Quotes from Cal newport

THREE DISQUALIFIERS FOR APPLYING THE CRAFTSMAN MINDSET The job presents few opportunities to distinguish yourself by developing relevant skills that are rare and valuable. The job focuses on something you think is useless or perhaps even actively bad for the world. The job forces you to work with people you really dislike.

During these periods, which can last up to three or four days, he'll often put an out-of-office auto-responder on his e-mail so correspondents will know not to expect a response. "It sometimes confuses my colleagues," he told me. "They say, 'You're not out of office, I see you in your office right now!'" But to Grant, it's important to enforce strict isolation until he completes the task at hand.

If you're struggling to raise money for an idea, or are thinking that you will support your idea with unrelated work, then you need to rethink the idea.

what you need instead is a full-fledged philosophy of technology use, rooted in your deep values, that provides clear answers to the questions of what tools you should use and how you should use them and, equally important, enables you to confidently ignore everything else.

We justify many of the technologies that tyrannize our time and attention with some tangential connection to something we care about.

attention" to uncover the truth latent in each. In other words, he teaches: To learn requires intense concentration.

Wu, bir konu?mas?nda Day'den ?öyle bahsediyordu: 'Etraf?na bir kalabal?k topla ama onun paras?yla ilgilenme, çünkü bu kalabal???, onun dikkatini isteyen birine yeniden satabilirsin' fikrini gerçekten hayata geçiren ilk insand?.

En el prefacio se cita el credo del picapedrero medieval: «Nosotros, cuyo oficio es cortar simples piedras, debemos tener siempre en mente las catedrales».

The constant exposure to their friends' carefully curated portrayals of their lives generates feelings of inadequacy—especially during periods when they're already feeling low—and for teenagers, it provides a cruelly effective way to be publicly excluded.

As Derek explained to me, he started by pursuing music at night and on the weekend. "I didn't quit my day job until I was making more money with my music.

we should treat with great care any new technology that threatens to disrupt the ways in which we connect and communicate with others. When you mess with something so central to the success of our species, it's easy to create problems.

job, in Wrzesniewski's formulation, is a way to pay the bills, a career is a path toward increasingly better work, and a calling is work that's an important part of your life and a vital part of your identity.

Better technique trumps more effort.

Kethledge, it turned out, relies on long periods alone with his thoughts to write his famously sharp legal opinions, often working at a simple pine desk in a barely renovated barn with no internet connection.