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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 get more deep work done, but doing the work week after week is another thing.
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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 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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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 activ...
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Shallow Work
It is the low-value work that is done in a distraction-ful environment and most of the time it is done by multi-tasking.
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- Low productivity work.
- Adds no improvement over t...
Rule #1: Work Deeply
Working deeply, due to its effortful nature, is the very thing most of us don’t want to do. Add to this an environment and culture that makes deep work difficult, and a finite amount of willpower that gets depleted as we use it, and you have a recipe for shallow work. To make deep work a staple i...
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