“The more you try to do, the less you actually accomplish.” They elaborate that execution should be aimed at a small number… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Personal Goal: To maintain close and rewarding friendships with a group of people who are important to me. Key Activities Supporting… — Cal Newport 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 Copy Share Image
“At the end of every week he prints his numbers to see how well he achieved this goal, and then uses this… — Cal Newport 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 Copy Share Image
“The art of mission, we can conclude, asks us to suppress the most grandiose of our work instincts and instead adopt the… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“little bet, in the setting of mission exploration, has the following characteristics: It’s a project small enough to be completed in less… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“just because you really want to organize your work around a mission doesn’t mean that you can easily make it happen.” — Cal Newport 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 Copy Share Image
“The goal of the machine,” David explained, “is to create a setting where the users can get into a state of deep… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“What struck me about Pardis’s story is how remarkably late it was in her training before she identified the mission that now… — 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
