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Schedule dedicated time for concentrated work from "summary" of Deep Work by Cal Newport
To produce at your peak level you need to work for extended periods with full concentration on a single task free from distraction. Put another way, the type of work that optimizes your performance is deep work. But this poses a crucial question: How do you actually accomplish this?One popular strategy is to keep a rough count of the deep hours completed in a day. This can work well, but it has a disadvantage: It leaves much of your day in disarray. To remain undistracted in a high-tech world, you need to work like a knowledge worker. To do that, you must be able to focus intensely without distraction—this is deep work. To succeed with deep work, you must rewire your brain to be comfortable resisting distracting stimuli. You shouldn't only schedule when you'll work on ...
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