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Deep Work Vs Shallow Work

Deep Work Vs Shallow Work

Deep Work - Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value and improve your skill.

Shallow Work - Non-cognitively demanding, logistical-style tasks, often performed while distracted. These efforts tend not to create much new value in the world.

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The more one seeks to rise into height and light, the more vigorously do ones roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep — into evil.

“What we choose to focus on and what we choose to ignore—plays in defining the quality of our life.” — Cal Newport

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