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#1. Irrespective of what type of work you do, the craftsman mindset is crucial for building a career you love. Before

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#2. To remain valuable in our economy, therefore, you must master the art of quickly learning complicated things. This task requires deep work. If you don't cultivate this ability, you're likely to fall behind as technology advances. The

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#3. consider the common practice of setting up regularly occurring meetings for projects. These meetings tend to pile up and fracture schedules to the point where sustained focus during the day becomes impossible. Why do they persist? They're easier.

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#4. what we choose to focus on and what we choose to ignore - plays in defining the quality of our life.

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#5. Your will, in other words, is not a manifestation of your character that you can deploy without limit; it's instead like a muscle that tires.

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#6. Do some good in the world for no other reason than wanting to be part of the solution.

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#7. With so little input from labor, the proportion of this wealth that flows back to the machine owners - in this case, the venture investors - is without precedent. It's no wonder that a venture capitalist I interviewed for my last book admitted to me with some concern, "Everyone wants my job.

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#8. All it takes is an ideology seductive enough to convince you to discard common sense.

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#9. If you can't learn, you can't thrive.

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#10. To maximize your chances of success, you should deploy small, concrete experiments that return concrete feedback.

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#11. Ericsson notes that for a novice, somewhere around an hour a day of intense concentration seems to be a limit, while for experts this number can expand to as many as four hours - but rarely more.

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#12. he came to realize a simple truth: Working right trumps finding the right work. He didn't need to have a perfect job to find occupational happiness - he needed instead a better approach to the work already available to him.

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#13. Telling someone to "follow their passion" is not just an act of innocent optimism, but potentially the foundation for a career riddled with confusion and angst.

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#14. As the author Tim Ferriss once wrote: "Develop the habit of letting small bad things happen. If you don't, you'll never find time for the life-changing big things.

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#15. If you want to love what you do, abandon the passion mindset ("what can the world offer me?") and instead adopt the craftsman mindset ("what can I offer the world?").

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#16. In an age of network tools, in other words, knowledge workers increasingly replace deep work with the shallow alternative - constantly sending and receiving e-mail messages like human network routers, with frequent breaks for quick hits of distraction.

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#17. If you service low-impact activities, therefore, you're taking away time you could be spending on higher-impact activities. It's a zero-sum game.

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#18. Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love - is the sum of what you focus on.

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#19. (As Nietzsche said: "It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.")

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#20. 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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#21. If you don't produce, you won't thrive - no matter how skilled or talented you are.

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#22. the happiest, most passionate employees are not those who followed their passion into a position, but instead those who have been around long enough to become good at what they do. On reflection, this makes sense.

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#23. 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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#24. Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don't simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction.

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#25. Two Core Abilities for Thriving in the New Economy 1. The ability to quickly master hard things. 2. The ability to produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed.

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#26. Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not.

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#27. No one owes you a great career, it argues; you need to earn it - and the process won't be easy.

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#28. Start small and start immediately.

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#29. Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. In other words, what you do for a living is much less important than how you do it.

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#30. I'll call this output-centric approach to work the craftsman mindset. My

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