Cultivating a Life of Purpose with the Principle of ¨Deep Work¨

Discover the transformative power of deep work as we dissect Cal Newport's insights and apply them to a world rife with distractions. From Arnold Schwarzenegger's iconic career focus to my own forex trading odyssey, we uncover the unparalleled productivity that comes from a single-minded approach to work and how it can lead you to mastery in your field. Prepare to be inspired and learn how to prioritize tasks that propel you toward your goals, as we explore the significance of deep concentration in today's fast-paced world.

Step into my world of intense focus and high-quality results, where time and intensity of effort fuse to create exceptional work. Embrace the strategies that harness deep work's potential, despite the cultural currents pulling us towards shallow, multitasking-centric norms. I share personal tales of persistence, the surprising revelations born from pushing through challenges, and the crucial role a tidy workspace plays in mental clarity and productivity. Let's navigate together through the rituals and specific strategies that maintain deep concentration, setting the stage for a work life rich in achievement and satisfaction.

Let's not forget the unsung hero of productivity: downtime. I delve into the rejuvenating effects of stepping away from work and how strategic breaks can lead to innovation and sharpened focus. Through the stories of legendary figures like Theodore Roosevelt, we learn the benefits of clear endpoints and embracing boredom. Finally, I impart productivity strategies that integrate deep work into everyday life, ensuring that as you master your skills, you can reclaim time for what truly matters. Join me for a session that's not just about success, but about crafting a life of fulfillment and well-being.

Transcript

Speaker 1
00:00
Hi guys, my name is Fabio from the Fabio podcast Journey to Success, and welcome. Today we're going to talk about a new book. You know, I sometimes like to pick up book that people don't know so much about it, and I'm happy to see right now in in story shorts, in the app that, the app I'm using, to you know to read the summary. And I say thanks to them, of course, because this opportunity to read the summary from their writers and I will say I see here that the book is not about something that we used to talk like love, attraction or power of those, and I'm very happy about it because, see, see, actually success is not just about desire something, wish something, and then next day everything is going to be on your table. You have to put an amount of work and if you put in a focus way, in an energized way, a bunch of work during your journey, then you can actually success. So it's not only how can I say it's not only about love, attraction, or deep work, or consistency, or waking up in the morning to you know, to have more hours for yourself to achieve success. It's a combination of everything that leads you to reach your success, to lead to reach your goal. 

02:00
So introduction, let's start. Ever felt your focus dissolve into thin air every time your phone pinks Struggle to hold onto a thought as your mind flutters from one distraction to the next? It's a common situation in today's hyper digital world. But don't worry. Call new new port deep work as the answer we are all searching for. In an era dominated by relentless social media and email notifications, achieving deep focus might seem like a lot to cause, yet call new sports. Deep work advocates for the importance of such focus in navigating our information driven world. The book has two goals, pursuing two parts. In the first part, it proves that the deep work hypothesis is true. Part two is all about action. You got the theory. Now it's time to wrap your sleeves as you deep into deep works key takeaways. Get ready to unlock valuable insights on how to master your focus and boost productivity. Newport supplies scientific data and plans to help you build a productive deep working practice. About call a new port. 

03:28
Newport is professor of computer science at Georgetown University. Besides his academic work, he writes about digital technology and culture. Newport has written for the New Yorker and the New York Times. He also has a long running blog called Studio acts, which receives millions of visits a year. Newport is the author of six self improvement books, including the best selling digital minimalism. And so good. They can't ignore you. His work has been published in over 25 languages and has been featured in many national publications, including the New York Times, newport, new York, new York Times, wall Street Journal and Economist. Let's start Okay, so shot one. 

04:12
I like shallow work. Deep work increase your productivity. Deep work involves long periods of distraction, free concentration. This degree of concentration helps you push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, strengthen your skills and are hard to replicate. In effect, deep work will optimize your performance and allow you to produce at a peak level. The positive of deep work is shallow work. Deep work is about focusing on one particular task that requires intense mental effort for a long time. Shallow work is the kind of task that requires little mental effort, can be done while doing other activities. These efforts create little new value in the world and are easy to replicate. Shallow work includes answering email, checking social media and attending meetings. Shallow work can sometimes be helpful. It allows for relaxation and breaks, but the problem is when we are constantly focused on shallow tasks over more important, deep tasks. 

