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Build Your Mastery with Regular Doses of Deep Work (Cal Newport)

Moonshots Podcast: Superstar mindsets and success habits

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The Role of Deep Work in Learning Hard Things

Deep work is actually a broader notion than deliberate practice, but we can learn a lot about it from the deliberate practice literature. To learn something complicated, you have to give it undistracted very intense attention. When neural circuits are isolated and run again and again, you get a process called myelination that makes this circuit fire easier. That's what it actually means at the neuron level to learn something. So it just requires literally the notion of focus without distraction to learning something. If you're not doing deep work, you're essentially putting yourself at risk, aren't you?

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