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Deep Work
Cal Newport
Introduction
📌 amid ⏱ 2024-12-14 22:41:24
📌 hectic ⏱ 2024-12-14 22:41:30
📌 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. ⏱ 2024-12-14 22:43:24
📌 wring every last drop of value out of your current intellectual capacity ⏱ 2024-12-14 22:44:15
📌 Although he had many patients who relied on him, Jung was not shy about taking time off.”
- 💭 该怎样分配我的时间，是一个巨大且必要的任务 - ⏱ 2024-12-14 22:46:53
📌 shed ⏱ 2024-12-14 22:49:23
📌 horn ⏱ 2024-12-14 22:49:56
📌 Allen is joined in his rejection of computers by Peter Higgs ⏱ 2024-12-14 22:51:38
📌 coincided ⏱ 2024-12-14 22:51:59
📌 ubiquity ⏱ 2024-12-15 09:55:26
📌 infotainment ⏱ 2024-12-15 09:56:50
📌 loafing ⏱ 2024-12-15 09:59:02
📌 discrepancy ⏱ 2024-12-15 09:59:35
📌 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. ⏱ 2024-12-15 10:01:06
📌 frenetic ⏱ 2024-12-15 10:04:20
📌 stipulate ⏱ 2024-12-15 10:08:27
📌 sidestep ⏱ 2024-12-15 10:08:53
📌 impassible ⏱ 2024-12-15 10:09:18
📌 pragmatic ⏱ 2024-12-15 10:10:46
📌 Our work culture’s shift toward the shallow (whether you think it’s philosophically good or bad) is exposing a massive economic and personal opportunity for the few who recognize the potential of resisting this trend and prioritizing depth ⏱ 2024-12-15 10:12:03
📌 clunky ⏱ 2024-12-15 10:15:43
📌 automate ⏱ 2024-12-15 10:16:05
📌 thwarted ⏱ 2024-12-15 10:17:11
📌 epiphany ⏱ 2024-12-15 10:18:51
📌 trajectories ⏱ 2024-12-15 10:20:56
📌 notoriously ⏱ 2024-12-15 10:37:47
📌 is nothing short of astonishing. ⏱ 2024-12-15 10:41:15
📌 mediocre ⏱ 2024-12-15 10:44:02
📌 chew up and spit out ⏱ 2024-12-15 10:46:59
📌 The Deep Work Hypothesis: The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. As a consequence, the few who cultivate this skill, and then make it the core of their working life, will thrive. ⏱ 2024-12-15 10:49:59
📌 devotee ⏱ 2024-12-15 10:50:39
📌 chagrin ⏱ 2024-12-15 10:53:50
📌 ultimatum ⏱ 2024-12-15 10:55:29
📌 voluminous ⏱ 2024-12-15 10:57:03
📌 batched into ⏱ 2024-12-15 11:17:58
📌 peripheries ⏱ 2024-12-15 11:18:03
📌 sneaking ⏱ 2024-12-15 11:19:24
📌 tones down ⏱ 2024-12-15 11:20:16
📌 pervade ⏱ 2024-12-15 11:20:36
📌 distilling ⏱ 2024-12-15 11:22:13
📌 ruthlessly ⏱ 2024-12-15 11:23:21
📌 retreat ⏱ 2024-12-15 11:24:14
Chapter 1: Deep Work Is Valuable
📌 columnists ⏱ 2024-12-15 11:26:45
📌 stats ⏱ 2024-12-15 11:30:20
📌 geek ⏱ 2024-12-15 11:30:22
📌 lured Silver away ⏱ 2024-12-15 11:31:56
📌 telecasts ⏱ 2024-12-15 11:33:27
📌 rigor ⏱ 2024-12-15 11:32:47
📌 lucrative ⏱ 2024-12-15 11:35:03
📌 dabbles ⏱ 2024-12-15 11:35:28
📌 traits ⏱ 2024-12-15 11:37:40
📌 Our technologies are racing ahead but many of our skills and organizations are lagging behind
- 💭 同意 - ⏱ 2024-12-15 11:40:45
📌 And when only a human will do, improvements in communications and collaboration technology are making remote work easier than ever before, motivating companies to outsource key roles to stars—leaving the local talent pool underemployed ⏱ 2024-12-15 11:43:26
📌 outsourced ⏱ 2024-12-15 14:01:02
📌 reap ⏱ 2024-12-15 14:00:00
📌 personified ⏱ 2024-12-15 14:01:51
📌 augmented ⏱ 2024-12-15 14:05:27
📌 oracular ⏱ 2024-12-15 14:06:16
📌 tease ⏱ 2024-12-15 14:06:33
📌 bluntly ⏱ 2024-12-15 14:07:06
📌 siphoning ⏱ 2024-12-15 14:08:43
📌 epitome ⏱ 2024-12-15 14:10:00
📌 innocuously ⏱ 2024-12-15 14:14:03
📌 succession ⏱ 2024-12-15 14:18:24
📌 mediocre ⏱ 2024-12-15 14:18:27
📌 bazaar ⏱ 2024-12-15 14:23:13
📌 advent ⏱ 2024-12-15 14:23:32
📌 A venture capitalist in today’s economy can fund a company like Instagram, which was eventually sold for a billion dollars, while employing only thirteen people. ⏱ 2024-12-15 14:28:43
📌 precedent ⏱ 2024-12-15 14:29:07
📌 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 with access to capital. ⏱ 2024-12-15 14:31:43
📌 precarious ⏱ 2024-12-15 14:32:47
📌 poised ⏱ 2024-12-15 14:35:19
📌 The ability to quickly master hard things. ⏱ 2024-12-15 14:37:06
📌 The ability to produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed ⏱ 2024-12-15 14:37:17
📌 intuitive ⏱ 2024-12-15 14:38:00
📌 interrogated ⏱ 2024-12-15 14:52:45
📌 tinkering ⏱ 2024-12-15 14:58:22
📌 intricate ⏱ 2024-12-15 15:00:22
📌 succinctly ⏱ 2024-12-15 15:03:09
📌 The two core abilities just described depend on your ability to perform deep work. ⏱ 2024-12-15 15:08:31
📌 unimpeachable ⏱ 2024-12-15 15:17:14
📌 converging ⏱ 2024-12-15 15:18:14
📌 penned ⏱ 2024-12-15 15:19:59
📌 immutable ⏱ 2024-12-16 13:14:36
📌 prodigy ⏱ 2024-12-16 13:15:11
📌 show their full measure ⏱ 2024-12-16 13:17:08
