“To learn hard things quickly, you must focus intensely without distraction.” — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“skillful management of attention is the sine qua non of the good life and the key to improving virtually every aspect of… — 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
“without these accountability tools, I tended to procrastinate on this work, turning my attention to more urgent but less important matters.” — 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 Copy Share Image
“People experiencing attention residue after switching tasks are likely to demonstrate poor performance on that next task,” and the more intense the… — 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
“when you switch from some Task A to another Task B, your attention doesn’t immediately follow—a residue of your attention remains stuck… — 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 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
“Gallagher’s writing emphasizes that the content of what we focus on matters. If we give rapt attention to important things, and therefore… — 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
“The ability to concentrate intensely is a skill that must be trained. This idea might sound obvious once it’s pointed out, but… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“To put this more concretely: If every moment of potential boredom in your life—say, having to wait five minutes in line or… — 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
“Let your mind become a lens, thanks to the converging rays of attention; let your soul be all intent on whatever it… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don’t simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction. Much in the… — 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
“study the brain behavior of subjects presented with both positive and negative imagery. She found that for young people, their amygdala (a… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“The key to developing a deep work habit is to move beyond good intentions and add routines and rituals to your working… — 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 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
