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.
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What Can You Consider As Work ?
Emails and chats aren't deep work, which requires a complex task and uninterrupted focus.
Email and similar tasks are what Newport calls shallow work.
Shallow work is work that's done in small pieces and doesn't require your full attention.
Work deeply
Working for extended periods with full concentration and no distractions, on a single task requires:
- Knowing the day before what exactly you’re going to be working on during your Deep Work hour.
- Putting your phone somewhere out of sight and earshot while you’re do...
2. Task Batching
- Task batching is when you batch similar tasks together so you can do them all at once.
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