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Deep work (cal newport)

 


 low-value work done in a distraction-ful environment and most of the time it is done by multi-tasking is called Shallow work.

Shallow Work contains:

  • Low productivity work.
  • Adds no improvement over time.
  • It May be automated soon.

If we continue to do more shallow work, our ability to achieve deep work decreases over time. Here we use 'business' as a proxy for 'productivity'.

Deep Work
it is Professional activities are performed in a distraction-free environment that pushes your cognitive abilities to their limit. Those efforts create new value, improve our skills, and are hard to replicate.

Deep work contains:

  • Stretches your mind.
  • Gives meaning to your life
  • More valuable as it becomes scarce.


4 Methods of Deep Work retains:

  • Monastic Deep Work
  • Bimodal Deep Work
  • Rhythmic Deep Work
  • Journalistic Deep Work

Monastic Deep Work 

Here you leave everything and go to somewhere you are disconnected from the world - live like a monk to concentrate only on one thing. (It is not always possible for everyone.)

Bimodal Deep Work

This type of Deep work is for those who are not able to follow Monastic Approach. 
Here, when you need to perform Deep work you go to a separate place (which must be a different place from where you spend most of your time) and do your work for 12-72 hours (not continuous!) and comes back to your regular life and repeat it until you have finished the job.

Rhythmic Deep Work

In this type of Deep work, you block a specific time each day in your calendar to perform Deep Work. At first, it may be 1-1.5 hours but when you start to do it regularly you can stretch it to 4 hours.

journalistic Deep Work

Here you just work like a journalist - whenever any incident occurs you have to go. That means here you perform deep work whenever you get free time.

fact: Cal Newport, the author of this book, uses this method for his career.

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