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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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To master the art of deep work… you must take back control of your time and attention from the many diversions that attempt to steal them.
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…in the scheme of your life and what you want to accomplish, [social media is] a lightweight whimsy, one unimportant distraction among many…
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To leave the distracted masses to join the focused few… is a transformative experience.
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…if you’re… focusing on only one thing at a time, without distraction, you’ll be in your ‘zone.’
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If you design workflows that allow knowledge workers to spend most of their time focusing without distraction… you’ll produce much more total value…
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In the tumult of our daily distractions and to-do lists, innovation dead-ends; in open times it flourishes.
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