Hey, welcome to a new blog post, except I haven’t written a book report in quite a while, so I might as well though I could publish something meaningful and useful for my audience, here you go (I mean you have to read it but you know)
🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences
This book talks about how you can take your productivity to the next level and finish your tasks at hand as quickly as possible, so you can enjoy the things in life that are actually fun. It's about focusing on one thing to complete it.
🎨 Impressions
This book was so good, it helped me understand that the fact of trying to be productive doesn't matter about taking as many things as you can do in one go, you need to focus on one thing at a time and complete it with your entirety.
it helps us to see that out of the 16 - 18 hours awake we can spend a small amount of focused time in life to one get your tasks done, or even maybe start something new, while the other hours can be used to actually spend your time doing the things you love.
Who Should Read It?
I think any student needs to read this, they need to know how to not burn out and how they can finish their work in a limited amount of time so that they don't have to take all-nighters, and just waste their time on a number of things that really don't take a lot of time.
I think It should be for anyone who has a 9 - 5 or even a business, I think it would help to know that you can use 100% of your brain onto a task to produce the best of your abilities while still do things they enjoy.
☘️ How the Book Changed Me
I have always wanted to understand how people get so much work done while still maintaining their life and having fun, like the amount of work they seem to accomplish is daunting to the average human who is in a similar place like students or workers or entrepreneurs are able to complete such huge amount of tasks and still have time for other things, makes me ask whether I was doing something wrong, and yes I was.
I was mixing my shallow work on the whole day that whenever I was actually working I took so long in doing things, and plus I am an athlete so already half my day is gone training, and then I have my studies, and I was wondering how can I maximize my efforts so I have time for other things to do like my hobbies and have some peace.
✍️ My Top 3 Quotes
Hearing a succession of mediocre singers does not add up to a single outstanding performance.
if you don't produce, you won't thrive - no matter how skilled or talented you are
Human Beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging.
Summary + Notes
Chapter 1: Deep Work Is Valuable
Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit.
The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare and valuable in the Knowledge Economy.
To become a superstar in your field of work, you need to be able to quickly master hard things and produce at an elite level (in terms of both quality and speed).
Chapter 2: Deep Work is Rare
The Principle of Least Resistance: In a business setting, without clear feedback on the impact of various behaviors on the bottom line, we will tend toward behaviors that are easiest at the moment.
Busyness as Proxy for Productivity: In the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their jobs, many knowledge workers turn back toward an industrial indicator of productivity: doing lots of stuff in a visible manner.
Chapter 3: Deep Work is Meaningful
The more flow experiences that occur in a given week, the higher the subject’s life satisfaction. Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging.
Deep work is an activity well suited to generate a flow state (the phrases used by Csikszentmihalyi to describe what generates flow include notions of stretching your mind to its limits, concentrating, and losing yourself in an activity—all of which also describe deep work). And as we just learned, flow generates happiness.
You don’t need a rarified job; you need a rarified approach to your work.
Rule #1: Work Deeply
You have a finite amount of willpower that becomes depleted as you use it.
The key to developing a deep work habit is to move beyond good intentions and add routines and rituals to your working life designed to minimize the amount of your limited willpower necessary to transition into and maintain a state of unbroken concentration.
The monastic philosophy of deep work scheduling: This philosophy attempts to maximize deep efforts by eliminating or radically minimizing shallow obligations. Practitioners of the monastic philosophy tend to have a well-defined and highly valued professional goal that they’re pursuing, and the bulk of their professional success comes from doing this one thing exceptionally well.
The bimodal philosophy of deep work: This philosophy asks that you divide your time, dedicating some clearly defined stretches to deep pursuits and leaving the rest open to everything else.
The rhythmic philosophy: This philosophy argues that the easiest way to consistently start deep work sessions is to transform them into a simple regular habit. The goal, in other words, is to generate a rhythm for this work that removes the need for you to invest energy in deciding if and when you’re going to go deep.
The journalistic philosophy: any time you can find some free time, you switch into deep work mode and hammer away. It requires being able to shift into deep work mode at a moment’s notice and is not for the deep work novice.
You should build a ritual to prepare for deep work, and it should include the following:
Where you’ll work and how long.
How you’ll work once you start to work.
How you’ll support your work.
The grand gesture: a tool for encouraging deep work where you radically change your environment, invest significant effort or money, all dedicated towards a deep work task (increasing its significance).
At the end of the workday, shut down your consideration of work issues until the next morning. This is necessary to reset your mind.
This should be tied to a shutdown ritual which ensures you have a step-by-step plan in place to complete the next part of the project
Rule #2: Embrace Boredom
Due to our fast-paced lives, our brains have been rewired and expect and request distraction. As a result, we check our smartphones at any moment of “potential boredom”.
Don’t take breaks from distraction but instead take breaks from focus:
Schedule in advance when you’ll use the Internet, and then avoid it altogether outside these times. Do it both at home and work to further improve your concentration training
Practice productive meditation. This is a period in which you’re occupied physically but not mentally—walking, jogging, driving, showering—and focus your attention on a single well-defined professional problem
Rule #3: Quit Social Media
Social Media fragment our time and reduce our ability to concentrate, making it difficult to improve our ability to work deeply.
If you service low-impact activities, like Social Media, you’re taking away time you could be spending on higher-impact activities. It’s a zero-sum game.
Do a test run: without deactivating, stay off consciously from your social media of choice for 30 days. After 30 days, evaluate:
Was it impossible for you to stay away or were you greatly inconvenienced?
Did anyone care?
If you want to eliminate the addictive pull of entertainment sites on your time and attention, give your brain a quality alternative.
The Craftsman Approach to Tool Selection: identify the core factors that determine success and happiness in your professional and personal life. Adopt a tool only if its positive impacts on these factors substantially outweigh its negative impacts.
Rule #4: Drain the Shallows
The typical knowledge workday is easily fragmented, making it hard to introduce large amounts of depth. To take control, schedule every minute of your day on a paper notebook:
At the beginning of each workday, turn to a new page
On the left, mark every other line with an hour of your workday
Divide the hours into 30 min blocks and assign activities to the blocks (if needed, batch similar tasks into one block)
On the right, list out the full set of small tasks, you plan to accomplish in that block
Use this schedule to guide your workday
Not every block needs to be dedicated to a work task. There might be time blocks for lunch or relaxation breaks.
If your schedule is disrupted, take a few minutes to create a revised schedule for the time that remains in the day.
Conclusion
In conclusion, the fact is that no matter in what field you are in you end up have to work deeply if you want to be great, most knowledge workers need to be outperforming themselves by producing more in the long run, many things we need to do is ended up when we have immersed int things like we are immersed inside a Netflix show. The ability to focus can be learned but only for the people who are willing to have a life dedicated to producing the best of their abilities.
Come on a kid who was in the united states could type up code in the 19th century, sleep for an hour, and pick up from where he left off and eventually wrote a whole functional timetable for his school along with his friend. That kid later became a billionaire and a software genius. His Name? Bill Gates.
But that’s it
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