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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
The bimodal philosophy believes that deep work can produce extreme productivity, but only if the subject dedicates enough time to such endeavors to reach maximum cognitive intensity—the state in which real breakthroughs occur. This is why the minimum unit of time for deep work in this philosophy tends to be at least one full day. To put aside a few
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more detail, this ritual should ensure that every incomplete task, goal, or project has been reviewed and that for each you have confirmed that either (1) you have a plan you trust for its completion, or (2) it’s captured in a place where it will be revisited when the time is right. The process should be an algorithm: a series of steps you always c
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To remain valuable in our economy, therefore, you must master the art of quickly learning complicated things.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
attention fatigue. To concentrate requires what ART calls directed attention. This resource is finite: If you exhaust it, you’ll struggle to concentrate.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Therefore, if you’re in a marketplace where the consumer has access to all performers, and everyone’s q value is clear, the consumer will choose the very best. Even if the talent advantage of the best is small compared to the next rung down on the skill ladder, the superstars still win the bulk of the market.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Only if you assume that there is no constraint on the supply of the best which is only true if they are bding supplied digitally .
gathered company-wide statistics
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Brynjolfsson and McAfee call the group personified by Nate Silver the “high-skilled” workers.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
mind-sets and biases that have pushed business away from deep work and toward more distracting alternatives. None of these behaviors would survive long if it was clear that they were hurting the bottom line, but the metric black hole prevents this clarity and allows the shift toward distraction we increasingly encounter in the professional world.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Fixed-schedule productivity, in other words, is a meta-habit that’s simple to adopt but broad in its impact. If you have to choose just one behavior that reorients your focus toward the deep, this one should be high on your list of possibilities. If