<ol><li>Single-tasking: Research has proven over and over again that multitasking makes people less productive. Without a doubt, focusing on one task at a time maximizes productive output.</li><li>Without distractions: You get more work done when you’re not constantly interrupted by distractions.</li><li>Intense focus: If you can put all of your energy on the task at hand without distraction, you’ll get a lot more work done in less time. The more focused you are, the more productive.</li></ol>

Why Is Deep Work Valuable?

Rule 1: Work DeeplyRule 2: Embrace BoredomRule 3: Quit Social MediaRule 4: Drain the Shallows

 The Four Rules of Deep Work

<ul><li>It’s a lot easier to say no to distractions when you have a really big Yes that you’re pursuing.</li><li>This begs the question, what’s your wildly important goal? What’s the subject that arouses a terrifying longing in your heart? Figure it out, then banish distractions from your life and use deep work to make it happen as quickly as possible.</li></ul>

Say “Yes” to the Wildly Important

<ul><li>Disable all incoming call/message notifications and badges</li><li>Become hard to reach</li><li>Quit social media</li><li>Work in a quiet place</li><li>Work at a quiet time</li><li>Limit internet access</li></ul>

How To Work More Deeply

Deep work is a skill that needs to be practiced. You might only have the concentration and energy to do it for an hour or two a day. But slowly, slowly, as you keep honing in on the skill, you’ll be able to work deeply and produce massive amounts of work and reap all the benefits of deep work.

Deep Work Is A Skill

<ul><li>You need to constantly fight distractions, push yourself and your concentration to the limits, spend less time on social media, spend less time on the Internet, plan your days (even your leisure time!) in advance, and so on.</li><li>The deep life isn’t for everybody. Much easier to give in to the comforts of artificial busyness. Much easier to waste away time on social media. Much easier to occupy yourself with shallow tasks. Much easier to give in to temptations whenever they arise.(Shallow Work)</li></ul>

The Deep Life

<ul><li>The New Law of Productivity: High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus)</li><li>The Principle of Least Resistance: Our tendency toward behaviors that are easiest in the moment.</li><li>Schedule in advance when you’ll use the Internet, and then avoid it altogether outside these times. Do it both at home and work to further improve your concentration training.</li><li>Practice productive meditation : This a period in which you’re occupied physically but not mentally—walking, jogging, driving, showering—and focus your attention on a single well-defined professional problem.</li></ul>

Law Of Productivity 

"To build your working life around the experience of flow produced by deep work is a proven path to deep satisfaction."

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Monastic: isolate yourself for long periods of time without distractions; no shallow work allowed.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Bimodal: reserve a few consecutive days when you will be working like a monastic (you need at least one day a week).</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Rhythmic: take 3-4 hours every day to perform deep work on your project.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Journalistic: alternate your day between deep and shallow work as it fits your blocks of time(not recommended to try out first).</li></ul>

Use One Of These Four Deep Work Strategies

“Two Core Abilities for Thriving in the New Economy 1. The ability to quickly master hard things. 2. The ability to produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed.”

<ul><li>Social Media fragment our time and reduce our ability to concentrate, making it difficult to improve your ability to work deeply.</li></ul>Do a test run: without deactivating, stay off consciously from your social media of choice for 30 days. After 30 days, evaluate:<ol><li>Was it impossible for you to stay away or were you greatly inconvenienced?</li><li>Did anyone care?</li></ol>If you want to eliminate the addictive pull of entertainment sites on your time and attention, give your brain a quality alternative.

Quit Social Media

“Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not.”

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.

Deep Work Vs Shallow Work

<ol><li>Choose a Deep Work philosophy</li><li>Schedule deep work blocks</li><li>Decide where and how you’ll perform Deep Work</li><li>Execute like a business</li><li>Implement a shutdown ritual</li></ol>

To Work Deeply,

“When you have fewer hours you usually spend them more wisely.”

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

One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results. Deep Work is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world. 'Cal Newport is exceptional in the realm of self-help authors' New York Times 'Deep work' is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. Coined by author and professor Cal Newport on his popular blog Study Hacks, deep work will make you better at what you do, let you achieve more in less time and provide the sense of true fulfilment that comes from the mastery of a skill. In short, deep work is like a superpower in our increasingly competitive economy. And yet most people, whether knowledge workers in noisy open-plan offices or creatives struggling to sharpen their vision, have lost the ability to go deep - spending their days instead in a frantic blur of email and social media, not even realising there's a better way. A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, DEEP WORK takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories -- from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air -- and surprising suggestions, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. Put simply: developing and cultivating a deep work practice is one of the best decisions you can make in an increasingly distracted world and this book will point the way.

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Master one of our economy’s most rare skills and achieve groundbreaking results with this “exciting” book (Daniel H. Pink) from an “exceptional” author (New York Times Book Review). Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep Work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way. In Deep Work, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four "rules," for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill. 1. Work Deeply 2. Embrace Boredom 3. Quit Social Media 4. Drain the Shallows A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, Deep Work takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories-from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air-and no-nonsense advice, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. Deep Work is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world. An Amazon Best Book of 2016 Pick in Business & Leadership Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller A Business Book of the Week at 800-CEO-READ

Cal Newport is Provost’s Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University, and the author of seven books. His ideas and writing are frequently featured in major publications and on TV and radio.From his website: "I write about the intersection of digital technology and culture. I’m particularly interested in our struggle to deploy these tools in ways that support instead of subvert the things we care about in both our personal and professional lives."

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