05:22
I just would like to stop already here. As you know, I'm a podcaster. I love this journey. I like to teach success via different situations like book I did guest host meetings, etc. I also like to find something interesting on Google to share with you and see if these things can help each other. But before that I used to do a lot of different things. One of them triggered me was the forex trading. The forex trading that I like to learn and that I got, let's say, passionate about. It was more in a deep studying way. So I understand the strategies, understand how works the risk, how works the stop loss and how much can I risk to get profit in the most safe way. 

06:36
But maybe a couple of years ago, let's say five years ago, maybe my mindset wasn't good enough to manage a certain amount of money. It didn't matter if it was a virtual money, so fake, or real. You know, something very important in the trading is how psychologically you approach with the money management. That's very important. After years I decided to take back. I decided to take back and because during these years I realized that my mindset and my money management changed a lot, of course, and because of experience because of also external things that happen in my life. So I kind of abandoned it for four years but it was still in my brain and now I took back. 

07:36
But talking about what he says shallow work, that's what I'm trying to do right now. So I really would like to be still focused with the podcast. The podcast is my thing, right, but I am also just a small note. I believe that to achieve success, you have to be focused on one task, topic by topic. If you really would like to be the leader of your environment, you have just to be focused on one thing. Once you optimize, once you are forward, once you have a certain balance right, then of course you can get passionate for something else and then you can become a leader for something else. Just think about Arnold Schwarzenegger, right? I mean, first he was focused on bodybuilding. He became the best. Then he was focused on investing and he got success. Then he became the president and before that, an actor, even if his skillset wasn't that great, you know, but it was very focused on what's an egg is a focus person on one task per time, and it did a lot. 

09:02
I like this and that's what he say when, when he talks about shallow work right, including media, attending meetings. Of course, shallow works can be something around us that we do in our daily life, but it's shallow work can also be a be focused on Different projects together, right? Of course, you cannot perform at the same, at the same level level if you are focused on just one thing. Okay, just remember this. And Talking about my trading experience that I'm having right now, so I'm really trying to be chill about it. So I'm taking a little bit, some study On YouTube when I have some spur time. Also, right now with my podcast is going very well and it's very balanced. I'm scheduling, like in a one month forward one month, one month and half, so it's perfect. But you know, it's it's still not where I want to be. So that's the reason why I'm doing this a shallow work with the trading. So, just to make you understand, and that's my advice, when you're focused on something, focus on that thing very well, and don't, you know, don't Don't spa a spiral around for something else. Try to Spread your energy for different projects at the same time. Okay, optimize what you are doing right now and then, of course, consequently, you can, you can start piano, piano, with calm, to do something else. Let's go. 

10:56
Chapter 2 deep work is valuable. Human beings, it seems, are their best when immersed deeply in something challenging. That's what he say, call Newport. Deep work is not the only skills valuable in our economy, yet it is one of the essential skills to gain. When you are in a state of deep work, your output is unique and cannot be replicated by someone else. For example, you've done something valuable if you can concentrate on writing code that's hard to duplicate. 

11:26
If you want to be a winner in the new economy, there are two core abilities. You must have the ability to learn hard things. So the ability to learn complex topics quickly will play a key rule in your attempt to master and perform any skill. You're instructors, for example. I have to master increasingly complex physical skills. To excel in medicine, you have to master the latest research. 

11:49
Deep work is the act of creating intellectual value by focusing on a con, connif, tively demanding task. It is like deliberate practice, where you are using the word to develop your skill set. It's about doing things to make your performance better and getting specific feedback. Deliberate practice has three defining features it requires a lot of effort. Focus on improving a specific part of performance and involves a repetition continually. Number two the ability to produce high quality results. To be professional at any skill, you have to master it, but it's not enough. Producing tangible results with with the knowledge you have is what matters in the end. New post, new post. Formula for producing top notch work is high. High quality work produce Time spent per intensity of focus. So High quality work produce the time that you spend for an intensity of Focus. 

13:03
Interesting quote in this new economy, three groups will have a particular Advantage those who can work well and creatively with intelligent machines, those who are the best at what they do and those with access to capital. So, yeah, right, so those who can work well, incredibly, with intelligent machines. Those were the best of what they do and that's perfect. It's beautiful, beautiful, beautiful quote. And here is about what I, what I said before, right, so if you're focused on one thing, you can Master it. 

