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#12 - Sebastian Marshall | Productivity Principles for "The 5% Life"

#12 - Sebastian Marshall | Productivity Principles for "The 5% Life"

The Metagame

October 17, 20221h 15m

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Show Notes

Sebastian Marshall brings the mentality of an athlete to knowledge work.

He’s a cutting edge productivity expert and the CEO of Ultraworking — a company obsessed with making the nature of work better.

Topics include:

* Why you probably need “weird” practices to live the life you want.

* The power of tracking everything you do with your time (and how to do it).

* More evidence that everyone needs a gang.

* Why religion might be the biggest productivity hack.

* Death and its clarifying effects on your to do list.

* Sebastian’s near death experiences and how they changed his life.

* Why consciously designing your environment is mandatory in modernity.

* How to improve the yield of philosophy.

Resources:

* ultraworking.com

* On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History - Thomas Carlyle

* Daniel’s favourite Ultraworking tool for tracking practices



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