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Oct 2024
1h 20m

Ep. 322: The Discipline Ladder

CAL NEWPORT
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Do you struggle to consistently make progress on hard things that are important to you? In today’s episode, Cal describes a way to improve this state of affairs: a systematic training regime called the discipline ladder. He then answers listener questions about their own struggles with discipline and reacts to an article claiming that professors are lazy (ga ... Show More
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