![]() ![]() In a recent interview, Newport was emphatic: yes. We could be missing out on our lifetime’s great thinkers, innovators, and artists, because of workplace distractions.Ĭan leaders encourage employees to try shorter stretches of “deep work” during the workday without hampering team communication or collaboration? Should managers encourage “deep work” in their workplaces? Newport argues that we could be missing out on our lifetime’s great thinkers, innovators, and artists, because, by getting distracted and multitasking, people are working against their brains’ attempts to help them become masters. Every time we’re interrupted, those fatty neurological threads stop sewing and don’t start up again until we’ve fully regained focus. When we work on something cognitively intensive without distraction, fatty threads in our brains wire neurons together-the literal manifestation of “rewiring your brain.” These neuron bundles help us do our work faster, more effectively, and more skillfully. The brain science that Newport shares in the book is fascinating. To be truly productive, we should be logging out and working, uninterrupted, for long stretches at a time every day. While some of his tips are simple-log out of email, social media, and team collaboration platforms when you want to get something important done-what he ultimately suggests is revolutionary. ![]() Cal Newport, an assistant professor of computer science at Georgetown University, published his fourth book in January called Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World. ![]()
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