Cal Newport

“RULE #1 Don’t Follow Your Passion”

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“Discipline #3: Keep a Compelling Scoreboard”

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“Jordan left me in the dust. I played. But he practiced.”

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“Discipline #2: Act on the Lead Measures”

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“First, distraction remains a destroyer of depth.”

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“How do people end up loving what they do?”

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“Conclusion #3: Passion Is a Side Effect of Mastery”

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“Se tan bueno que no puedan ignorarte.”

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“The key question will be: are you good at working with intelligent machines or not?”

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“It was tentativeness, not boldness, that transformed Pardis’s general mission into a specific success.”

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“We have an information economy that’s dependent on complex systems that change rapidly.”

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“Money is a neutral indicator of value. By aiming to make money, you’re aiming to be valuable.”

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“Irrespective of what type of work you do, the craftsman mindset is crucial for building a career you love. Before”

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“The key thing is to force yourself through the work, force the skills to come; that’s the hardest phase,”

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“There’s no one correct deep work ritual—the right fit depends on both the person and the type of project pursued.”

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“People play differently when they’re keeping score,” the 4DX authors explain.”

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“monastic philosophy of deep work scheduling. This philosophy attempts to maximize deep efforts by eliminating or radically minimizing shallow obligations.”

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“fighting desires—over time these distractions drained their finite pool of willpower until they could no longer resist. The same will happen to…

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“E-mail inboxes, in theory, can distract you only when you choose to open them, whereas instant messenger systems are meant to be…

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“Driven by this insight, while my classmates contemplated their true calling, I went seeking opportunities to master rare skills that would yield…

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“I follow a rule with my life that if something is scary, do it. I’ve lived everywhere in America, and for me,…

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“deep work. If you haven’t mastered this foundational skill, you’ll struggle to learn hard things or produce at an elite level.”

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“Jordan had a name for the worries about what his friends are doing with their lives and whether his accomplishments compare favorably:…

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“It’s as if our species has evolved into one that flourishes in depth and wallows in shallowness, becoming what we might call…

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“I am suggesting that you put aside the question of whether your job is your true passion, and instead turn your focus…

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“when paying more than $1,000 a day to write the chapter in a suite of an old hotel down the street from…

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“Overall, Pardis’s most important commitment was to patience. She didn’t try to force a direction for her working life, but instead built…

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“there’s something liberating about the craftsman mindset: It asks you to leave behind self-centered concerns about whether your job is “just right,”…

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“In my experience, this analysis is spot-on. If you give your mind something meaningful to do throughout all your waking hours, you’ll…

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“Within the overall structure of a project there is always room for individuality and craftsmanship… One hundred years from now, our engineering…

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“Nobody ever takes note of [my advice], because it’s not the answer they wanted to hear,” Martin said. “What they want to…

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“Thomas had followed his passion to the Zen Mountain Monastery, believing, as many do, that the key to happiness is identifying your…

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“Stephenson summarizes his communication policy as follows: Persons who wish to interfere with my concentration are politely requested not to do so,…

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“Does it really help your work to be constantly connected? To do so, she did something extreme: She forced each member of…

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“This concept upends the way most people think about their subjective experience of life. We tend to place a lot of emphasis…

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“using money as a “neutral indicator of value”—a way of determining whether or not you have enough career capital to succeed with…

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“Self-Determination Theory (SDT), which is arguably the best understanding science currently has for why some pursuits get our engines running while others…

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“Most people assumed (and still do) that relaxation makes them happy. We want to work less and spend more time in the…

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“If you work in an environment where you can get an answer to a question or a specific piece of information immediately…

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“Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don’t simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction. Much in the…

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