They seem to relieve him of the felt need to offer chattering interpretations of himself to vindicate his worth. He can simply point: the building stands, the car now runs, the lights are on. Boasting...
This finding pushed back against conventional wisdom. Most people assumed (and still do) that relaxation makes them happy. We want to work less and spend more time in the hammock. But the results from...
The key here isn’t to avoid or even to reduce the total amount of time you spend engaging in distracting behavior, but is instead to give yourself plenty of opportunities throughout your evening to re...
If you just show up and work hard, you’ll soon hit a performance plateau beyond which you fail to get any better.
To remain valuable in our economy, therefore, you must master the art of quickly learning complicated things. This task requires deep work.
The problem this research identifies with this work strategy is that when you switch from some Task A to another Task B, your attention doesn’t immediately follow—a residue of your attention remains s...
Something more fundamental to human flourishing: the sense of meaning that comes from acting with intention.
Two Core Abilities for Thriving in the New Economy The ability to quickly master hard things. The ability to produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed. Let’s
Deep work. If you haven’t mastered this foundational skill, you’ll struggle to learn hard things or produce at an elite level.
The first thing I do is take a final look at my e-mail inbox to ensure that there’s nothing requiring an urgent response before the day ends. The next thing I do is transfer any new tasks that are on...
Law of productivity:High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus)
People play differently when they’re keeping score, the 4DX authors explain.
Great creative minds] think like artists but work like accountants.
In an open marketplace for attention, darker emotions attract more eyeballs than positive and constructive thoughts.
Others, such as Alan Lightman, or Erez Lieberman, who earned fame by the age of thirty-one through his combination of mathematics and cultural studies, or Esther Duflo, who won a MacArthur Genius Gran...
Ryan and Sarah have heaps of control in their working lives, and this is what makes the Red Fire lifestyle so appealing.
Sertillanges seems to have been ahead of his time, arguing in The Intellectual Life, Men of genius themselves were great only by bringing all their power to bear on the point on which they had decided...
Little bet, in the setting of mission exploration, has the following characteristics: It’s a project small enough to be completed in less than a month. It forces you to create new value (e.g., master...
What you need instead is a full-fledged philosophy of technology use, rooted in your deep values, that provides clear answers to the questions of what tools you should use and how you should use them...
When experts exhibit their superior performance in public their behavior looks so effortless and natural that we are tempted to attribute it to special talents, Ericsson notes.
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