Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
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Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Great creative minds] think like artists but work like accountants.”
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Professorial E-mail Sorting: Do not reply to an e-mail message if any of the following applies: • It’s ambiguous or otherwise makes it hard for you to generate a reasonable response. • It’s not a question or proposal that interests you. • Nothing really good would happen if you did respond and nothing really bad would happen if you didn’t.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
To succeed with productive meditation, it’s important to recognize that, like any form of meditation, it requires practice to do well.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
your attention at the moment, but instead dedicate some advance thinking to the question of how you want to spend your “day within a day.” Addictive websites of the type mentioned previously thrive in a vacuum: If you haven’t given yourself something to do in a given moment, they’ll always beckon as an appealing option. If you instead fill this fre
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You don’t necessarily need a serious session every day, but your goal should be to participate in at least two or three such sessions in a typical week.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Two Core Abilities for Thriving in the New Economy 1. The ability to quickly master hard things. 2. The ability to produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Deep work is necessary to wring every last drop of value out of your current intellectual capacity. We now know from decades of research in both psychology and neuroscience that the state of mental strain that accompanies deep work is also necessary to improve your abilities.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Neal Stephenson,
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
As Walter Isaacson explained in a 2013 article on the topic for the Harvard Gazette, Gates worked with such intensity for such lengths during this two-month stretch that he would often collapse into sleep on his keyboard in the middle of writing a line of code. He would then sleep for an hour or two, wake up, and pick up right where he left off—an
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