#1 Monastic Deep Work

In this type of Deep work, you block a specific time each day in your calendar to perform Deep Work. At first, it may be 1-1.5 hours but when you start to do it regularly you can stretch it to 4 hours.

If possible try to schedule your time for early...

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. 

Shallow Work - 

• Low productivity work.
• Adds no improvement over t...

1. The ability to quickly master new things.
2. The ability to produce at an elite level term in both quality and speed.

For both of these abilities, you have to do Deep Work.

This type of Deep work is for those who are not able to follow Monastic Approach. 

Here, when you need to perform Deep work you go to a separate place (which must a different place from where you spend most of your time) and do your work for 12-72 hours (not continu...

Just try it as an experiment - 

1. Quit all social media (e.g. Twitter, FB, Snapchat, Instagram) for 30 days.
2. Don't tell anyone that you are doing it.

After 30 days ask yourself these 2 questions - 

1. Would the last 30 days have been ...

Definition: 'Professional activities performed in a distraction-free environment that pushes your cognitive abilities to their limit. Those efforts create new value, improve our skills, and hard to replicate.'

Deep work - 

• Stretches your mind.
• Gives meani...

There are 4 different methods for Deep Work -

1. Monastic Deep Work
2. Bimodal Deep Work
3. Rhythmic Deep Work
4. Journalistic Deep Work

Here you just work like a journalist - whenever any incident occurs you have to go. That means here you perform deep work whenever you get free time.

Cal Newport, the author of this book, uses this method for his work.

Here you are most free to do deep work a...