13:38
Going back to my experience, right, that's not the first time that I open a podcast, maybe it's the Second, well, second time, for sure, but maybe the third. Not to think about it, I think was, yes, I open the podcast twice, but the first time that I opened the subscription with With the website both sprouts. Then I decide to to stop for a while, to put in break, and then I cancelled Because I was focused on on something else, because I was more like, yeah, okay, it's not going as I wished, so it's. But if I look something else, that kind of though, it's very bad. It's something that most of us have it when we try to achieve a certain goal, a certain success, and and we start to be frustrating. Right, the truth is that if you go forward, you can, you can discover something that you, you wouldn't, you would never, you would never discovered if you would have stopped. I don't know if you understood this with my broken English, but just go forward. Go forward because in this way you can discover something that you would never imagine if you stopped before. Right and yeah, and then you can master whatever you are doing to achieve success. 

15:22
Chapter 3, deep Work is Rare. Being expected to read and respond quickly to email is an example of distracting behavior in the workplace, but is being constantly connected the workplace particularly helpful. Our business school professor, leslie Perlow, found that professionals spend more than 20 hours a week monitoring emails. They believed it was necessary to answer an email within an hour of its arrival. This time spent checking email is a waste of potential time that you can apply to more crucial tasks instead. Ultimately, a tendency to check emails reduces our well-being and productivity. But we don't need this culture of connectivity in the workplace. Workplace behavior and culture can encourage unproductive activities like constant monitoring of emails. 

16:20
Newport describes three main minds that have pushed businesses away from Deep Work. The principle of less resistance when we don't get feedback on the impact of different behaviors will do what's easiest. So when we don't get feedback on the impact of different behaviors, we'll do what's easiest Like wow, I'm anticipating these things. I'm actually happy about it. We are in a good track. Business as a proxy for productivity. A lack of clear productivity indicators can lead to decent productivity behaviors. As a result, many knowledge workers will turn toward an industrial productivity indicator visibly doing many things. It can seem crucial to convince yourself and others that you are doing well if you are using business as a proxy. Third, the cult of the Internet. Technopoly happens when new technology is assumed to be good without considering trade-offs. Deep Work requires rejecting high-tech distractions, but popular trends promise increased exposure, certain DPT and fast responses. 

17:36
Chapter 4 Deep Work is Mingful. What we pay attention to shapes our world, so consider the type of mental world constructed when you dedicate significant time to deep end-of-war. Suppose you can cultivate deep focus at your work. In that case, this will prevent you from noticing the many smaller, less pleasant tasks that unavoidably populate your life. Jobs are actually easier to enjoy than your free time. Newport points out that jobs have built-in goals, feedback, rules and challenges, just like flow activities. Each of these features encourages you to become involved in your work, concentrate and lose yourself in the moment. Free time, in contrast, is unstructured. Free time requires much greater effort to be enjoyable. Embracing deep work in your career and directing towards cultivating your skills will need effort. It's a great way to turn work tasks from a drudgery into something fun. Newport described this transformation as a portal to a world full of shining, wondrous experiences. The Deep Work Hypothesis the ability to perform a deep work is becoming increasingly rare. At exactly the same time, it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. As a consequence, the few who cultivate this skill and then make it the core of their working life will thrive. 

19:04
Called Newport, anyway, this is very interesting because it is true honestly. So I'm a goal-oriented person and going back again to what I'm doing right now with the forex. I mean I could rest. I could easily say you know what with the podcast? I'm happy, I'm doing good, let's rest, let's do. You know, one of my patients is to play with the PlayStation. You know I could have more time in this way to dedicate something in a chilly way, but I don't. It looks like that my brain, or whatever it is in this case, it looks like get more positive, vibe, energy, adrenaline to achieve something else. It looks like it's easier than do nothing. Okay, it is not at the end, because we have to study indirectly, directly study, develop new skills, but somehow we tend to only the fact to think that we have to achieve another goal. So to have that kind of satisfaction give us the right momentum to go forward for another project. 

