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You 2.0: Deep Work

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Is Deep Work a Good Life?

People who spend a larger proportion of their professional time concentrating intensely on a single high skill or high craft target tend to enjoy their work more. So it's not just question of being more productive, but you're making the case that deep work produces a kind of intrinsic reward - and this caught me off guard when i was researching my book. It can take a knowledge work career and make it much more satisfying than being in istent state of putting out fires in busy distraction. Can you cite any professions where deep work is probably not called for, and might even be a problem? Sure, there's plenty of examples, i think, where deep work isn't relevant. But i ouk

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