The best email protocol for deep work has been mentioned in this blog post.
Cal Newport enlightens us on this in A World Without Email. This has been inspired from 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss.
This indeed proves that frequent checking of emails will act as a deterrent to deep work.
The following great insight has been adopted from Cal Newport’s book Deep Work
“As the author 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.”
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Adopted from the following great insight shared by Cal Newport from the book Deep Work
“Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don’t simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction.
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Cal Newport
“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.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Cal Newport
“Three to four hours a day, five days a week, of uninterrupted and carefully directed concentration, it turns out, can produce a lot of valuable output.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Cal Newport
“If you want to love what you do, abandon the passion mindset (“what can the world offer me?”) and instead adopt the craftsman mindset (“what can I offer the world?”)”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Cal Newport
“Network tools are distracting us from work that requires unbroken concentration, while simultaneously degrading our capacity to remain focused.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Cal Newport
“Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don’t simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Cal Newport
“Deep work is at a severe disadvantage in a technopoly because it builds on values like quality, craftsmanship, and mastery that are decidedly old-fashioned and nontechnological. Even worse, to support deep work often requires the rejection of much of what is new and high-tech.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Cal Newport from the book Deep Work
“Ericsson notes that for a novice, somewhere around an hour a day of intense concentration seems to be a limit, while for experts this number can expand to as many as four hours—but rarely more.”