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 Empathic statements are the spice of conversations. If you make it a habit to use empathic statements, you will force yourself to listen more carefully to other people.
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+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 135 | Location 1927-1928 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 11:09:01 PM
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+Observing for lip purses is also useful when talking with your spouse, colleagues, and friends, as it is a universal nonverbal cue that tells us what people are thinking
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+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 139 | Location 1966-1967 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 11:12:37 PM
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+-touching of the lips with hands, fingers, or objects such as pencils and other inanimate objects indicates the person is feeling uneasy about the topic that is being discussed.
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+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 139 | Location 1966-1967 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 11:12:41 PM
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+Self-touching of the lips with hands, fingers, or objects such as pencils and other inanimate objects indicates the person is feeling uneasy about the topic that is being discussed.
+==========
+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 157 | Location 2257-2258 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 3:56:41 PM
+
+People develop positive feelings toward those individuals who can “walk in their shoes” and understand what they are experiencing.
+==========
+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 158 | Location 2268-2269 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 3:58:14 PM
+
+If you want to be even more empathic, add a compliment to your original statement that allows them to flatter themselves.
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+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 159 | Location 2281-2282 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 3:59:27 PM
+
+Most teens want to tell their parents what’s bothering them. They just need a little encouragement and the belief that talking to you is their choice.
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+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 169 | Location 2386-2387 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 11:37:23 PM
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+People who are psychologically connected mirror one another’s body gestures. Intentionally mirroring another individual’s body language promotes rapport.
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+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 172 | Location 2414-2416 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 11:39:58 PM
+
+People who are in good rapport assume an open body posture. An open posture signals attraction and openness to communication. It consists of gestures that include uncrossed legs and arms, a high rate of hand movements during speech, palms-up displays, a slight forward lean, and the display of friend signals.
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+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 175 | Location 2445-2446 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 6:58:31 AM
+
+Arm crossing serves as a psychological barrier to protect individuals from topics that cause them psychological anxiety.
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+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 176 | Location 2449-2450 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 7:00:15 AM
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+The placement of soft drink cans, pillows, purses, and other movable objects between you and another person signals discomfort and a lack of rapport.
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+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 177 | Location 2465-2465 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 7:00:46 AM
+
+Anxious people will signify their uneasiness by prolonged eye closure.
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+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 177 | Location 2470-2471 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 7:00:52 AM
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+When people experience anxiety, they tend to increase their eye-blink rate.
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+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 177 | Location 2476-2477 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 7:01:42 AM
+
+If the person across from you places his or her cup between the two of you, the cup forms a barrier, which signals that rapport has not yet been established.
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+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 179 | Location 2484-2485 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 7:01:55 AM
+
+Barrier-removing behaviors between you and the person you are talking to signal good rapport.
+==========
+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 181 | Location 2500-2513 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 7:02:37 AM
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+Friend Signals Signifying Rapport Foe Signals Signifying a Lack of Rapport Eyebrow flashes Furrowed eyebrows Head tilt Eye rolls Frequent smiles Cold stares Mutual gaze Prolonged eye closure and/or gaze aversion Intimate touching No (or very limited) touching Isopraxism (mirroring behavior) Asynchronous posture Inward lean (toward another person) Leaning away (from another person) Whispering Hair twirling (unless a “habit”) Expressive gestures Aggressive stance and/or attack posture Open body posture Closed body posture Removal of barriers/obstacles Creation or use of barriers/obstacles Wide-open eyes Eye squints
+==========
+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 181 | Location 2500-2517 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 7:02:52 AM
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+Friend Signals Signifying Rapport Foe Signals Signifying a Lack of Rapport Eyebrow flashes Furrowed eyebrows Head tilt Eye rolls Frequent smiles Cold stares Mutual gaze Prolonged eye closure and/or gaze aversion Intimate touching No (or very limited) touching Isopraxism (mirroring behavior) Asynchronous posture Inward lean (toward another person) Leaning away (from another person) Whispering Hair twirling (unless a “habit”) Expressive gestures Aggressive stance and/or attack posture Open body posture Closed body posture Removal of barriers/obstacles Creation or use of barriers/obstacles Wide-open eyes Eye squints Puckering or licking of lips (women) Fake yawns Frequent nods Negative head shakes Sharing food (“food forking”) Scrunched nose Preening (“grooming”) your partner Self-preening Hair flip Bitch
+==========
+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 181 | Location 2500-2518 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 7:03:01 AM
+
+Friend Signals Signifying Rapport Foe Signals Signifying a Lack of Rapport Eyebrow flashes Furrowed eyebrows Head tilt Eye rolls Frequent smiles Cold stares Mutual gaze Prolonged eye closure and/or gaze aversion Intimate touching No (or very limited) touching Isopraxism (mirroring behavior) Asynchronous posture Inward lean (toward another person) Leaning away (from another person) Whispering Hair twirling (unless a “habit”) Expressive gestures Aggressive stance and/or attack posture Open body posture Closed body posture Removal of barriers/obstacles Creation or use of barriers/obstacles Wide-open eyes Eye squints Puckering or licking of lips (women) Fake yawns Frequent nods Negative head shakes Sharing food (“food forking”) Scrunched nose Preening (“grooming”) your partner Self-preening Hair flip Bitch flip
+==========
+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 188 | Location 2553-2555 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 3:42:48 PM
+
+Caring is about the heart rather than the head. It is about a relationship that goes beyond robotic, intellectual, surface interactions and taps into the very essence of who we are at our innermost level of feeling.
