What is deep work?

Why deep work matters

The three laws of deep work

Deep work isn’t just about work

The underrated skill of daydreaming

The hidden value of exploration, part I

The hidden value of exploration, part II

Why you need to laugh more, part I

Why you need to laugh more, part II

Why you need to take play more seriously

What is deep work

**What if the**re’s more to you than you’ve allowed yourself to discover. What if you’re harbouring within you talents and potential that you’ve not yet been afforded the opportunity to properly harness and utilise. What if unbeknownst perhaps even to yourself, you actually have within you the ability to do more.

‘Flow states’, ‘deep work’ – these are just terms that you may or you may not be familiar with, but what do they actually mean? What is deep work, why does it matter, and more importantly what can it ultimately do for you with your work, your art, your creativity, your productivity, your business, or indeed, even your life.

Perhaps the best way to describe deep work is by using the words of Cal Newport himself, who first coined the term in his book of the same name. In it, he said that deep work is “professional activity performed in the state of distraction free concentration, which pushes your cognitive capabilities to their limits”.

In other words, it’s a way of working, that’s actually the responsible for generating some of the most inventive and innovative ideas in the history of humanity. And not only that, it’s a way of working that’s actually proven pivotal in the lives and careers of some of the most paradigm-shifting thinkers and innovators and creators, and business leaders in history.

People like Bill Gates, Carl Jung, J.K. Rowling, John Grisham and many others, each of whom leverage this approach in order to do that very best work and make a significant impact on the fields, the industries, the sectors, and the communities that they are a part of.

In other words, that business idea or strategy that you’re trying to develop, that product or design that you’re currently seeking to formulate, that piece of art or that novel that you’re trying to push through to completion… The key to being able to make meaningful progress and advance in each of these endeavours, is to be found in the principles of deep work.

It is the superpower you never knew about, and it’s the means to unlocking your full potential and enabling you to do your very best work.
So we’re going to embark on a journey, an adventure, if you like into the hitherto unknown, in order for you to develop the processes and become more informed about the principles that will enable you to access the full measure of your talent, so that you can do whatever it is that you do – better.

What is deep work?

What Next?