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Deep Work Formula Summary, Be So Good They Can't Ignore You

1. Rare and valuable skills (career capital) 2. Creative control over projects 3. Control over your time (which allows you to do deep work, virtuous cycle) 4. Work that has a positive impact on the world 5. Working with people you enjoy being with The formula: -Use deep work to learn fast and build up rare and valuable skills. -Then apply these rare and valuable skills to the right projects so that you can build up career capital. -Then cash in the career capital to get more creative and time control over your job. -All the while, try to pick jobs and projects that have a positive impact and allow you to work with good people. -However, these are usually also things that you need to trade in your career capital (rare skills and experience using them) in order to maximize. -Don't try to save the world or have a big impact until you have the career capital to match. Otherwise, you will probably fail. You have to earn all these perks via building career capital by using ...

“Top 15” Takeaways from Deep Work

1. Spend enough time in a state of frenetic shallowness and you permanently reduce your capacity to perform deep work. . 2. I build my days around a core of carefully chosen deep work, with the shallow activities I absolutely cannot avoid batched into smaller bursts at the peripheries of my schedule. . 3. Two Core Abilities for Thriving in the New Economy 1. The ability to quickly master hard things. 2. The ability to produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed. . 4. High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus) . 5. Busyness as Proxy for Productivity: In the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their jobs, many knowledge workers turn back toward an industrial indicator of productivity: doing lots of stuff in a visible manner. . 6. Depth-destroying behaviors such as immediate e-mail responses and an active social media presence are lauded, while avoidance of these trends generates suspicion. . 7....

Persistence? Founded McDonald's, No... "Founder" Review Lesson

It's not doing the same business processes for a long time. It's focusing on one good concept that people are using long enough so others can add to that idea with other value added, addons. These magnifiers/ vectors carry the first idea, spreading it; faster and further than the first ever could have thought possible traveled unchanged. There is a thin line between Ambition and Narcissism. Harnessing mental illness is what has caused the USA to dominate the world.

How to Make Jeans Better than Levi's

 1)    .5 inches of the fabric could be removed from the bottom of the inside at the bottom of the zipper area. 2. Snip the corners of the outside leather name tag. It curls up and would look better/ save material. 3. stitch in "size tag" into waistband and lay flat and combine w/ inside the label tag into one tag so it runs along the waist stitching This way it won't flip out. These changes will help you sell more.