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+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 188 | Location 2557-2558 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 3:48:54 PM
+
+C = Compassion/concern A = Active listening R = Reinforcement E = Empathy
+==========
+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 190 | Location 2588-2588 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 3:51:14 PM
+
+Active listening means you are using verbal and nonverbal cues along with empathic statements when the other person is speaking.
+==========
+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 191 | Location 2595-2597 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 3:51:37 PM
+
+Without active listening, it is possible for some couples who have been together for decades to have literally no idea how their partner really feels or what they want. This is because they haven’t paid attention to what their
+==========
+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 191 | Location 2595-2597 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 3:51:48 PM
+
+Without active listening, it is possible for some couples who have been together for decades to have literally no idea how their partner really feels or what they want.
+==========
+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 192 | Location 2615-2626 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 3:54:20 PM
+
+Let your partner finish what they are saying before you begin talking. • Important discussions deserve an appropriate setting where you can easily hear what your partner is saying (don’t talk about finances or life-changing events in a noisy, crowded restaurant!). • Don’t be thinking of what you’ll be saying while your partner is talking; focus on their words, not your thoughts. • If your partner is introverted and finds it uncomfortable to speak, encourage them with head nods and verbal nudges (see Chapter 5). • Observe your partner while they speak. Communication is nonverbal as well as verbal. Also, by paying attention to your partner they are most likely to see you as sincerely interested in what they have to say. • Be prepared to compliment your partner when they make a good point or suggestion. • When you hear something you don’t like or agree with, don’t automatically dismiss the comment or go on the offensive. Give the observation some thought and see if there might be some truth in what was said or, at least, some room for reaching a compromise that is satisfactory to both partners. • If your partner is clearly wrong in a given situation, try to help them find a face-saving way to gracefully own up to their error. • You can even suggest a “time-out” if you feel the conversation is becoming confrontational.
+==========
+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 194 | Location 2638-2640 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 3:56:55 PM
+
+Negativistic partners need to recognize that it is appropriate to criticize their significant other if they do something wrong that needs correcting; however, it is also appropriate to praise that individual when they do something well.
+==========
+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 196 | Location 2666-2668 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 3:58:30 PM
+
+Praise your partner when they do something well. It could be a problem they solved at work. Possibly, it could involve some civic or social honor they achieved. It might even be nothing more than they took the time to get you your special dessert at the bakery on the way home.
+==========
+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 196 | Location 2673-2674 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 11:30:44 PM
+
+Encourage your partner to participate in decision making, particularly major decisions that affect both of you.
+==========
+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 196 | Location 2671-2672 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 11:30:54 PM
+
+Don’t forget a partner’s significant milestones such as birthdays, anniversaries, special events, and so forth.
+==========
+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 196 | Location 2678-2679 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 11:31:02 PM
+
+When appropriate, give “public recognition” to your partner by letting others know what special accomplishment he or she has achieved.
+==========
+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 200 | Location 2736-2737 | Added on Sunday, December 25, 2022 8:43:58 AM
+
+Angry people seek order in a world that no longer makes sense to them. The inability to make sense of a disordered world causes frustration. This frustration is expressed as anger.
+==========
+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 220 | Location 3030-3030 | Added on Tuesday, December 27, 2022 6:45:12 PM
+
+Never write an email when you are extremely angry or distraught.
+==========
+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 230 | Location 3168-3169 | Added on Wednesday, December 28, 2022 9:32:05 PM
+
+When someone provides you with an answer to a question, simply ask them “Why should I believe you?” Honest people typically answer, “Because I am telling the truth” or some derivation thereof.
+==========
+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 228 | Location 3143-3144 | Added on Wednesday, December 28, 2022 9:32:17 PM
+
+When people choose not to answer yes or no, they go to the Land of Is. The Land of Is occupies the space between truth and deception. This murky area contains a labyrinth of half-truths, excuses, and suppositions.
+==========
+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 227 | Location 3121-3122 | Added on Wednesday, December 28, 2022 9:32:25 PM
+
+When you ask someone a direct yes-or-no question and they begin their answer with the “Well,” there is a high probability of deception.
+==========
+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 234 | Location 3234-3237 | Added on Thursday, December 29, 2022 3:29:04 PM
+
+People tend to believe others. This phenomenon, referred to as the truth bias, allows society and commerce to run smoothly and efficiently. Absent the truth bias, people would spend an inordinate amount of time checking data collected from others. The truth bias also serves as a social default. Relationships with friends and business colleagues would become strained if their veracity were constantly questioned. Consequently, people typically believe others until evidence to the contrary surfaces.
