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 ...