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Reading Notes on "Deep Work"

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Part 1: Theory

Chapter 1: Deep Work is Valuable

Value-added workers

Senior technical worker

Low-value work is replaced by machines.

Professional differentiation makes high-value work even more valuable.

Superstar

"Winner-take-all" principle

Capital owner

The required skills

The ability to quickly master complex tools

The ability to reach an elite level

How to acquire ability

Deliberate practice

Focus on one thing.

Reason 1: Consolidate brain circuits

Reason Two: Reduce attention residue

Get feedback

Note: Not every job requires the "Deep Work Method"

Chapter Two: Deep Work is Rare

Trends are anti-"depth"

Encourage collaboration, sparking serendipitous sparks

2. Instant messaging in the company

Various suppliers appear on social media.

Cultural Connection

I hope that people at work can quickly read or respond to messages sent by others (emails, instant messages, etc.)

The reason: the principle of least resistance

Getting immediate responses from others at work can make your job easier.

A connected culture creates an environment where you can manage a day's work with a "inbox".

Misunderstanding: Busyness represents productivity

1. Many professions do not have clear goal standards

2. Choose "visible busyness" to prove your value

3. Action busyness becomes important, affecting deep work

"Technology Monopoly" Culture

Chapter 3: Deep Work Is Meaningful

Neurological perspective

Psychological perspective

Flow Activities

Enjoy

Pleasure

Philosophical Perspective

Part 2: Guidelines

Guideline 1: Work deeply

Eudaimonia Machine
(Bliss Machine)

model

Five rooms that can only be passed through in sequence

Room 1: Exhibition Room

Showcase deep work cases

Create an atmosphere of healthy pressure

Room 2: Salon

For argument and contemplation

Room 3: Library

A large amount of information

Room 4: Office

Finish shallow work

Room 5: Deep Studio

Why do we need EM?

People have a strong desire to take a break in difficult work.

Willpower

Willpower can be fatigued

Intentionally reduce the consumption of willpower

Don't challenge yourself easily.

Design Conventions/Routines minimize the willpower required to enter a state of deep work.

Execution: The difference between "what" and "how" is extremely important.

Principle 1: Focus on the most extreme important things

Principle 2: Focus on Leading Indicators

Lagging indicators vs leading indicators

Principle 3: Prepare a conspicuous "scoreboard"

Record the time spent on deep work within a unit of time.

Compare the time投入 and output effect

Motivate more input; check efficiency

Principle 4: Regular Accountability

Choose your own Deep Rhythm

Integrate deep work into your professional life.

habituation

A deep schedule of asceticism at work

Approach: Eliminate/Minimize Shallow Work

Applicable to those who have a clear and highly valuable career goal pursuit.

The profound daily schedule of the philosophy of dual peaks

Method: Divide personal life into two parts

Note

Time can be divided into multiple levels: by week/by quarter

The unit of time is at least a whole day.

Applicable to those who need to put actual work into non-deep work to succeed.

The profound daily schedule of rhythm philosophy

way

Chain Method: Continuously complete high-difficulty tasks

The best way to easily start deep work is to turn it into a simple routine habit

Set a start time and start deep work at a fixed time every day.

Applicable to: High work difficulty; Current time arrangement does not allow for concentrated resolution.

The depth of philosophical work schedule for journalists

Method: Use fragmented time to quickly enter a deep working state.

Applicant

Not a beginner, trained in a certain field, can enter the state at any time

Believe that what you are doing is important and can be successful through accumulation.

Find a ""Leisure"" time

Reason 1: Leisure time contributes to enhancing insight.

Leave some questions to "unconscious" thinking.

The time for conscious mind rest can activate the unconscious mind, thus clarifying the most complex professional challenges.

Reason 2: Leisure time is beneficial for replenishing the energy needed for deep work.

Attention Restoration Theory (ART)

To maintain focus requires self-directed attention, which is a limited resource. Once it is depleted, it is difficult to maintain focus.

Autonomous attention: supplemented by a period of relaxed attention.

Reason 3: The work put aside during the evening of leisure is often not as important.

Set the "stop work" ritual for daily work.

After stopping work, put down the work completely and don't allocate any attention or thinking.

Guideline 2: Embrace boredom

Explanation: The ability to focus intensely is a skill that requires training

Mental practice

People who frequently engage in multitasking lose their ability to focus.

Improve the upper limit of deep work ability through training.

Method 1: Don't keep getting distracted, but keep focusing

Function: Replan brain arrangement

Schedule distracting time from the overall time.

Reduce the use of mobile phones to kill time while waiting in line or taking a bus
Reduce the time your brain spends on shallow work or distractions

Method 2: Work like Roosevelt

Set a deadline for an important task shorter than the estimated time, and charge forward with the task!

A period of high-intensity work

Method 3: Fruitful Meditation

Effect: Improve the ability to focus on thinking about problems.

Choose a professional problem to think about during the time when you are working with your body and idle in your mind

Advice 1: Be careful of distractions and spinning your wheels.

Suddenly want to do a boring little thing that might be boring in daily life.

Suggestion 2: Organize your deep thinking

Method 4: Remember a deck of cards

Effect: Improve attention control ability

Guideline 3: Stay away from social media

The "any benefit" psychology of network tools

Once you find any possible benefits of using an online tool, or you might miss something if you don't use it, you feel there is enough reason to use this online tool.

The method of selecting tools for craftsmen

Identify the core factors that determine success and happiness in your professional and personal life. Only choose a tool if its actual benefits outweigh its actual harm to these factors.

Three strategies to consolidate the "stay away" decision

Strategy 1: Adopt the Pareto Principle (80/20 rule) in online usage habits.

Not everything that is useful requires our effort, as 80% of the utility often comes from just 20% of the actions.

Give up the small benefits brought by using online tools to save energy.

Strategy 2: Quit social media

Packing Party

If you don't use a social media app within 30 days, delete it.

Strategy 3: Don't use the internet for entertainment.

Rule 4: Abandon Shallow

It doesn't mean that shallow work should be completely abandoned, as shallow work has its own value and regulatory effect.

Strategy 1: Plan every minute of the day

Time arrangements can be more flexible. The purpose is not to restrict or put pressure on yourself, but to remind yourself to consider what to do next to be better. It also facilitates review and recapitulation.

Respect time

Strategy 2: Quantitative analysis of the depth of each activity

Strategy 3: Finish work by 5:30 p.m.

Fixed Schedule Productivity

Squeeze out the water time of work

Automatically focus on valuable work

Strategy 4: Become hard to reach