It’s as if our species has evolved into one that flourishes in depth and wallows in shallowness, becoming what we might call Homo sapiens deepensis.
It was the glacial writing progress during this year that drove Chappell to embrace the rhythmic method. He made a rule that he would wake up and start working by five thirty every morning. He would t...
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...
Here’s a case where someone successfully followed their passion, they say, therefore ‘follow your passion’ must be good advice. This is faulty logic. Observing a few instances of a strategy working do...
Here’s Kreider’s explanation: Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental afflictio...
Being less available over text, in other words, has a way of paradoxically strengthening your relationship even while making you (slightly) less available to those you care about. This point is crucia...
Whiteboard effect. For some types of problems, working with someone else at the proverbial shared whiteboard can push you deeper than if you were working alone. The presence of the other party waiting...
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The end of each of these brainstorming sessions I require myself to formally record the results, by hand, on a dated page.
Study by Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow. In this study, a group of management consultants were asked to disconnect for a full day each workweek. The consultants were afraid the client...
Something more fundamental to human flourishing: the sense of meaning that comes from acting with intention.
Skillful management of attention is the sine qua non of the good life and the key to improving virtually every aspect of your experience.
Regardless of how you feel about your job right now, adopting the craftsman mindset will be the foundation on which you’ll build a compelling career.
Musicians, athletes, and chess players, among others, know all about deliberate practice, but knowledge workers do not. Most knowledge workers avoid the uncomfortable strain of deliberate practice lik...
Intermittent positive reinforcement and the drive for social approval.
Dedication to stretching his ability, guided by feedback.
Craftsman mindset is the foundation for creating work you love.
You don’t need a rarified job; you need instead a rarified approach to your work.
We require a philosophy that puts our aspirations and values once again in charge of our daily experience, all the while dethroning primal whims and the business models of Silicon Valley from their cu...
We now know from decades of research in both psychology and neuroscience that the state of mental strain that accompanies deep work is also necessary to improve your abilities.