📌 (1) your attention is focused tightly on a specific skill you’re trying to improve or an idea you’re trying to master; (2) you receive feedback so you can correct your approach to keep your attention exactly where it’s most productive. ⏱ 2024-12-16 13:18:50
📌 antithetical ⏱ 2024-12-16 13:19:23
📌 like an insulator that allows the cells to fire faster and cleaner. ⏱ 2024-12-16 13:24:29
📌 myelin ⏱ 2024-12-16 13:24:01
📌 This new science of performance argues that you get better at a skill as you develop more myelin around the relevant neurons, allowing the corresponding circuit to fire more effortlessly and effectively. To be great at something is to be well myelinated. ⏱ 2024-12-16 13:26:34
📌 cementing ⏱ 2024-12-16 13:27:39
📌 elevated ⏱ 2024-12-16 13:29:29
📌 metaphor ⏱ 2024-12-16 13:29:19
📌 cliché ⏱ 2024-12-16 13:34:32
📌 absentminded ⏱ 2024-12-16 13:34:36
📌 High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus) ⏱ 2024-12-16 13:38:55
📌 intriguingly ⏱ 2024-12-16 13:41:52
📌 residue ⏱ 2024-12-16 13:41:49
📌 sequentially ⏱ 2024-12-16 13:42:43
📌 People experiencing attention residue after switching tasks are likely to demonstrate poor performance on that next task ⏱ 2024-12-16 13:45:34
📌 dampens ⏱ 2024-12-16 13:48:23
📌 dwarf ⏱ 2024-12-16 13:49:27
📌 serendipitous ⏱ 2024-12-16 13:54:44
📌 slathered ⏱ 2024-12-16 13:55:20
📌 darts ⏱ 2024-12-16 13:55:33
📌 interludes ⏱ 2024-12-16 13:56:04
📌 stipulated ⏱ 2024-12-16 19:01:54
📌 repository ⏱ 2024-12-16 19:23:57
📌 bloviate ⏱ 2024-12-16 19:31:13
Chapter 2: Deep Work Is Rare
📌 configured ⏱ 2024-12-16 19:34:33
📌 entrants ⏱ 2024-12-16 19:36:05
📌 coercive ⏱ 2024-12-16 19:39:28
📌 ridiculed ⏱ 2024-12-16 19:39:50
📌 sarcastic ⏱ 2024-12-16 19:40:53
📌 became a fad. ⏱ 2024-12-16 19:41:04
📌 to add insult to injury ⏱ 2024-12-16 19:43:02
📌 detrimental ⏱ 2024-12-16 19:45:24
📌 prose ⏱ 2024-12-16 19:46:21
📌 frothy ⏱ 2024-12-16 19:47:10
📌 tittering ⏱ 2024-12-16 19:47:22
📌 is crack for ⏱ 2024-12-16 19:48:55
📌 fungible ⏱ 2024-12-16 20:17:13
📌 volatile ⏱ 2024-12-16 20:24:32
📌 backdrop ⏱ 2024-12-16 20:25:53
Rule #1: Work Deeply
📌 cubicles ⏱ 2024-12-17 13:26:05
📌 neglected ⏱ 2024-12-17 13:30:17
📌 incessant ⏱ 2024-12-17 13:30:20
📌 disciple ⏱ 2024-12-17 13:30:45
📌 People fight desires all day long. ⏱ 2024-12-17 13:35:27
📌 futility ⏱ 2024-12-17 13:37:49
📌 You have a finite amount of willpower that becomes depleted as you use it. ⏱ 2024-12-17 13:38:26
📌 manifestation ⏱ 2024-12-17 13:41:46
📌 wrest ⏱ 2024-12-17 13:44:35
📌 arsenal ⏱ 2024-12-17 13:46:01
📌 heuristics ⏱ 2024-12-17 13:46:49
📌 monasticism ⏱ 2024-12-17 13:50:04
📌 derail ⏱ 2024-12-17 13:53:04
📌 thicket ⏱ 2024-12-17 13:58:46
📌 trip up ⏱ 2024-12-17 13:57:55
📌 are spoken for ⏱ 2024-12-17 14:02:17
📌 adherents ⏱ 2024-12-17 14:06:16
📌 evince ⏱ 2024-12-17 14:32:57
📌 strictures ⏱ 2024-12-17 14:34:37
📌 This is why the minimum unit of time for deep work in this philosophy tends to be at least one full day. ⏱ 2024-12-17 14:39:50
📌 As Jung, Grant, and Perlow’s subjects discovered, people will usually respect your right to become inaccessible if these periods are well defined and well advertised, and outside these stretches, you’re once again easy to find ⏱ 2024-12-17 14:44:04
📌 This chain method (as some now call it) soon became a hit among writers and fitness enthusiasts—communities that thrive on the ability to do hard things consistently. ⏱ 2024-12-17 14:46:44
📌 the rhythmic philosophy. This philosophy argues that the easiest way to consistently start deep work sessions is to transform them into a simple regular ⏱ 2024-12-17 14:47:33
📌 Another common way to implement the rhythmic philosophy is to replace the visual aid of the chain method with a set starting time that you use every day for deep work. ⏱ 2024-12-17 14:49:05
📌 glacial ⏱ 2024-12-17 14:53:11
📌 prolific ⏱ 2024-12-17 14:55:25
📌 The decision between rhythmic and bimodal can come down to your self-control in such scheduling matters. ⏱ 2024-12-26 20:00:37
📌 intertwined ⏱ 2024-12-17 15:01:16
📌 exulted ⏱ 2024-12-17 15:07:59
📌 faze ⏱ 2024-12-17 15:11:15
📌 I call this approach, in which you fit deep work wherever you can into your schedule, the journalist philosophy. ⏱ 2024-12-17 15:12:12
📌 novice ⏱ 2024-12-17 15:12:44
📌 This habit also requires a sense of confidence in your abilities—a conviction that what you’re doing is important and will succeed. ⏱ 2024-12-17 15:13:59
📌 thwarting ⏱ 2024-12-17 15:15:37
📌 ode ⏱ 2024-12-17 15:15:49
📌 pull off ⏱ 2024-12-17 15:18:13
📌 haphazard ⏱ 2024-12-17 15:19:12
📌 In fact, perhaps the single best piece of advice I can offer to anyone trying to do creative work is to ignore inspiration. ⏱ 2024-12-17 15:22:51