+==========
+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 234 | Location 3237-3238 | Added on Thursday, December 29, 2022 3:29:33 PM
+
+The truth bias provides liars with an advantage because people want to believe what they hear, see, or read.
+==========
+The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over (The Like Switch Series Book 1) (Schafer, Jack)
+- Your Highlight on page 235 | Location 3247-3248 | Added on Thursday, December 29, 2022 3:45:30 PM
+
+Absent verbal and nonverbal cues, individuals are at a disadvantage when judging written correspondence on the Internet.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 16 | Location 221-221 | Added on Monday, January 2, 2023 11:29:57 PM
+
+To some extent, the backlash against the midlife crisis was an overreaction to a caricature.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 18 | Location 244-246 | Added on Tuesday, January 3, 2023 11:23:18 PM
+
+Adjusting for income, marital status, and employment, Blanchflower and Oswald found that the level of reported happiness by age had the shape of a gently curving U, starting high in young adulthood and ending higher in old age, with an average nadir at forty-six.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 26 | Location 338-339 | Added on Wednesday, January 4, 2023 6:02:43 AM
+
+How should we think about the lost opportunities, the regrets and failures, the finitude of life and the rush of activities that drive us through it?
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 34 | Location 421-423 | Added on Wednesday, January 4, 2023 6:22:25 AM
+
+Call it the first rule for preventing a midlife crisis: you have to care about something other than yourself. If nothing matters to you but your own well-being, if you are utterly self-obsessed, not much will make you happy.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 34 | Location 425-426 | Added on Wednesday, January 4, 2023 6:23:04 AM
+
+You can choose to immerse yourself in things you might come to care about and so begin to change your life.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 36 | Location 452-455 | Added on Wednesday, January 4, 2023 11:32:33 PM
+
+It is only if human life matters in itself, apart from its effects, that there is any point in altruism. There is value in acting on behalf of others only if there is value in other activities, too. Hence the paradox: if altruism is the only thing that matters, nothing matters. Life is not worth living.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 48 | Location 586-587 | Added on Thursday, January 5, 2023 6:20:02 AM
+
+Hence the second rule: in your job, your relationships, your spare time, you must make room for activities with existential value.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 49 | Location 599-600 | Added on Thursday, January 5, 2023 6:22:16 AM
+
+it is not just hobbies that have existential value. You can find it at work, too, or in relationships with others.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 49 | Location 605-606 | Added on Thursday, January 5, 2023 6:23:28 AM
+
+Work can have existential value. The same is true of friendship,
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 50 | Location 609-611 | Added on Thursday, January 5, 2023 6:24:09 AM
+
+Midlife is the time to take up golf, the most existential of all activities, or salsa dancing, or playing piano. Instead of feeling let down by the mundanity of our adjustment to middle age, we should see things the other way around. Our idle pastimes are more profound than we may have thought.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 50 | Location 617-618 | Added on Thursday, January 5, 2023 6:24:53 AM
+
+When you play Monopoly with friends, or read a book for pleasure, you have a share in the life of the gods.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 51 | Location 624-627 | Added on Thursday, January 5, 2023 6:26:13 AM
+
+Yet if you lose touch with existential value, if you find no place in your life for the activities of the gods—ones that make life worth living to begin with—you risk a midlife crisis not unlike John Stuart Mill’s. If you have the opportunity, you should make yourself immortal, some of the time.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 51 | Location 631-634 | Added on Thursday, January 5, 2023 6:33:56 AM
+
+The pressures of work and family are so consuming they obscure the possibility of doing anything else. If this is your life, you need to make room for activities with existential worth. They may be less important than doing your job or making the sure the kids are fed, but they have value of a different, irreplaceable kind.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 54 | Location 660-660 | Added on Thursday, January 5, 2023 6:36:43 AM
+
+Midlife is missing out.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 56 | Location 686-687 | Added on Thursday, January 5, 2023 6:42:54 AM
+
+I look back with envy at my younger self, options open, choices not yet made. He could be anything. But I am condemned: course set, path fixed, doors closed.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 60 | Location 729-731 | Added on Thursday, January 5, 2023 7:08:05 AM
+
+That we cannot have everything we want, and what we have does not subsume or compensate for what we don’t, is a consequence of incommensurability. It follows from the diversity of values in human life, from the fact that there are so many different things worth wanting, worth caring about, worth striving and fighting for, too many ever to exhaust.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 62 | Location 744-745 | Added on Thursday, January 5, 2023 7:10:10 AM
+
+To wish for a life without loss is to wish for a profound impoverishment in the world or in your capacity to engage with it, a drastic limiting of horizons.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 62 | Location 747-748 | Added on Thursday, January 5, 2023 7:10:45 AM
+
+There is consolation in the fact that missing out is an inexorable side effect of the richness of human life.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 62 | Location 750-753 | Added on Thursday, January 5, 2023 11:32:20 PM
+
+So tell yourself this: although I may regret regret, desire that no desire go unfulfilled, I cannot in the end prefer to have desires that could be fully met. The sense of loss is real; but it is something to concede, not wish away. Embrace your losses as fair payment for the surplus of being alive.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 70 | Location 845-850 | Added on Friday, January 6, 2023 11:23:52 PM
+
+So, more advice from philosophy, if not another rule. Tell yourself this: while there are reasons to change one’s life—frustrating jobs, failed marriages, poor health—the appeal of change itself can be deceptive. Because there is value in having options, you will miss having them: an argument for nostalgia. But the value is easy to overrate. It is silly to think that having options could make up for reaching outcomes you would not prefer, considered alone. Think twice before you wreck your home. Is it the space inside you hate, or the fact that it has walls?
