talent is not a commodity you can buy in bulk and combine to reach the needed levels: There’s a premium to being the best. - Cal Newport

First, distraction remains a destroyer of depth.

Why bother hiring a hotshot if the bulk of their time is spent doing administrative work?

to succeed with deep work you must rewire your brain to be comfortable resisting distracting stimuli. This doesn’t mean that you have to eliminate distracting behaviors; it’s sufficient that you instead eliminate the ability of such behaviors to hijack your attention. The simple strategy proposed here of scheduling Internet blocks goes a long way toward helping you regain this attention autonomy.