The Daily Stoic · March 13, 2024 · 52m

Slow Productivity and Anticipating Consequences

Cal Newport on why hustle culture is the opposite of Stoic discipline. Slow Productivity: do fewer things, work at a natural pace, obsess over quality. The Stoics produced enduring work by doing less, not more.

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Focus only on what you can control

Newport: deep work IS the dichotomy of control applied to knowledge work. You can't control how your work is received. You can control the depth and quality of the work itself.

Claude ChatGPT Gemini

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Slow Productivity — do fewer things, obsess over quality

Newport: modern 'productivity' is busyness theater. Real productivity is measured by the quality of output over a career, not the quantity of tasks per day. The greatest thinkers in history worked slowly.

Claude ChatGPT Gemini

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