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 73 | Location 874-875 | Added on Sunday, January 8, 2023 10:19:23 PM
+
+What connects nostalgia with missing out is not that there was a time when we could have everything, but that there was a time before we had to commit ourselves and thus confront our losses.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 75 | Location 897-898 | Added on Sunday, January 8, 2023 10:23:59 PM
+
+You can’t have it both ways, knowing who you are but not who you are not.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 75 | Location 898-902 | Added on Sunday, January 8, 2023 10:25:50 PM
+
+If, like me and Wordsworth, you are nostalgic for the indeterminacy of childhood, when almost anything was possible, tell yourself that what you long for is akin to retrograde amnesia. It would require a similar dissolution of the structure that gives meaning to your life. Its appeal is delusory. Beside this we can put two prior maxims: that you cannot be saved from missing out except by an appalling diminution of the world or your response to it; and that the value of having options is too limited to justify throwing your life away.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 96 | Location 1139-1140 | Added on Saturday, January 14, 2023 6:47:54 AM
+
+If it is rational to be risk averse, to prefer good things you know to the uncertain prospect of better ones, it can be rational to prefer in retrospect decisions you should not have made.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 97 | Location 1145-1147 | Added on Saturday, January 14, 2023 6:48:56 AM
+
+So long as your actual life is good enough, and you are sufficiently risk averse, it is perfectly rational to be content with how things are, even though they could have been much better, and even though you still believe that they went wrong.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 101 | Location 1188-1192 | Added on Saturday, January 14, 2023 10:43:20 PM
+
+We live in details, not abstractions. If it is rational to respond more strongly to the facts that make something good, in all their specificity, than to the featureless, generic fact that something else is better, it is rational to be glad that I made a choice—to be a philosopher, not a physician—that I still believe is worse. What saves me from regret is not aversion to risk, the birth of a child, or an underestimation of philosophy. It is the amplitude of life, its unfathomable particularity, like the fastidious excess of a peasant scene by Bruegel.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 101 | Location 1195-1197 | Added on Saturday, January 14, 2023 10:44:48 PM
+
+Mistakes, misfortunes, failures: no one makes it to midlife without acquiring some of each. I am sure that you have yours. Some have been redeemed by risk aversion, kids, or luck. Others not so much.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 102 | Location 1200-1200 | Added on Saturday, January 14, 2023 10:45:08 PM
+
+Do not weigh alternatives theoretically, but zoom in: let the specifics count against the grand cartoon of lives unlived.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 102 | Location 1210-1210 | Added on Saturday, January 14, 2023 10:47:00 PM
+
+A little knowledge is harmless; too much can tax your peace of mind. Do not obsess about the might-have-beens:
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 105 | Location 1244-1245 | Added on Sunday, January 15, 2023 10:15:10 PM
+
+You know from the inside what a decade means; those that remain to you can be counted on one hand. That can be a source of angst.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
+- Your Highlight on page 113 | Location 1335-1338 | Added on Monday, January 16, 2023 10:17:56 PM
+
+We have found our first respectable therapy for those who are gripped by fear of death, also cited, this time more credibly, by Irvin Yalom.17 Its efficacy does not rest on any mistake. But it is precarious. It turns on the conviction that there is no relevant contrast between pre-natal and postmortem nonexistence, nothing to break the rational symmetry in which one is a mere reflection of the other.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
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+
+As Parfit would insist, however, the fact that you are future-biased, if you are, does not settle the decisive question, whether your attitude is ultimately rational. It explains how you feel, but may not justify it. Parfit contends that we should give up future bias, though it can’t be said that he presents a proof. One of his main points on behalf of “temporal neutrality”—giving equal weight to experiences past and future—is that it mitigates fear of death.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
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+
+This is the point at which cognitive therapy fails: you can learn to live without attachment, but not by reading a book.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
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+
+Meditation on prenatal nonexistence, the nothing before us, is itself no different from the nothing to come: it helps those less prone to future bias. They can see death as the merely disappointing image of the prior abyss.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
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+
+Conceiving immortality as a super-power, an extravagant gift, not a sensible demand: it helps those whose love is more giving, wanting the best for themselves and others, less an impulse to preserve what matters, grief at the fragility of life. They can see excess in the desire to live forever.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
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+
+there is insight in maintaining that attachment is not obligatory, that love is possible without it. There is a crack of light between two darknesses: avoidance of love and inescapable woe. That is where we should steer our ship.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
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+
+The sense of repetition and futility, the emptiness of satisfied desire: I am not alone in feeling them. Maybe you have felt them, too, mired in the pursuits of middle age, one after the other, wondering what is next. We are textbook casualties of the midlife crisis, striving to achieve what seems worthwhile, succeeding well enough, yet at the same time restless and unfulfilled.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
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+
+some activities are “telic”: they aim at terminal states, at which they are finished and thus exhausted.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
