Cal Newport's book "Deep Work" serves as a counterbalance to the distractions of today's world by providing strategies and principles to reclaim focus, productivity, and meaningful work in an environment characterized by constant interruptions and information overload.
If you don’t produce, you won’t thrive—no matter how skilled or talented you are. Cal Newport
What we choose to focus on and what we choose to ignore—plays in defining the quality of our life. Cal Newport
I build my days around a core of carefully chosen deep work, with the shallow activities I absolutely cannot avoid batched into smaller bursts at the peripheries of my schedule. Three to four hours a day, five days a week, of uninterrupted and carefully directed concentration, it turns out, can produce a lot of valuable output. Cal Newport
People need to stop thinking about one task in order to fully transition their attention and perform well on another. Yet, results indicate it is difficult for people to transition their attention away from an unfinished task and their subsequent task performance suffers. Cal Newport
[Great creative minds] think like artists but work like accountants. Cal Newport
Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not. Cal Newport