Working right trumps finding the right work. He didn’t need… - Cal Newport

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Working right trumps finding the right work. He didn’t need to have a perfect job to find occupational happiness — he needed instead a better approach to the work already available to him. I

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Calvin C. Newport (1982-06-23–) is an American writer and computer scientist.

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The pseudo-worker looks and feels like someone who is working hard — he or she spends a long time in the library and is not afraid to push on late into the night — but, because of a lack of focus and concentration, doesn’t actually accomplish much.

Richard II’s famous lament: “I live with bread like you, feel want, / Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus, / How can you say to me, I am a king?”18

If you can’t learn, you can’t thrive.

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