10 Lessons from Deep Work
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1)Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and are hard to replicate.
2)Shallow Work: Noncognitively demanding, logistical-style tasks, often performed while distracted.
3)"I'll live focused life, because it's the best kind there is."
4)Put more thought into your leisure time.
5)High-Quality Work Produced=Time Spent x Intensity of Focus
6)In this new economy, three groups will have a particular advantage: those who can work well and creatively with intelligent machines, those who are the best at what they do, and those who with access to capital.
7)Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love-is the sum of what you focus on.
8)You have a finite amount of willpower that becomes depleted as you use it.
9)Jobs are actually easier to enjoy than free time.
10)The deep life, of course, is not for everybody. It requires hard work and drastic changes to your habits.
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