Episode 635: Cal Newport with Advice to Church Leaders on Boundaries, How Pseudo-Productivity Leads to Burnout, and Why Slow Productivity is the Future for Knowledge Workers

New York Times Best Selling Author Cal Newport shares very specific advice to church and business leaders on how to not be available 24/7 to your congregation or customers, why pseudo-productivity leads to burnout, and why slow productivity is the future for knowledge workers and thought leaders.

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We're not rejecting productivity, we're redefining it. - Cal Newport Click To Tweet The more you do, the more you are polluting your time. - Cal Newport Click To Tweet Thinking is our superpower as a species. We can think and it can be incredibly powerful, but we've got to train it. - Cal Newport Click To Tweet Do fewer things, work at a natural pace, and obsess over quality. - Cal Newport Click To Tweet

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