Summary of : Deep Work

Deep Work book by Cal Neweport tells that we have lost our ability to focus deeply and immerse ourselves in a complex task, showing you how to cultivate this skill again and focus more than ever before with four simple rules.

In the coming toughest economy if you want to thrive, if you want to move ahead and forward, then you need to become one person out of three said by author, first either become highly tech skilled worker, means become a person who is very much knowledgeable about technical stuffs, who know proper use of technical stuffs and who can understand technical things nicely, because in this fast changing world even technology is changing rapidly.

Second type of people, known as superstar by author, superstars are those people who always stay best in their work, they are extraordinary towards their work in that they can compete at world level, example,  you must have noticed that today things are not similar compare to earlier, earlier people used to compete in their town or in their city, but today internet and communication technology has become so vast which has paved the way for global competition.

The third type of people are those who have capital means money, people who have money they can invest in any good startups which can give them quick growth and returns.

To become such type of human as mentioned above we people should have two things in us said by the author.

1. We should have such a skill so that we can learn things quickly and can become master of complex technology system.

2. We should have an ability so that we can work at higher level and can give high-level outcome along with high speed and quality.

Deep work :

Things can be said for focus as well, if you do maximum work of yours with the help of shallow approach means if you keep your mind distracted by giving new information from social media by checking notifications or by checking facebook in between the work, or by talking or chatting to other people on phone, hence if you work like this means allow yourself and brain to get distracted by every small thing and one day when you required completing a work with all focus without distraction, then expecting that yes you’ll  able to do it with all focus and concentration, then this expectation will for sure fail, because it won’t happen, in our brain there are two muscles, one muscle which is strong, hence whenever you do any work and get distracted by other small things then that strong muscles expands, because that muscle is strong hence our brain uses it, and another muscle becomes strong if we use it with focus and concentration for our work, means the more you stay concentrated and focused on doing any particular work the more that brain muscle will become stronger and will also improve your productivity.

Scientific research :

Few scientists did a research in that research they decide people into two groups in one group they asked people to solve puzzle only puzzle, and to another group they asked to do them several small works along with puzzle, means they have to solve puzzle as well as need to do several work, after this experiment the thing which we came to know is that when we people are asked to do any one work with all focused at such situation we work fast and that too with consistency but if we do that same work along with other small tasks such as reading and closing mail for some time then because of this our focus and concentration fail to work properly. And we also fail to work at a high level and fail to work quickly and fast. The reason because our attentions small part stays in previous work and hence our brain takes time to put all our attention to any new work hence we fail to do work properly and quickly.

Monastic approach :

You must have seen monks doing unbelievable things, with their mind and body,  no one can do meditation like them, they leave everything behind every materialistic thing and train themselves daily,  monastioc approach is something where you leave everything and focus on any one particular goal, you isolate yourself to complete one particular goal.


Bimodal approach :

Carl jung was an awesome and amazing therapist. And he was very productive in his work,  for staying productive what he used to do, he has bought another house which he used to call as Retreat,  the way monk used to stay in monk mode similarly whenever carl used to get into this house, he used to go there with a goal, and till the time he used to stay in that house he used to work on his goal completion he used to work like a monk he used to get into monk mode,  and as his monk mode gets finish he used to return to his house, even you can do something similar, create a place at your home where you can sit and can isolate yourself from all disturbance, and in that place get into monk mode and start working.

Rhythmic approach :

In this approach you need to decide a time, ln that same time you will do your deep work and in remaining time you can do shallow work,  usually morning is good for deep work so try to do your deep work in the morning and follow this time approach daily until it doesn’t become your habit.

Relaxation :

After doing any vigorous work our body requires rest and its necessary to give our body rest after vigorous work similarly after doing deep work even our brain needs rest so that it gets recover, example,  authors who work as per deep work approach never work after 5.30 they don’t even work on their weekends, but still they give more outcome compared to others.

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Favorite Quotes

1. Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. In other words, what you do for a living is much less important than how you do it.

2. If you don’t produce, you won’t thrive—no matter how skilled or talented you are.

3. Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love—is the sum of what you focus on.