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capping the shallow - set quotas

playing hard to reach
1) make the sender do more work by setting filters
2) do more work when you reply - "process-centric approach"

pg 210 - tend to see work hours as 'the day' - what about other hours?
"put more thought into your leisure time" not whatever that catches attention
pg 214 - mental faculties capable of continuous hard activity - only need
'change'
pg 231 - tasks can leverage your experience + return more value per time spent = Deep
tasks that does not leverage experience = Shallow

pg 202 - all activities, regardless of importance, consumes limited store of time and attention. only of you incest in high impact activities that the rewards will be substantial.

idea of 'packing party'
FOMO = 'what if I need that one day?'

pg 202 - all activities, regardless of importance, consumes limited store of time and attention. only of you incest in high impact activities that the rewards will be substantial.

To decide on the tool -
1) identify High level goal
2) consider key activities
Use these to determine whether the tool significantly & positively contribute to the most important activities
- not just few benefits but enough benefits?

Concept of power law - Law of the Vital Few aka 80/20 rule

pg 145 - ITT
pg 162 - scheduled distraction - pushing through until next session
resist switching to distractions at the slightest hint of boredom
pg 167 - work like Roosevelt - rooseveltian intensity

stock returns are volatile is largely because emotions of investing

LT expectation about future can be based on 'enterprise' and 'speculation'
- prospective yield of assets; forecasting the psychology of market

Finite amount of willpower; distractions drained the pool of willpower.
- add routines and rituals to minimise the transition
Philosophies of deep working scheduling:
- Monastic (best if you have specific goal)
- Bimodal
- Rhythmic
- Journalistic

create ritual

Idea of Myelin - to focus intensely = forcing the circuit to fire again and again

life-long period of deliberate effort
- intense conc

the 'how' - 1) your attention is focused tightly on a specific skill you're trying to improve
2) receive feedback to correct the approach to keep attention

High quality work produced = time spent x intensity of focus (pg 40)
To Batching work into long, uninterrupted stretches

Different styles to 1) take into info and 2) make decisions. There is a dominant style and a subordinate style of the opposing nature.

Some people ‘click’ because they have same/similar dominant style.