“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
“The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish… — Cal Newport 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 Copy Share Image
“it’s not just the change of environment or seeking of quiet that enables more depth. The dominant force is the psychology of… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“[Great creative minds] think like artists but work like accountants.” — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“This concept upends the way most people think about their subjective experience of life. We tend to place a lot of emphasis… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“In my experience, this analysis is spot-on. If you give your mind something meaningful to do throughout all your waking hours, you’ll… — Cal Newport 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 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 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
“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
“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
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“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
