Cal Newport

“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

“The professors at MIT—some of the most innovative technologists in the world—wanted nothing to do with an open-office-style workspace. They instead demanded…

— Cal Newport

“To produce at your peak level you need to work for extended periods with full concentration on a single task free from…

— Cal Newport

“Outside of these deep sessions, Grant remained famously open and accessible. In some sense, he had to be: His 2013 bestseller, Give…

— Cal Newport

“Do some good in the world for no other reason than wanting to be part of the solution.”

— Cal Newport

“I had reached the level of expertise you would expect from someone who had played an instrument seriously for the last six…

— Cal Newport

“when a branch of psychology, sometimes called performance psychology, began to systematically explore what separates experts (in many different fields) from everyone…

— Cal Newport

“When deciding whether to follow an appealing pursuit that will introduce more control into your work life, ask yourself whether people are…

— Cal Newport

“focus completely and without distraction on a single research task. (He typically divides the writing of a scholarly paper into three discrete…

— Cal Newport

“In Wrzesniewski’s research, the happiest, most passionate employees are not those who followed their passion into a position, but instead those who…

— Cal Newport

“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

“Christensen wrote for a book titled The 4 Disciplines of Execution, which built on extensive consulting case studies to describe four “disciplines”…

— Cal Newport

“The connection between deep work and flow should be clear: Deep work is an activity well suited to generate a flow state…

— Cal Newport

“Knuth goes on to acknowledge that he doesn’t intend to cut himself off completely from the world. He notes that writing his…

— Cal Newport

“Any pursuit—be it physical or cognitive—that supports high levels of skill can also generate a sense of sacredness.”

— Cal Newport

“Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman explaining in an interview one of his less orthodox productivity strategies: To do real good physics work,…

— Cal Newport

“Se tan bueno que no puedan ignorarte.”

— Cal Newport

“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

“The difference in our abilities by the age of eighteen had less to do with the number of hours we practiced—though he…

— Cal Newport

“The fault of the courage culture, therefore, is not its underlying message that courage is good, but its severe underestimation of the…

— Cal Newport

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

— Cal Newport

“Throughout most of human history, to be a blacksmith or a wheelwright wasn’t glamorous. But this doesn’t matter, as the specifics of…

— Cal Newport

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

— Cal Newport

“Deep work is necessary to wring every last drop of value out of your”

— Cal Newport

“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