Book Titles

Deep Work
Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

By Cal Newport

Year Published: 2016
ISBN-13: 978-1-4555-8669-1
Categories: Focus, Satisfaction, Time Management

88 Quotes Found

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Deep Work:

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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Deep Work:

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

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Deep Work:

To remain valuable in our economy… you must master the art of quickly learning complicated things. This task requires deep work.

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Deep Work:

To succeed you have to produce the absolute best stuff you’re capable of producing – a task that requires depth.

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Deep Work:

Once the talent market is made universally accessible, those at the peak of the market thrive while the rest suffer.

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Deep Work:

…talent is not a commodity you can buy in bulk and combine to reach the needed levels; There’s a premium to being the best.

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Deep Work:

…because these technologies change rapidly, this process of mastering hard things never ends: You must be able to do it quickly, again and again.

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Deep Work:

If you can’t learn, you can’t thrive.

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Deep Work:

If you can’t produce, you won’t thrive – no matter how skilled or talented you are.

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Deep Work:

…the differences between expert performers and normal adults reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance in a specific domain. – K. Anders Ericsson

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