Deep Work

If you’re comfortable going deep, you’ll be comfortable mastering the increasingly complex systems and skills needed to thrive in our economy.

To produce at your peak level you need to work for extended periods with full concentration on a single task free from distraction.

The more such flow experiences that occur in a given week, the higher the subject’s life satisfaction.

Our world is the outcome of what we pay attention to.

The world used to be, in its various forms, a world of sacred, shining things.

To learn, in other words, is an act of deep work.

To produce at your peak level you need to work for extended periods with full concentration on a single task free from distraction.

The common habit of working in a state of semi-distraction is potentially devastating to your performance.

Deep work is not the only skill valuable in our economy, and it’s possible to do well without fostering this ability, but the niches where this is advisable are increasingly rare.

If you’re not comfortable going deep for extended periods of time, it’ll be difficult to get your performance to the peak levels of quality and quantity increasingly necessary to thrive professionally.