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“Aviation experts will tell you that it is the success of this war on mitigation as much as anything else that accounts for the extraordinary decline in airline accidents in recent years.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“The problem this research identifies with this work strategy is that 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. This residue gets especially thick if your work on Task A was unbounded and of low intensity before you switched, but even if you finish Task A before moving on, your attention remains divided for a while.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“Those three things — autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward — are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success