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+
+Other activities are “atelic”: they do not aim at a point of termination or exhaustion, a final state in which they have been achieved.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
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+
+It is this engine of self-destruction that powers my midlife crisis and perhaps a part of yours. I have spent four decades acquiring a taste and aptitude for the telic, for achievement and the next big thing, for personal and professional success—only to feel the void within. Fulfillment lies always in the future or the past. That is no way to live.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
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+
+This is how I diagnose my own midlife crisis. It is partly about regret and missing out and fear of death, but mainly a response to the self-subversion of the project-driven life. My affliction is chronic, not acute, masked by the whirl of activity: more papers to grade, meetings to organize, books to read. It is not that I take no pleasure in going for a walk or spending time with friends, not getting much of anything done. But the roots of meaning in my life are principally telic: they aim at terminal states.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
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+
+If my problem is an excessive investment in telic activities, the solution is to love their atelic counterparts, to find meaning in the process, not the project. If your problem is mine, this solution will work for you.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
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+
+Atelic activities are fully realized in the present, not directed to a future in which they are archived in the past.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
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+
+When you cook dinner for your kids, help them finish their homework, and put them to bed—telic activities through and through—you engage in the atelic activity of parenting. Unlike dinner and homework, parenting is complete at every instant; it is a process, not a project.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
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+
+The way out is to find sufficient value in atelic activities, activities that have no point of conclusion or limit, ones whose fulfillment lies in the moment of action itself. To draw meaning from such activities is to live in the present—at least in one sense of that loaded phrase—and so to free oneself from the tyranny of projects that plateaus around midlife.
+==========
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+
+The point I am making here is that it is not sufficient for meaning in life that one attend to the present, to the atelic activities in which you are engaged. It matters what you are doing, not just that you are doing it in the Now.
+==========
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+
+To live mindfully is to perceive the value of atelic activities, a value that is not exhausted by engagement or deferred to the future, but realized here and now. It is to resolve your midlife crisis, your sense of repetition and futility, of dislocation and self-defeat, by living in the halo of the present.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
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+
+Meditating on your breath, your body, the sounds in your environment is a way to train your appreciation of simple atelic activities: breathing, sitting, listening. There is value in these activities, though not enough for a meaningful life. Attending to their presence is not an end in itself. It is a way to develop your capacity to be in the moment, so as to appreciate the atelic counterparts of the telic activities that matter to you.
+==========
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+
+First, as we learned from the paradox of egoism: you mustn’t be too self-involved. The obsessive pursuit of happiness interferes with its own achievement:
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+
+Second, you should make room in your life for existential as well as ameliorative value, for activities that do not answer needs we would be better off without, but make life positively good. These range from the trivial—playing games with friends—to the profundities of art and science.
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+
+First, while the feeling of loss around midlife is real, ask yourself what the alternative would be. Missing out is a consequence of the plurality of values: only a drastic impoverishment in the world, or your response to it, could shield you from dismay. Second, do not over-estimate the value of having options. Options matter, but not enough to compensate for outcomes you would not prefer, considered alone.
+==========
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+
+Third, while it makes sense to envy your younger self, free from the pain of missing out, do not forget the cost. Not knowing what you will not do entails not knowing what you will, a vertiginous loss of identity.
+==========
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+
+First, there is new life. Where those you love would not exist except for your mistakes, you have reason to be glad that those mistakes were made. Second, there is risk aversion. When you imagine starting over, keep in mind the many ways things could have gone, the vast uncertainty, weighed against the history you know. Is it worth the counterfactual risk? Third, there is attachment to particulars: the intricate fabric of what matters in your life. It is this plenitude you should place beside the abstract verdict that things could have gone better.
+==========
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+
+First, there is the attitude of temporal neutrality: giving equal weight to past and future gains. If you adopt this view, the deprivations of being dead are no worse than those of being as yet unconceived. Second, to want the benefits of immortality is to want what lies beyond the human condition. It is like wanting the ability to fly: a power it makes sense to envy but whose absence you should not mourn.
+==========
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+
+Projects are telic: they aim at terminal states. To engage with them successfully is to complete them and so to eliminate meaning from your life. The solution framed in chapter 6 is to invest more fully in atelic activities, ones that have no point of termination or exhaustion—activities like going for a walk, spending time with friends, appreciating art or nature, parenting, or working hard.
