Work Deeply
“Work deeply. Due to the amount of effort working deep requires, many do not want to engage in it. If you consider the culture of our environment, it becomes even more difficult to deploy”
“We have finite willpower. As it gets depleted, we tend to favor shallow work.”
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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Blinkist Summary)
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Working deeply, due to its effortful nature, is the very thing most of us don’t want to do. Add to this an environment and culture that makes deep work difficult, and a finite amount of willpower that gets depleted as we use it, and you have a recipe for shallow work. To make deep work a staple i...
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