Cal Newport on Distractions, Focus and Deep Work
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
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The Different Types of Deep Work
If you're doing something cognitive, that is you're producing something valuable with your mind, it helps you do that at an elite level. So deep work will define to be the effort in which you're very intensely concentrating without distraction for a long period of time. If it's not requiring unbroken intense concentration, it's shallow work. And we really should start thinking about your work life in terms of those two different types of efforts.
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