Part1: Idea

Deep work is valuable

• in our new economy, 3 groups will have great advantages :

1. those who can work effectively and creatively with intelligent machine
2. those who are the best in what they do
3. those with access to capital

• If you can’t learn you can’t thrive
• law of productivity High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus)

Deep work is Rare

• Busyness as a proxy for productivity

Deep work is meaningful

• who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love is the sum of what you focus on

Part2: The Rules

Work Deeply

• Desire turned out to be the norm, not the exception
• Donald Knuth:” What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration”
• Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration