Deep Work

Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit.

In an age of network tools... knowledge workers increasingly replace deep work with the shallow alternative.

Deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy.

To succeed you have to produce the absolute best stuff you’re capable of producing—a task that requires depth.

If you can create something useful, its reachable audience... is essentially limitless—which greatly magnifies your reward.

Deep work is not some nostalgic affectation of writers and early-twentieth-century philosophers. It’s instead a skill that has great value today.

A deep life is not just economically lucrative, but also a life well lived.

Deep work enables mastery of challenging tasks and production of high-quality output.

Deep work is necessary to wring every last drop of value out of your current intellectual capacity.

The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy.