissinger.

And this is the next big idea.

Today.

Cal Newport's counterintuitive guide to productivity. Caleb, it's important to me that you know that I am not someone who puts motivational signs on the wall, typically.

Yeah, really? There's not like a hang in there poster with like a cat dangling to a tree above your desk?

Well, I've made an exception. I'll have you know.

Okay.

I currently have in my office a sign above me that says, number one, do fewer things. Number two, work at a natural pace, and three, obsess over quality. Does that sound familiar? Of course. Of course. This is the three-step solution for accomplishing more without burning out that we learned from Cal Newport, who wrote a book

called Slow Productivity, all about how to actually put those three steps in action.

Indeed, it is. And I have read that book.

Yes, slowly.

Slowly, of course, appropriately. And I had a podcast conversation with Cal, which I relished.

And I have been implementing this approach in my life,

and I have found it to be a game changer. And it fits, of course, perfectly in my favorite file.

Scientific studies that support the life you want to live anyway. I know the file.

Yes, yes, indeed. I mean, who doesn't want to do fewer things, do them more slowly, with greater attention

to making them great?

So how, like on a day-to-day basis, Rufus, how are you actually applying this?

Like, what are some examples?

It's very simple.

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