The green boxes are starting points and ending points for topics.

Pick 3 of the activities below to complete and comment your reflection at the bottom of this padlet!

What is your understanding of deep work?

What aspects of this lesson do you think would be beneficial to add into your routine?

How do you plan on implementing something you learned in this lesson into your study/work routine moving forward?

The Apps/Programs listed are available if you would like to keep track of your shallow and deep work.

1. This works even if your job requires Internet!

2. Regardless of how you schedule Internet blocks, keep the time outside of them Internet-free.

3. Schedule Internet use at home, too.

There are three steps to this strategy:

1. Identify your main professional and personal goals.

   1. Limit your goals to what is most important.

   2. Goals should be broad, but specific.

2. List two or three specific, but general activities that will help you meet these goals.

   1. You need to find a happy medium. The goals have to be just right; not too general, but not so specific that they can only be completed once.

3. Consider the network tools you use.

   1. Determine whether the tool has a more positive impact, more negative impact, or little to no impact on your regular and successful participation in the activity.

Professional Goal -To craft well-written, narrative-driven stories that change the way people understand the world.

Key Activities To Support This Goal - ·      Research patiently and deeply; Write carefully and with purpose

Network Tool - Twitter (now known as X)

There aren't many positives listed in the book. You may be able to find sources by scrolling through Twitter. Newport also doesn't offer any negatives, although scrolling through a Twitter feed can be distracting and time-wasting. Based on this, the determination is that there is no impact, so this person should not continue using Twitter.

Personal Goal - To maintain close and rewarding friendships with a group of people who are important to me.

Key Activities to Support This Goal - Regularly take the time for meaningful connection with those who are most important to me (e.g., a long talk, a meal, joint activity); Give of myself to those who are most important to me (e.g., making nontrivial sacrifices that improve their lives)

Network Tool - Facebook

Allows you to catch up with people you haven’t seen in a while; Allows you to maintain lightweight contact with people you know but don’t run into regularly; Allows you to easily monitor important events in people’s lives; Stumble into online communities or groups that match your interests.

Determination - In this case we have a lot of positives, but the real question is do they match the activities we set to meet our goals, and in this case, Facebook does not.

The idea of meditating productively is taking a time you're physically occupied (walking, jogging, shoveling...) and using it to focus on ONE professional problem mentally.

1. Be wary of distractions and looping.

2. Structure your deep thinking.

He recommended structuring free time by reading classic literature and poetry to improve their lives.

This remains a concern today. When we don't structure our free time, we tend to fill it with distractions, like the internet and social media.

Master memory champions do not utilize rote memorization. Instead, they focus on scenes and connect unique details of an event already in their memory to the process of memorizing something new by associating the new information with the old.

1. The Bennett Approach - schedule your free time in advance – evenings and weekends

   1. Plan structured hobbies like reading, puzzles, board games, family time, learning/studying a new topic, cooking, art

   2. Structuring your free time will actually leave you feeling more fulfilled than evenings and weekends spent in unstructured distraction

2. Quit Social Media - Take an internet sabbatical

   1. The sabbatical asks that you take an extended break from online life – many weeks or longer

   2. 30 days of no social media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (X), Snapchat, TikTok

   3. Don’t formally deactivate the accounts

   4. Don’t tell anyone you are doing this

      1. If someone reaches out, you can explain

   5. At the end of 30 days, ask yourself

      1. Would the last 30 days have been notably better if I had been able to use this service?

      2. Did people care that I wasn’t using the service?

Here are the "big ideas" from this rule.

"Working with great intensity" (168) comes from Teddy Roosevelt's time at Harvard where academic focus was necessary, but a broad list of interests also demanded time. It suggests that you identify a high-priority, deep work task and estimate how much time you would normally need to get it done. Give yourself a hard deadline, but reduce your estimated time significantly. Make your deadline public or set a timer for yourself to see if the concentration necessary to get the work done increases your ability to do so.

1. Schedule every minute of your day-this helps one to guard against distractions and multiole focus.

2. Quantify the depth of every activity-this allows you to decide how much time is spent in deep or shallow work.

3. Ask your boss for a shallow work budget- for most people shallow work takes 30-50% of the work day. Asking for clarification will assist you in getting the task required completed.

4. Finish your work day by five thirty-these "fixed" work schedules lead to productivity.

5. Become hard to reach-place filters and reduce time on your email.