Deep Work
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- Author: Cal Newport
- ASIN: B013UWFM52
- ISBN: 1455586692
- Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B013UWFM52
- Kindle link
Highlights
“If I organize my life in such a way that I get lots of long, consecutive, uninterrupted time-chunks, I can write novels. [If I instead get interrupted a lot] what replaces it? Instead of a novel — location: 87 ^ref-8247
Spend enough time in a state of frenetic shallowness and you permanently reduce your capacity to perform deep work. — location: 107 ^ref-54828
The Shallows, appropriately enough, Carr had to move to a cabin and forcibly disconnect. — location: 111 ^ref-60781
build our own personal Bollingen Towers; — location: 246 ^ref-3430
A deep life is a good life. — location: 247 ^ref-27932
The Intellectual Life, — location: 404 ^ref-43867
deliberate practice. — location: 414 ^ref-61361
Deep Work Helps You Produce at an Elite Level — location: 449 ^ref-56235
High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus) — location: 482 ^ref-65074
I don’t need a sword. But I have to make them.” — location: 874 ^ref-28538
“The satisfactions of manifesting oneself concretely in the world through manual competence have been known to make a man quiet and easy,” — location: 878 ^ref-27585
Craftsmen like Furrer tackle professional challenges that are simple to define but difficult to execute—a — location: 881 ^ref-54905
your full human potential), turns out to be a building. — location: 1110 ^ref-53007
You have a finite amount of willpower that becomes depleted as you use it. — location: 1168 ^ref-24649
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. — location: 1173 ^ref-24757
Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. — location: 1209 ^ref-30968
Trying to pitch Knuth on the intangible returns of building an audience on Twitter, or the unexpected opportunities that might come through a more liberal use of e-mail, will fail, as these behaviors don’t directly aid his goal — location: 1222 ^ref-43395
All of my time and attention are spoken for—several times over. Please do not ask for them. — location: 1230 ^ref-41937
2008 science fiction epic, Anathem, — location: 1240 ^ref-62706
should read later
Carl Jung would lock himself every morning into a minimally appointed room to write without interruption. He would then meditate and walk in the woods to clarify his thinking in preparation for the next day’s writing. — location: 1253 ^ref-9273
bimodal philosophy of deep work. This philosophy asks that you divide your time, dedicating some clearly defined stretches to deep pursuits and leaving the rest open to everything else. — location: 1265 ^ref-29791
His 2013 bestseller, Give and Take, promotes the practice of giving of your time and attention, without expectation of something in return, as a key strategy in professional advancement. — location: 1283 ^ref-8019
Should red later
way to create better jokes was to write every day. — location: 1298 ^ref-5996
“every inch of Caro’s New York office is governed by rules.” Where he places his books, how he stacks his notebooks, what he puts on his wall, even what he wears to the office: Everything is specified by a routine that has varied little over Caro’s long career. “I trained myself to be organized,” he explained. — location: 1388 ^ref-37428
This means he doesn't need to think about any of those aspects after developing a habit to keep them going
There is a popular notion that artists work from inspiration—that there is some strike or bolt or bubbling up of creative mojo from who knows where … but I hope [my work] makes clear that waiting for inspiration to strike is a terrible, terrible plan. In fact, perhaps the single best piece of advice I can offer to anyone trying to do creative work is to ignore inspiration. — location: 1398 ^ref-55357
[Great creative minds] think like artists but work like accountants.” — location: 1403 ^ref-46532
Where you’ll work and for how long. — location: 1412 ^ref-18306
identify a location used only for depth—for instance, a conference room or quiet library—the positive effect can be even greater. — location: 1415 ^ref-63552
How you’ll work once you start to work. Your ritual needs rules and processes to keep your efforts structured. — location: 1418 ^ref-55335
How you’ll support your work. — location: 1423 ^ref-3047
For example, the ritual might specify that you start with a cup of good coffee, or make sure you have access to enough food of the right type to maintain energy, or integrate light exercise such as walking to help keep the mind clear. — location: 1424 ^ref-39454
Nietzsche said: “It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.”) — location: 1425 ^ref-44277
By leveraging a radical change to your normal environment, coupled perhaps with a significant investment of effort or money, all dedicated toward supporting a deep work task, you increase the perceived importance of the task. — location: 1448 ^ref-40658
was nothing physically stopping Gates from thinking deeply in his office in Microsoft’s Seattle headquarters, but the novelty of his weeklong retreat helped him achieve the desired levels of concentration. — location: 1457 ^ref-24843