20:42
Chapter five the first rule of deep work is to work deeply. Deep work is essential, but focusing on your work will never be without distractions. Your prioritized tasks will suffer if you are constantly checking emails and notifications. Of course, it's same email and notification. We are talking about these new era guys, about not even Facebook anymore, let's say Instagram, tiktok and so on. We fight the sirens all day long. 

21:13
A recent study showed that our top five desires comprise taking a break from hard work, checking our emails and social networking sites, surfing the web, listen to music and watching television. So let's see again Taking a break from hard work, checking our emails and social network sites, surfing the web, listen to music and watching television. This study suggests the importance of adopting specific strategies to reinforce your deep work, to cultivate a deep work ritual. Consider where you work and for how long. Your ritual needs to specify a location for your deep work efforts. This location can be as simple as your regular office, with the door shut and the desk clean. 

22:00
Good is right. When my room is tidy, especially the table is more tidy, in a right order, I can work better. I can work better. Looks like the external confusion unpacked my brain. It looks like whatever I have around me goes inside my brain. You know? So I cannot. I cannot separate the two things. Somehow, if I see that my desk is is not tidy, somehow I can feel the heaviness of my untidy desk in my brain, even if I close my eyes. That's very important and it's very important to be focused. That's the reason also why in a yoga right In a yoga and meditation, every guru suggests to be in a different room that you don't use to touch in the house Okay, that's not for everyone, unfortunately but at least a room where it's clean, tidy, without distraction, because if you see a little bit of distraction then you know you can. 

23:33
You can be more unfocused. That is the reason why I'm a person who likes to do. I used to do yoga. Now unfortunately, I stopped. I have to start again. But I used to do yoga with books, no distraction around me. I'm very against about yoga and meditation, the one they teach you from the TV, not because I'm against for the people who like to teach yoga from it, but simply because only the fact that I'm watching the TV can give some stress to the body. Right, and that's kind of the same concept. 

24:20
Number two consider what approach to work you'll take once you start working. To keep your reach of structure, you need rules and processes. For example, you might institute a ban on any internet use. You could also aim to maintain a metric like words produced per 20 minutes interval to keep your concentration on and here you know we can mention the, the tomato strategy, maybe something that we can do in the next episode. Number three consider how you support your work. Your reach needs to ensure your brain gets support to keep operating at a high level of depth. For example, your habit reach could include starting your working day with a cup of good coffee. This coffee should help quicken the speed at which your brain wakes up. You must ensure you have access to nutritious food to maintain your energy. Finally, consider integrating light exercise, such as a walking, into your working routine. Exercise can help keep your mind clear. So another quote to learn hard things quickly, you must focus intensely without distraction. Decide on your depth philosophy. You need your own philosophy working to integrating deep work into your professional life. Let's explore four unique strategies for deep work. 

25:49
Monastic philosophy Imagine shutting out distractions. No social media pinks or unnecessary meetings, just you, your workspace and your task. That's how some academics, writers and self-managed individuals make magic happen. By minimizing shallow obligations, they create an sector for uninterrupted, high concentration work. And something that I really would like to mention this era where we live is so much full of distraction. Even if we have the potential to live up a medium average of 80 or so old, 80, 83, we still don't actually whatever we want to do in our life. That's so unbelievable. I mean, if you think about all the leader before us, right, I'm talking about 100 years ago, right, but no, even we have not to go so much far anyway. Or even if we can go up to Alexander Mannum, you know what I mean? I don't know. 

27:03
People used to achieve so many great things in around 10, 15 years of their life, and that's crazy. And the reason is because there were not so many distraction around them. And I mean now we are so distracted about it. Right, we used to say this phrase also myself I have no time, I have no time, but okay, sometimes it's justifies that we don't have time. But it's not always like that, even if we think it's like that. And when happens, it's just because maybe we have been too much distract with Instagram scrolling down for one hour and we don't realize that was one hour and no five minutes. And maybe after Instagram, and maybe we go to YouTube and then we go to watch some I don't know some, the longest TV show ever and whatever you know, like, of course, we have a lot of distraction around us. We have no to feel guilty about it If we enjoy. I mean, I'm not that tough, I'm not that strong with with my, maybe with myself I am, I don't know but I mean I'm not the strong with the people who like to enjoy the life in that way if they like to enjoy. But please realize just that this distraction puts you out from a focus situation for something that you can realize, that you could realize in the fastest way, but you can't. You can't just because you have to manage the structure around you right. 

