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  • Tell me how familiar this sounds to you.

  • You've got some work to do, so you pack up your backpack.

  • You find the perfect study space,

  • perfect amount of sunlight, plenty of space to work in,

  • a little bit of nature thrown in,

  • a fatherly picture of Nick Offerman staring down at you.

  • You brew yourself a fresh cup of coffee.

  • On go the noise-canceling headphones,

  • and you find yourself an excellently tailored study playlist

  • to accompany your impending deep dive into the practical

  • uses of l'hopital's rule rule for Monday's calc assignment.

  • Everything is set up perfectly for you to start

  • doing some good old fashioned deep work, and then...

  • - [Friend] Oh hey Tom, productivity guru,

  • is that, uh, is that the IKEA cabinet planner?

  • - No uh, it's for research.

  • - [Friend] You're disgusting.

  • - Now I know what you're thinking.

  • - It's too real Roy, it's too real!

  • - It's the same thing that I think all the time,

  • how can I make sure that when I sit down to

  • do my work, I actually do my work instead of

  • falling into a distracted rut?

  • After all, just sitting down at my desk isn't gonna result

  • in really anything getting done.

  • One of my favorite lines in Cal Newport's book

  • Deep Work is his productivity equation.

  • Time times intensity of focus equals

  • quality of work produced.

  • One of his case studies in the book, Peter Roosevelt,

  • though at this time a freshman at Harvard University,

  • knew this rule really really well.

  • His biographer Edmund Morris wrote that every single day

  • Roosevelt would look at his schedule between the hours of

  • 8:30 and 4:30 and block off everything

  • that was already scheduled.

  • Things like classes, recitations, lunch,

  • and his athletic training.

  • Anything leftover was time spent for studying.

  • And Morris noted that 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.

  • So the question that we wanna answer today is

  • how do you achieve that ability to work with that

  • blistering intensity like Roosevelt did?

  • And hopefully the following seven tips that I have compiled

  • will help you get started.

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  • First off, when you go into a work session,

  • have a single target of focus.

  • One of my biggest pitfalls in my professional life

  • is that I'll wake up in the morning and

  • I'll create a list of things I need to do but then

  • when I sit down, I don't choose one to work on.

  • I get confused and I don't really know which one

  • that I wanna start with which leads to me just getting

  • distracted and looking at car specs on the internet.

  • So, one piece of advice that I'm really trying

  • to apply in my own life and that you should too is that

  • before you earnestly start a work session,

  • decide on the one task that you're going to work on,

  • this creates limitations for yourself which can be

  • very, very helpful as is emphasized by

  • one of my favorite quotes from all time

  • which comes from the I Ching

  • "Unlimited possibilities are not suited to man,

  • if they existed his life would only

  • dissolve in the boundless.

  • To become strong, a mans life needs limitation

  • ordained by duty and voluntarily accepted."

  • Now there is a lot more that could be said

  • about this passage as it applies to many, many

  • areas of life but in this particular context,

  • just remember that one particular single focus

  • creates limitation that narrows and strengthens

  • your level of focus.

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  • Tip number two is to keep the work session sacred

  • and what I mean by this is that when you sit down

  • to do you work and you've chosen your one task,

  • only work on that task.

  • Don't do anything before even if it's light,

  • even if its checking your email, even if its

  • watching a little video on YouTube or even if it's eating.

  • So this comes from a common pitfall that I've noticed

  • in my own work.

  • I will get it into my head that I need to go

  • to a coffee shop because that's my favorite place to focus

  • so I will go to Starbucks and then sometimes I'm a little

  • hungry so I'll get like a little breakfast sandwich,

  • one of those little protein packs and a coffee,

  • and of course I don't wanna do real work while I'm eating

  • so I'll look at Reddit or I'll look at YouTube or

  • I'll do something really really light while I

  • eat that sandwich.

  • The problem is, now I've gotten myself into a distracted rut

  • and it's very hard for me to transition myself

  • into the real work that I actually went to Starbucks to do.

  • So the change for me is eat breakfast at home or eat

  • whatever meal it is at home and then only go

  • to the coffee shop to get coffee and to do work, no food.

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  • A third way to keep your level of focus high is to ensure

  • that you're using the right tools and maintaining them.

  • I love to cook, it's one of my favorite things to do

  • at night when I'm done working.

  • But one of the things that can make me really not

  • want to cook is a dull chef's knife.

  • If you've ever tried to cut an onion or an eggplant

  • or really anything with a dull knife it is not fun to do

  • at all and actually it's pretty dangerous as well.

