Mental
Is busyness actually making you worse at your job?
There's a difference between being busy and doing work that actually matters. Cal Newport argues that most knowledge workers spend their days in a state of shallow work: emails, meetings, quick replies, small tasks. It feels productive. It isn't.
Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don't simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction.— Cal Newport, *Deep Work*
The full breakdown — the context, the shift, and a question to sit with — opens in the Insights app.
The thinker
Computer Scientist & Productivity Author
Cal Newport is a Georgetown computer science professor and bestselling author of Deep Work and A World Without Email, known for his research on focused work and digital minimalism.
Based on Cal Newport — Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, summarised and reframed by Insights.
Read the full idea in InsightsFree on iPhone · Download Insights