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Deep Work
by Cal Newport
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High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus)
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Without explicit feedback on the impact of various behaviors to the bottom line, we will tend toward actions that are easiest in the moment.
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Knowledge workers usually lack explicit indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable at work, so they turn back toward an industrial indicator of productivity: doing multiple tasks in a visible manner.
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In order to have a deep work routine, you have to decide the following:
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It's important to have a shutdown ritual, to ensure that every incomplete activity has been reviewed and that for each you have confirmed that either you have a plan you will follow for its completion, or it’s wirrten down and saved in a place where it will be revisited.
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Identify the key elements that determine success and happiness in your professional and personal life.
Adopt a tool only if its positive impacts on these factors substantially outweigh its negative impacts.
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