Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and are hard to replicate.
Shallow Work: Non-cognitively demanding, logistical-style tasks, often performed while distracted. These efforts tend not to create much new value in the world and are easy to replicate.
In order to produce the absolute best stuff you’re capable of, you need to commit to deep work.Newport calls deep work, “the superpower of the 21st century.”
Your work is craft, and if you hone your ability and apply it with respect and care, then like the skilled wheelwright you can generate meaning in the daily efforts of your professional life.
To make the most out of your deep work sessions, build rituals with a level of strictness and idiosyncrasy. Your ritual needs rules and processes to keep your efforts structured.
Deep work training must involve two goals: improving your ability to concentrate intensely and overcoming your desire for distraction.
Schedule in advance when you’ll use the Internet, and then avoid it altogether outside these times.
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