Cal Newport

“Se tan bueno que no puedan ignorarte.”

— Cal Newport

“Conclusion #3: Passion Is a Side Effect of Mastery”

— Cal Newport

“How do people end up loving what they do?”

— Cal Newport

“A deep life is a good life.”

— Cal Newport

“Discipline #3: Keep a Compelling Scoreboard”

— Cal Newport

“RULE #1 Don’t Follow Your Passion”

— Cal Newport

“First, distraction remains a destroyer of depth.”

— Cal Newport

“Discipline #2: Act on the Lead Measures”

— Cal Newport

“To work deeply is a big deal and should not be an activity undertaken lightly.”

— Cal Newport

“To learn hard things quickly, you must focus intensely without distraction.”

— Cal Newport

“Here’s what I respect: creating something meaningful and then presenting it to the world,”

— Cal Newport

“You don’t need a rarified job; you need instead a rarified approach to your work.”

— Cal Newport

“A leader needs the guts to stand alone and look ridiculous,”

— Cal Newport

“To have a mission is to have a unifying focus for your career.”

— Cal Newport

“Neither Wozniak nor Jobs left their regular jobs: This was strictly a low-risk venture meant for their free time.”

— Cal Newport

“High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus)”

— Cal Newport

“focused on difficult activities, carefully chosen to stretch your abilities where they most need stretching and that provide immediate feedback.”

— Cal Newport

“If your specialty is new—as mine is—and they can’t therefore find experts with an opinion on it either way, you’re going to…

— Cal Newport

“Just because you cannot avoid this tool altogether doesn’t mean you have to cede all authority over its role in your mental…

— Cal Newport

“Men of genius themselves were great only by bringing all their power to bear on the point on which they had decided…

— Cal Newport

“Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create…

— Cal Newport

“Csikszentmihalyi even goes so far as to argue that modern companies should embrace this reality, suggesting that “jobs should be redesigned so…

— Cal Newport

“the end of each of these brainstorming sessions I require myself to formally record the results, by hand, on a dated page.”

— Cal Newport

“If you’re struggling to raise money for an idea, or are thinking that you will support your idea with unrelated work, then…

— Cal Newport

“It’s natural, at first, to resist this idea, as it’s undoubtedly easier to continue to allow the twin forces of internal whim…

— Cal Newport

“Though Grant’s productivity depends on many factors, there’s one idea in particular that seems central to his method: the batching of hard…

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“It’s worth taking the time to untangle, however, because properly leveraging collaboration can increase the quality of deep work in your professional…

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“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

“To ask a CEO to spend four hours thinking deeply about a single problem is a waste of what makes him or…

— Cal Newport

“Sertillanges seems to have been ahead of his time, arguing in The Intellectual Life, “Men of genius themselves were great only by…

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“The real rewards are reserved not for those who are comfortable using Facebook (a shallow task, easily replicated), but instead for those…

— Cal Newport

“Technopoly eliminates alternatives to itself in precisely the way Aldous Huxley outlined in Brave New World,” he argued in his 1993 book…

— Cal Newport

“My professional situation now couldn’t be more perfect,” Scott reports. “I chose to pursue the career I knew in my heart I…

— Cal Newport

“Knuth goes on to acknowledge that he doesn’t intend to cut himself off completely from the world. He notes that writing his…

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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…

— Cal Newport

“The theory of serendipitous creativity, in other words, seems well justified by the historical record. The transistor, we can argue with some…

— Cal Newport

“This chain method (as some now call it) soon became a hit among writers and fitness enthusiasts—communities that thrive on the ability…

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“If you can create something useful, its reachable audience (e.g., employers or customers) is essentially limitless—which greatly magnifies your reward. On the…

— Cal Newport

“We like to think of innovation as striking us in a stunning eureka moment, where you all at once change the way…

— Cal Newport

“Here was my first lesson: This type of skill development is hard. When I got to the first tricky gap in the…

— Cal Newport