“ The months leading up to the start of his visionary company, Steve Jobs was something of a conflicted young man, seeking spiritual enlightenment and dabbling in electronics only when it promised to ea… Cal Newport
“ The late communication theorist and New York University professor Neil Postman. Writing in the early 1990s, as the personal computer revolution first accelerated, Postman argued that our society was s… Cal Newport
“ The differences between expert performers and normal adults reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance in a specific domain. Cal Newport
“ The deep work novice. As I established in the opening to this rule, the ability to rapidly switch your mind from shallow to deep mode doesn’t come naturally. Without practice, such switches can seriou… Cal Newport
“ The craftsman mindset focuses on what you can offer the world, the passion mindset focuses instead on what the world can offer you. This mindset is how most people approach their working lives. Cal Newport
“ Some might respond that their knowledge work job cannot possibly become such a source of meaning because their job’s subject is much too mundane. But this is flawed thinking that our consideration of… Cal Newport
“ Some general questions that any effective ritual must address: Where you'll work and for how long. Cal Newport
“ Simply wait and be bored has become a novel experience in modern life, but from the perspective of concentration training, it’s incredibly valuable. Cal Newport
“ She was witness to a grand unified theory of the mind: Like fingers pointing to the moon, other diverse disciplines from anthropology to education, behavioral economics to family counseling, similarly… Cal Newport
“ Recommend the habit of a weekly review in which you make a plan for the workweek ahead (see Rule #4). During my experiments with 4DX, I used a weekly review to look over my scoreboard to celebrate goo… Cal Newport
“ It’s not just the change of environment or seeking of quiet that enables more depth. The dominant force is the psychology of committing so seriously to the task at hand. To put yourself in an exotic l… Cal Newport
“ Introduced the term career capital to describe these rare and valuable skills, and noted that the tricky part is figuring out how to acquire this capital. By definition, if it’s rare and valuable, it’… Cal Newport
“ General observation for joining the ranks of winners in our economy: If you don’t produce, you won’t thrive—no matter how skilled or talented you are. Cal Newport
“ Conscious mind is able to follow the precise arithmetic rules needed for correctness. On the other hand, for decisions that involve large amounts of information and multiple vague, and perhaps even co… Cal Newport
“ Attempting to schedule deep work in an ad hoc fashion is not an effective way to manage your limited willpower.) Cal Newport
“ You’ve got to find what you love…. [T]he only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, and don’t settle. Cal Newport
“ Your ritual needs to ensure your brain gets the support it needs to keep operating at a high level of depth. For example, the ritual might specify that you start with a cup of good coffee, or make sur… Cal Newport
“ You have a finite amount of willpower that becomes depleted as you use it. Your will, in other words, is not a manifestation of your character that you can deploy without limit; it’s instead like a mu… Cal Newport
“ You cannot expect an app dreamed up in a dorm room, or among the Ping-Pong tables of a Silicon Valley incubator, to successfully replace the types of rich interactions to which we’ve painstakingly ada… Cal Newport
“ Whereas the craftsman mindset focuses on what you can offer the world, the passion mindset focuses instead on what the world can offer you. Cal Newport
