“Bad courses, with incompatible professors and unreasonable requirements, are the key to developing an ulcer.” — Cal Newport Education Copy Share Image
“Money is a neutral indicator of value. By aiming to make money, you’re aiming to be valuable.” — Cal Newport Money Copy Share Image
“It was tentativeness, not boldness, that transformed Pardis’s general mission into a specific success.” — Cal Newport Success Copy Share Image
“We have an information economy that’s dependent on complex systems that change rapidly.” — Cal Newport Complex systems Copy Share Image
“The key question will be: are you good at working with intelligent machines or not?” — Cal Newport Computers Copy Share Image
“People play differently when they’re keeping score,” the 4DX authors explain.” — Cal Newport Books Copy Share Image
“Thurston struck up conversations with strangers. He enjoyed food without Instagramming the experience.” — Cal Newport Communication Copy Share Image
“There’s no one correct deep work ritual—the right fit depends on both the person and the type of project pursued.” — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“the journalist philosophy. This name is a nod to the fact that journalists, like Walter Isaacson, are trained to shift into a… — Cal Newport Journalism Copy Share Image
“Without this patient willingness to reject shiny new pursuits, you’ll derail your efforts before you acquire the capital you need.” — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Alex Berger, he didn’t arrive at his outstanding job by following a clear passion. Instead he carefully and persistently gathered career capital,… — Cal Newport Career Copy Share Image
“If you’re a recent college graduate in an entry-level job, for example, you’re much more likely to hear “go change the water… — Cal Newport Change Copy Share Image
“When deciding whether to follow an appealing pursuit that will introduce more control into your work life, ask yourself whether people are… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Giving people more control over what they do and how they do it increases their happiness, engagement, and sense of fulfillment.” — Cal Newport Happiness Copy Share Image
“Deep work is so important that we might consider it, to use the phrasing of business writer Eric Barker, “the superpower of… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“cultivating “concentration so intense that there is no attention left over to think about anything irrelevant, or to worry about problems.”)” — Cal Newport Concentration Copy Share Image
“After running my tough experiment [with cancer]… I have a plan for living the rest of my life,” Gallagher concludes in her… — Cal Newport Cancer Copy Share Image
“True missions, it turns out, require two things. First you need career capital, which requires patience. Second, you need to be ceaselessly… — Cal Newport Big idea Copy Share Image
“Your ritual needs to ensure your brain gets the support it needs to keep operating at a high level of depth. For… — Cal Newport Fitness Copy Share Image
“I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer had an email address. I’d used email… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Sertillanges argues that to advance your understanding of your field you must tackle the relevant topics systematically, allowing your “converging rays of… — Cal Newport Education 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 Deliberate 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 Deliberate Copy Share Image
“Once you’ve identified these goals, list for each the two or three most important activities that help you satisfy the goal. These… — Cal Newport Goals Copy Share Image
“Deep work should be a priority in today’s business climate. But it’s not. I’ve just summarized various explanations for this paradox. Among… — Cal Newport Business Copy Share Image
“Throughout most of human history, to be a blacksmith or a wheelwright wasn’t glamorous. But this doesn’t matter, as the specifics of… — Cal Newport History Copy Share Image
“In a seminal 1981 paper, the economist Sherwin Rosen worked out the mathematics behind these “winner-take-all” markets. One of his key insights… — Cal Newport Outstanding performance 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 Deliberate practice Copy Share Image
“study the brain behavior of subjects presented with both positive and negative imagery. She found that for young people, their amygdala (a… — Cal Newport Focus Copy Share Image
“focus completely and without distraction on a single research task. (He typically divides the writing of a scholarly paper into three discrete… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Most people assumed (and still do) that relaxation makes them happy. We want to work less and spend more time in the… — Cal Newport Free time Copy Share Image
“Self-Determination Theory (SDT), which is arguably the best understanding science currently has for why some pursuits get our engines running while others… — Cal Newport Motivation Copy Share Image