172 Quotes by Cal Newport

To build your working life around the experience of flow produced by deep work is a proven path to deep satisfaction. A.

Spend enough time in a state of frenetic shallowness and you permanently reduce your capacity to perform deep work.

Three to four hours a day, five days a week, of uninterrupted and carefully directed concentration, it turns out, can produce a lot of valuable output.

Do What Steve Jobs Did, Not What He Said.

Don’t follow your passion; rather, let it follow you in your quest to become, in the words of my favorite Steve Martin quote, “so good that they can’t ignore you.

The more you try to do, the less you actually accomplish.” They elaborate that execution should be aimed at a small number of “wildly important goals.” This.

Solitude Deprivation A state in which you spend close to zero time alone with your own thoughts and free from input from other minds.

When deciding whether to follow an appealing pursuit that will introduce more control into your work life, seek evidence of whether people are willing to pay for it. If you find this evidence, continue. If not, move on.

This is what you should experience in your own pursuit of “good.” If you’re not uncomfortable, then you’re probably stuck at an “acceptable level.