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What Cal Newport thinks about ambition

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Computer science professor at Georgetown and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity. He has written the blog Study Hacks since 2007 and contributes to The New Yorker.

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  1. Our readingRemarkable careers take a remarkably large amount of training.

    Their wordsI like these examples because they remind of a simple truth: remarkable careers take a remarkably large amount of training.

    ↗On the Remarkably Long Road to the Remarkablecalnewport.com

  2. 22 months earlier

  3. Our readingA student is judged in the end by how good they are at the one thing they do best, not by the sum of their activities.

    Their wordsThese students recognize that they’ll ultimately be judged not by the sum of their contributions to diverse activities, but instead by the magnitude of their ability in the one thing they do best.

    ↗An Open Letter to Students on the Danger of Seeing School as a Trial to Survivecalnewport.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

  5. Our readingDoing less and doing it better is worth pursuing as an end in itself, because a life with both freedom and focus is a life well lived.

    Their wordsThese students practice the above rules not as a means but as an end: A life with both freedom and focus is a life well-lived.

    ↗An Open Letter to Students on the Danger of Seeing School as a Trial to Survivecalnewport.com 3rd of 3 in this piece