All it takes is an ideology seductive enough to convince you to discard common sense. - Cal Newport

To learn hard things quickly, you must focus intensely without distraction. To learn, in other words, is an act of deep work.

By accepting an assistant position he threw himself into the center of the action, where he could find out how things actually work.

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. This