+==========
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+
+If you value the process, you have what you want right now; and your engagement does not drain its worth.
+==========
+Midlife (Setiya, Kieran)
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+
+One thing we learn from the practice of meditation is how to attend to the present: to appreciate the value of the atelic amidst the glittering attraction of achievable goals.
+==========
+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
+- Your Highlight on page 3 | Location 58-60 | Added on Monday, January 30, 2023 11:13:39 PM
+
+Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and are hard to replicate.
+==========
+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
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+
+Shallow Work: Noncognitively demanding, logistical-style tasks, often performed while distracted. These efforts tend not to create much new value in the world and are easy to replicate.
+==========
+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
+- Your Highlight on page 14 | Location 203-205 | Added on Friday, February 3, 2023 6:42:47 AM
+
+The Deep Work Hypothesis: The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. As a consequence, the few who cultivate this skill, and then make it the core of their working life, will thrive.
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+
+I build my days around a core of carefully chosen deep work, with the shallow activities I absolutely cannot avoid batched into smaller bursts at the peripheries of my schedule. Three to four hours a day, five days a week, of uninterrupted and carefully directed concentration, it turns out, can produce a lot of valuable output.
+==========
+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
+- Your Highlight on page 28 | Location 339-340 | Added on Sunday, February 5, 2023 10:15:21 PM
+
+In this new economy, three groups will have a particular advantage: those who can work well and creatively with intelligent machines, those who are the best at what they do, and those with access to capital.
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+
+Two Core Abilities for Thriving
+in the New Economy The ability to quickly master hard things. The ability to produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed.
+==========
+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
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+
+If you don’t produce, you won’t thrive—no matter how skilled or talented you are.
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+
+To be great at something is to be well myelinated.
+==========
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+
+To learn hard things quickly, you must focus intensely without distraction.
+==========
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+
+The problem this research identifies with this work strategy is that when you switch from some Task A to another Task B, your attention doesn’t immediately follow—a residue of your attention remains stuck thinking about the original task.
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+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
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+
+To summarize, big trends in business today actively decrease people’s ability to perform deep work, even though the benefits promised by these trends (e.g., increased serendipity, faster responses to requests, and more exposure) are arguably dwarfed by the benefits that flow from a commitment to deep work (e.g., the ability to learn hard things fast and produce at an elite level).
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+
+None of these behaviors would survive long if it was clear that they were hurting the bottom line, but the metric black hole prevents this clarity and allows the shift toward distraction we increasingly encounter in the professional world.
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+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
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+
+The Principle of Least Resistance: In a business setting, without clear feedback on the impact of various behaviors to the bottom line, we will tend toward behaviors that are easiest in the moment.
+==========
+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
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+
+Busyness as Proxy for Productivity: In the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their jobs, many knowledge workers turn back toward an industrial indicator of productivity: doing lots of stuff in a visible manner.
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+
+Gallagher reports. “[Among them is the notion that] ‘the idle mind is the devil’s workshop’ … when you lose focus, your mind tends to fix on what could be wrong with your life instead of what’s right.”
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+
+A workday driven by the shallow, from a neurological perspective, is likely to be a draining and upsetting day, even if most of the shallow things that capture your attention seem harmless or fun.
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+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
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+
+When measured empirically, people were happier at work and less happy relaxing than they suspected. And as the ESM studies confirmed, the more such flow experiences that occur in a given week, the higher the subject’s life satisfaction. Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging.
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+
+connection between deep work and flow should be clear: Deep work is an activity well suited to generate a flow state
+==========
+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
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+
+The connection between deep work and flow should be clear: Deep work is an activity well suited to generate a flow state
+==========
+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
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+
+And as we just learned, flow generates happiness. Combining these two ideas we get a powerful argument from psychology in favor of depth.
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+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
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+
+To build your working life around the experience of flow produced by deep work is a proven path to deep satisfaction.
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+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
+- Your Highlight on page 88 | Location 1046-1048 | Added on Monday, February 20, 2023 10:22:03 PM
+
+The task of a craftsman, they conclude, “is not to generate meaning, but rather to cultivate in himself the skill of discerning the meanings that are already there.” This frees the craftsman of the nihilism of autonomous individualism, providing an ordered world of meaning.
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+
+Any pursuit—be it physical or cognitive—that supports high levels of skill can also generate a sense of sacredness.
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+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
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+
+Deep work, therefore, is key to extracting meaning from your profession in the manner described by Dreyfus and Kelly. It follows that to embrace deep work in your own career, and to direct it toward cultivating your skill, is an effort that can transform a knowledge work job from a distracted, draining obligation into something satisfying
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+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
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+
+You have a finite amount of willpower that becomes depleted as you use it.
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+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
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+
+The key to developing a deep work habit is to move beyond good intentions and add routines and rituals to your working life designed to minimize the amount of your limited willpower necessary to transition into and maintain a state of unbroken concentration.
