Cal Newport Quote
Focus completely and without distraction on a single research task. (He typically divides the writing of a scholarly paper into three discrete tasks: analyzing the data, writing a full draft, and editing the draft into something publishable.) During these periods, which can last up to three or four days, he’ll often put an out-of-office auto-responder on his e-mail so correspondents will know not to expect a response. It sometimes confuses my colleagues, he told me. They say, ‘You’re not out of office, I see you in your office right now!’ But to Grant, it’s important to enforce strict isolation until he completes the task at hand.
Cal Newport
Focus completely and without distraction on a single research task. (He typically divides the writing of a scholarly paper into three discrete tasks: analyzing the data, writing a full draft, and editing the draft into something publishable.) During these periods, which can last up to three or four days, he’ll often put an out-of-office auto-responder on his e-mail so correspondents will know not to expect a response. It sometimes confuses my colleagues, he told me. They say, ‘You’re not out of office, I see you in your office right now!’ But to Grant, it’s important to enforce strict isolation until he completes the task at hand.
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Calvin C. Newport is an American nonfiction author and full time professor of computer science at Georgetown University.