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Deep Work And Shallow Work
- Deep work means those professional tasks that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit done in concentration mode (no distractions)
- Shallow work relates to the tasks that do not require much cognitive work (logistical-style tasks) performed while distracted most of the time. They don't bring much new value in the world and are easy to duplicate.
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Why Downtime Is Crucial
- Downtime aids insights
- It helps recharge the energy needed to work deeply
- The work that evening downtime replaces is usually not that important
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The 4 Deep Work Philosophies
- Monastic: isolate yourself for long periods of time without distractions; no shallow work allowed
- Bimodal: reserve a few consecutive days when you will be working like a monastic (you need at least one day a week)
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The Craftsman Approach to Tool Selection
Identify the key elements that determine success and happiness in your professional and personal life.
Adopt a tool only if its positive impacts on these factors substantially outweigh its negative impacts.
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Busyness Is Not An Indicator Of Productivity
Knowledge workers usually lack explicit indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable at work, so they turn back toward an industrial indicator of productivity: doing multiple tasks in a visible manner.
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The Principle of Least Resistance In Business
Without explicit feedback on the impact of various behaviors to the bottom line, we will tend toward actions that are easiest in the moment.
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Social Media Hinders Our Ability To Focus
- Sending too much time on Social Media breaks up our time and reduces our ability to concentrate.
- Social Media take away time you could be spending on higher-impact activities. It’s a zero-sum game.
- If you want to eliminate the addictive pu...
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The New Law of Productivity
High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus)
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Setting Up A Deep Work Routine
In order to have a deep work routine, you have to decide the following:
- Where you’ll work and for how long.
- How you’ll work once you start to work.
- How you’ll support your work.
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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. Creates value.
- Shallow work: Noncognitively demanding, logistical-style tasks, often performed while distracted. Doesn't creat...
What Is Deep 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, improve your skill, and are hard to replicate.”
“Shallow Work:...
4. Do Deep Work / Avoid Half-Work or Shallow Work
Deep work is a term developed by Cal Newport, stating that all intellectual activities should be performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that pushes your cognitive capabilities to their limit.
On the other side deep work is “half-work” or “shallow work”. That...
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