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Deep Work Book Summary
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
Top three takeaways
- Deep work is hard to replicate, highly valuable, and rare.
- Schedule up to four hours a day for deep work.
- Keep a scoreboard.
What is Deep Work? Deep work is professional activities performed in deep focus for long periods of time. They are hard to replicate, create value and improve personal skills.
Shallow work is non-cognitively demanding and can be done distracted. It creates low value and is replicable.
2 main values of deep work:
- We live in the information economy.
- You create something useful and scalable.
Deep work is more rare and rewarding than ever. Deep work is the superpower of the 21st century.
Schedule 3–4 hours/ 5 days of deep work time is all you need.
Deep Work is Valuable
A deep work habit requires you to treat your time with respect.
Deep work will let you achieve more in less time.
Outsourcing meaning that the pool of skilled people is growing.
There’s a premium for being the best today. You can’t take a bunch of second-tier people and create a top-notch deep worker(knowledge workers).
