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The journey should be enjoyable. If you’re racing to get to the end of the journey, you’ll be sorely disappointed.

…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.

By adding points of contact… you’ll make a lasting impression and increase the likelihood that your ideas will gain traction.

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.

Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don’t simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction.