“I keep a tally of the total number of hours I’ve spent that month in a state of deliberate practice.” — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“It is a lifetime accumulation of deliberate practice that again and again ends up explaining excellence.” — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Deliberate practice is often the opposite of enjoyable. I like the term “stretch” for describing what deliberate practice feels like,” — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Doing things we know how to do well is enjoyable, and that’s exactly the opposite of what deliberate practice demands…. Deliberate practice… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“if it’s rare and valuable, it’s not easy to get. This insight brought me into the world of performance science, where I… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“musicians, athletes, and chess players, among others, know all about deliberate practice, but knowledge workers do not. Most knowledge workers avoid the… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“craft-centric.” Getting better and better at what I did became what mattered most, and getting better required the strain of deliberate practice.… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“when a branch of psychology, sometimes called performance psychology, began to systematically explore what separates experts (in many different fields) from everyone… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“what deliberate practice actually requires. Its core components are usually identified as follows: (1) your attention is focused tightly on a specific… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“deliberate practice” to describe this style of serious study, defining it formally as an “activity designed, typically by a teacher, for the… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“I like the term “stretch” for describing what deliberate practice feels like, as it matches my own experience with the activity. When… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Here’s the routine: Once a week I require myself to summarize in my “bible” a paper I think might be relevant to… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Here was my first lesson: This type of skill development is hard. When I got to the first tricky gap in the… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“the importance of ability. The things that make a great job great, I discovered, are rare and valuable. If you want them in your… — Cal Newport Copy Share
“many software companies now deploy the Scrum project management methodology, which replaces a lot of this ad hoc messaging with regular, highly structured, and… — Cal Newport Copy Share
“when paying more than $1,000 a day to write the chapter in a suite of an old hotel down the street from a Hogwarts-style… — Cal Newport Copy Share
“When deciding whether to follow an appealing pursuit that will introduce more control into your work life, seek evidence of whether people are willing… — Cal Newport Copy Share
“Let your mind become a lens, thanks to the converging rays of attention; let your soul be all intent on whatever it is that… — Cal Newport Copy Share
“study by Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow. In this study, a group of management consultants were asked to disconnect for a full day… — Cal Newport Copy Share
“if it’s rare and valuable, it’s not easy to get. This insight brought me into the world of performance science, where I encountered the… — Cal Newport Copy Share
“Here’s the routine: Once a week I require myself to summarize in my “bible” a paper I think might be relevant to my research.… — Cal Newport Copy Share
“the journalist philosophy. This name is a nod to the fact that journalists, like Walter Isaacson, are trained to shift into a writing mode… — Cal Newport Copy Share
“Not long into his 2010 TED talk on creativity and leadership, Derek Sivers plays a video clip of a crowd at an outdoor concert.… — Cal Newport Copy Share
“Kirk’s path to American Treasures was incremental. He didn’t decide out of nowhere that he wanted to host a television show and then work… — Cal Newport Copy Share
“If you spend too much time focusing on whether or not you’ve found your true calling, the question will be rendered moot when you… — Cal Newport Copy Share
“Their plans were circumspect and small-time. They weren’t dreaming of taking over the world.” — Cal Newport Copy Share
“This chain method (as some now call it) soon became a hit among writers and fitness enthusiasts—communities that thrive on the ability to do… — Cal Newport Copy Share
