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Shallow and Deep Work
- Shallow work is all of the routine activities that accompany work, but don't require skill or concentration, such as answering emails, attending meetings, or paperwork.
- Deep work is what you're paid for. It's a hard-to-do, attention-demanding activity. Those who can spend long periods of time engaged in deep work get to do truly meaningful things.
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How To Consistently Do Deep Work
The system to perform your best work is simply to continuously track your deep work hours. Keeping this record can be an eye-opener to how you spend your time. You may find that only a quarter of your available working hours are spent on deep tasks.
- Note the ...
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The Difficulty of Depth
- 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...
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The Problem Of Focus In Work
We all have good intentions about getting work done, but we rarely stick to them. Instead, we allow distractions to use up our time until there is nothing left.
We need to choose what is worth paying attention to. A system of focus will help you to keep track of deep work....
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- 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...
Deep Work And Shallow Work
Our the ability to focus without distraction is becoming increasingly rare and valuable in our ever-connected world. Cal Newport calls this Deep Work and he contrasts it with shallow work:
- Deep work means those professional tasks that push your cogniti...
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.”
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