Takeaways from "Deep Work"

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport  

   This book is about mastering the difficult skills, acquiring knowledge efficiently, or producing a better product with a deep working method. In his book, Cal Newport highlights the importance of deep working style with the examples and shows how to implement it in a study, craft making, or any other mental work. I highly recommend this book, you may find it here.
   Some of my lessons from the book are:

1. If you want to have an advantage in current society, make sure you have one of these things below. 
• Have an excellent skill with working complex technology. 
• Have top level expertise in your field.
• Have access to capital. 
2. To learn complex subjects or acquire the hard skills efficiently, we need to work with a focus and deep concentration. High quality work comes from the time spent multiplied the level of focus intensity.
3. Deliberate practice (engagement with the subject for long and non-stop hours) and distraction-free focus helps our brain to learn the knowledge better in a shorter time.
• Myelin is a fatty tissue around the axons, it speeds up the transmission of nerve impulses. An extended period of distraction-free practice or work with a task at hand improves myelination process that is our brain works much better with a given task.
4. Knowledge work can be categorized into deep work and shallow work types.
• In a deep work, one should intensely focus on the task, eliminating all kind of distractions. It provides a high achievement and expertise on a skill that one is trying to acquire.  
• Shallow work is the opposite of deep work, a working method with more distractions and less focus. This type of work may not give an expected result at a given time.
5. Deep work is a skill that can be developed. Implement below practices.
• Allocate time to work.
• Set a time limit or the number of items to finish.
• Stay away from all kind of distractions (Internet, phone, people, etc.).
• Know to stop entirely from your task after finishing it. 
• Make a habit of your work process.
6. Deep work provides a better focus and an excellent problem-solving ability and gives more freedom. Three hours full engagement with the task might be equal to eight hours of work that completed with distractions and negligence.

You will find more other good ideas in this book.
Thank you for reading!