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DEEP WORK (CAL NEWPORT) - Listening books

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The Implications of ART for Concentration

When walking through nature, you're freed from having to direct your attention. After 50 minutes of such replenishment, the subjects enjoy a boost in their concentration. But if you keep interrupting your evening to check and respond to email, or put aside a few hours after dinner to catch up on an approaching deadline, you're robbing your directed attention centers of the uninterrupted rest they need for restoration. The work that evening downtime replaces is usually not that important. Your shallow efforts will likely be confined to low-value, low-energy tasks,. In other words, you're missing out on much of the importance of three reasons just described.

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