Sertillanges argues that to advance your understanding of your field you must tackle the relevant topics systematically, allowing your converging rays of attention to uncover the truth latent in each....
Hardness scares off the daydreamers and the timid, leaving more opportunity for those like us who are willing to take the time to carefully work out the best path forward and then confidently take act...
Here’s the routine: Once a week I require myself to summarize in my bible a paper I think might be relevant to my research. This summary must include a description of the result, how it compares to pr...
Process-centric e-mails might not seem natural at first. For one thing, they require that you spend more time thinking about your messages before you compose them. In the moment, this might seem like...
The point of providing these details is to emphasize that intelligent machines are complicated and hard to master.* To join the group of those who can work well with these machines, therefore, require...
Rule #4 is entitled Think Small, Act Big. It’s in this understanding of career capital and its role in mission that we get our explanation for this title. Advancing to the cutting edge in a field is a...
The respected New Yorker staff writer George Packer captured this fear well in an essay about why he does not tweet: Twitter is crack for media addicts. It scares me, not because I’m morally superior...
To understand the role of myelin in improvement, keep in mind that skills, be they intellectual or physical, eventually reduce down to brain circuits. This new science of performance argues that you g...
Be sure to also give yourself a specific time frame to keep the session a discrete challenge and not an open-ended slog.
By leveraging a radical change to your normal environment, coupled perhaps with a significant investment of effort or money, all dedicated toward supporting a deep work task, you increase the perceive...
The things that make a great job great...are rare and valuable. If you want them in your working life, you need something rare and valuable to offer in return In other words, you need to be good at so...
Irrespective of what type of work you do, the craftsman mindset is crucial for building a career you love. Before
Five years of reporting on attention have confirmed some home truths, Gallagher reports. [Among them is the notion that] ‘the idle mind is the devil’s workshop’… when you lose focus, your mind tends t...
Digital minimalists see new technologies as tools to be used to support things they deeply value—not as sources of value themselves. They don’t accept the idea that offering some small benefit is just...
The key thing is to force yourself through the work, force the skills to come; that's the hardest phase.
Deep work is so important that we might consider it, to use the phrasing of business writer Eric Barker, the superpower of the 21st century.
Deep work should be a priority in today’s business climate. But it’s not. I’ve just summarized various explanations for this paradox. Among them are the realities that deep work is hard and shallow wo...
You might institute a ban on any Internet use, or maintain a metric such as words produced per twenty-minute interval to keep your concentration honed. Without this structure, you’ll have to mentally...
You visit Knuth’s website at Stanford with the intention of finding his e-mail address, you’ll instead discover the following note: I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer...
In many cases these addictive properties of new technologies are not accidents, but instead carefully engineered design features.
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