“ I follow a rule with my life that if something is scary, do it. I’ve lived everywhere in America, and for me, a big scary thing was living outside the country. After Cal Newport
“ I am suggesting that you put aside the question of whether your job is your true passion, and instead turn your focus toward becoming so good they can’t ignore you. That is, regardless of what you do… Cal Newport
“ Here’s what I respect: creating something meaningful and then presenting it to the world, Cal Newport
“ Here was my first lesson: This type of skill development is hard. When I got to the first tricky gap in the paper’s main proof argument, I faced immediate internal resistance. It was as if my mind rea… Cal Newport
“ He approached the task of finding good projects for his mission with the mindset of a marketer, systematically studying books on the subject to help identify why some ideas catch on while others fall… Cal Newport
“ For those familiar with the rigors of such activities, the limit expands to something like four hours, but rarely more. Cal Newport
“ E-mail inboxes, in theory, can distract you only when you choose to open them, whereas instant messenger systems are meant to be always active—magnifying the impact of interruption Cal Newport
“ Deep work is necessary to wring every last drop of value out of your current intellectual capacity. Cal Newport
“ Csikszentmihalyi even goes so far as to argue that modern companies should embrace this reality, suggesting that jobs should be redesigned so that they resemble as closely as possible flow activities. Cal Newport
“ Bell Labs director Mervin Kelly guided the construction of a new home for the lab that would purposefully encourage interaction between its diverse mix of scientists and engineers. Kelly dismissed the… Cal Newport
“ At the end of every week he prints his numbers to see how well he achieved this goal, and then uses this feedback to guide himself in the week ahead. Cal Newport
“ As Ericsson explains, Most individuals who start as active professionals… change their behavior and increase their performance for a limited time until they reach an acceptable level. Beyond this poin… Cal Newport
“ As Cochran recalls in a blog post he wrote about his experiment for the Harvard Business Review, these simple statistics got him thinking about the rest of his company. Just how much time were employe… Cal Newport
“ An interesting experience shared by some participants was that they eagerly returned to their optional technologies only to learn they had lost their taste for them. Here, for example, is how Kate des… Cal Newport
“ Also consider the frustratingly common practice of forwarding an e-mail to one or more colleagues, labeled with a short open-ended interrogative, such as: Thoughts? These e-mails take the sender only… Cal Newport
“ All the people I ever admired and respected led balanced lives—studying hard, partying hard, as well as being involved in activities and getting a decent amount of sleep each night. I really think thi… Cal Newport
“ According to Johnson, access to new ideas and to the liquid networks that facilitate their mixing and matching often provides the catalyst for breakthrough new ideas. Cal Newport
“ A similar reality creates problems for many knowledge workers. They want to prove that they’re productive members of the team and are earning their keep, but they’re not entirely clear what this goal… Cal Newport
“ A job...is a way to pay the bills, a career is a path towards increasingly better work, and a calling is work that's an important part of your life and a vital part of your identity. Cal Newport
