👋Hey Friends,
Welcome to “Not So Secret”, a didactic blog, where two dudes Naveen and Hari from Tamil Nadu, share about books, productivity, and lifestyle.
🚀 The Book in 2 Sentences
- If you need to learn to focus instantly, read this book.
- You can learn about some famous personalities’ deep work models for success.
🎨 Impressions
- Nice Cover.
- Good paper quality.
- The smell was quite different from other books.
How I Discovered It
- YouTube, Obviously
Who Should Read It?
- Everyone who is struggling with a handful of tasks and feeling hard to concentrate.
- Particularly Teenagers.
📒 Summary + Notes:
💡 Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that pushes your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new values, improve your skills, and are hard to replicate.
💡 Shallow Work: Non-cognitively demanding, logistic style task, often performed while distracted. These efforts tend to not create much new value in the world and are easy to replicate.
Rule#1 – Work Deeply
- The Monastic Philosophy of Deep work Scheduling – This philosophy attempts to maximize the efforts by eliminating distraction or radically minimizing shallow obligations.
- The Bimodal Philosophy of Deep work Scheduling – Deep work can produce extreme productivity if only the subjects dedicate enough time to such endeavors to reach maximum cognitive intensity.
- The Rhythmic Philosophy of Deep work Scheduling – This philosophy argues to create a flow state of automated deep work by working consistently.
- The Journalistic Philosophy of Depp work Scheduling – Getting into Deep work whenever we want.
- Habits – Habits play a significant role in working deep because automatic intense deep work produces higher results.
- Creating a radical change in the environment can help us to work intensively.
- The 4 Disciplines of Execution 4DX :
- Focus on the Widely important task.
- Keep tracking your progress.
- Stay accountable to someone or something.
- Shutdown everything – take a break when you are focused not when you are distracted.
Rule#2 – Embrace Boredom
- Get rid of distracting internet.
- Take power naps.
- Enjoy the work you do.
- Find the joy or create the joy.
- To succeed with deep work you must rewire your brain to be comfortable resisting distracting stimuli.
- Meditate.
Rule#3 – Quit Social Media
- The Any-Benefit Approach – You are justified in using a network tool if you can identify any possible benefits to its use, or anything you might possibly miss out on if you don’t use it.
- The Craftsman Approach – Identify the core factor determining the success and happiness in your professional and personal life, Adopt a tool only if its positive impacts on these factors substantially outweigh its negative impacts.
- Don’t use the internet to Entertain yourself. Choose Education + Entertainment.
- If you want to get rid of the addictive pull of entertainment sites on your time and attention, give your brain a quality alternative.
Rule#4 – Drain the Shallows
- Treat shallow work with suspicion because its damage is often vastly underestimated and its importance vastly overestimated.
- Schedule every minute of your day.
- Decide in advance, what you gonna do with every minute of your day.
- Spent some time for shallow work after working deep.
Thanks for reading this post, don’t forget to share and comment your thoughts down below, Also use this link to buy the book DEEP WORK.
Have a Nice time,
Hari – Naveen 🙂