Serve something you deeply value (offering some benefit is not enough). Be the best way to use technology to serve this value (if it’s not, replace i… - Cal Newport
" "Serve something you deeply value (offering some benefit is not enough). Be the best way to use technology to serve this value (if it’s not, replace it with something better). Have a role in your life that is constrained with a standard operating procedure that specifies when and how you use it.
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About Cal Newport
Calvin C. Newport (1982-06-23–) is an American writer and computer scientist.
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Calvin Charles Newport
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In all of these examples, it’s not just the change of environment or seeking of quiet that enables more depth. The dominant force is the psychology of committing so seriously to the task at hand. To put yourself in an exotic location to focus on a writing project, or to take a week off from work just to think, or to lock yourself in a hotel room until you complete an important invention: These gestures push your deep goal to a level of mental priority that helps unlock the needed mental resources. Sometimes to go deep, you must first go big.
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