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How I Learned to Concentrate
Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don’t simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Maybe you’re able to identify a clever new business strategy, devise an elegant algorithm, or come up with a bold advertising campaign that would have eluded you in a more fragmented state of attention.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
The key is to find ways to minimize context shifts and overload while still getting done what needs to get done.
Cal Newport • A World Without Email

Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don’t simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
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