You’re either remarkable or invisible,” says Seth Godin in his 2002 bestseller, Purple Cow. - Cal Newport

Stop focusing on these little details,” it told me. “Focus instead on becoming better.

The premise of this chapter is that by cultivating a high-quality leisure life first, it will become easier to minimize low-quality digital diversions later.

If your goal is to love what you do, you must first build up “career capital” by mastering rare and valuable skills, and then cash in this capital for the traits that define great work.