1)High Quality Work Produced = Time Spent * Intensity of Focus
2) To learn hard things quickly, you must focus intensely without distraction.
3)Deep work: Professional activity 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.
4)Shallow work: Noncognitively demanding, logistical style tasks, often performed while distracted. These efforts tend to not create much new value in the world and are easy to replicate.
5)You have a finite amount of willpower that becomes depleted as you see it.
6)Who you are,what you think, feel, and do, what you love - is the sum of what you focus on.
7)The deep life,of course is not for everybody. It requires hard work and drastic changes to your habits.
1)Many people seem older than they are. Research into the causes of premature aging has shown that stress has a lot to do with it, because the body wears down much faster during period of crisis.
2)The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius said that the things we love are like the leaves of a tree: They can fall at any moment with a gust of wind.