It’s becoming increasingly important but our ability to cultivate it is quickly diminishing. Unfortunately, in our highly distracting world, Deep Work is becoming a lost art. If you don’t cultivate this ability, you’re likely to fall behind as technology advances.” “To remain valuable in our economy… you must master the art of quickly learning complicated things. Newport also points out that Deep Work will help you stay valuable in our ever-changing economy. Newport equates it to a superpower that will help you get more done in a shorter amount of time and produce higher quality work. Stated simply, Deep Work is the ability to shut out the world and focus solely on the task at hand.ĭeep Work is a skill that can add huge benefits to our personal and professional lives. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship.” As Newport defines it: “It is a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep WorkĬal Newport, in his book Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, defines the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task, you guessed it, Deep Work. In this article, I will discuss why good focus habits are important and provide you with some tips/trick you can use in your daily life. Deep focus is the key to producing our best work and it will unlock a level of ability we didn’t know existed.

If we want to reach our true potential as a programmer (or anything else really), we need to start taking our focus habits more seriously. We end up spending our days in a state of shallow focus jumping from notification to notification. The constant draw of digital life is making it harder and harder to go deep on complex problems. In our current society, cultivating long stretches of distraction-free focus is becoming increasingly rare. Developing good focus habits is a requirement to do both effectively. Learning to focus is crucial to the life of a programmer because we are constantly learning new things and solving complex problems.

I believe one of the biggest differences between a good programmer and a great programmer is the ability to focus deeply over long stretches of time. By Victor Cassone How to use Deep Work to become a better programmer The ability to focus deeply is one of the most important skills a programmer can learn.

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