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The Great Hunt
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Cal Newport
“there’s one idea in particular that seems central to his method: the batching of hard but important intellectual work into long, uninterrupted stretches.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Cal Newport
“A good chief executive is essentially a hard-to-automate decision engine,”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Cal Newport
“Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love—is the sum of what you focus on.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Cal Newport
“To ask a CEO to spend four hours thinking deeply about a single problem is a waste of what makes him or her valuable. It’s better to hire three smart subordinates to think deeply about the problem and then bring their solutions to the executive for a final decision.”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Cal Newport
“isolation until he completes the task at hand. My guess is that Adam Grant doesn’t work substantially more hours than the average professor at an elite research institution (generally speaking, this is a group prone to workaholism), but he still manages to produce more than just about anyone else in his field. I argue that his approach to batching helps explain this paradox. In particular, by consolidating his work into intense and uninterrupted pulses, he’s leveraging the following law of productivity: High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus)”
Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

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