The author speech Cal Newport
No context switch
Email/Meeting/Coding
In average people check messages every 1/6 minutes
A world without Email (another book by Cal Newport)
Deep work becomes more valuable and increasingly rare.
Introduce some boredom into your life (stimulus)
productive meditation (not mindful meditation)
deep work/shallow work = ?
Morning hours is best for most deep workers.
There's even a thing in Zen, an expression in Zen, which says, hurry slowly. So when you are in a hurry, you have to move fast. How can you-- it doesn't make sense.
Hurry slowly, they tell you in Zen. How does that work? Well, it means you can act fast, but the slow, what they call slow is the conscious. You're still connected to the sense of Being, which is the conscious consciousness behind what you do. You are not lost in the hurrying.
The hurrying happens externally. But internally, you're still at rest. That's the slowly aspect of the hurry slowly. And the restful sense of being is consciousness. You're conscious, not lost in the action yet able to perform the action better than unconsciously.
Exercise Plan Aug 29, 2023
Run/Walk 40 mins Every Monday/Wednesday/Friday
Yoga 30 mins Every Monday/Wednesday/Friday
Muscle improvement 20 mins Every Monday/Wednesday/Friday
Pushups 2 set of 15 rep, 30 secs rest between
Crunch with twist 2 sets of 10 rep, 30 secs rest between
Bar raise 2 sets of 5 rep, 30 secs rest between
20 bridge 2 sets of 20 rep, 30 secs rest between
Hang 1 min
