The future belongs to people who can think about a hard problem for more than 10 minutes without doing anything else.
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The future belongs to people who can think about a hard problem for more than 10 minutes without doing anything else.
A superpower over the next few years will be the ability to focus, concentrate, and hold your attention for long periods on what truly matters, amid increasing distractions and temptations.
In a distracted world, the ability to consistently do deep work is a competitive advantage.
It's impossible to create meaningful works of tech, writing, or art without the capacity to sit down and focus for extended periods.
It's impossible to create meaningful works of tech, writing, or art without the capacity to sit down and focus for extended periods.
Casey Rosengren • Hack Your Focus With Body Doubling
The ability to concentrate intensely is a skill that must be trained.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
In the future, the great division will be between those who have trained themselves to handle these complexities and those who are overwhelmed by them -- those who can acquire skills and discipline their minds and those who are irrevocably distracted by all the media around them and can never focus enough to learn.
Robert Greene • Mastery
The secret to success in almost all fields is large, uninterrupted blocks of focused time.
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