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Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limits. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and are hard to replicate.
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…network tools are distracting us from work that requires unbroken concentration, while simultaneously degrading our capacity to remain focused.
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…deliberate practice cannot exist along-side distraction… it instead requires uninterrupted concentration.
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To learn hard things quickly, you must focus intensely without distraction.
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To produce at your peak level you need to work for extended periods with full concentration on a single task free from distraction.
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To build your working life around the experience of flow produced by deep work is a proven path to deep satisfaction.
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Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don’t simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction.
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Once your brain has become accustomed to on-demand distraction… it’s hard to shake the addiction even when you want to concentrate.
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Don’t take breaks from distraction. Instead take breaks from focus.
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…to succeed with deep work you must rewire your brain to be comfortable resisting distracting stimuli.
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