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Work Deeply

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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Drain The Shallows

“Drain the shallows. “The Shallows” is the book's name, which depicts the adverse effects of the Internet on our mental life. Examples of shallow work from the previous chapters include: attending meetings, making phone calls, answering emails, and many other low–value activities.”

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Embrace Boredom

“Embrace boredom. Acute concentration is a skill you should cultivate. Like the way athletes take optimal care of their body outside the training sessions, you need to hone your concentration skill outside of your deep work sessions. If you give in to distractions every day of your life at the sl...

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The Rules Of Deep Work

The Rules Of Deep Work

“Now that you know how valuable deep work is for productivity, you will have realized that knowledge is not the hard part. Rather it is doing. Because humans are naturally attracted to distractions, we suck at multitasking. The following rules will teach you how to incorporate deep work in your l...

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Quit Social Media

Quit Social Media

“Quit social media. Social media are prime examples of shallow living. As the author points out, they offer nothing beneficial in return for all the time we give them. It will be a barrier to working deep if you feel the urge to check on your social media account every few minutes. Due to addicti...

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Rule #1: Work Deeply

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...

Batch Your Work

Batch Your Work

Distractions interfere with your willpower. And willpower gets tired as it gets used. Your resilience will increase when you reduce distractions.

Batch your work by grouping similar tasks together and working on them. Create a slot to batch deep work. Emails can be batched with phone calls....

Shallow Work

Shallow Work

It is the low-value work that is done in a distraction-ful environment and most of the time it is done by multi-tasking. 

Shallow Work - 

  • Low productivity work.
  • Adds no improvement over t...

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