Ajay Malhotra's Key Ideas from Deep Work
by Cal Newport

💡DEPTH PHILOSOPHY: Find an approach that makes sense for you: Monastic, Bimodal, Rhythmic or Journalist

💡DON'T WORK ALONE: Hub-and-Spoke: both serendipitous encounters and isolated deep thinking are supported. Working with a shared whiteboard push you deeper than working alone

💡EXECUTE LIKE BUSINESS: 4 Disciplines of Execution

1. Focus on the important
2. Act on lead measures
3. Keep a scoreboard
4. Create regular meetings

💡BE LAZY: Create a shutdown ritual. "When work, work hard. When you're done, be done."

💡TAKE A BREAK : Schedule the occasional break from focus to give in to distraction.

💡PRODUCTIVE MEDITATION : Take a period in which youre occupied physically but not mentally and focus on a single well-defined profissional problem.

💡 MEMORIZE CARDS : "Attention control" the ability to maintain your focus on essential your information. A good training is memorizing a deck of cards.

💡 LAW OF THE FEW : Identify your main goals. List 2 or 3 activities that help your goals. the tools have a substantially positive impact. Use 80/20 law.

💡 QUIT SOCIAL MEDIA : Ban yourself from using them for 30 days. Don't mention it online. "Would the 30 days have been notably better if I had been able to use the social media?"

💡 DON'T USE THE INTERNET TO ENTERTAIN YOU : Give your brain a quality alternative, like books

💡 BLOCK TIME : Schedule every hour of your day. Decide in advance what you're going to do.

💡 QUANTIFY THE DEPTH : Evaluate activities by asking. "How long would it take to train a smart graduate to complete this task?"

💡 FINISH AT 5:30 : A commitment to FIXED-SCHEDULE productivity shifts you into a scarcity mindset.

💡 HARD TO REACH : Make people do more work to send you an email. Reply to "dose the email loop". Don't respond.

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