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Cal Newport Quotes
7 sourced quotes from Cal Newport across Burnout & Flow State.
“Slow productivity: do fewer things, work at a natural pace, obsess over quality. The opposite of the pseudo-productivity that is burning a generation out.”
“The to-do list is a productivity disaster. It scales to infinity; your attention does not. Move to a "pull system" — what do I actually have capacity for today?”
“Pseudo-productivity — measuring effort by visible activity — was a convenient fiction in offices. It became a catastrophe when the office moved into the home.”
“Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It is the superpower of the 21st century.”
“Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not.”
“To produce at your peak level you need to work for extended periods with full concentration on a single task free from distraction.”
“We have built the most distracting environment in history, then asked humans to do their best work inside it. The miracle is that any work gets done at all.”