“fighting desires—over time these distractions drained their finite pool of willpower until they could no longer resist. The same will happen to… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“musicians, athletes, and chess players, among others, know all about deliberate practice, but knowledge workers do not. Most knowledge workers avoid the… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
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“Busyness as Proxy for Productivity: In the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their… — 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… — 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
“Consider a 2012 study, led by psychologists Wilhelm Hofmann and Roy Baumeister, that outfitted 205 adults with beepers that activated at randomly… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
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“argue that his approach to batching helps explain this paradox. In particular, by consolidating his work into intense and uninterrupted pulses, he’s… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“In other words, I not only allow spontaneity in my schedule; I encourage it. Joseph’s critique is driven by the mistaken idea… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
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“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
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“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
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