Quotes About Immersion

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My introduction to the Roman Catholic world was a full immersion baptism in the heady milieu of an Irish—American wedding. The man I was dating, who later became my husband, had invited me to attend the wedding ceremony of a high—school classmate, consisting of a weekend of dinners, parties and, of course, church. It was one of our first dates, a fact that now seems rich with God's good humor.

The mime must first of all be aware of this boundless contact with things. There is no insulating layer of air between the man and the outside world. Any man who moves causes ripples in the ambient word in the same way a fish does when it moves in the water.

Authentic interest is generated when students are given the opportunity to delve deeply into an interesting idea.

the tendency to go native if you stay somewhere too long.

I fear I lose myself among books. I forget everything.

Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging. There

To produce at your peak level you need to work for extended periods with full concentration on a single task free from distraction. Put another way, the type of work that optimizes your performance is deep work.

Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging.

There's a gravity and sense of importance inherent in deep work—whether you're Ric Furrer smithing a sword or a computer programmer optimizing an algorithm. Gallagher's theory, therefore, predicts that if you spend enough time in this state, your mind will understand your world as rich in meaning and importance.

To produce at your peak level you need to work for extended periods with full concentration on a single task free from distraction.

given week, the higher the subject's life satisfaction. Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging. There

To learn hard things quickly, you must focus intensely without distraction. To

Deep Work Helps You Quickly Learn Hard Things "Let your mind become a lens, thanks to the converging rays of attention; let your soul be all intent on whatever it is that is established in your mind as a dominant, wholly absorbing idea.

The connection between deep work and flow should be clear: Deep work is an activity well suited to generate a flow state (the phrases used by Csikszentmihalyi to describe what generates flow include notions of stretching your mind to its limits, concentrating, and losing yourself in an activity—all of which also describe deep work).

there's one idea in particular that seems central to his method: the batching of hard but important intellectual work into long, uninterrupted stretches.

Their rituals minimized the friction in this transition to depth, allowing them to go deep more easily and stay in the state longer.

Deep work is necessary to wring every last drop of value out of your

cultivating "concentration so intense that there is no attention left over to think about anything irrelevant, or to worry about problems.")

flow activities.

your world is the outcome of what you pay attention to, so consider for a moment the type of mental world constructed when you dedicate significant time to deep endeavors.

To work deeply is a big deal and should not be an activity undertaken lightly.

Sometimes to go deep, you must first go big.

of. By really getting into your work, the nonessential stuff drops away.