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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is that being productive

doesn't always look productive.

Good ideas take time, and true productivity is measured over the long haul.

But often, achieving a lot in the long haul doesn't mean filling every minute.

Today's tip comes partly from Cal Newport's new book,

Slow Productivity.

In this book, Cal talks about how to achieve great things without burnout.

He opens slow productivity with a tale of someone who is important to me.

Professor John McPhee of Princeton.

Many years ago I took McPhee's famous non-fiction writing class.

I learned a lot from his discussions of his own life as a working writer.

One of McPhee's most famous stories is about the Pine Barons in New Jersey. After compiling all his notes from Trapsing

around the forest, he had some fairly serious writer's block. So we wound up

laying on a picnic table day after day for about two weeks.

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