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Deep Work by Cal Newport - Lecture Notes

Friends , today we will know about the book Deep Work written by Cal Newport. This book teaches us the art of concentrating without distraction and the author believes that this is the most valuable skill which people are losing. While listening to the gist, you will enjoy and also learn life-changing lessons. This book teaches us to do our work with intensity. In today's time, where distractions from all sides affect our work, this book tells us those secrets. By which we can increase productivity in our work, this book puts before us many such things which are important for us like distributing time according to our work, reducing the use of social media, etc. Developing the ability to do intensive work is completely dependent on habits. It works because in this we separate ourselves from those things which distract our attention. First of all, we know the formula of deep work. Deep work is the working environment in which we give more time to our work without getting distracted. While working, small breaks are also included which motivate us to increase and improve our productivity. Now in this emerging digital era, only those people will be successful who can work with intelligent machines and technology in their work field. The two most important characteristics of these successful workers who are considered stars are the ability to take on difficult work and master it quickly and to create content products or services that are good in both speed and quality. So the question arises whether you can do this. How to get the capability? This is where the concept of deep work comes in. If you cannot do deep work then you will have to struggle with both these desired characteristics. Deep work is valuable because of which we can learn difficult things easily and difficult things faster. The only way to learn is to concentrate without getting distracted, for which you have to do deep work. Difficult things have to be given complexity and focus at the same time. To produce elite level content work service, you have to work on the same task for a long time without getting distracted. You have to focus on one place for 30 minutes Only your deep concentration can produce your best work Why deep work is rare Deep work is lacking in today's digital age business environment Deep work is a state in which we do our work with distraction-free concentration. Professional activities take your cognitive capabilities to a new limit. There are many reasons for the lack of deep work in today's time. The first factor is the rise of network tools, social media, instant messaging and other network tools have reduced our attention span significantly. These tools often encourage shallow work, tasks that are repetitive and don't add much value. Another factor is the trend towards open office spaces and open plan offices . The main purpose of Internet is to promote collaboration but often constant interruptions and noise make it difficult to achieve the focus needed for deep work. The third factor is Internet cult. It is believed that constant connectivity and multitasking is necessary and beneficial for productivity. But it also weakens our ability to do deep work. The fourth and final factor is that business is a proxy for productivity. In many professional environments, appearing busy and responsive is often interpreted as actual productivity, which is false. That we are constantly working when in reality we are not doing deep work Why should we do deep work Deep work is an activity that creates a flow state Flow state is a phrase coined by psychologist Mahali to describe stretching your mind to the limit and Used to understand paying attention and, as we've learned, flow creates happiness . Combining these two ideas gives us another point of depth. Going deeper shapes our thinking in ways that make our lives better. It's become clear that Deep Work is the answer to finding true meaning in your work. It can help you hone your skills and transform a distracted job into work that is satisfying, meaningful and successful. We Deep Work How can the author take advantage of this? In this book, the author tells us about four core rules from which you can take advantage of doing deep work and master your work. The first rule is work deep. The author's objective with deep work is This is to make work possible with full concentration and without any interruption. Today we work in an environment where doing deep work seems a bit difficult because there are so many things happening around us. Distracting things that keep distracting us every moment like notifications from our mobile phone etc. over time reduce our will power and after a time we fail to control the distracting things unless we Unless we are conscious about our habits, this keeps happening to us, no matter what our intentions and intentions are. It is better that we intelligently develop some arrangements and routines in our working life which will help us in achieving deep working capacity. The second rule that can be developed is to embrace boredom. By embracing boredom, the author means that to achieve success we have to repeat our tasks again and again. It is normal to feel bored in the tasks which we repeat again and again. The thing is that accepting this boredom and moving forward gives us success in those tasks. Just like athletes have to take care of their body even after their training sessions, similarly if we try to avoid it as soon as we feel a little boredom. If you waste your time then you may face difficulties in doing DP work. People who are always multitasking are unable to differentiate between important and unimportant things. Their memory often starts becoming weaker than normal. They get badly distracted. They also activate large parts of their brain that have no connection with the work they are currently doing . In other words, they remain mentally distracted to a great extent. Writers manage boredom. Let us tell you some important rules to keep doing your work, which are as follows: One, make a schedule of your work, two, make a schedule of your time, three, develop depth in your work, four, try to avoid multitasking, five, stay away from distracting things. By keeping these small things in mind, we can manage our preferences. The third rule for doing deep work is to leave social media. Seeing the way social media is being used in the information age today, do not make assumptions like right or wrong. For some people, social media is a place to meet friends, some people use it to stay connected with their family, some people consider it as a way to reach their products to people, while for some people social media is useless. Because it wastes their time. Such people keep distance from social media or use it only as much as they need. Excessive use of social media can be harmful for us but it is useful for those social media sites because They get data from our use according to which they show us products, services or ads . That is why the author introduces a network tools strategy in which we have to choose our tools with the help of which we can manage the use of social media and when the time comes. But you can leave that aside, there are some important things in these tools which are as follows: Identifying the main goals of your professional and personal life, making a list of activities to achieve the main goals, taking a break from social media, promoting outdoor activities, using the internet. Do not use it only for entertainment. The fourth and final rule for deep work is to eliminate it or in other words, to understand your work and give it priority. In today's time, we prefer to work more than being idle because we like to be idle. We do not like to sit at all, due to this we find many such tasks which are not useful for us but still we keep doing them. The author emphasizes on dividing our tasks into two parts so that we can apply the deep work formula in our tasks. One which increases our productivity and the other which reduces our productivity. We should also pay attention to those tasks which reduce our productivity so that we do not fall below the productivity level with which we work. Author has told some important things to focus on tasks that increase productivity, which are as follows: One, choose your goal and give it priority, two, do tasks related to your goals, three, delegate your useless tasks to others, four, focus on your schedule, five. Always keep learning, so friends, in this book summary we learned five important things which are as follows: First , to improve the work creatively, we should know how to use deep work formula. Second , to do deep work, we should distract ourselves from our work. We have to keep away from such things. Third, it is natural to get bored in the work which we repeat again and again, but only the one who embraces boredom achieves success. Fourth, social media. Minimizing the use of can increase the time for us so that we can do our tasks with intensity. Fifth, understand and prioritize your tasks to achieve your goals intensely. Friends, I hope you like this summary. You must have come and you will be able to adopt deep work by implementing the things mentioned in this book summary in your life. If you liked the book summary given by us, then please like our