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Drawn from what Oliver Burkeman and Cal Newport said
mathematics Doing mathematics: proof, conjecture, and what mathematicians want that other fields do not.
Word for word, with the source under each one. They did not write this page.
British writer on time, limits and attention
Their wordsConsider the possibility that mild discomfort – butterflies in the stomach, a sense of difficulty, a moment of boredom – might simply be the price of doing things you care about.
Where this was said
↗The truth about distractionoliverburkeman.com
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Computer science professor at Georgetown and author of Deep Work
Their wordsExceptional things — be it ideas, writing, mathematics, or art — require hard work. This, in turn, requires boring stretches during which you ignore a mind pleading with you to seek novel stimuli
Where this was said
↗Have We Lost Our Tolerance For a Little Boredom?calnewport.com
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