For Premium subscribers, no matter how long you use. Premium accounts have access to all their historical account data and can generate yearly activity reports, while Lite accounts are limited to two weeks of data. Hello, and welcome to Get Yourself Optimized! I’m your host, Stephan Spencer, and today, I am so excited to have on the show Cal Newport. If you use multiple programs for the same project, you can put them all in the same sub-category and see your progress at a glance. I’ve been reading his book, and I’ve been really loving it-it’s called Deep Work. He also has another book, which I’ll tell you about in a minute, but let me tell you a bit more about Deep Work. It is all about how to work deeply, get in the flow, in the zone, and accomplish more in a day than you would normally accomplish in a week because we get distracted by so many things. How to concentrate without distraction is so valuable and it’s becoming like this rare skill that most people don’t have because we get just bombarded with noise information so much-so many notifications, our phone is always with us, and we’re always on call. Cal is an assistant professor of computer science at Georgetown University. He has another book, as I alluded to just a moment ago, called So Good They Can’t Ignore You, which debunks the long-held belief that follow your passion is good advice. I am actually intrigued by that statement as well. ![]() We’re going to talk about mostly Deep Work, but we might cover some stuff around his other book, So Good They Can’t Ignore You. ![]() Let’s start with what makes Deep Work so valuable because if we block out time, if we eliminate distractions, and so forth, of course, we’ll be more productive, but it’s kind of an exponential gain from my understanding. The app is also available as Chrome, Firefox and Opera extensions. I mean, it is the overlooked skill right now in our economy. Platforms: Freedom can be downloaded on Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android. The terminology The Economist used was, “Deep Work is the killer app of the knowledge economy,” so I like that phraseology. If you can do this, you can really dominate. Now, why is that true? The ability to really learn complicated things fast is very important in the ever-changing 21st century.
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