📌 To make the most out of your deep work sessions, build rituals of the same level of strictness and idiosyncrasy as the important thinkers mentioned previously. ⏱ 2024-12-17 15:23:34
📌 mimicry ⏱ 2024-12-17 15:23:54
📌 Where you’ll work and for how ⏱ 2024-12-17 15:26:34
📌 Regardless of where you work, be sure to also give yourself a specific time frame to keep the session a discrete challenge and not an open-ended slog. ⏱ 2024-12-17 15:27:14
📌 How you’ll work once you start to work. Your ritual needs rules and processes to keep your efforts structured ⏱ 2024-12-17 15:27:34
📌 litigate ⏱ 2024-12-17 15:28:21
📌 How you’ll support your work. Your ritual needs to ensure your brain gets the support it needs to keep operating at a high level of depth ⏱ 2024-12-17 15:29:15
📌 But keep in mind that finding a ritual that sticks might require experimentation, so be willing to work at it. ⏱ 2024-12-17 15:31:15
📌 retrospect ⏱ 2024-12-17 15:33:39
📌 procrastinate ⏱ 2024-12-17 15:35:04
📌 mustering ⏱ 2024-12-17 15:36:16
📌 ply ⏱ 2024-12-17 15:39:32
📌 amenities ⏱ 2024-12-17 15:39:48
📌 ostensibly ⏱ 2024-12-19 13:39:46
📌 rattling around ⏱ 2024-12-19 13:40:18
📌 Sometimes to go deep, you must first go big. ⏱ 2024-12-19 13:45:40
📌 untangle ⏱ 2024-12-19 13:46:07
📌 thwarts ⏱ 2024-12-19 13:48:11
📌 tyranny ⏱ 2024-12-19 13:48:31
📌 resonated ⏱ 2024-12-19 13:49:20
📌 conjecture ⏱ 2024-12-19 13:51:15
📌 incompatible ⏱ 2024-12-19 13:52:36
📌 spurs ⏱ 2024-12-19 13:53:09
📌 broiling ⏱ 2024-12-19 14:03:02
📌 chronicler ⏱ 2024-12-19 14:10:01
📌 was like a magnet rolling past iron filings ⏱ 2024-12-19 14:11:49
📌 nuance ⏱ 2024-12-19 14:14:36
📌 gaskets ⏱ 2024-12-19 15:23:45
📌 straddles ⏱ 2024-12-19 15:26:16
📌 spectrum ⏱ 2024-12-19 15:26:34
📌 Expose yourself to ideas in hubs on a regular basis, but maintain a spoke in which to work deeply on what you encounter. ⏱ 2024-12-19 15:30:17
📌 This back-and-forth represents a collaborative form of deep work (common in academic circles) that leverages what I call the whiteboard effect. ⏱ 2024-12-19 15:36:59
📌 proverbial ⏱ 2024-12-19 15:37:20
📌 push you deeper than if you were working alone. ⏱ 2024-12-19 15:37:37
📌 contemplating ⏱ 2024-12-19 15:41:47
📌 Separate your pursuit of serendipitous encounters from your efforts to think deeply and build on these inspirations. ⏱ 2024-12-19 15:42:55
📌 Second, even when you retreat to a spoke to think deeply, when it’s reasonable to leverage the whiteboard effect, do so ⏱ 2024-12-19 15:45:40
📌 as compared to working alone. ⏱ 2024-12-19 15:45:58
📌 lionize ⏱ 2024-12-19 15:47:23
📌 wring ⏱ 2024-12-19 15:48:23
📌 swirl ⏱ 2024-12-19 15:48:14
📌 entrenched companies are often unexpectedly dethroned by start-ups that begin with cheap offerings at the low end of the market, but then, over time, improve their cheap products just enough to begin to steal high-end market share. ⏱ 2024-12-19 15:49:56
📌 trips up companies ⏱ 2024-12-19 15:52:27
📌 Discipline #1: Focus on the Wildly Important ⏱ 2024-12-19 15:57:48
📌 The more you try to do, the less you actually accomplish. ⏱ 2024-12-19 15:58:08
📌 ignite ⏱ 2024-12-19 15:58:32
📌 For an individual focused on deep work, the implication is that you should identify a small number of ambitious outcomes to pursue with your deep work hours. ⏱ 2024-12-19 15:59:04
📌 trivial ⏱ 2024-12-19 16:00:20
📌 smorgasbord ⏱ 2024-12-19 16:00:05
📌 Discipline #2: Act on the Lead Measures ⏱ 2024-12-19 16:01:51
📌 Lag measures describe the thing you’re ultimately trying to improve. For example, if your goal is to increase customer satisfaction in your bakery, then the relevant lag measure is your customer satisfaction scores. ⏱ 2024-12-19 16:02:27
📌 Lead measures, on the other hand, “measure the new behaviors that will drive success on the lag measures.” ⏱ 2024-12-19 16:03:18
📌 In other words, lead measures turn your attention to improving the behaviors you directly control in the near future that will then have a positive impact on your long-term goals ⏱ 2024-12-19 16:04:15
📌 For an individual focused on deep work, it’s easy to identify the relevant lead measure: time spent in a state of deep work dedicated toward your wildly important goal. ⏱ 2024-12-19 16:17:03
📌 Discipline #3: Keep a Compelling Scoreboard ⏱ 2024-12-19 16:17:59
📌 People play differently when they’re keeping score,” ⏱ 2024-12-19 16:18:12
📌 This scoreboard creates a sense of competition that drives them to focus on these measures, even when other demands vie for their attention. ⏱ 2024-12-19 16:23:55
📌 perpetuating ⏱ 2024-12-19 16:24:16
📌 It follows, therefore, that the individual’s scoreboard should be a physical artifact in the workspace that displays the individual’s current deep work hour count ⏱ 2024-12-19 16:25:08
📌 Discipline #4: Create a Cadence of Accountability ⏱ 2024-12-21 04:32:01
📌 The 4DX authors elaborate that the final step to help maintain a focus on lead measures is to put in place “a rhythm of regular and frequent meetings of any team that owns a wildly important goal.” ⏱ 2024-12-21 04:33:53
📌 The 4DX framework is based on the fundamental premise that execution is more difficult than strategizing. ⏱ 2024-12-21 04:37:59
📌 retrospect ⏱ 2024-12-21 04:40:24
📌 distaste ⏱ 2024-12-21 04:42:17
📌 frenetic ⏱ 2024-12-21 04:42:26
📌 insidiously ⏱ 2024-12-21 04:43:11
📌 pinprick ⏱ 2024-12-21 04:46:00
📌 onslaught ⏱ 2024-12-21 04:46:02
📌 buttercups ⏱ 2024-12-21 04:46:50
📌 indulgence ⏱ 2024-12-21 04:48:09
📌 At the end of the workday, shut down your consideration of work issues until the next morning—no after-dinner e-mail check, no mental replays of conversations, and no scheming about how you’ll handle an upcoming challenge; shut down work thinking completely. If you need more time, then extend your workday, but once you shut down, your mind must be left free to encounter Kreider’s buttercups, stink bugs, and stars. ⏱ 2024-12-21 04:52:40
📌 endorsement ⏱ 2024-12-21 04:53:26
📌 Reason #1: Downtime Aids Insights ⏱ 2024-12-21 04:54:08
📌 excerpt ⏱ 2024-12-21 04:54:32
📌 The scientific literature has emphasized the benefits of conscious deliberation in decision making for hundreds of years… The question addressed here is whether this view is justified. We hypothesize that it is not. ⏱ 2024-12-21 04:57:14
📌 Lurking ⏱ 2024-12-21 04:56:31
📌 bland ⏱ 2024-12-21 04:56:47
📌 At a high level, this theory proposes that for decisions that require the application of strict rules, the conscious mind must be involved ⏱ 2024-12-21 04:59:56
📌 On the other hand, for decisions that involve large amounts of information and multiple vague, and perhaps even conflicting, constraints, your unconscious mind is well suited to tackle the issue. ⏱ 2024-12-21 05:00:47
📌 The implication of this line of research is that providing your conscious brain time to rest enables your unconscious mind to take a shift sorting through your most complex professional challenges. ⏱ 2024-12-21 05:03:03
📌 Reason #2: Downtime Helps Recharge the Energy Needed to Work Deeply ⏱ 2024-12-21 05:04:30
📌 debunked ⏱ 2024-12-21 05:11:55
📌 Walking in nature provides such a mental respite, but so, too, can any number of relaxing activities so long as they provide similar “inherently fascinating stimuli” and freedom from directed concentration. ⏱ 2024-12-21 05:14:09
📌 Reason #3: The Work That Evening Downtime Replaces Is Usually Not That Important ⏱ 2024-12-21 05:17:06
📌 In more detail, this ritual should ensure that every incomplete task, goal, or project has been reviewed and that for each you have confirmed that either (1) you have a plan you trust for its completion, or (2) it’s captured in a place where it will be revisited when the time is right. ⏱ 2024-12-21 05:47:26
📌 cheesy ⏱ 2024-12-21 05:48:10
📌 attest ⏱ 2024-12-21 05:53:07
Rule #2: Embrace Boredom
📌 congregation ⏱ 2024-12-21 06:20:44
📌 rabbi ⏱ 2024-12-21 06:21:21
📌 decipher ⏱ 2024-12-21 06:23:11
📌 ingrained ⏱ 2024-12-21 06:25:06
📌 corollary ⏱ 2024-12-21 06:31:05
📌 wean ⏱ 2024-12-21 06:31:51
📌 Once your brain has become accustomed to on-demand distraction, Nass discovered, it’s hard to shake the addiction even when you want to concentrate ⏱ 2024-12-21 16:29:05
📌 quarantining ⏱ 2024-12-22 08:34:12
📌 Don’t Take Breaks from Distraction. Instead Take Breaks from Focus. ⏱ 2024-12-22 08:35:36
📌 refrain from ⏱ 2024-12-22 08:37:24
📌 clatter ⏱ 2024-12-22 08:40:58
📌 gorging ⏱ 2024-12-22 08:50:22
📌 calisthenics ⏱ 2024-12-22 08:58:02
📌 Point #1: This strategy works even if your job requires lots of Internet use and/or prompt e-mail replies. ⏱ 2024-12-22 08:59:05
📌 Point #2: Regardless of how you schedule your Internet blocks, you must keep the time outside these blocks absolutely free from Internet use. ⏱ 2024-12-22 09:02:38
📌 seductive ⏱ 2024-12-22 09:41:41
📌 permeable ⏱ 2024-12-22 09:42:22
📌 infeasible ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:01:34
📌 This gap is minor, so it won’t excessively impede your progress, but from a behavioralist perspective, it’s substantial because it separates the sensation of wanting to go online from the reward of actually doing so. ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:04:28
📌 Point #3: Scheduling Internet use at home as well as at work can further improve your concentration training. ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:05:16
📌 pragmatic ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:08:14
📌 To simply wait and be bored has become a novel experience in modern life, but from the perspective of concentration training, it’s incredibly valuable. ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:11:45
📌 dissect ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:16:15
📌 specimens ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:16:33
📌 up to a large number of total hours ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:21:40
📌 blistering ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:20:37
📌 In particular, identify a deep task (that is, something that requires deep work to complete) that’s high on your priority list. Estimate how long you’d normally put aside for an obligation of this type, then give yourself a hard deadline that drastically reduces this time. If possible, commit publicly to the deadline—for example, by telling the person expecting the finished project when they should expect it. If this isn’t possible (or if it puts your job in jeopardy), then motivate yourself by setting a countdown timer on your phone and propping it up where you can’t avoid seeing it as you work
- 💭 罗斯福 deep work 的方法，我愿总结为赶 ddl - ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:23:47
📌 it gives way under your unwavering barrage of concentration ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:25:19
📌 teeth-gritting concentration ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:27:41
📌 dismay ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:33:19
📌 The goal of productive meditation is to take a period in which you’re occupied physically but not mentally—walking, jogging, driving, showering—and focus your attention on a single well-defined professional problem. ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:34:35
📌 knotty ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:36:00
📌 Suggestion #1: Be Wary of Distractions and Looping ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:39:34
📌 derailing ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:41:04
📌 tantalizing ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:41:43
📌 When you notice your attention slipping away from the problem at hand, gently remind yourself that you can return to that thought later, then redirect your attention back. ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:43:44
📌 sidestep ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:44:22
📌 subvert ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:45:23
📌 When you notice it, remark to yourself that you seem to be in a loop, then redirect your attention toward the next step. ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:46:33
📌 I suggest starting with a careful review of the relevant variables for solving the problem and then storing these values in your working memory. ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:47:27
📌 Once the relevant variables are identified, define the specific next-step question you need to answer using these variables. ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:48:07
📌 the final step of this structured approach to deep thinking is to consolidate your gains by reviewing clearly the answer you identified. ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:49:46
📌 conjecture ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:56:29
📌 In particular, it asks you to learn a standard but quite impressive skill in the repertoire of most mental athletes: the ability to memorize a shuffled deck of cards. ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:58:29
📌 The first thing White emphasizes is that professional memory athletes never attempt rote memorization, that is, where you simply look at information again and again, repeating it in your head ⏱ 2024-12-22 15:00:04
📌 Your mind, in other words, can quickly retain lots of detailed information—if it’s stored in the right way. ⏱ 2024-12-22 15:01:32
Rule #3: Quit Social Media
📌 lamented ⏱ 2024-12-22 16:01:11
📌 dire ⏱ 2024-12-22 16:02:56
📌 enticing ⏱ 2024-12-22 16:08:28
📌 infotainment ⏱ 2024-12-22 16:10:08
📌 stringent ⏱ 2024-12-24 14:06:21
📌 There is a middle ground, and if you’re interested in developing a deep work habit, you must fight to get there ⏱ 2024-12-24 14:07:54
📌 staving off boredom ⏱ 2024-12-24 14:11:34
📌 mediocre ⏱ 2024-12-24 14:12:00
📌 denigrate ⏱ 2024-12-24 14:13:57
📌 The Any-Benefit Approach to Network Tool Selection: You’re justified in using a network tool if you can identify any possible benefit to its use, or anything you might possibly miss out on if you don’t use it. ⏱ 2024-12-24 14:15:50
📌 If you don’t attempt to weigh pros against cons, but instead use any glimpse of some potential benefit as justification for unrestrained use of a tool, then you’re unwittingly crippling your ability to succeed in the world of knowledge work ⏱ 2024-12-24 14:17:46
📌 rhetoric ⏱ 2024-12-24 14:19:52
📌 flannel ⏱ 2024-12-24 14:29:22
📌 manure ⏱ 2024-12-24 14:34:52
📌 The Craftsman Approach to Tool Selection: Identify the core factors that determine success and happiness in your professional and personal life. Adopt a tool only if its positive impacts on these factors substantially outweigh its negative impacts. ⏱ 2024-12-24 14:39:00
📌 Identifying what matters most in your life, and then attempting to assess the impacts of various tools on these factors, doesn’t reduce to a simple formula—this task requires practice and experimentation. ⏱ 2024-12-24 14:45:04
📌 crack ⏱ 2024-12-24 14:50:50
📌 slog through ⏱ 2024-12-24 14:54:26
📌 The first step of this strategy is to identify the main high-level goals in both your professional and your personal life. ⏱ 2024-12-24 15:21:15
📌 Once you’ve identified these goals, list for each the two or three most important activities that help you satisfy the goal. ⏱ 2024-12-24 15:25:10
📌 The next step in this strategy is to consider the network tools you currently use. ⏱ 2024-12-24 15:26:43
📌 Now comes the important decision: Keep using this tool only if you concluded that it has substantial positive impacts and that these outweigh the negative impacts. ⏱ 2024-12-24 15:27:54
📌 stipulate ⏱ 2024-12-24 16:08:34
📌 stumble onto ⏱ 2024-12-24 16:10:44
📌 What’s key to understand here, however, is that this radical reduction of priorities is not arbitrary, but is instead motivated by an idea that has arisen repeatedly in any number of different fields, from client profitability to social equality to prevention of crashes in computer programs. ⏱ 2024-12-24 16:19:46
📌 The Law of the Vital Few: In many settings, 80 percent of a given effect is due to just 20 percent of the possible causes ⏱ 2024-12-24 16:20:23
📌 In more detail, this strategy asks that you perform the equivalent of a packing party on the social media services that you currently use. Instead of “packing,” however, you’ll instead ban yourself from using them for thirty days ⏱ 2024-12-24 17:11:55
📌 deactivate ⏱ 2024-12-24 17:11:45
📌 go out of your way to tell people ⏱ 2024-12-24 17:12:30
📌 Would the last thirty days have been notably better if I had been able to use this service? ⏱ 2024-12-24 17:12:53
📌 Did people care that I wasn’t using this service? ⏱ 2024-12-24 17:13:02
📌 intermittent ⏱ 2024-12-24 17:14:10
📌 insidious ⏱ 2024-12-24 17:15:18
📌 delusion ⏱ 2024-12-24 17:16:55
📌 bereft ⏱ 2024-12-24 17:17:30
📌 facetious ⏱ 2024-12-24 17:17:56
📌 nonetheless ⏱ 2024-12-24 17:18:12
📌 Speaking from experience as someone who makes a living trying to sell my ideas to people: This is a powerfully addictive feeling ⏱ 2024-12-24 17:20:05
📌 muse ⏱ 2024-12-24 17:21:10
📌 Part of what fueled social media’s rapid assent, I contend, is its ability to short-circuit this connection between the hard work of producing real value and the positive reward of having people pay attention to you ⏱ 2024-12-24 17:22:17
📌 overhaul ⏱ 2024-12-24 17:28:45
📌 They’re just products, developed by private companies, funded lavishly, marketed carefully, and designed ultimately to capture then sell your personal information and attention to advertisers ⏱ 2024-12-24 17:29:21
📌 tumultuous ⏱ 2024-12-24 17:30:24
📌 prologue and epilogue ⏱ 2024-12-24 17:37:36
📌 my tech-savvy Millennial generation ⏱ 2024-12-24 17:41:22
📌 But the logical foundation of his proposal, that you both should and can make deliberate use of your time outside work, remains relevant today—especially with respect to the goal of this rule, which is to reduce the impact of network tools on your ability to perform deep work. ⏱ 2024-12-24 17:42:27
📌 beckon ⏱ 2024-12-24 17:44:06
📌 Put more thought into your leisure time. In other words, this strategy suggests that when it comes to your relaxation, don’t default to whatever catches your attention at the moment, but instead dedicate some advance thinking to the question of how you want to spend your “day within a day.” ⏱ 2024-12-24 17:46:35
📌 It’s crucial, therefore, that you figure out in advance what you’re going to do with your evenings and weekends before they begin. ⏱ 2024-12-24 17:48:36
📌 One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change—not rest, except in sleep.
- 💭 解答了我的潜意识疑问，刻意的练习原来不会削减我的精力 - ⏱ 2024-12-24 17:51:32
📌 If you give your mind something meaningful to do throughout all your waking hours, you’ll end the day more fulfilled, and begin the next one more relaxed, than if you instead allow your mind to bathe for hours in semiconscious and unstructured Web surfing. ⏱ 2024-12-24 17:52:44
Rule #4: Drain the Shallows
📌 permeate ⏱ 2024-12-25 14:54:17
📌 quixotically ⏱ 2024-12-25 15:02:15
📌 Anders Ericsson and his collaborators survey these studies. They note that for someone new to such practice (citing, in particular, a child in the early stages of developing an expert-level skill), an hour a day is a reasonable limit. For those familiar with the rigors of such activities, the limit expands to something like four hours, but rarely more. ⏱ 2024-12-25 15:04:09
📌 caveat ⏱ 2024-12-25 15:04:48
📌 These examples underscore an important point: We spend much of our day on autopilot—not giving much thought to what we’re doing with our time. This is a problem. ⏱ 2024-12-25 15:12:33
📌 trivial ⏱ 2024-12-25 15:13:41
📌 flinching ⏱ 2024-12-25 15:12:54
📌 Here’s my suggestion: At the beginning of each workday, turn to a new page of lined paper in a notebook you dedicate to this purpose. Down the left-hand side of the page, mark every other line with an hour of the day, covering the full set of hours you typically work. Now comes the important part: Divide the hours of your workday into blocks and assign activities to the blocks. ⏱ 2024-12-25 15:15:14
📌 This is okay. If your schedule is disrupted, you should, at the next available moment, take a few minutes to create a revised schedule for the time that remains in the day. You can turn to a new page. You can erase and redraw blocks. ⏱ 2024-12-25 15:19:11
📌 First, you should recognize that almost definitely you’re going to underestimate at first how much time you require for most things. ⏱ 2024-12-25 15:24:13
📌 incarnation ⏱ 2024-12-25 15:21:01
📌 The second tactic that helps is the use of overflow conditional blocks. ⏱ 2024-12-25 15:23:51
📌 The third tactic I suggest is to be liberal with your use of task blocks ⏱ 2024-12-25 15:23:06
📌 if I stumble onto an important insight, then this is a perfectly valid reason to ignore the rest of my schedule for the day (with the exception, of course, of things that cannot be skipped). I can then stick with this unexpected insight until it loses steam. ⏱ 2024-12-25 15:29:07
📌 It’s a simple habit that forces you to continually take a moment throughout your day and ask: “What makes sense for me to do with the time that remains?” ⏱ 2024-12-25 15:29:52
📌 spontaneous ⏱ 2024-12-25 15:30:55
📌 treat your time with respect ⏱ 2024-12-25 15:32:42
📌 providing you with a way to make clear and consistent decisions about where given work tasks fall on the shallow-to-deep scale. ⏱ 2024-12-25 15:38:09
📌 How long would it take (in months) to train a smart recent college graduate with no specialized training in my field to complete this task? ⏱ 2024-12-25 15:38:18
📌 tedious ⏱ 2024-12-25 15:44:19
📌 veneer ⏱ 2024-12-25 15:41:57
📌 Such meetings rarely dive into substantive content and tend to feature a lot of small talk and posturing in which participants try to make it seem like they’re committing to a lot without actually having to commit.
- 💭 作者很实诚，事实上在个人时间规划上确实需要对事物认知的坦诚 - ⏱ 2024-12-25 15:45:43
📌 measly ⏱ 2024-12-25 15:49:00
📌 What percentage of my time should be spent on shallow work? This strategy suggests that you ask it. ⏱ 2024-12-25 15:50:58
📌 sapping your time ⏱ 2024-12-25 16:09:12
📌 tweak ⏱ 2024-12-25 16:18:54
📌 stark ⏱ 2024-12-25 16:23:11
📌 In this case, the answer is still useful, as it tells you that this isn’t a job that supports deep work, and a job that doesn’t support deep work is not a job that can help you succeed in our current information economy. You should, in this case, thank the boss for the feedback, and then promptly start planning how you can transition into a new position that values depth ⏱ 2024-12-25 16:24:22
📌 Finish Your Work by Five Thirty ⏱ 2024-12-25 16:27:27
📌 notorious ⏱ 2024-12-25 16:28:00
📌 grueling ⏱ 2024-12-25 16:28:16
📌 coerced ⏱ 2024-12-25 16:29:29
📌 quotas ⏱ 2024-12-25 16:36:25
📌 but what all her tactics shared was a commitment to ruthlessly capping the shallow while protecting the deep efforts—that is, original research—that ultimately determined her professional fate. ⏱ 2024-12-25 16:38:24
📌 Another tactic that works well for me is to be clear in my refusal but ambiguous in my explanation for the refusal. The key is to avoid providing enough specificity about the excuse that the requester has the opportunity to defuse it. ⏱ 2024-12-25 16:43:10
📌 guarding my obligations ⏱ 2024-12-25 16:44:26
📌 conscientious ⏱ 2024-12-25 16:44:31
📌 culling ⏱ 2024-12-25 16:45:57
📌 Second, the limits to our time necessitate more careful thinking about our organizational habits ⏱ 2024-12-25 16:47:04
📌 ironclad ⏱ 2024-12-25 16:49:18
📌 malleable ⏱ 2024-12-25 16:49:27
📌 If you have to choose just one behavior that reorients your focus toward the deep, this one should be high on your list of possibilities ⏱ 2024-12-25 16:50:46
📌 Become Hard to Reach ⏱ 2024-12-25 16:53:17
📌 quintessential ⏱ 2024-12-25 16:53:28
📌 ingrained ⏱ 2024-12-25 16:54:07
📌 cede ⏱ 2024-12-25 16:55:43
📌 futile ⏱ 2024-12-25 16:56:19
📌 Tip #1: Make People Who Send You E-mail Do More Work ⏱ 2024-12-25 16:56:33
📌 I call this approach a sender filter, as I’m asking my correspondents to filter themselves before attempting to contact me.
- 💭 突然想到作为发信人也要make some efforts before emailing，尊重对方的注意力 - ⏱ 2024-12-25 16:58:31
📌 The default social convention surrounding e-mail is that unless you’re famous, if someone sends you something, you owe him or her a response. For most, therefore, an inbox full of messages generates a major sense of obligation. ⏱ 2024-12-25 17:02:54
📌 pretentious ⏱ 2024-12-25 17:04:25
📌 Most people easily accept the idea that you have a right to control your own incoming communication, as they would like to enjoy this same right. ⏱ 2024-12-25 17:04:43
📌 glean ⏱ 2024-12-25 17:06:47
📌 onus ⏱ 2024-12-25 17:07:41
📌 It’s ambiguous or otherwise makes it hard for you to generate a reasonable response. ⏱ 2024-12-25 17:48:57
📌 It’s not a question or proposal that interests you. ⏱ 2024-12-25 17:49:06
📌 Nothing really good would happen if you did respond and nothing really bad would happen if you didn’t. ⏱ 2024-12-25 17:49:17
📌 Develop the habit of letting small bad things happen. If you don’t, you’ll never find time for the life-changing big things ⏱ 2024-12-25 17:51:07
📌 people are quick to adjust their expectations to the specifics of your communication habits. The fact you didn’t respond to their hastily scribed messages is probably not a central event in their lives. ⏱ 2024-12-25 17:51:34
📌 One says that sending e-mails generates more e-mails, while the other says that wrestling with ambiguous or irrelevant e-mails is a major source of inbox-related stress. ⏱ 2024-12-25 17:52:06
Conclusion
📌 turbulence ⏱ 2024-12-25 17:55:56
📌 dialectical ⏱ 2024-12-25 17:56:14
📌 the medium is the message ⏱ 2024-12-25 18:00:08
📌 stewing in my anxiety ⏱ 2024-12-25 18:02:52
📌 levied its own intense demands on my time. ⏱ 2024-12-25 18:04:46
📌 incursion ⏱ 2024-12-25 18:05:43
📌 encumbered ⏱ 2024-12-25 18:07:41
📌 petulant ⏱ 2024-12-25 18:09:42
📌 The deep life, of course, is not for everybody. It requires hard work and drastic changes to your habits. ⏱ 2024-12-25 18:16:53
📌 There’s also an uneasiness that surrounds any effort to produce the best things you’re capable of producing, as this forces you to confront the possibility that your best is not (yet) that good ⏱ 2024-12-25 18:18:10
读书笔记
Introduction
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📌 Although he had many patients who relied on him, Jung was not shy about taking time off.” - 💭 该怎样分配我的时间，是一个巨大且必要的任务 - ⏱ 2024-12-14 22:47:45
Chapter 1: Deep Work Is Valuable
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📌 Our technologies are racing ahead but many of our skills and organizations are lagging behind - 💭 同意 - ⏱ 2024-12-15 11:41:40
Rule #2: Embrace Boredom
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📌 In particular, identify a deep task (that is, something that requires deep work to complete) that’s high on your priority list. Estimate how long you’d normally put aside for an obligation of this type, then give yourself a hard deadline that drastically reduces this time. If possible, commit publicly to the deadline—for example, by telling the person expecting the finished project when they should expect it. If this isn’t possible (or if it puts your job in jeopardy), then motivate yourself by setting a countdown timer on your phone and propping it up where you can’t avoid seeing it as you work - 💭 罗斯福 deep work 的方法，我愿总结为赶 ddl - ⏱ 2024-12-22 14:24:37
Rule #3: Quit Social Media
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📌 Even if you accept this result, however, you still might argue that you shouldn’t ignore the other 80 percent of possible beneficial activities. - 💭 看到这我觉得作者分析问题的角度很全面，一开始我会认为作者有点啰嗦，但这种对论点会有的质疑一一解答的方式让我对作者提出的方法和深度工作的重要性更加赞同 - ⏱ 2024-12-24 16:31:37
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📌 Don’t Use the Internet to Entertain Yourself - 💭 真的是一件很难的事情 - ⏱ 2024-12-24 17:30:10
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📌 One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change—not rest, except in sleep. - 💭 解答了我的潜意识疑问，刻意的练习原来不会削减我的精力 - ⏱ 2024-12-24 17:52:20
Rule #4: Drain the Shallows
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📌 Such meetings rarely dive into substantive content and tend to feature a lot of small talk and posturing in which participants try to make it seem like they’re committing to a lot without actually having to commit. - 💭 作者很实诚，事实上在个人时间规划上确实需要对事物认知的坦诚 - ⏱ 2024-12-25 15:46:42
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📌 I call this approach a sender filter, as I’m asking my correspondents to filter themselves before attempting to contact me. - 💭 突然想到作为发信人也要make some efforts before emailing，尊重对方的注意力 - ⏱ 2024-12-25 17:01:13