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What Happened When Kurt Steiner Dedicated His Life to Rock Skipping?

Kurt Steiner dedicated his life to rock skipping. Sean Williams had a hard time tracking him down because he does not have a cell phone, barely is on the internet, and was hiding out in a cabin. Building that simple pursuit around a skill he is trying to master helped with mental health issues and gave his mental life stability he otherwise lacked.

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Ep. 218: Work vs. Meaning ·

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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  1. Why Does the 1960s Backlash Reject a Lifelong Corporate Job?The 1960s produced the first backlash to the 1950s, the counterculture backlash, seen in the beat movement and then the Hippie movement.
  2. Why Does Follow Your Passion Become Career Advice?Follow your passion is the phrase for the idea that your work can be your primary source of meaning.
  3. How Do You Connect a Life Vision to a Specific Job?Use three properties of a job, income, location, and work type, to support the big vision. Income is how much income it generates.
  4. What Happened When They Moved to Tofino to Escape the Rat Race?They moved to Tofino on the pacific coast of the large rural Vancouver island, off the west coast of british Columbia.
  5. What Happened When Friends at Dartmouth Chose Their Careers?He really thinks 50% plus of his friends at Dartmouth went to Harvard law school.
  6. Why Does Getting Lost in a Song Still Count as Solitude?Input from another mind means linguistic input, such as reading something or hearing someone talking or seeing someone talking, which fires up social circuits…
  7. How Do You Stop Using YouTube as a Crutch After Work?Take a 30 day break from optional digital technologies and aggressively experiment to find activities that fit your life and offer a real source of meaning…
  8. Why Did No One Know What to Do With the New Middle-class Mode of Work?Reading Bennett shows that no one knew what to do with this new mode of work.
  9. Why Do You Skip a Daily Journal?You do not do any daily structured daily writing.

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