“the individual’s scoreboard should be a physical artifact in the workspace that displays the individual’s current deep work hour count.” — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Deep work is necessary to wring every last drop of value out of your” — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“To build your working life around the experience of flow produced by deep work is a proven path to deep satisfaction.” — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“attempting to schedule deep work in an ad hoc fashion is not an effective way to manage your limited willpower.)” — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“The reason knowledge workers are losing their familiarity with deep work is well established: network tools.” — Cal Newport 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
“deep work. If you haven’t mastered this foundational skill, you’ll struggle to learn hard things or produce at an elite level.” — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“To produce at your peak level you need to work for extended periods with full concentration on a single task free from… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“if the subject dedicates enough time to such endeavors to reach maximum cognitive intensity—the state in which real breakthroughs occur. This is… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“as we shift to an information economy, more and more of our population are knowledge workers, and deep work is becoming a… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“monastic philosophy of deep work scheduling. This philosophy attempts to maximize deep efforts by eliminating or radically minimizing shallow obligations.” — Cal Newport 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
“To remain valuable in our economy, therefore, you must master the art of quickly learning complicated things. This task requires deep work.” — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The purpose of the deep work chamber is to allow for total focus and uninterrupted work flow,” Dewane explains. He imagines a… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“There’s a gravity and sense of importance inherent in deep work—whether you’re Ric Furrer smithing a sword or a computer programmer optimizing… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“The connection between deep work and flow should be clear: Deep work is an activity well suited to generate a flow state… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“By leveraging a radical change to your normal environment, coupled perhaps with a significant investment of effort or money, all dedicated toward… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“big trends in business today actively decrease people’s ability to perform deep work, even though the benefits promised by these trends (e.g.,… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Deep work is at a severe disadvantage in a technopoly because it builds on values like quality, craftsmanship, and mastery that are… — Cal Newport 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 Copy Share Image
“It’s worth taking the time to untangle, however, because properly leveraging collaboration can increase the quality of deep work in your professional… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“In an age of network tools, in other words, knowledge workers increasingly replace deep work with the shallow alternative—constantly sending and receiving… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Shallow Work: Noncognitively demanding, logistical-style tasks, often performed while distracted. These efforts tend to not create much new value in the world… — Cal Newport 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 Copy Share Image
“This chain method (as some now call it) soon became a hit among writers and fitness enthusiasts—communities that thrive on the ability… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 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 encountered the… — 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 my research.… — 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 writing mode… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
