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What Deep Work Is
A process of performing “professional activities…in a state of distraction-free concentration that pushes your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and are hard to replicate.” - Cal Newport
Historically, psychologists used to refer to deep work as “being in the flow."
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Recognizing our limited willpower
...is the first element of deep work.
That means you won’t have the mental discipline to stay concentrated on a single task unless you prepare your mind and environment to it.
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Organize Your Deep Work
- Develop a deep work schedule and routine: A systematic way of getting in that deep work mindset is to develop a routine in which you always perform the task in the same place and time, for a given time frame.
- Work on what matters: At the end of the day, you should be ac...
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Shallow work
The non-cognitively demanding, logistical-style tasks, often performed while distracted, tend not to create much new value in the world and are easy to replicate.
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To work on what matters...
- Identify a small number of ambitious outcomes to pursue with your deep work hours
- Find your lag (the goal you’re trying to achieve) and lead metrics (the behaviors you’ll do to reach the goal)
- Develop a scoreboard where you track your time spend in a s...
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Quit Social Media
But instead of denying their use completely, use the “Craftsman Approach to Tool Selection.” This means that you copy the way craftsman pick tools: they use the ones with positive impacts that outweigh the negative impacts if you are a Facebook Ads marketer, use Facebook. If you h...
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Deep Work
... is all about taking your existing time spent working and concentrating it to make the most out of it.
But it’s not that you have to do more things in less time. Instead, it’s about getting more out of the tasks you normally do by reducing distractions. Deep Work is...
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Become Hard to Reach
If you want to find time for your deep work, close all your distractions—email, Slack, phone, internet connection—and work until you’re done. Then reconnect to the world.
The strategy is effective for the simple reason that you’re forcing yourself to do your work — you give...
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Concentrate Your Energy
- Take breaks: instead of trying to get rid of distractions, you should concentrate the energy you put into them during set breaks.
- Schedule tight deadlines: pick your most important tasks, the ones that require deep work, and then you schedule them in a shorter time span...
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Eliminate Shallow Time
- Schedule all your activities: schedule your day before you start it and organize your work — both deep and shallow.
- Finish your workday early: cutting off your working time early will put your mind in “scarcity mode,” pushing you to finish it in less time than usual.
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"The key to developing a deep work habit is to move beyond good intentions and add routines and rituals to your working life designed to minimize the amount of your limited willpower necessary to transition into and maintain a state of unbroken concentration."
CAL NEWPORT
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Deep Work
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.'
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- Stretches your mind.
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Professional activities performed in a state of distraction free concentration that push your cognitive abilities to their limits. These efforts create a new value, improve your skill and hard to replicate.
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