Deep work (Cal Newport)
It all begins with an idea.
Focus key words: Deep Work <> Shallow work, Deliberate Practice, Productive Meditation, Performance, Attention Residue
I love a quote: “Less is more”
I used to be a multi-task person, and I thinked multi-task was great, it likes a smartphone with many features (and almost of them we don’t need, some bascic is enough). I want to do too many things at once, everthing is a little bit. But then I realized that I can’t quick master anything until I read this book “Deep Work”, and then I deep in Cal Newport universal.
After all, I made a tough decision “Cut off social media, practice deep work”. I set up my room clear, and nothing inside distract me (2022). I like to use a smartphone without sim, but I usually put it away when I lock myself in room. I also love the minimalist lifestyle and millennials, everything I need must be fit in 1 packback and that’s all.
Put it down don’t be on your phone while being a deep worker
Put it down. You might do something dumb and being distracted
We all agree, here today, that deep work is more value
I’ll take the pledge
(Relying on the song “Put it down” of South park)
I usually wake up at 2:30 am to study, because at this time, the environmnet is so quite and I can establish good concentration.
My best friend gave me an advice, and I think it rights: “Focus on 1 thing instead zillion things, and deep into it”.
I lost my time in the past -> I chosed Everyman sleep to have more time cultivate again Deep work, deep writing
I don’t need technology to schedue my daily life. I love writing down paper my to do list and writing by my hand, it’s more helpfful for me beacause: Everything you write down, it’s easy to remember than typing; With my hand I will improve my writing skill and I can draw to illustrate
The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant
It all begins with an idea.
Naval Ravikant (India, grew up in the United States,
How to build wealth and achieve long-term happiness by working on a few essential skills, all while discovering the secrets of living a good life.
1. Create Wealth
To get rich, seek specific knowledge, accountability ???, and leverage.
- Specific knowledge is often highly technical or creative and cannot be outsourced or automated.
“Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now.”
“Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.”
- Take credit when things go well and ownership when things go wrong
- Leverage comes in the form of labor (requires followers), capital (requires leaders), or through code or media (are permissionless and work while you sleep).
- To gain financial freedom, you must own equity—a piece of a business
“Getting rich is about knowing what to do, who to do it with, and when to do it.”
“Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy.”
“You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity—a piece of business—to gain your financial freedom.”
“Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.”
Compounding interest can be applied to your finances and your relationships
Compounding interest = money makes more money = the 8 world wonder (Albert Einstein)
“Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.”
“The most important skill for getting rich is becoming a perpetual learner.”
Money is the ultimate tool for freedom
money is something you can have and that they can give you freedom
- You can use them to buy time
- It is the tool you need to experience the real values of life
- build wealth while living a meaningful life
- Importantly, don’t inflate your lifestyle as you earn more money
- Save and invest them to build a future out of the rat race, instead of upgrading your treadmill.
è you’ll need to learn how to play the money game right
2. Build judgment
If wisdom is the knowledge behind the long-term consequences of your actions, judgment is the knowledge to make the right decision to capitalize on those actions.
To build judgment, you must keep abreast of current trends and study technology, design, and art—and become the best in the world at something.
In the age of leverage, one correct decision can win everything.The direction you head in matters much more than your pace. Choose wisely.
Easy decisions, hard life. Hard decisions, easy life.
3. Love to read
To build specific knowledge, read what you love until you love to read.
Be selective + Reread + be absorbed
Most books have one point to make. it’s better to read a book that you’re excited about a hundred times than it is to read one hundred average books that don’t.
4. To become happy, learn how to be neutral and stay quiet
Just look at children playing. They don’t stress much about the future, nor the past, but rather explore the present moment and immerse themselves into whatever they’re doing at that time.
Pausing our human ability to judge, we’ll find new ways of becoming happier.
sitting alone as monks do can be a blissful moment
Happiness is the absence of desire
“Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.”
In any situation in life, you always have three choices: you can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it.
If you want to change it, then it is a desire. To avoid distraction, pick one desire in your life at a time to give yourself purpose and motivation.
Zero to one
It all begins with an idea.
It’s easier to copy a model than to make something new. 1 to n ≠ 0 to 1
Today’s “best practices” lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.
Less is more.
THE CHALLENGE OF THE FUTURE
“What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”
“Most people believe in x, but the truth is the opposite of x.”
ZERO TO ONE: THE FUTURE OF PROGRESS
STARTUP THINKING
It’s hard to develop new things in big organizations, and it’s even harder to do it by yourself.
Startups operate on the principle that you need to work with other people to get stuff done, but you also need to stay small enough so that you actually can.
PARTY LIKE IT’S 1999
Companies exist to make money, not to lose it.
The internet craze of the ’90s was the biggest bubble since the crash of 1929. The first step to thinking clearly is to question what we think we know about the past.
A QUICK HISTORY OF THE ’90S
four big lessons from the dot-com crash
1. Make incremental advances
2. Stay lean and flexible
3. Improve on the competition
4. Focus on product, not sales
ALL HAPPY COMPANIES ARE DIFFERENT
What valuable company is nobody building?
if you want to create and capture lasting value, don’t build an undifferentiated commodity business.
THE IDEOLOGY OF COMPETITION
CREATIVE MONOPOLY means new products that benefit everybody and sustainable profits for the creator.
Competition means no profits for anybody, no meaningful differentiation, and a struggle for survival.