We never live a life fully , we keep bargaining with life and stop living in the constraint to be alive But we never live a life ... We never live a life ... !!!

Deep Thought

Ketakee Tandel on Aug 14

<ul><li>the more familiar these assets are, the more invisible they become</li><li>a big first step towards improving your luck is to make a list of all the gifts at your disposal.</li><li>you will find that the answer is sitting right under your nose.</li></ul>

Appreciate what we’ve got

<ul><li>keep your eyes open for opportunities elsewhere.Make a point of looking at other industries, sectors and cultures. </li><li>see what you can learn from completely different areas like sport, music, art, psychology, film, politics or nature. </li><li>Many of the biggest breakthroughs in business have happened outside of office hours. So fill your life with diverse influences, go for a walk in the great outdoors or cultivate a new hobby. </li><li>All of these will increase your chances of striking it lucky, next time you think about work.</li></ul>

Look out for opportunities everywhere.

<ul><li>the most successful people have always found ways to turn bad luck into good luck. </li><li>Crises can create moments to rethink old assumptions. Complaints and criticism can provoke new ideas.</li><li> Limited budgets and time constraints can force to think more creatively.</li><li> write down your top 5 challenges and then ask yourself how they might actually be opportunities.</li></ul>

Turn misfortune into good fortune.

<ul><li>The real gains come when you build luck into your daily routines and processes.</li><li>encouraging the cross-fertilization of ideas every day.</li><li>old ideas are sometimes the best ones. Sure, hard work is still crucial but why not bring yourself a little bit of luck too. </li></ul>

Practise being lucky every day

Self Improvement

Shafin hakim on Aug 14

<ul><li>Identify daily activities in which you are physically occupied, but mentally available</li><li>Like walking, jogging, showering, brushing teeth, cleaning your home, etc.</li><li>While engaging in such activities, focus your attention on a specific problem you want to solve</li></ul>

Develop Deep Thinking by practicing Productive Meditation

Goal of Productive Meditation is to take a period in which you’re occupied physically, but not mentally – walking, jogging, driving, showering – and focus your attention on a single well-defined professional problem&lt;/

<ul><li>Ability to deeply contemplate and work through your top challenges</li><li>Helps in directing and focusing your attention</li><li>Trains you to ignore distractions</li><li>Practice leads to develop Deep Thinking abilities</li></ul>

Benefits of Productive Meditation

An Amazon Best Book of 2016 Pick in Business & LeadershipWall Street Journal Business BestsellerA Business Book of the Week at 800-CEO-READ One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results. Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way. In DEEP WORK, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four "rules," for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill. A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, DEEP WORK takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories-from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air-and no-nonsense advice, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. DEEP WORK is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world.

Deep Work

The neurological “success” aspect behind deliberate practice in any activity is myelin.Myelin is a fatty tissue created by oligodendrocytes around neurons, acting like an insulator that allows neurons to fire faster and cleaner. When you focus intensely, you trigger the same neural pathway again and again which triggers mylein formation- effectively cementing the same skill.On the other hand, when you do shallow work with low concentration, you fire multiple neural circuits simultaneously and haphazardly, which leads to no value.

The Science of Deep Work: Why deliberate practice works?

To produce at your peak level, you need to work for extended periods with full concentration on a single task free from distraction.

Productivity

Distinguish between deep work and shallow work which are called deep work hours, from shallow work, in which<ul><li>Deep work: hours in which you make real progress toward your goals </li><li>Shallow work: moments of the day in which you say you are productive, but you are not as focused in something meaningful as you would like</li></ul>

Deep Work v. Shallow Work 

There is a way to train your focus, which will improve your performance. This can be done by: <ol><li>Creating artificial deadlines </li><li>Get rid of distractions</li></ol>

Treat the Ability to Focus Like a Muscle

Set a Daily Highlight, in which you do an activity that will make some progress towards your goals

Chase the Goals That Are Most Meaningful 

Each morning, block certain amount of hours (preferably at the same time) to do some amount of deep work

Get Into a Routine 

Doing shallow work (e.g., replying to emails) all day, is not as satisfying as knowing you made some progress (having deep work hours)

Embrace the Satisfaction of Deep Work

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