28:57
So, number two the model philosophy. Picture your week split into two distinct helps. One part is for deep, immersive work, the other half is for everything else. You may reserve a Monday through Wednesday for focus tasks and let the rest of the week handle other responsibilities. Number three rhythmic philosophy. This approach turns deep working through regular and broken habit. You aim to tackle the task every single day, creating a rhythm that becomes second nature. It's like brushing your teeth Instead of fighting cavities. You are cultivating consistency and progress, something that I'm doing right now. I am waking up early, around six o'clock. It doesn't matter. Doesn't matter what I have to do, doesn't matter if I achieve most of the things that I had to do. I realized that there is always something that I can do If I wake up at six o'clock. This helps me better to master everything that I have in my brain. It can be also just, let's say, take off the plates from the dishwasher, from the dishwasher machine. If you do that in an early morning, then it looks like you truly have a lot of time in front of you. Then you can really enjoy your time with the distraction that you want to have around your life. 

30:37
Number four journalistic philosophy. Here, use lot in deep work whenever you schedule all those. This method demands a high level of mental discipline to switch between modes. For the disciplined mind, the switching from shallow to deep mode is ineffective too, although it is not recommended for beginners. That's what I'm trying to say. In his opinion it's not recommended for beginners. But you can decide or switch, be focused on something. Then, once you did whatever you had to do to achieve a certain goal, then you can, let's say, enjoy your life in a distraction and use distractions, things around your life. In his opinion it's not recommended for beginners, I guess, simply because to be focused, to be consistently focused on a certain thing, maybe can request a lot of energy and maybe after a while you can break. In his opinion, I think the true is a little bit deep. It depends what you do. It depends what you like. If you're focused on something that you really enjoy, you really like, it doesn't matter. These things give you energy. But, as I said, it's a nice book. 

32:04
This is a summary. Who knows, maybe if we read the book maybe there is something more behind. But what he suggests is this be focused 20 minutes for something, then do something else. I think this I didn't mention, but it looks like the tomato, as I mentioned before, looks like the tomato thing. Be focused for 20 minutes and I think the minutes break or something like that. 

32:34
I don't. I have to try out. I have to say I don't. I like the strategy. I know it works. My fans say you use it a lot of times, but I'm more personal. I like to be focused prior whatever I have to do, even if this make me look like I am stronger or tough from my environment side. But for me it works better. But, as I say, the strategy to be focused on 20 minutes and then have some minutes break I'll work for a lot of people and I suggest also for you. So just try out. I have to say I never. I think I try out something like that. That tomato strategy is or not? Maybe I have the feeling I did, maybe a couple of times, but I don't know. I have to experiment again. Who knows, maybe I discover something that can help you to achieve my goal. I never say no. 

33:46
Chapter 6, to work deeply. You must separate life and work. You should also inject regular and substantial freedom from professional concerns into your day. For example, try to avoid worrying about work matters when you are not working. These worries will ruin your well-being and only handle your working hours. When you return to work, you will feel tired and stressed. By providing yourself with idleness during your no-work hours, you can get more work done At the end of the workday. Shut down your consideration of work issue until the following day. Yeah, it's easy to talk. I mean, it's hard. So it depends on your behavior, right? So you should never check your emails after your dinner. Also, you should not reply work conversations or plan for your upcoming working week. Shut down completely and enjoy your extension time. 

34:44
Down time and having clear endpoint to your workday can significantly improve your work performance in three ways. Number one downtime facilitates insights. These show that unconscious mind is better at solving complex problems than the conscious mind. The implication is that if you let your conscious brain rest, you empower your unconscious mind to sort through your most complex professional problems. Number two downtime helps recharge the energy needed to work deeply. Spending time in nature or looking at nature since helps people concentrate, it's true. You can restore your ability to focus your attention if you give the activity a break. A small note I don't remember where I read, but the advice to have a picture, a frame of nature thing, on your wall, especially if you live in a busy environment around you, especially if your house is full of triggers like building and cars. So that's something that I read already. 

35:55
Number three the work that even downtime replaces rarely matters much. You are limited in the amount of deep work you can do per day. It's true, if you're careful about your schedule, you should hit your daily deep work capacity during the day. So by evening you are past the point where you can continue to work deeply and effectively. So you won't be doing high-value work at night. Instead it'll be low-value, shallow work that takes a long time. 

