“ The rhythmic philosophy provides an interesting contrast to the bimodal philosophy. It perhaps fails to achieve the most intense levels of deep thinking sought in the daylong concentration sessions fa… Cal Newport
“ The real rewards are reserved not for those who are comfortable using Facebook (a shallow task, easily replicated), but instead for those who are comfortable building the innovative distributed system… Cal Newport
“ The average Facebook user, by contrast, spends around 350 minutes per week on this company’s services Cal Newport
“ Self-Determination Theory (SDT), which is arguably the best understanding science currently has for why some pursuits get our engines running while others leave us cold.8 SDT tells us that motivation,… Cal Newport
“ Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman explaining in an interview one of his less orthodox productivity strategies: To do real good physics work, you do need absolute solid lengths of time… it… Cal Newport
“ My Research Bible Routine At some point during my quest, I started what I came to call my research bible, which is, in reality, a document I keep on my computer. Here’s the routine: Once a week I requ… Cal Newport
“ It took them seven years, but their efforts culminated in the 2017 release of Lead Yourself First. Cal Newport
“ It is a lifetime accumulation of deliberate practice that again and again ends up explaining excellence. Cal Newport
“ In the final accounting, the journalistic philosophy of deep work scheduling remains difficult to pull off. But if you’re confident in the value of what you’re trying to produce, and practiced in the… Cal Newport
“ In a seminal 1981 paper, the economist Sherwin Rosen worked out the mathematics behind these winner-take-all markets. One of his key insights was to explicitly model talent—labeled, innocuously, with… Cal Newport
“ In a 2009 paper, titled, intriguingly, Why Is It So Hard to Do My Work?, Leroy introduced an effect she called attention residue. In the introduction to this paper, she noted that other researchers ha… Cal Newport
“ If you’re struggling to raise money for an idea, or are thinking that you will support your idea with unrelated work, then you need to rethink the idea. Cal Newport
“ How you'll work once you start to work. Your ritual needs rules and processes to keep your efforts structured. Cal Newport
“ Don’t follow your passion; rather, let it follow you in your quest to become, in the words of my favorite Steve Martin quote, so good that they can’t ignore you. To Cal Newport
“ Does it really help your work to be constantly connected? To do so, she did something extreme: She forced each member of the team to take one day out of the workweek completely off—no connectivity to… Cal Newport
“ By contrast, if you’re trying to learn a complex new skill (say, SQL database management) in a state of low concentration (perhaps you also have your Facebook feed open), you’re firing too many circui… Cal Newport
“ By accepting an assistant position he threw himself into the center of the action, where he could find out how things actually work. Cal Newport
“ And it seemed at that moment that I could hear an inner voice saying to me, Martin Luther, stand up for righteousness. Stand up for justice. Stand up for truth. Cal Newport
