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…getting the most out of your 168 hours takes discipline in a distracted world.

Your job as a leadership team is to establish your organization’s core focus and not to let anything distract you from that.

If you’re getting distracted by shiny stuff, choose one discipline and stick with it.

…microlapses create distraction by infecting interpersonal relationships with doubt and fear.

…learning to reduce the distractions that take your mind out of the game can make you a step quicker than your competitor, make you more focused, and help you to use your energies more productively.

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.

…network tools are distracting us from work that requires unbroken concentration, while simultaneously degrading our capacity to remain focused.

…deliberate practice cannot exist along-side distraction… it instead requires uninterrupted concentration.

To learn hard things quickly, you must focus intensely without distraction.

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