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+- Your Highlight on page 108 | Location 1264-1267 | Added on Friday, February 24, 2023 11:20:42 PM
+
+Jung’s approach is what I call the bimodal philosophy of deep work. This philosophy asks that you divide your time, dedicating some clearly defined stretches to deep pursuits and leaving the rest open to everything else. During the deep time, the bimodal worker will act monastically—seeking intense and uninterrupted concentration. During the shallow time, such focus is not prioritized.
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+
+This is why the minimum unit of time for deep work in this philosophy tends to be at least one full day. To put aside a few hours in the morning, for example, is too short to count as a deep work stretch for an adherent of this approach.
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+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
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+
+As Jung, Grant, and Perlow’s subjects discovered, people will usually respect your right to become inaccessible if these periods are well defined and well advertised, and outside these stretches, you’re once again easy to find.
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+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
+- Your Highlight on page 111 | Location 1304-1306 | Added on Saturday, February 25, 2023 11:08:34 PM
+
+the rhythmic philosophy. This philosophy argues that the easiest way to consistently start deep work sessions is to transform them into a simple regular habit. The goal, in other words, is to generate a rhythm for this work that removes the need for you to invest energy in deciding if and when you’re going to go deep.
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+
+Another common way to implement the rhythmic philosophy is to replace the visual aid of the chain method with a set starting time that you use every day for deep work.
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+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
+- Your Highlight on page 119 | Location 1405-1406 | Added on Monday, February 27, 2023 10:00:50 PM
+
+To make the most out of your deep work sessions, build rituals of the same level of strictness and idiosyncrasy as the important thinkers mentioned previously.
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+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
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+
+Where you’ll work and for how long. Your ritual needs to specify a location for your deep work efforts.
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+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
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+
+How you’ll work once you start to work. Your ritual needs rules and processes to keep your efforts structured. For example, you might institute a ban on any Internet use, or maintain a metric such as words produced per twenty-minute interval to keep your concentration honed.
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+
+How you’ll support your work. Your ritual needs to ensure your brain gets the support it needs to keep operating at a high level of depth. For example, the ritual might specify that you start with a cup of good coffee, or make sure you have access to enough food of the right type to maintain energy, or integrate light exercise such as walking to help keep the mind clear.
+==========
+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
+- Your Highlight on page 122 | Location 1447-1450 | Added on Monday, February 27, 2023 10:05:29 PM
+
+a curious but effective strategy in the world of deep work: the grand gesture. The concept is simple: By leveraging a radical change to your normal environment, coupled perhaps with a significant investment of effort or money, all dedicated toward supporting a deep work task, you increase the perceived importance of the task. This boost in importance reduces your mind’s instinct to procrastinate and delivers an injection of motivation and energy.
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+
+In all of these examples, it’s not just the change of environment or seeking of quiet that enables more depth. The dominant force is the psychology of committing so seriously to the task at hand. To put yourself in an exotic location to focus on a writing project, or to take a week off from work just to think, or to lock yourself in a hotel room until you complete an important invention: These gestures push your deep goal to a level of mental priority that helps unlock the needed mental resources. Sometimes to go deep, you must first go big.
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+- Your Highlight on page 133 | Location 1576-1579 | Added on Tuesday, February 28, 2023 10:26:06 PM
+
+This back-and-forth represents a collaborative form of deep work (common in academic circles) that leverages what I call the whiteboard effect. For some types of problems, working with someone else at the proverbial shared whiteboard can push you deeper than if you were working alone. The presence of the other party waiting for your next insight—be it someone physically in the same room or collaborating with you virtually—can short-circuit the natural instinct to avoid depth.
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+- Your Highlight on page 138 | Location 1639-1640 | Added on Thursday, March 2, 2023 10:45:35 PM
+
+For an individual focused on deep work, it’s easy to identify the relevant lead measure: time spent in a state of deep work dedicated toward your wildly important goal.
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+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
+- Your Highlight on page 139 | Location 1654-1657 | Added on Thursday, March 2, 2023 10:48:47 PM
+
+As each week progressed, I kept track of the hours spent in deep work that week with a simple tally of tick marks in that week’s row. To maximize the motivation generated by this scoreboard, whenever I reached an important milestone in an academic paper (e.g., solving a key proof), I would circle the tally mark corresponding to the hour where I finished the result.
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+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
+- Your Highlight on page 140 | Location 1666-1667 | Added on Thursday, March 2, 2023 10:50:45 PM
+
+For an individual focused on his or her own deep work habit, there’s likely no team to meet with, but this doesn’t exempt you from the need for regular accountability
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+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
+- Your Highlight on page 144 | Location 1705-1707 | Added on Friday, March 3, 2023 10:59:22 PM
+
+At the end of the workday, shut down your consideration of work issues until the next morning—no after-dinner e-mail check, no mental replays of conversations, and no scheming about how you’ll handle an upcoming challenge; shut down work thinking completely.
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+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
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+
+for decisions that involve large amounts of information and multiple vague, and perhaps even conflicting, constraints, your unconscious mind is well suited to tackle the issue.
