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DEEP WORK

At a time when every one of us is constantly bombarded by emails, meeting requests, tight deadlines and requests from bosses and co-workers u2014the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task can be seemingly impossible.But, fear not, not all is lost

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DEEP WORK

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  1. DEEP WORK by Cal Newport

  2. SUMMARY BY KOSIO ANGELOV 04 Animated Summary 06 Identify What Is Deep Work In Your Case 08 Eliminate Distractions 10 Your Turn Now 05 What Is Deep Work? 07 Turn Deep Work

  3. Into A Ritual 09 Have A Shutdown Routine 11 About Me At a time when every one of us is constantly bombarded by emails, meeting requests, tight deadlines and requests from bosses and co-workers — the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task can be seemingly impossible. But, fear not, not all is lost. Deep work is the antidote that just might do the trick for you. NOTE: if the video does not play inside this document, click on the link below it to watch it on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d66815uVerk&fea ture=emb_title

  4. Work? The author defines it as: professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration (this is key!) that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your skill and are hard to replicate. Sounds complicated, but it really isn’t. Let me show you how you can start benefiting from it with just 4 steps. 1) Identify What Is Deep Work InYour Case You cannot do deep work if you is for don’t know what that is. influenced by Decide what deep work yourself, don’t be what is generally accepted.

  5. Take the time to figure out what type of activity will produce the absolute best stuff you are capable of. Keep in mind that you are the only judge of what activity that is.What might work for someone (or for everyone) might not the what works for you. 2) Turn Deep Work Into A Ritual Instead of having random periods of potential deep work, schedule regular blocks of deep work — every day. By removing the unknown timing and by not relying on willpower to get started, you are setting yourself up for success.

  6. 3) Eliminate Distractions Yeah, yeah, I know what you are thinking — that you are not distracted. That you have already creating the perfect environment for work. I hear ya! But, there is always something more you can do. Trust me!

  7. Start by choosing a working space that is dedicated to deep work. Put your phone away, disconnect your computer from the internet if not needed and remove noise, thirst, hunger and potentially other people from the equation. In the same manner, try to eliminate, minimize or at the very least bulk the minial work together and leave it for the end of the day. Treat less

  8. important work as a form of distraction and leave it for when your deep work has been finished. S U C C E S S F U L B Y D E S I G N . C O M 4) Have A Shutdown Routine Decide on a hard work cut off time. No work, deep or | 8 shallow is to be done past this point. This will allow you enough time to relax and recharge for the next day. Create a work shutdown routine for yourself. That might involve checking your messages one last time to make sure there is nothing urgent, making a plan for the following day or reviewing your work. Whatever it it is, get it done and no more work is allowed after that.

  9. Your Turn Now And there you have it, the 4 steps to becoming a deep work master. It takes practice, it takes dedication, but you owe it to yourself to put it to use. If you ever need a refresher on the Deep Work concepts, you can always check out the animated review. Try it out and let me know how it works by leaving a comment below. And, if you have been doing Deep Work for a while, curious to know how it’s going. KOSIO ANGELOV Extracting the top tactics and ideas from the best books in Business & Self-help so YOU can implement them faster! Kosio Angelov is the #1 Amazon bestselling author of the “Lean Email Simple System” and a master trainer in the art of “doing the right things, the right way”. For more amazing book summaries, subscribe to his “Successful By Design” show on YouTube and learn how to break the busyness bubble, achieve exponential productivity and live life by design, not by default.

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