On October 1st, I made a plan outline for this month at home, and then I sorted out all the materials on my computer, from work files to study files, as well as materials, books, notes, articles, music, movies and so on. In the evening, I read a book in idle boredom. After that, I felt a little and wrote this article.

As for the topic of this article, I was just discussing it with some friends, but I didn’t want to write it out. However, after reading deep Work, I felt it was necessary to talk about this topic with everyone, as a simple sharing.

On September 28, I wrote an article about the button position is put for pages and what are the influence of the products, will be published on the platform, reading is not low, so also received a lot of feedback, there are good and bad, but don’t want to say anything about button today, want to talk about some feedback to say where the gap between people is, I hope this article can be read by more people and can also be a self-examination.

The critical ability to survive in this age

I started by talking about “deep work.” What exactly is deep work? The book explains: “Focus on doing things without distractions while maximizing your cognitive abilities.” This kind of work is used to engage in high-value activities, hone one’s skills, and produce original results.

Now people praise highly fragmented study, the author of this book is not essentially exclude fragmentation, but he thought: from the perspective of scholars study real fragmentation, it is very difficult to do, the authors call “reporter model”, means that if you have 30 minutes, 25 minutes, is in the depth of work patterns.

It is just like many journalists who have to change scenes constantly. They are serious and in-depth in the interview. After the interview, they should immediately conduct in-depth summary and output, so as to quickly respond to the market fluctuations and static. Although the time to do each thing is very short, but are absolutely serious, deep work.

The simple answer is: focus on what’s most important and devote yourself to it as much as you can. Don’t just go through the motions.

Another type of work mentioned in the book is shallow work: it is not cognitively demanding, transactional tasks that tend to be carried out in the context of interruptions, that do not create much value, and that are repetitive.

At present, most people’s working style and attitude are “shallow work”. Wechat, QQ temporary message interference, at work was constantly disturbed, do things seriously for a while, and then picked up the phone to brush a variety of apps.

The author lists a large number of real cases to illustrate: from the “no Internet era” to the “Internet era”, as long as people with deep work ability, have become the top professionals in the industry. From Carl Jung to Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and more.

How to Do “Deep Work”

I think I am a person with deep working ability. When I go to the company during the day, FROM 9 o ‘clock to 11 o ‘clock, I can fully devote myself to my work without being disturbed by the external environment. Basically, I can not take my mobile phone all day (except during the lunch break, because I don’t nap, I will check the App on my mobile phone).

In the afternoon, I would spend some time to participate in necessary meetings and communicate and discuss with my colleagues. In the rest of the time, I was also in a state of deep work.

I go home in the evening, eat dinner, clean up my room, and read for about two hours without doing anything. After reading, take a rest, take a shower, clean up the computer, take some notes, and then go to sleep.

Of course, I have fixed points in my day for replying to messages and other trivia, separating deep and shallow work at different times.

So, how do you get into deep work?

As mentioned at the beginning of my button post, here is an example that illustrates the relevance of this post. To show you how serious people get into deep work (which is the focus of this article).

Let’s take a look at the counterexample (I’m not going to talk about the technicalities here).


Similar comments have been made on platforms such as UICN, which is full of new designers, and on communities such as Zhihu, where intellectuals gather. Do you think these things are worth thinking about?

But that’s what most people think.

I don’t usually respond to comments like this because I know they are meaningless and a waste of time. However, most “netizens” are easy to be guided by others. No matter what the values of this article are, as long as someone speaks out the reason and makes people feel convincing, most “netizens” will follow suit. In order to prevent this phenomenon from appearing in my article, I replied one of the comments.

I was busy at that time, so I didn’t organize the language, so I replied casually. In fact, I want to say: thinking about something is not a matter of whether you struggle or not, but whether you have your heart and brain to examine. When someone gives you a good proposal, do you really think about it, or do you dismiss it as not worth discussing?

In fact, entering the state of deep work is very simple, that is, you have seriously to think about the problem, and take the initiative to find a solution, but this one thing, for most people are difficult to do.

Some people even comment on the article without reading the whole article, many of their opinions are actually at the end of the article. From this, we can see the attitude of these people in their work and life.

Here’s another positive example of what good people do:


This is a note taken by a reader who read it and sent it to me to discuss the key points involved. That’s the kind of person I respond to, because I know they’ve done a lot of work before the discussion, and I respect that person and that discussion is valuable.

summary

Whether it is work or study, we should ask ourselves: what is the sense of meaning I want to get from doing this thing?

Very impressive for a friend, is undergraduate course graduation three months at the time, do interact in a company, my friend circle, small circle or mentioned in the article, she will be very serious to think, there is a problem may send a big picture, all the above is the summary of the painting process and write, and asked me why and tell their own views, and hope to get my reply.

Later, after half a year of no contact, I was suddenly sent a big red envelope on wechat, saying that I had just entered a big factory and was in charge of the design team of the whole project. After listening, in addition to the expected, I still have a little surprised, perhaps, this is the gap between people.

Today, I do not really want to say “how the gap between people is formed”, but I hope you can remind yourself, whether there is serious and devoted to do a thing.

However, never mind, I know you have one thing is serious: National Day eight days, lying dead at home.

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