Quotes from Cal newport

Bir ?eyin maliyeti, o ?ey kar??l???nda hemen ya da uzun vaadede verilmesi gereken ömür miktar?d?r.

Tener claridad sobre lo importante equivale a tener claridad sobre lo que no es importante.

To Woolf, in other words, solitude is not a pleasant diversion, but instead a form of liberation from the cognitive oppression that results in its absence.

the message at the core of this book: Working right trumps finding the right work—it's a simple idea, but it's also incredibly subversive, as it overturns decades of folk career advice all focused on the mystical value of passion. It wrenches us away from our daydreams of an overnight transformation into instant job bliss and provides instead a more sober way toward fulfillment.

for every hour you spend with other human beings you need X number of hours alone.37 Now what that X represents I don't really know … but it's a substantial ratio.

The Law of the Vital Few*: In many settings, 80 percent of a given effect is due to just 20 percent of the possible causes.

the lack of distraction in my life tones down that background hum of nervous mental energy that seems to increasingly pervade people's daily lives.

Put another way: minimalists don't mind missing out on small things; what worries them much more is diminishing the large things they already know for sure make a good life good.

The presence of the other party waiting for your next insight—be it someone physically in the same room or collaborating with you virtually—can short-circuit the natural instinct to avoid depth.

Once you know where your activities fall on the deep-to-shallow scale, bias your time toward the former.

fully embrace Rogowski's closing advice: "Leave good evidence of yourself. Do good work."...Use skills to produce valuable things in the physical world.

In the early 1990s, Anders Ericsson, a colleague of Neil Charness at Florida State University, coined the term "deliberate practice" to describe this style of serious study, defining it formally as an "activity designed, typically by a teacher, for the sole purpose of effectively improving specific aspects of an individual's performance."4

Solitude requires you to move past reacting to information created by other people and focus instead on your own thoughts and experiences—wherever you happen to

And it seemed at that moment that I could hear an inner voice saying to me, "Martin Luther, stand up for righteousness. Stand up for justice. Stand up for truth.

although our current embrace of distraction is a real phenomenon, it's built on an unstable foundation and can be easily dismissed once you decide

Missions are hard. By this point in my quest, however, I had become comfortable with "hard," and I hope that if you've made it this far in the book, you have gained this comfort as well. Hardness scares off the daydreamers and the timid, leaving more opportunity for those like us who are willing to take the time to carefully work out the best path forward and then confidently take action.

how to put new technologies to use for our best aspirations and not against them. Digital minimalism is one such strategy. It's toward its details that we now turn our attention.

The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. As a consequence, the few who cultivate this skill, and then make it the core of their working life, will thrive.

Anthony Storr helped correct this omission with his seminal book, Solitude: A Return to the Self.

Let's begin with the first ability. To start, we must remember that we've been spoiled by the intuitive and drop-dead-simple user experience of many consumer-facing technologies, like Twitter and the iPhone. These examples, however, are consumer products, not serious tools: Most of the intelligent machines driving the Great Restructuring are significantly more complex to understand and master.

In my experience, this analysis is spot-on. If you give your mind something meaningful to do throughout all your waking hours, you'll end the day more fulfilled, and begin the next one more relaxed, than if you instead allow your mind to bathe for hours in semiconscious and unstructured Web surfing.

This doesn't mean that Jane would have had to resign herself to a life of boring work. On the contrary, the law could have provided her structure to keep exploring variations on her adventurous life vision until she could find one to pursue that would actually yield results.

If you're not focusing on becoming so good they can't ignore you, you're going to be left behind. This clarity is refreshing. It tells you to stop worrying about what your job offers you, and instead worry about what you're offering the world. This mindset–which I call the craftsman mindset-allows you to sidestep the anxious questions generated by the passion hypothesis—"Who am I?", "What do I truly love?"—and instead put your head down and focus on becoming valuable.

With this in mind, the six strategies that follow can be understood as an arsenal of routines and rituals designed with the science of limited willpower in mind to maximize the amount of deep work you consistently accomplish in your schedule.