Lesson 4: Enter a Deep-Work State | Cal Newport

How many times during your work day would you say you check your email? What about your team’s messaging app? Social media? Be honest — we won’t tell. If you’re anything like most people, the number is higher than you’d like. And although productivity expert Cal Newport reminds us that this is completely normal (considering the types of rewards our brains are wired to crave), he also notes that this “continous partial attention” decreases our ability to produce quality work in a timely manner. In this video lesson, he shares strategies for how to achieve and sustain the alternative: deep work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Go Deeper with Big Think: ►Become a Big Think Member Get exclusive content, early, ad-free access to new releases, and more. https://www.youtube.com/@bigthink/membership/ ►Subscribe to Big Think on Substack Explore content that enlightens, inspires, and transforms. https://bigthinkmedia.substack.com/subscribe/ ►Get Big Think+ for Business Engage learners like never before with high-impact video microlearning from the biggest thinkers in the world. https://bigthink.com/plus/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=youtube_description ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Cal Newport: Cal Newport is an MIT-trained computer science professor at Georgetown University who also writes about the intersections of technology, work, and the quest to find depth in an increasingly distracted world.