Tag: Deep Work

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 “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.”