CAROL S DWECK

• Quantity: We don't do enough deep work. Shallow work seems more urgent and is easier to pay attention to.
• Quality: We don't do deep work for long enough. To be effective, we need large, uninterrupted chunks of time.

We may intend to g...

For Bruce Lee, knowledge that isn't applied is useless, for it serves no actual purpose.

• “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
• “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done...

Every job involves at least a few simple tasks that don't require your full attention, and these make for great productive procrastination.

The best tasks for this have a few things in common: They need to get done, they don't require a lot of focus, and they're different enough from you...