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Posted on May 12, 2017 by Francis Wade

Cal Newport on Discarding Your Schedule

Check out this story about Stephen Hawking from Cal Newport’s blog:  Stephen Hawking’s Productive Laziness.

Hawking follows his schedule fairly strictly, apart from those days when he is close to a breakthrough. Then he works up to 24 hours straight.

I just finished watching a movie about his life, The Theory of Everything, so this is particularly fascinating.

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