" Cal Newport Quotes"
If you don’t produce, you won’t thrive—no matter how skilled or talented you are.
(Great creative minds) think like artists but work like accountants.
“Less mental clutter means more mental resources available for deep thinking.”
If you service low-impact activities, therefore, you’re taking away time you could be spending on higher-impact activities. It’s a zero-sum game.
Your will, in other words, is not a manifestation of your character that you can deploy without limit; it’s instead like a muscle that tires.
(As Nietzsche said: “It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.”)
Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging. There.
Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don’t simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction.
The task of a craftsman, they conclude, “is not to generate meaning, but rather to cultivate in himself the skill of discerning the meanings that are already there.
If you can’t learn, you can’t thrive.
To simply wait and be bored has become a novel experience in modern life, but from the perspective of concentration training, it’s incredibly valuable.
what we choose to focus on and what we choose to ignore—plays in defining the quality of our life.
Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love—is the sum of what you focus on.
Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not.
“As the author, Tim Ferriss once wrote: “Develop the habit of letting small bad things happen. If you don’t, you’ll never find time for the life-changing big things.”
n this new economy, three groups will have a particular advantage: those who can work well and creatively with intelligent machines, those who are the best at what they do, and those with access to capital.
If you service low-impact activities, therefore, you’re taking away time you could be spending on higher-impact activities. It’s a zero-sum game.
Like fingers pointing to the moon, other diverse disciplines from anthropology to education, behavioral economics to family counseling, similarly suggest that the skillful management of attention is the sine qua non of the good life and the key to improving virtually every aspect of your experience.
To remain valuable in our economy, therefore, you must master the art of quickly learning complicated things.
Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging.
To build your working life around the experience of flow produced by deep work is a proven path to deep satisfaction.
Knowledge workers, I’m arguing, are tending toward increasingly visible busyness because they lack a better way to demonstrate their value.
There is a middle ground, and if you’re interested in developing a deep work habit, you must fight to get there.
The shallow work that increasingly dominates the time and attention of knowledge workers are less vital than it often seems in the moment.
