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Cal Newport on knowledge work, Part 1: The concentration deficit

HBS Managing the Future of Work

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Do You Think We Need a Culture of Concentration?

I'm particularly interested in the notion of deep work as a learned skill. I think concentration is a skill that can be practiced. It's something we should be teaching as early as grammar school. The few number of people that for whatever reason they do pick it up are superstars. But I would like that competitive advantage to be more widely spread.

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