Success In a distracted world: Deep Work by Cal Newport

Cal Defines deep work as professional activities performed in a state of distraction free concentration that pushes yuour cognitive abilities to their limit, these efforts create new value, improve your skill and are hard to replicate。

The brain upgrade we get from deep work allows you to rapidly connect ideas and uncover creative solution.

In today’s society, the ability to do deep work is increasingly valuable and increasingly rare.

It’s valuable because when you produce something great in our hyper-connected world, it has ability to spread to billions of people, producing something great is necessary to stand out amongst the noise and avoid being forgotten by the flood of information that we deal with on a day to day basis.

Deep work is becoming increasingly rare because deep work require undivided attention and our world is being filled with more and more tempting distractions, so the ability to do deep work is becoming increasingly difficult.

Co-workers expect you to immediately respond to an email or an instant message, employers want you to function in an open office concept of constant distraction, you friends and followers online expect you to maintain a social media presence.

It’s not enough to try to ignore these distractions we are hard-wired to be distracted and pay attention to novelty.

There are 3 deep work strategies that you can incorporate into your schedule to heighten your ability to focus and produce results that are hard to replicate.

1 Schedule Distraction period, at home and at work.

Most of us allow ourselves to go online at any moment and check our phone whenever buzzes or dings but doing so is training your brain to avoid deep work, a day full of unscheduled distraction is training your brain to give in to any and all distractions.

To build your tolerance to avoid distraction you need to place boundaries on your distraction.

Have a notepad nearby and put down the next distraction break you’ll have, hold your focus until that time, at first it’s going to be painful but remember that doing this is efectively doing the reps that build you ability to concentrate

2. Develop a rhythmic deep work ritual. Cal says the easiest way to consistently start deep work sessions is to transform them into a simple regular habit, the goal in other words is to generate a rhythm for this work that removes the need for you to invest energy in deciding if and when you’re going to go deep.

So the ultimate goal of each day is to plant deep work rituals throughout the day with the ultimate goal of building up some of your deep work practices to four hours a day.

The third strategy to cultivate deep in your life is to have a daily shutdown complete ritual, sleep is the price we need to pay in order to do deep work, it’s interest we pay on the loan of intense focus required to do deep work to ensure that we get adequate sleep and restore our attentional reserves for the following day.

Cal recommends that we incorporate an evening shutdown into our daily routine, an evening shutdown ritual involves making a plan to complete any unifinished task goals or projects the following day.

When you get things off your mind, you restore the ability to sleep well and do deep work the following day, After Cal COmplete his plan for the following day, he will say to himself shutdown complete.

At the end, deep work is incredibly valuable because it changes your brain and allows you to produce innovative work that is hard to replicate

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