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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 Effect of Deep Work on Cognitive Capacity

Attention residue was a concept coined by a researcher named Sophie Leroy. If you switch your attention to something, and then bring it back to the task at hand, the thing you just looked at briefly leaves a residue on your attention that actually reduces your cognitive capacity. This is one of the key reasons why deep work produces so much more and at such a higher level of value.

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