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+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
+- Your Highlight on page 146 | Location 1733-1736 | Added on Saturday, March 4, 2023 10:27:23 PM
+
+The implication of this line of research is that providing your conscious brain time to rest enables your unconscious mind to take a shift sorting through your most complex professional challenges. A shutdown habit, therefore, is not necessarily reducing the amount of time you’re engaged in productive work, but is instead diversifying the type of work you deploy.
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+Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Newport, Cal)
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+
+This study, it turns out, is one of many that validate attention restoration theory (ART), which claims that spending time in nature can improve your ability to concentrate.
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+The core mechanism of this theory is the idea that you can restore your ability to direct your attention if you give this activity a rest. Walking in nature provides such a mental respite, but so, too, can any number of relaxing activities so long as they provide similar “inherently fascinating stimuli” and freedom from directed concentration. Having a casual conversation with a friend, listening to music while making dinner, playing a game with your kids, going for a run—the types of activities that will fill your time in the evening if you enforce a work shutdown—play the same attention-restoring role as walking in nature.
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+Reason #1: Downtime Aids Insights
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+Reason #2: Downtime Helps Recharge the
+Energy Needed to Work Deeply
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+Reason #3: The Work That Evening Downtime
+Replaces Is Usually Not That Important
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+Another key commitment for succeeding with this strategy is to support your commitment to shutting down with a strict shutdown ritual that you use at the end of the workday to maximize the probability that you succeed. In more detail, this ritual should ensure that every incomplete task, goal, or project has been reviewed and that for each you have confirmed that either (1) you have a plan you trust for its completion, or (2) it’s captured in a place where it will be revisited when the time is right.
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+Committing to a specific plan for a goal may therefore not only facilitate attainment of the goal but may also free cognitive resources for other pursuits.”
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+When you work, work hard. When you’re done, be done.
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+The ability to concentrate intensely is a skill that must be trained.
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+Much in the same way that athletes must take care of their bodies outside of their training sessions, you’ll struggle to achieve the deepest levels of concentration if you spend the rest of your time fleeing the slightest hint of boredom.
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+People who multitask all the time can’t filter out irrelevancy. They can’t manage a working memory. They’re chronically distracted. They initiate much larger parts of their brain that are irrelevant to the task at hand … they’re pretty much mental wrecks.
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+Don’t Take Breaks from Distraction.
+Instead Take Breaks from Focus.
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+I propose an alternative to the Internet Sabbath. Instead of scheduling the occasional break from distraction so you can focus, you should instead schedule the occasional break from focus to give in to distraction.
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+Schedule in advance when you’ll use the Internet, and then avoid it altogether outside these times.
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+Point #1: This strategy works even if your job requires lots
+of Internet use and/or prompt e-mail replies.
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+Point #2: Regardless of how you schedule your Internet
+blocks, you must keep the time outside these blocks
+absolutely free from Internet use.
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+Point #3: Scheduling Internet use at home as well
+as at work can further improve your
+concentration training.
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+
+To simply wait and be bored has become a novel experience in modern life, but from the perspective of concentration training, it’s incredibly valuable.
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+To summarize, to succeed with deep work you must rewire your brain to be comfortable resisting distracting stimuli. This doesn’t mean that you have to eliminate distracting behaviors; it’s sufficient that you instead eliminate the ability of such behaviors to hijack your attention. The simple strategy proposed here of scheduling Internet blocks goes a long way toward helping you regain this attention autonomy.
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+Roosevelt would begin his scheduling by considering the eight hours from eight thirty a.m. to four thirty p.m. He would then remove the time spent in recitation and classes, his athletic training (which was once a day), and lunch. The fragments that remained were then considered time dedicated exclusively to studying. As noted, these fragments didn’t usually add up to a large number of total hours, but he would get the most out of them by working only on schoolwork during these periods, and doing so with a blistering intensity.
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+The goal of productive meditation is to take a period in which you’re occupied physically but not mentally—walking, jogging, driving, showering—and focus your attention on a single well-defined professional problem.
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+In fact, you might even consider scheduling a walk during your workday specifically for the purpose of applying productive meditation to your most pressing problem at the moment.
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+When faced with a hard problem, your mind, as it was evolved to do, will attempt to avoid excess expenditure of energy when possible. One way it might attempt to sidestep this expenditure is by avoiding diving deeper into the problem by instead looping over and over again on what you already know about it.
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+Suggestion #1: Be Wary of Distractions and Looping
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+Suggestion #2: Structure Your Deep Thinking
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+I suggest starting with a careful review of the relevant variables for solving the problem and then storing these values in your working memory.
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+The Craftsman Approach to Tool Selection: Identify the core factors that determine success and happiness in your professional and personal life. Adopt a tool only if its positive impacts on these factors substantially outweigh its negative impacts.
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+The Law of the Vital Few*: In many settings, 80 percent of a given effect is due to just 20 percent of the possible causes.
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