36:20
All right, who knows? That is the reason why a lot of people like to say that it's better to be focused on morning and wake up earlier. I like to wake up earlier because who I am Generally, since I remember I used to be focused better in the morning, but I'm focused better in the morning and in the evening I don't used to be so much focused, but I know someone is very focused on the evening as well and maybe likes to sleep in the morning. You know what I mean. So I don't know if it's a subjective thing. I don't know. He talks in an objective way. Maybe there is a study about it. I don't know. We have to investigate a little bit. It can be interesting. But the thing to wake up early in the morning I really thought was something more subjective and know if you think about it. Probably because, anyway, where you wake up, you didn't see, you didn't get any triggers or any trigger around you. The trigger can affect you during the day and in the evening. So it's possible that in the evening you are ready to much tighter to do the deep work. So it makes sense what he said. Okay, good brainstorming, good brainstorming. 

37:59
Number seven. The second rule is to embrace boredom. The first rule teaches us how to integrate deep work into our schedule and support with routines and rituals. These routines are rituals designed to help you consistently reach the current limit of your ability to concentrate. The second rule will help significantly improve this limit. You should learn to live without distractions. Once you are wired for distraction, you crave it. To succeed with deep work, you must rely your brain to resist distracting stimuli. This doesn't mean that you have to cut distracting behaviors. Instead, it is enough that you instead drop the ability of such behaviors to hijack your attention. The ability to concentrate intensely is a skill we must learn. Taking care of your concentration is just as important as taking care of your body. It's hard to focus if you give into distractions at the first sign of boredom in your daily life. 

38:59
Theodore Roosevelt is an example of an individual who adopted similar strategy to new ports an identified task that's high on your priority list. Estimate how long you usually put aside for an obligation of this type. Then give yourself a hard deadline that drastically reduces this time estimation. If possible, commit publicly to the deadline. For example, you could tell the person who will receive the finished project when they should expect it. If this isn't possible, motivate yourself by setting a countdown timer on your phone and propping it up where you can't avoid recognizing it as you work. 

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At this point, there should be only one way to get the deep task done in time working with great intensity. You won't be able to take email breaks, dream browse Instagram or go to the coffee machine too often. You should attack the task with every free neuron, like Roosevelt. If you commit to true intensity, your task will give way under your relentless barrage of concentration. Start by trying this experiment only once a week. This will give you brain practice with intensity, but also give you time to rest between tasks. Once you feel confident in your ability to trade concentration for a competition time, you can increase the frequency. 

40:17
That's beautiful, nice, good, great. But I don't know. It also depends person by person. In my case, I can be focused and can be concentrated. I can be goal oriented, but if something happen around me, who knows, maybe that's the reason why I like to prefer the morning to be focused on my things instead of choosing the evening. If something happen around me, I can shut down. I cannot be focused to do anything else. I'm going to make an example to you. 

41:07
I think happened yesterday, right. So I was doing my things here in my room and everything. But my fiance woke up and she woke up a little bit upset because evidently I wasn't careful with the doors. I wasn't careful with the doors around me. In her opinion I wasn't so much careful, but I justifies myself because the house well, we're living in a new house now and of course, we are both of us a little bit clumsy it's normal to before to achieve a proper balance. She was a little upset. I was trying to defend myself, to give my motivation, whatever. That's not the point. Anyway, everything was fine after 30 minutes, one hour. So it's not about the discussion itself. What I'm trying to say is that I had to also record an episode, but it didn't do In that hour. I didn't do. 

42:17
I was too much triggered about the thing that happened around me and I know that I have to improve this skill. It's very important. I don't know if improving this skill become less. You, I'm very sensitive person, a person who likes to sense the feelings around me. I think also it's important to feel, to brainstorm, to listen your body, your brain about what happened in your life, when something happened in your life. Maybe there is a fight, maybe there is some unfortunate things you can process not process, sorry but you can think straight away about what happened around you and sometimes works, because I mean, when you try to process about what happened, you can find also some solution. In my opinion, it sometimes doesn't work because maybe you are so much upset that working that moment it's not very beneficial, you know. But long story short, I cannot shut down this continuum brainstorm with myself when something around me happened so interesting. Everybody say it's very interesting. But it also depends how we approach this kind of triggered, because if we cannot really put it in a break, then we have to find another solution, maybe breathe in and breathe out a little bit before to continue to our project. Maybe it's better After 8,. 

