Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

by Cal Newport

Great creative minds] think like artists but work like accountants.”

“The more you try to do, the less you actually accomplish.” They elaborate that execution should be aimed at a small number of “wildly important goals.” This simplicity will help focus an organization’s energy to a sufficient intensity to ignite real results.

which claims that spending time in nature can improve your ability to concentrate.

Zeigarnik effect. This effect, which is named for the experimental work of the early-twentieth-century psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik, describes the ability of incomplete tasks to dominate our attention.

constant attention switching online has a lasting negative effect on your brain.

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