● DEEP WORK: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. Create new values, improve your skills and are hard to replicate● SHALLOW WORK: Noncognitively demanding logistical style tasks, often performed while distracted. Tend to not create much new value and are easy to replicate.● THE DEEP WORK HYPOTHESISThe ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare and valuable in our economy.The few who cultivate the skill, will thrive.<a href="https://elevatedpath.beehiiv.com/subscribe">The Art of Habits</a> (It's free)

DEEP WORK VS SHALLOW WORK

● RULE #1 - WORK DEEPLY : How to integrate deep, work into your schedule to help you reach the current limit of your concentration ability● RULE #2 - EMBRACE BOREDOM : How to improve your ability to concentrate intensively and overcome your desire of distraction● RULE #3 - QUIT SOCIAL MEDIA : How to identify the core factors that determine success and happiness. Adopt a tool only if its positive impacts substantially outweigh its negative impacts● RULE #4 DRAIN THE SHALLOW : How to identify the shallowness in your current schedule and cull it down to minimum levels

RULES FOR FOCUSED SUCCESS IN A DISTRACTED WORLD

💡DEPTH PHILOSOPHY: Find an approach that makes sense for you: Monastic, Bimodal, Rhythmic or Journalist💡DON'T WORK ALONE: Hub-and-Spoke: both serendipitous encounters and isolated deep thinking are supported. Working with a shared whiteboard push you deeper than working alone💡EXECUTE LIKE BUSINESS: 4 Disciplines of Execution<ol><li class="ql-align-justify">Focus on the important</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Act on lead measures</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Keep a scoreboard</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Create regular meetings</li></ol>💡BE LAZY: Create a shutdown ritual. "When work, work hard. When you're done, be done."

RULE #1 - WORK DEEPLY

💡TAKE A BREAK : Schedule the occasional break from focus to give in to distraction.💡PRODUCTIVE MEDITATION : Take a period in which youre occupied physically but not mentally and focus on a single well-defined profissional problem.💡 MEMORIZE CARDS : "Attention control" the ability to maintain your focus on essential your information. A good training is memorizing a deck of cards.

RULE #2 - EMBRACE BOREDOM

"I will live the focused life, because it is the best kind there is."

💡 LAW OF THE FEW : Identify your main goals. List 2 or 3 activities that help your goals. the tools have a substantially positive impact. Use 80/20 law.💡 QUIT SOCIAL MEDIA : Ban yourself from using them for 30 days. Don't mention it online. "Would the 30 days have been notably better if I had been able to use the social media?"💡 DON'T USE THE INTERNET TO ENTERTAIN YOU : Give your brain a quality alternative, like books

RULE #3 - QUIT SOCIAL MEDIA

💡 BLOCK TIME : Schedule every hour of your day. Decide in advance what you're going to do.💡 QUANTIFY THE DEPTH : Evaluate activities by asking. "How long would it take to train a smart graduate to complete this task?"💡 FINISH AT 5:30 : A commitment to FIXED-SCHEDULE productivity shifts you into a scarcity mindset.💡 HARD TO REACH : Make people do more work to send you an email. Reply to "dose the email loop". Don't respond.<a href="https://elevatedpath.beehiiv.com/subscribe">The Art of Habits</a> (It's free)

RULE #4 DRAIN THE SHALLOW

Deep work is the ability to focus on a difficult task for a long time without getting distracted. It's a skill that's becoming increasingly rare and valuable in a world full of distractions. 


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

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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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