44:37
The third rule of deep work is to quit social media Living and distract the majority. To join a focused minority is a transformative experience. Not everyone can live a deep life. It will take a lot of effort and change in your habits. The full sense of business that comes from quick email messaging and social media posting provides a sense of security for many. But the deep life requires you to leave most of that behind. When you try to produce your best, you are confronted with the possibility that it isn't the crate, at least not yet. It's safer to make observations about our culture than to enter the Rose-Veltian ring and try to rest it into a better state. 

45:24
Newport covers this topic deeply in one of his famous TED talks. He argues social media has been addictive since it was first introduced years ago. We increasingly recognize that these tools fragment our time and reduce our ability to concentrate. Our will power is limited those. The more anti-sign tools you have pulling at your attention, the harder it will be to focus on something important. Based on this, to master the art of deep work, you must take back control of your time and attention from the many diversions that attempt to steal them, something we say. We talk about it before guys. So of course, you can be distracted from these things whatever you are doing in your life, but be aware about it, otherwise they're gonna steal your time. 

46:16
You should create social media installation Mind yourself from all social networks. This includes Facebook, instagram, twitter, snapchat and TikTok. And you know what is a funny thing? I actually work for Meta. I'm a foodcaster, but right now I'm still working on Meta with my job. So it's gonna be very hard to quit social media. Well, I have to say I'm not a social media fan, so I've never been, if I have to be honest. I tried to do something on Instagram once ago but, you know, tried to find a shortcut but it didn't work and I'm happy for it. I tried to be a lot on Facebook to build some community for an affiliate marketing sometime ago, something that fortunately didn't work. I say didn't work because you know, shortcuts are never good guys. If you find a shortcut, then you will never learn what you could have learned during the way, in the normal street, in a normal way. So very happy for that. Anyway, even if I work for Meta, I'm not a social media fan, but it just made me a little bit tough. 

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You do not have to delete your accounts permanently, but you should start by deleting the apps for 30 days. Importantly, you should also avoid mentioning online that you'll be signing off. Instead, stop using the social media platforms altogether. Ask yourself these two questions after 30 days of self-imposed network isolation, would the last 30 days have been notably better if I had used the service? True, these people care. I wasn't using the service. If your answer is no to both questions, quit the service permanently. If your answer was a clear yes, they return to you in the service. If your answers are qualified or ambiguous, it's up to you. Whatever you return to the service, but I always lean towards quitting. By adopting this approach, you'll spend less time on important procrastination, wow. So the question is would the last 30 days have been notably better if I had used this service? In my case, I would say no, simply because right now, I'm using truly Instagram to post my weekly podcast. Well, as I said, I work for Meta, so unfortunately, I cannot cancel at least Facebook and Instagram. But regardless of that, let's be honest, I don't even share any more my stories about what I do or no, even vacations sometimes. So about Facebook, right now, I'm just canceling a lot of people to make space for people who are really interested about the podcast. So, hey, I can keep. It looks like Number nine. 

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The fourth rule of deep work is to drain the shallows. Guys, this book is amazing. The shallows by Nicholas Carr is the title of a book about how the internet affects our brains and lives. Shallow works, such as an answering emails and going to meetings, is often inevitable but ultimately low value. You must drain the shallows. 

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If you're serious about working deeply, you must schedule time for deep work and spend as little time as possible on shallow work. Don't let shallow work impede deep work. This is how Newport suggests you accomplish this. Divide the hours of your workday into blocks and assign activities to the blocks. For example, you might block off from 9am to 11am for writing a client's press release. To fully engage with this approach, draw a box covering the line corresponding to these hours. Then, inside the box, write press release. The smallest length of a block should be 30 minutes. When you're done scheduling your day, every minute should be part of a block. You have given every minute of your workday job. Now, as you go through your day, use this schedule to guide you. Quite often your schedule will get interrupted, so make sure you revise your plan. 

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Oh, deep work. Final summary and review. We finished the summary, guys. Yeah, nice. So deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a connevately, demanding task. Outer and professor call Newport Coin Determiners. Popular Blogs, study Hex. 

