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Introduction to Deep Work
Book looks at some history and gives an overview of why Deep Work is important, not only in the past but also in the future. We are so easily distracted that focus, and our time, are becoming a commodity.
People used to go to the mountains, or retreats/caves to get away from the hustle and bustle of continuously being interrupted and shifting focus from one task or area to the next. This might sound like multitasking, but each time we shift from one item to another, our brain has to put in an extra effort.
Think back to a day when you were continuously going from one thing to the next, did you feel exhausted at the end of it?
From people writing articles to people learning to code, Deep Work should be used whenever possible. A story which struck me was the learning a programming language. From nothing, someone took a few textbooks and focused intensely on learning to program with no distractions from the computer or other. After about six months, this person attends a dev boot camp and won. He saw people struggled to focus and were easily distracted by the noise and the hustle and bustle of the boot camp whilst he had learned to shut everything else out — I need to learn this for my own Python learning.
