Deep Work Quotes

“Si queremos triunfar, debemos producir lo mejor que nuestras capacidades nos permitan producir: se trata de una labor que requiere trabajo profundo.”
― Cal Newport, Céntrate (Deep Work): Las cuatro reglas para el éxito en la era de la distracción

“Asimismo, una persona que trabajaba en el área del marketing en los años noventa quizá no imaginó que hoy debe tener sólidos conocimientos en análisis digital. Por lo tanto, para seguir siendo valiosos en nuestra economía, es necesario que dominemos el arte de aprender rápidamente cosas complicadas. Esta labor exige un trabajo profundo. Si no cultivamos esta aptitud, nos quedaremos atrás conforme vaya avanzando la tecnología.”
― Cal Newport, Céntrate (Deep Work): Las cuatro reglas para el éxito en la era de la distracción

“Hacker News”
― Cal Newport, Céntrate (Deep Work): Las cuatro reglas para el éxito en la era de la distracción

“The Intellectual Life, “Men of genius themselves were great only by bringing all their power to bear on the point on which they had decided to show their full measure.” Ericsson couldn’t have said it better.)”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“Irónicamente, es más fácil disfrutar el trabajo que el tiempo libre, porque —como ocurre en las actividades donde hay estado de flujo— el trabajo implica metas, reglas y retos. Todo ello contribuye a que uno se involucre en el trabajo, se concentre en él y se deje llevar. El tiempo libre, en cambio, es desestructurado y se requiere un mayor esfuerzo para darle una forma que nos produzca satisfacción.18”
― Cal Newport, Céntrate (Deep Work): Las cuatro reglas para el éxito en la era de la distracción

“attention residue.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“For example, you might institute a ban on any Internet use,”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“How you’ll work once you start to work.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“Where you’ll work and for how long.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“most out of your deep work sessions, build rituals of the same level of strictness and idiosyncrasy as the important thinkers mentioned previously.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“How you’ll support your work.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“flow activities.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“(the phrases used by Csikszentmihalyi to describe what generates flow include notions of stretching your mind to its limits, concentrating, and losing yourself in an activity—all of which also describe deep work).”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“If you give your mind something meaningful to do throughout all your waking hours, you’ll end the day more fulfilled, and begin the next one more relaxed, than if you instead allow your mind to bathe for hours in semiconscious and unstructured Web surfing. To summarize, if you want to eliminate the addictive pull of entertainment sites on your time and attention, give your brain a quality alternative.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“En el prefacio se cita el credo del picapedrero medieval: «Nosotros, cuyo oficio es cortar simples piedras, debemos tener siempre en mente las catedrales».”
― Cal Newport, Céntrate (Deep Work): Las cuatro reglas para el éxito en la era de la distracción

“entrenched companies are often unexpectedly dethroned by start-ups that begin with cheap offerings at the low end of the market, but then, over time, improve their cheap products just enough to begin to steal high-end market share. Grove recognized that Intel faced this threat from low-end processors produced by upstart companies like AMD and Cyrix.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“The science writer Winifred Gallagher stumbled onto a connection between attention and happiness after an unexpected and terrifying event, a cancer diagnosis—“not just cancer,” she clarifies, “but a particularly nasty, fairly advanced kind.” As Gallagher recalls in her 2009 book Rapt, as she walked away from the hospital after the diagnosis she formed a sudden and strong intuition: “This disease wanted to monopolize my attention, but as much as possible, I would focus on my life instead.” The cancer treatment that followed was exhausting and terrible, but Gallagher couldn’t help noticing, in that corner of her brain honed by a career in nonfiction writing, that her commitment to focus on what was good in her life—“movies, walks, and a 6:30 martini”—worked surprisingly well. Her life during this period should have been mired in fear and pity, but it was instead, she noted, often quite pleasant. Her curiosity piqued, Gallagher set out to better understand the role that attention—that is, what we choose to focus on and what we choose to ignore—plays in defining the quality of our life. After five years of science reporting, she came away convinced that she was witness to a “grand unified theory” of the mind: Like fingers pointing to the moon, other diverse disciplines from anthropology to education, behavioral economics to family counseling, similarly suggest that the skillful management of attention is the sine qua non of the good life and the key to improving virtually every aspect of your experience.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“This compressed schedule is possible because I’ve invested significant effort to minimize the shallow in my life while making sure I get the most out of the time this frees up. I build my days around a core of carefully chosen deep work, with the shallow activities I absolutely cannot avoid batched into smaller bursts at the peripheries of my schedule. Three to four hours a day, five days a week, of uninterrupted and carefully directed concentration, it turns out, can produce a lot of valuable output.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“There are many ways to discover that you’re not valuable in our economy. For Jason
Benn the lesson was made clear when he realized, not long after taking a job as a
financial consultant, that the vast majority of his work responsibilities could be
automated by a “kludged together” Excel script.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“Spend enough time in a state of frenetic shallowness and you permanently
reduce your capacity to perform deep work.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“Shallow Work: Noncognitively demanding, logistical-style tasks, often performed while distracted.
These efforts tend to not create much new value in the world and are easy to replicate.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“you don’t produce, you won’t thrive—no matter how skilled or talented you are.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“this thirty-day experiment”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“The thesis of this final chapter in part one therefore is that "a deep life is not just economically lucrative but also a life well lived”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“Another issue muddying the connection between depth and meaning in knowledge work is the cacophony of voices attempting to convince knowledge workers to spend more time engaged in shallow activities.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“It does not make them illegal. It does not make them immoral. It does not even make them unpopular. It makes them invisible and therefore irrelevant.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“Según declaran los autores de The 4 Disciplines of Execution, «cuanto más queremos abarcar, menos logramos hacer».”
― Cal Newport, Céntrate (Deep Work): Las cuatro reglas para el éxito en la era de la distracción

“Algo que observé en estas entrevistas es que los mejores alumnos muchas veces estudiaban menos que el grupo inmediatamente inferior en los promedios ponderados de las calificaciones. Una de las explicaciones para este fenómeno es la fórmula enunciada anteriormente: los mejores estudiantes comprenden cuál es el papel que desempeña la intensidad y, por lo tanto, maximizan su concentración. De esta manera, disminuyen drásticamente el tiempo de preparación para los exámenes o la redacción de los ensayos, sin disminuir la calidad de los resultados.”
― Cal Newport, Céntrate (Deep Work): Las cuatro reglas para el éxito en la era de la distracción

“Las tecnologías avanzan a toda velocidad, pero muchas de nuestras habilidades, así como diversas organizaciones, se están quedando atrás.»6Para muchos trabajadores, este atraso es sinónimo de malas noticias. Las máquinas inteligentes son cada vez mejores y la diferencia entre las capacidades del hombre y de la máquina se está acortando. Por eso, los empleadores prefieren conseguir «nuevas máquinas» en lugar de «nuevos empleados». A veces el trabajo solo puede hacerlo un humano, pero los avances en las comunicaciones y la tecnología de colaboración están facilitando más que nunca el trabajo a distancia, con lo cual las compañías prefieren «tercerizar» las funciones principales y asignárselas a las estrellas del ramo, lo que deja sin empleo a los trabajadores locales.”
― Cal Newport, Céntrate (Deep Work): Las cuatro reglas para el éxito en la era de la distracción

“Un estudio llevado a cabo en 2012 por McKinsey descubrió que un trabajador promedio del conocimiento dedica más del 60 % de sus horas laborales a la comunicación electrónica y a la búsqueda por internet. Cerca del 30 % del tiempo lo usa exclusivamente para leer y responder correos electrónicos.11”
― Cal Newport, Céntrate (Deep Work): Las cuatro reglas para el éxito en la era de la distracción