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Deep work lets you achieve more than last time. It provides a sense of fulfillment that comes from the mastery of a skill. In short, deep work is like a superpower in an increasingly competitive economy. Deep work is rare and requires discipline to maintain. It's also meaningful bringing satisfaction and engagement to your career. Adopt a deep work ritual, choose a deep work philosophy that suits you and ensure you separate work from relaxation time. 

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For optimal results, to maximize productive work, follow these four rules. First, work deeply. Second, embrace boredom. Third, quit social media. Fourth, drain the shallow. Tap into these four disciplines of execution for the acts to achieve exceptional results. First, pinpoint what's widely important. That's your focus. Make it your mission. Action is key. This is the second point. Action is key, but not an action. It's about the lead measures. These are the activities that will drive your success. 

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Number three don't forget to keep score. An interesting scoreboard keeps you motivated and on track, just as more not. Do you remember when we talked about? It's important to have a big goal in your brain, but it's like a mainland. But it's also important to imagine yourself swing on the ocean before to achieve the mainland, to imagine yourself around you with small islands, before to achieve success. When you reach the mainland, you have to imagine yourself Before to achieve success. Before to reach the big island, you have to imagine yourself having some break and congratulate yourself to reach the first island First, then the second, the third, the fourth, because it's a long journey. Guys, it's a really long journey, but you need to also understand that you are making some effort and also you are going forward, even if sometimes you don't realize. So I don't know. It's important to understand that you're doing great. But, as you say, they say something very nice Don't forget to keep score. It's kind of like a sail like. Just imagine the small islands in front of you before the mainland. So very enough, let's go forward. 

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Number four establish a routine of accountability, with regular check-ins, updates and adjustments. Celebrate your wins, learn from your losses and keep pushing forward. We hope this key takeaways act as your roadmap. This summary will help you stay focused, transform your work life and boost your memory. It's time to bid farewell to logistical style tasks and leave shallow work behind. As you journey towards a more focused and productive view, remember to share your triumphs, and this and the book is actually done. We have also some infographic here. Deep work, deep work quotes, beautiful Relate book summaries. Guys, of course I advise this book and Okay, sorry, I was distracted talking about the focus things. 

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No, I was distracted because I was thinking story shots. It's a very great app. I was actually thinking that. So they're doing a great job to make summaries and they did a great job for this book. So, just saying app, it's free, I mean it's good app. Of course, if you like, you know to not have ads, to have more advantage than there is something to pay, like 3 for your per month, something like that, or 60 euro as a lifetime subscription very great. And no, do it because it's great app. And talking about the book, I loved it. It was a beautiful book, beautiful book, and I don't know like it made a lot of sense also about what we used to say in this podcast. 

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I mean, yes, dream is important. Yes, imagine yourself. You know, with the right In the position that you wish to be is important. With the right mindset, with the right energy, everything is great, everything is good. But of course, you have to work. You have to work and, especially at the start, you have to work harder than usual. After a while, when you master a lot of skills, when you master the right skill that can lead you to achieve your goal, then you can realize that you can work smarter than other Because you are mastering a lot of skills so you can optimize your time better, and then somehow you're gonna realize that you have still more time for yourself, but at the start. 

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But this doesn't. How can I say? It doesn't really matter about what we talk about the book, I mean, you still have to be focused. So, even if you work more smart than other, still you have to be focused. But the thing that I try to say is that at the start you have to dedicate a bunch of time and it's better if you are very focused, especially at the start. Otherwise you are gonna make longer hours and then you're gonna reach the evening in a stressful and tiring way, and we don't want that. That's the reason why it's very important to be focused. 

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There are different strategies and the writer advised something very beautiful, very nice. So try this strategy to be focused for 20 minutes, 10 minutes. It didn't mention 10 minutes. I don't know if it was. Maybe the writer didn't think about the tomato strategy, or maybe it was just the person who was making the summary, but try this tomato strategy, something that, as I said before, I don't used to do, but I know that it works for a lot of people. It works also with my fiancé and I can see the results. So 20 minutes work, the minutes break and yeah, and this, and next time we're gonna talk about this tomato strategy, because I saw it in this app. David, in the summary, thank you so much for being here in the Fabio Podcast and see you next time. Cheers.