In another study, which I found during my own research, giving autonomy to middle school teachers in a struggling school district not only increased the rate at which the teachers were promoted, but a...
If you want to become a superstar, mastering the relevant skills is necessary, but not sufficient. You
Gallagher’s writing emphasizes that the content of what we focus on matters. If we give rapt attention to important things, and therefore also ignore shallow negative things, we’ll experience our work...
Do What Steve Jobs Did, Not What He Said
Discipline #1: Focus on the Wildly Important
Develop the habit of letting small bad things happen. If you don’t, you’ll never find time for the life-changing big things.
Deep Work Helps You Produce at an Elite Level
Any pursuit—be it physical or cognitive—that supports high levels of skill can also generate a sense of sacredness.
A deep life is a good life.
When paying more than $1,000 a day to write the chapter in a suite of an old hotel down the street from a Hogwarts-style castle, mustering the energy to begin and sustain this work is easier than if y...
Three crucial benefits provided by solitude: new ideas; an understanding of the self; and closeness to others.
This approach, in which you fit deep work wherever you can into your schedule, the journalist philosophy.
The skillful management of attention is the sine qua non of the good life and the key to improving virtually every aspect of your experience.
The ability to concentrate is a skill that gets valuable things done.
Taking on projects that were beyond his current comfort zone;
Suggest starting with a careful review of the relevant variables for solving the problem and then storing these values in your working memory. For example, if you’re working on the outline for a book...
More detail, this ritual should ensure that every incomplete task, goal, or project has been reviewed and that for each you have confirmed that either (1) you have a plan you trust for its completion,...
If you just show up and work hard, you’ll soon hit a performance plateau beyond which you fail to get any better. This
He would spend two hours of undistracted writing time in his private office.
Big trends in business today actively decrease people’s ability to perform deep work, even though the benefits promised by these trends (e.g., increased serendipity, faster responses to requests, and...