Quotes About Engagement

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

management of attention is the sine qua non of the good life and the key to improving virtually every aspect of your experience.

1: Prioritize demanding activity over passive consumption.

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

when you switch from some Task A to another Task B, your attention doesn't immediately follow—a residue of your attention remains stuck thinking about the original task.

your world is the outcome of what you pay attention to,

the whiteboard effect. For some types of problems, working with someone else at the proverbial shared whiteboard can push you deeper than if you were working alone. 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.

I propose and defend the perhaps controversial claim that your relationships will strengthen if you stop clicking "Like" or leaving comments on social media posts, and become harder to reach by text messages.

attention residue.

Irónicamente, es más fácil disfrutar el trabajo que el tiempo libre, porque —como ocurre en las actividades donde hay estado de flujo— el trabajo implica metas, reglas y retos. Todo ello contribuye a que uno se involucre en el trabajo, se concentre en él y se deje llevar. El tiempo libre, en cambio, es desestructurado y se requiere un mayor esfuerzo para darle una forma que nos produzca satisfacción.18

I'll pay attention to what you say if you pay attention to what I say—regardless of its value.

You "like" my status update and I'll "like" yours.

a confidence that comes out," Martin explained. "I think it's something the audience smells.

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.

I'll choose my targets with care… then give them my rapt attention. In short, I'll live the focused life, because it's the best kind there is.

Giving people more control over what they do and how they do it increases their happiness, engagement and sense of fulfillment

Just because you cannot avoid this tool altogether doesn't mean you have to cede all authority over its role in your mental landscape

The dominant force is the psychology of committing so seriously to the task at hand.

jobs should be redesigned so that they resemble as closely as possible flow activities.

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).

Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don't simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction

But part of what makes social media insidious is that the companies that profit from your attention have succeeded with a masterful marketing coup: convincing our culture that if you don't use their products you might miss out.

Thurston struck up conversations with strangers. He enjoyed food without Instagramming the experience.

resist switching to these distractions at the slightest hint of boredom.