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How to Discover Your Deep Work Style

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Deep Work. As we’ve discussed many times, it’s increasingly more rare AND increasingly more valuable. The amount of high-quality work we produce will always be a function of a very simple equation: Intensity of Focus x Time. You want to get a lot of great work done in a short ...

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Time Blocks

The #1 Power Tool for Great Days and a Great Life (You Using Them?)

Continuing our theme of making TODAY (and every day!) a Masterpiece Day, let’s take a quick look at Time Blocks. Gary Keller wrote The ONE Thing. He also created the largest real estate agency in the world. In his great little book, he tells us how important it is to ruthlessly f...

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+1 inspired by Note: The ONE Thing

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Deep Work + Team Work + Monkey Work

What Goes When for You?

In our last +1, we talked about matching your mental energy to the right task. The essence of that? You don’t want to try to do your most important work when your brain is fried. I like to think of this whole process of matching our task to our energy as Deep Work + Team Work + Monkey ...

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+1 inspired by Note: How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

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How to Schedule Your Best Work

Match Your Mental Energy to Your Task

Scott Adams created Dilbert. (Over 10,000 of them by now, actually.) He also wrote a great book called How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big. In it, he tells us how he makes sure he gets his Deep Work done every day. Scott is ALL about systems. Part of his ...

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Multitasking Is a Myth

What We Do Is Really Task Switching — And that Has a Big Cost

Multitasking is a myth. Our brains aren’t like computers with parallel processors. We can’t actually do multiple things at one time. What we do is not “multi-tasking” per se, it’s more accurately called “task switching.” Here’s why we should care. Remember our hand...

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+1 inspired by Note: Manage Your Day-to-Day

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Deep Work

How to Escape Shallowville and Go Deep

Cal Newport has a very big brain. He got his Ph.D. from MIT and is a professor of Computer Science at Georgetown. He also wrote one of my favorite books: Deep Work. In it, Cal tells us that we can either do Deep Work or we can do Shallow Work. Deep Work, he says, is becoming sim...

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Handy Dandy Motivational Calculator

The Science of Solving the Procrastination Equation

Piers Steele is a leading research scientist. After analyzing hundreds of studies on motivation, he came up with a little equation to capture the essence of motivation. It’s a little abstract on first blush but worth internalizing and using as one of our tools. I recommend keeping this ready at hand...

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+1 inspired by Note: The Procrastination Equation

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