E5: Deep Work: Rules for Focused ...
E5: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

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3 Lessons 💡

  1. Define Deep Work, Shallow Work and Deep Work Hypothesis (negatives of multi-tasking)
    1. 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
    2. Shallow Work: Non-cognitively demanding, logistical style tasks, often performed while distracted.
  2. Ritualize your work
    1. When and where?
    2. How you'll work when you start?
    3. How you'll support your work through basic needs?
  3. Downtime Benefits
    1. Aids insights -- subconscious mind is powerful to work through problems
    2. Recharge every to work deeply later -- nature really helps

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