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....
Focused on difficult activities, carefully chosen to stretch your abilities where they most need stretching and that provide immediate feedback.
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...
Money is a neutral indicator of value. By aiming to make money, you're aiming to be valuable.
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...
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...
Irrespective of what type of work you do, the craftsman mindset is crucial for building a career you love. Before
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...
Be sure to also give yourself a specific time frame to keep the session a discrete challenge and not an open-ended slog.
The key thing is to force yourself through the work, force the skills to come; that's the hardest phase.
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...
Sometimes to go deep, you must first go big.
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...
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...
Jung retreated to Bollingen, not to escape his professional life, but instead to advance it.
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...
Do what Thoreau did, which is learn to have a little disconnectedness within the connected world—don’t run away.
Minimize the shallow in my life
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...
The key question will be: are you good at working with intelligent machines or not?