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Book: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
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  1. Cal Newport _ Deep Work: Rules for Focused

    the technologies underlying e-mail are transformative, but the current social conventions guiding how we apply this technology are underdeveloped.
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  2. Cal Newport _ Deep Work: Rules for Focused

    Hearing a succession of mediocre singers does not add up to a single outstanding performance." In other words, talent is not a commodity you can buy in bulk and combine to reach the needed levels: There's a premium to being the best. 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
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  3. Cal Newport _ Deep Work: Rules for Focused

    tactic that works well for me is to be clear in my refusal but ambiguous in my explanation for the refusal. The key is to avoid providing enough specificity about the excuse that the requester has the opportunity to defuse it.
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  4. Cal Newport _ Deep Work: Rules for Focused

    Once you know where your activities fall on the deep-to-shallow scale, bias your time toward the former.
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  5. Cal Newport _ Deep Work: Rules for Focused

    It's safer to comment on our culture than to step into the Rooseveltian ring and attempt to wrestle it into something better.
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  6. Cal Newport _ Deep Work: Rules for Focused

    A commitment to deep work is not a moral stance and it's not a philosophical statement-it is instead a pragmatic recognition that the ability to concentrate is a skill that gets valuable things done.
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  7. Cal Newport _ Deep Work: Rules for Focused

    These e-mails take the sender only a handful of seconds to write but can command many minutes {if not hours, in some cases} of time and attention from their recipients to work toward a coherent response. A little more care in crafting the message by the sender could reduce the overall time spent by all parties by a significant fraction
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  8. Cal Newport _ Deep Work: Rules for Focused

    If you don't attempt to weigh pros against cons, but instead use any glimpse of some potential benefit as justification for unrestrained use of a tool, then you're unwittingly crippling your ability to succeed in the world of knowledge work.
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  9. Cal Newport _ Deep Work: Rules for Focused

    Grant's productivity depends on many factors, there's one idea in particular that seems central to his method: the batching of hard but important intellectual work into long, uninterrupted
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  10. Cal Newport _ Deep Work: Rules for Focused

    I do all my work by hand and use tools that multiply my force without limiting my creativity or interaction with the material,
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  11. Cal Newport _ Deep Work: Rules for Focused

    This concept upends the way most people think about their subjective experience of life. We tend to place a lot of emphasis on our circumstances, assuming that what happens to us {or fails to happen} determines how we feel. From this perspective, the small-scale details of how you spend your day aren't that important, because what matters are the large-scale outcomes, such as whether or not you get a promotion or move to that nicer apartment. According to Gallagher, decades of research contradict this understanding. Our brains instead construct our worldview based on what we pay attention to. If you focus on a cancer diagnosis, you and your life become unhappy and dark, but if you focus instead on an evening martini, you and your life become more pleasant-even though the circumstances in both scenarios are the same. As Gallagher summarizes: "Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love-is the sum of what you focus on."
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  12. Cal Newport _ Deep Work: Rules for Focused

    when walking through nature, you're freed from having to direct your attention, as there are few challenges to navigate {like crowded street crossings}, and experience enough interesting stimuli to keep your mind sufficiently occupied to avoid
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