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Deep Work:
Downtime helps recharge the energy needed to work deeply.
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Deep Work:
The idea that you can ever reach a point where all your obligations are handled is fantasy.
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Deep Work:
…regularly resting your brain improves the quality of your deep work.
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Deep Work:
When you work, work hard. When you’re done, be done.
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Deep Work:
Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don’t simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction.
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Deep Work:
…research [has] revealed that constant attention switching online has a lasting negative effect on your brain.
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Deep Work:
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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Deep Work:
Don’t take breaks from distraction. Instead take breaks from focus.
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Deep Work:
…to succeed with deep work you must rewire your brain to be comfortable resisting distracting stimuli.
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Deep Work:
…leverage artificial deadlines to help you systematically increase the level you can regularly achieve…
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