Comments on: Knowledge Workers are Bad at Working (and Here’s What to Do About It…)

By: (Hard) Practice makes better | Shifting Phases

(Hard) Practice makes better | Shifting Phases — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 01:40:27 +0000

[...] Michael Pershan kicked my butt recently with a post about why teachers tend to plateau in skill after their third year, connecting it to Cal Newport’s ideas such as “hard practice” (and, I would argue, “deep work“). [...]

By: Sapan

Sapan — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:45:32 +0000

Totally agreed, sometimes it is necessary to cut off all hooks and concentrate although it’s pretty hard! But when I look back, those have been really productive!

By: Study Hacks » Blog Archive » How to Write Six Important Papers a Year without Breaking a Sweat: The Deep Immersion Approach to Deep Work

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:41:00 +0000

[...] thought into these issues — there was one strategy that caught my attention: he confines his deep work to long, uninterrupted [...]

By: Knowledge Workers Are Bad at Working | The Ten of Swords

Knowledge Workers Are Bad at Working | The Ten of Swords — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:04:07 +0000

[...] Knowledge Workers Are Bad at Working [...]

By: Study Hacks » Blog Archive » Prioritizing Deep Thought in a Distracted World: A Case Study

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:20:57 +0000

[...] a big supporter of deep work. People often ask, however, how to fit this type of persistent concentration into a fractured [...]

By: Study Hacks » Blog Archive » You Need to Master the Rules Before You Can Reinvent Them

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:10:30 +0000

[...] research idea bouncing around, so when I saw the deadline approach, I hunkered down for a week of deep work to pull together a [...]

By: Getting with the Program

Getting with the Program — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 06:17:39 +0000

[...] me, I went to Cal Newport’s blog called Study Hacks to read more. I found an article called Knowledge Workers are Bad at Working (and Here’s What to Do About It…) where I read up on the topic to get a better understanding of the discussion they were having on [...]

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Weekly List Bookmarks (weekly) | Eccentric Eclectica @ ToddSuomela.com — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:39:07 +0000

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By: “Write Every Day” is Bad Advice: Hacking the Psychology of Big Projects | Everyth1ng

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:55:30 +0000

[...] over the past few months has been trying to increase the amount of time I spend engaged in deep work related to my academic [...]

By: Getting (Unremarkable) Things Done: The Problem With David Allen’s Universalism | Everyth1ng

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:54:53 +0000

[...] real value requires deep work, which is a fundamentally different activity than knocking off organizational [...]