In his book A World Without Email, Cal Newport mentions about the attention capital principle for improved productivity.
The central theme of this principle is to avoid frequent context switches and focus on one thing at a time.
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This insight has been inspired from Cal Newport’s book A World Without Email.
The most recent thing I learned is that our brain hates frequent checking of emails. This frequent context switching never comes naturally to our human brain.
In his book A World without Email, Cal Newport highlights the fact that our brain operates best in a sequential manner. But due to the digital revolution in an age of email and social media, wherein we frequently check emails and messages, our productivity goes down.
This frequent context switch is something our sequential brain finds very difficult to adjust.
Hence for Deep Work it is recommended to focus on the job at hand avoiding frequent context switching.
In his book A World without Email, Cal Newport enlightens us on the fact that in the modern day there is frequent context switching in knowledge work.
This is the major reason he mentions why knowledge workers are unable to indulge in DEEP WORK.
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Email and messaging work best when used in short groups. This insight explores the science behind this fact.
This insight has been inspired from A World Without Email.
The relationship between idiosyncrasy credits and subject matter expertise cannot be found in the following insight.
This insight has been inspired from A World Without Email.
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Our human brain is essentially sequential and hates context switching. Wherever we operate in a world where multi tasking is the norm. To understand the incompatibility of the sequential brain in the parallel world please read this blog post.
In his book A World Without Email, highlights this gap and puts forward the opinion that to make the best use of our sequential brain, we need to do work with more focus.
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I do need a break and STOP CHECKING my INBOX frequently. Email though an amazingly convenient medium of communication, frequent checking of emails can lead to toxic side effects.
In his book A WORLD WITHOUT EMAIL, Cal Newport has enlightened us on the harmful effects of checking frequent emails and its impact to deep work.
“While the ability to rapidly communicate using digital messages is useful, the frequent disruptions created by this behavior also make it hard to focus, which has a bigger impact on our ability to produce valuable output than we may have realized.”
Cal Newport – A World Without Email
Fascinating book, time to grab a copy and get enlightened.
I like reading various self help, motivational books. In this blog post I will let you know why I am a big fan of the author Cal Newport.
The books written by Cal Newport encourage us to stay away from the addiction of social media in order to do meaningful work. Deep Work is a great example of the same.
So Good They Can’t Ignore You, teaches us the virtues of DELIBERATE PRACTICE and enlightens us on the CRAFTSMAN MINDSET for lasting happiness in life.
Finally A WORLD without EMAIL argues and zeros in on the benefits of non-email based communication for better success rates.
Along with Cal Newport, Simon Sinek, Dan Pink, Carmine Gallo and Seth Godin are my other favorite authors.
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