Toward a Deeper Vocabulary - Study Hacks - Cal Newport - 0 views
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our culture lacks a sufficiently nuanced vocabulary for discussing rigorous cognitive efforts. I guess what I’m trying to say is, if, as Boas famously claimed, the Eskimos have dozens of words for “snow,” then in an emerging knowledge work society, we should have more than a handful of words to describe the mental efforts on which, more and more, our livelihoods depend.
