Cal Newport

Deep Work

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  • forgetenothas quoted6 years ago
    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.
  • zuzuhasanli97has quoted8 years ago
    Throughout history, skilled laborers have applied sophistication and skepticism to their encounters with new tools and their decisions about whether to adopt them. There’s no reason why knowledge workers cannot do the same when it comes to the Internet—the fact that the skilled labor here now involves digital bits doesn’t change this reality.
  • b7798205114has quoted3 years ago
    Tim Ferriss once wrote: “Develop the habit of letting small bad things happen. If you don’t, you’ll never find time for the life-changing big things
  • Zerehas quoted4 years ago
    But there are some general questions that any effective ritual must address:
    • Where you’ll work and for how long
  • zuzuhasanli97has quoted8 years ago
    There is a popular notion that artists work from inspiration—that there is some strike or bolt or bubbling up of creative mojo from who knows where… but I hope [my work] makes clear that waiting for inspiration to strike is a terrible, terrible plan. In fact, perhaps the single best piece of advice I can offer to anyone trying to do creative work is to ignore inspiration.
  • diormuhas quoted20 days ago
    To succeed with this strategy, you must first accept the commitment that once your workday shuts down, you cannot allow even the smallest incursion of professional concerns into your field of attention.
  • diormuhas quoted20 days ago
    In other words, to actively try to work through these decisions will lead to a worse outcome than loading up the relevant information and then moving on to something else while letting the subconscious layers of your mind mull things over.
  • Ali Tahawar Barihas quoted4 months ago
    In this new economy, three groups will have a particular advantage: those who can work well and creatively with intelligent machines, those who are the best at what they do, and those with access to capital.
  • Arsene Lontsihas quoted4 months ago
    my retiring room I am by myself,” Jung said of the space.
  • Veronika Didorenkohas quoted4 months ago
    Stephenson sees two mutually exclusive options: He can write good novels at a regular rate, or he can answer a lot of individual e-mails and attend conferences, and as a result produce lower-quality novels at a slower rate. He chose the former option, and this choice requires him to avoid as much as possible any source of shallow work in his professional life.
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