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How I Learned to Concentrate
A consistent challenge in my development as a researcher has been: how to cultivate deep, stable concentration in the face of complex, ill-structured creative problems?
In roles oriented around operation and execution, I benefited enormously from standard “productivity” advice. Task managers and time-planning tools were essential. But now, task mana
... See moreAndy Matuschak • Cultivating Depth and Stillness in Research
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So how do you actually work with your mind and create things of value? What I’ve identified is three principles: doing fewer things, working at a natural pace, 9
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Meaning one with more variability in intensity than the always-on pace to which we’ve become accustomed.
but obsessing over quality. That trio of properties better hits the
... See moreCal Newport • The Digital Workplace Is Designed to Bring You Down - The New York Times
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The proper response to this situation, we’re often told today, is to render ourselves indistractible in the face of interruptions: to learn the secrets of “relentless focus”—usually involving meditation, web-blocking apps, expensive noise-canceling headphones, and more meditation—so as to win the attentional struggle once and for all. But this is a... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
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When we strive to be everywhere and do everything, we tend to feel like we’re not fully experiencing anything. If we’re not careful and protective of our attention, it can seem like we’re losing control of our lives, bouncing from one distraction to the next... A common example of heroic individualism’s futile efforts to get more done faster at the... See more
Brad Stulberg • The Practice of Groundedness: A Transformative Path to Success That Feeds--Not Crushes--Your Soul
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Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don’t simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction.