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12 Top Lessons From "Deep Work"
A Book by #CalNewport

📙Book Summary (THREAD)

 1. Deep Work

This is similar to the "flow" state that many psychologists references.

Newport defines deep work as, "the professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that pushes your cognitive capabilities to their limit".

Deep vs. Shallow:
2. Only Four Hours

Newport states that you can only do about four hours of deep work every day.

This isn’t a matter of concentration or practice; it’s a matter of human biology and psychology.

Think of your mind as a muscle. You can Stretch it to the theoretical 4 hour limit.
3. Deep Workers Win

Deep work consistently provides better results & a more excellent portfolio of work than traditional labor and strategies.

Emphasizing deep work and doing all you can to make this time as productive as possible will yield fantastic dividends in the long run
4. The Maker is Becoming More Important

Newport suggests that culture is shifting to celebrate the "maker" or the deep thinker.

This trend is most visible within pop-culture and content creation as people find their unique voices and reach wider audiences.
5. Uninterrupted Time is Necessary

In order to perform any time span of deep work, you must have a stretch of uninterrupted time.

It’s virtually impossible to engage your brain in deep work if you are constantly interrupted.
6. Practice Makes Perfect

Like with virtually all skills and habits, the more you engage in deep work, the easier it will be and the longer your sessions will last.
7. Focus on Progress, Not Outcome

Many people focus on the bottom line or end result of their effort. This can stifle the act of creation and ruin your motivation.

Instead, Newport advises focusing on the progress you make or the actual process of creation itself.
8. Four Strategies for Managing Willpower

Newport understands that managing your willpower is incredibly difficult, so he has four strategies you can use to open yourself to deep work:

1⃣Get rid of easy distractions
2⃣Bimodal Behavior
3⃣Rhythmic Behavior
4⃣Journalistic Behavior
9. Get Rid of Easy Distractions

The first is to give up your email and other easy distractions that tear your attention away from your task or objective, at least while you’re working.
10. Bimodal Behavior

This doesn’t necessarily refer to a sleep schedule. Instead, Newport recommends that you should schedule regular retreats or periods of intense concentration and isolation to create opportunities for deep work.
11. Rhythmic Behavior

Newport also suggests that you adopt a rhythmic lifestyle, at least in relation to your artistic endeavors.

Make sure that you follow a habit that is consistent, and which allows you to perfect your artistic techniques rhythmically.
12. Journalistic Behavior

Finally, don’t be afraid to utilize so-called “journalistic” behavior, which is best summarized as “jumping in whenever you can”.

Make peace with the fact that you may need to take advantage of any downtime you have and use it for deep work.
You can't improve if you don't know what you're doing wrong.

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2. When creating a masterpiece, the first step is always to create something that actually sucks.

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1. It doesn’t always go your way

Life won’t always go your way, so if you start thinking that it will, you’ll be disappointed and less effective

Instead of focusing on what you think you deserve, figure out what u want and be willing to pay the dues required to get it

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2. The 40% rule

When your mind is telling you that you’re done, completely exhausted and not able to go any further, you’re only at about 40% of your potential

Keep fighting when you feel like you’re done, and that’s when you unlock the remaining 60% of your potential

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3. No one is going to help you

Don’t wait for someone else to help you.

If it’s your dream, it’s on YOU. If you wait, you’ll be waiting until you’re on your deathbed if you don’t take action.

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4. Callous your mind

When you’re ready to quit, stay the course. See how far you can go.

This will help you when things get tough. You’ll learn to work hard even when you don’t want to. That will pay off on your path.

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1. Be the Best

đŸ„‡Anyone who is going to hire you, buy from you, or do what you want them to do is going to wonder if you’re the BEST choice.

BEST: Best for them, right now, based on what they believe and what they know

THE WORLD: Their world, the world they have access to

2 . Quitting Is Not Failure

If you are not going to be the best, then you should just QUIT.

Quitting, in some scenarios, is actually essential for freeing up resources to get through the dips that matter.

This means you only have two options in life:
Quit or be Exceptional.

To become the best, you must understand these three curves:

3. The Cul De Sac:

1ïžâƒŁThis first curve is where you work and work and work
 but nothing changes. It doesn’t get a lot better; it doesn’t get a lot worse
 it just is what it is.

Whenever you find one of these...

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The opportunity cost of investing your life in something that’s not going to get better is just too high.
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1. Introspection is a double-edged sword

💭Introspection—the ability to observe one’s own mental processes— is a valuable tool for reflection and decision-making.

But rather than make people feel better, introspection often leads them to experience something else.

2. Chatter

đŸ—ŁïžChatter is the cycle of negative thoughts and feelings that turn our capacity for introspection into a vulnerability rather than a strength.

If you can master the art of introspection without the chatter, you can get your internal conversations back on track.

3. Talking to yourself can be helpful

👉Many people wonder how they can control their chatter. One way to do so is to talk to yourself using your name and the word “you,” as if you were advising someone else, a technique called “distant self-talk.”

4. Distant self-talk capitalizes on this idea

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1. We think we are experiencing reality but what we are really experiencing is our thinking.

2. The most important choice you make is what you choose to make important.

3. If we really want something, there is always a way.

4. What we decide is less important then how we respond to life.

5. Our intuition already knows what we want to do but we create reasons to keep us locked out.

6. Every emotion we feel is a response to a thought, not an event.

7. Your day doesn’t create your mood, your mood creates your day.

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What is Zen ?

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Zen is a journey of exploration & a way of living that , in and of itself doesn't belong to any one religion or tradition as such.

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By natural cause & effect , that NEW RESPONSE will create NEW RESULTS , thereby a NEW REALITY.

Try it to believe it !
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1. Peak-end Rule:

You remember the high point and the end point of your holiday, but the rest is forgotten.

Remind to make them as sweet as possible.

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A good life is not a stable state or condition.

The good life is only achieved through constant readjustment.

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