Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

If you didn’t make a convincing case and sufficiently minimize the effort required by the professor to respond, you didn’t get a response.

#3: Don’t Respond

Do More Work When You Send or Reply to E-mails

Make People Who Send You E-mail Do More Work

Become Hard to Reach

Noncognitively demanding, logistical-style tasks, often performed while distracted. These efforts tend not to create much new value in the world and are easy to replicate.

Schedule every minute of your day.

Deep work is exhausting because it pushes you toward the limit of your abilities.

If you give your mind something meaningful to do throughout all your waking hours, you’ll end the day more fulfilled, and begin the next one more relaxed, than if you instead allow your mind to bathe for hours in semiconscious and unstructured Web surfing.