Spend a few hours every day working deeply without interruptions. This is much better than trying to multitask or being distracted.

Focus in Short Blocks

Shallow work includes things like checking emails or sitting in pointless meetings. These activities feel productive but don’t actually help you achieve big goals.

Avoid Shallow Work

Plan your day with clear goals. Make sure every activity helps you move closer to something meaningful.

Be Intentional with Your Time

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Deep work takes a lot of energy, so give your brain a break. Relaxing and sleeping well will make you more productive.

Rest is Important

In today’s world, where distractions are everywhere, the ability to focus deeply is rare but highly valuable. It’s what sets successful people apart.

Why is Deep Work Important?

Deep work means focusing completely on important tasks without getting distracted. It helps you learn faster and produce better results.

What is Deep Work?

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Work Deeply: Set up habits and routines that make it easier to focus.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Embrace Boredom: Don’t always look for entertainment; learn to be okay with quiet moments.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Quit Social Media: Use only the tools that truly benefit your goals.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Cut Down on Unnecessary Tasks: Say no to things that waste time or energy.</li></ul>

Four Rules for Deep Work

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The more you practice focusing, the better you get at it. Start small and gradually increase the time you spend working without distractions.

Train Your Focus Like a Muscle

Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently.

Plan your day with dedicated time for deep work. A regular schedule helps your brain get into focus mode more easily.

Create a Daily Routine

Don’t waste your mental energy on small, unimportant tasks. Save it for things that really matter.

Protect Your Attention

The #1 Secret to Staying Focused in a Distracted World!  

Master one of our economy’s most rare skills and achieve groundbreaking results with this “exciting” book (Daniel H. Pink) from an “exceptional” author (New York Times Book Review). Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep Work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way. In Deep Work, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four "rules," for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill. 1. Work Deeply 2. Embrace Boredom 3. Quit Social Media 4. Drain the Shallows A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, Deep Work takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories-from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air-and no-nonsense advice, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. Deep Work is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world. An Amazon Best Book of 2016 Pick in Business & Leadership Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller A Business Book of the Week at 800-CEO-READ

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Cal Newport is Provost’s Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University, and the author of seven books. His ideas and writing are frequently featured in major publications and on TV and radio.From his website: "I write about the intersection of digital technology and culture. I’m particularly interested in our struggle to deploy these tools in ways that support instead of subvert the things we care about in both our personal and professional lives."

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