The Connection Between Depth and Meaning in Knowledge Work

The connection between depth and meaning is less clear in knowledge work. But this doesn't mean that it's nonexistent, as I'll show below. The goal of this chapter is to convince you that deep work can generate as much satisfaction in an information economy as it so clearly does in a craft economy. In the sections ahead, I'll make three arguments to support this claim. These arguments roughly follow a trajectory from the conceptually narrow to broad,. starting with a neurological perspective, moving to the psychological and ending with the philosophical.