  • Now on occasions in the past, I've let my knife

  • get dull and a lot of times when that happens,

  • I'll start using it and I'll start cooking a meal

  • but then I'll get frustrated and then we'll just end up

  • ordering take out.

  • So I've learned that if I wanna be cooking

  • on a consistent basis, which I do because it's healthy

  • and it's fun to do, I need to sharpen my knife

  • on a consistent basis as well.

  • Every couple weeks or every month at the very least.

  • Now this doesn't mean that you need to wait around

  • to have the perfect tools to start doing your work

  • because that is a road you don't wanna go down.

  • But just like a knife's edge dulls a little bit

  • every single time you use it, something like say

  • your computer's file system, gets unorganized

  • every time you use it.

  • So build a little time in your schedule to maintain

  • the tools that you already have and if an opportunity

  • presents itself to acquire a better tool that's not gonna

  • take a ton of time or resources, take it.

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  • Now for the fourth and least fun tip on this list.

  • If you want to work with that blistering level of intensity,

  • if you wanna be like Teddy Roosevelt, you need to practice.

  • An intense work ethic is something that is built over time

  • just like the calluses on the hands of a lumberjack.

  • When you start out you might be able to focus intensely for

  • say 20 minutes, but day after day after you keep doing it

  • again and again, that ability is going to

  • grow and strengthen.

  • A couple of years ago I realized that I wasn't reading

  • as many books as I wanted to, so I bet my friend Martin

  • 100 dollars that I would read 25 pages every single day

  • for three months.

  • When that challenge started, I found it really hard to read

  • 25 pages a day especially if the book that I had selected

  • was really technical or detail oriented but something

  • interesting happened as the months went on.

  • Later in the challenge I found it really easy to

  • intensely focus on those 25 pages even if they took

  • a full hour to read until I was done.

  • So if your initial attempts to work with that intense

  • level of focus seem difficult, just remember that over time

  • it's going to get easier and your ability to do it

  • is going to improve.

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  • Tip number five is to use timers to guide your work but

  • leave some buffer room at the end of those timers

  • in your schedule.

  • Now I talk a lot on the channel about

  • the Pomodoro technique, setting a timer for 25 minutes

  • and working on that single task you selected and

  • nothing else until the timer goes off.

  • But a lot of people seem to think that they're obligated

  • to take a break at the end of that Pomodoro session

  • and I don't do this.

  • For me, the Pomodoro session is just a way to get started,

  • to overcome that initial resistance to doing the work.

  • But once I get into it, I often work for an hour or more.

  • I ignore the timer when it goes off.

  • The thing is, it can really take some time to get into

  • that state of mind where you're

  • really intensely focused on your task.

  • You can't do it within five or ten minutes so again,

  • the Pomodoro technique is just a way

  • to get yourself started.

  • Let yourself work past the end of that timer.

  • That being said don't give yourself too much time either.

  • Because time pressure can be a very powerful motivator.

  • As the author Adriana Trigiani once said,

  • "There's nothing an artist needs more,

  • even more than excellent tools and stamina,

  • than a deadline."

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  • Our sixth principle was best expressed by the artist

  • Pablo Picasso,

  • "Without great solitude, no serious work is possible."

  • If you want to be able to focus on your work intensely

  • and get really good creative work done, for the most part

  • you need to be doing it alone.

  • Now there are obviously caveats to this,

  • a lot of good collaborative work is done in teams.

  • But often the best way the teams work is by coming together

  • for short little bursts, communicating, collaborating

  • and then having everyone go off to work in solitude

  • to really focus on their assigned part of the project.

  • And there are even some times when working together

  • with a partner for a full work session does work well.

  • When I took statistics back in my sophomore year,

  • I did have a partner who would come to my dorm every

  • single time we had an assignment, we would do it

  • together but what I concluded about that experience is

  • number one, I wasn't good friends with this person at all,

  • she would show up, we would do our work, and that was

  • basically the extent of our relationship.

  • And secondly, statistics is a particular kind of subject

  • where you can kind of come to the answer very logically.

  • Math works that way.

  • But if you were writing something or doing something

  • that requires more of a creative mindset,

  • it's better to do it alone.

  • And to reiterate, that statistics partner was somebody

  • I didn't really know well.

  • A lot of times, working with study partners means

  • that you're working with friends which means

  • the conversation inevitably drifts into other things

  • besides your assignment.

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  • And finally tip number seven,

  • give yourself time for recovery.

  • Nobody can work intensely all the time and if you try to

  • you're eventually going to burn out.

  • So take advantage of the flip side of

  • that productivity equation.

  • If you wanna have intense focus, you use a little bit

  • of time on your studies and the time left over you can use

  • to relax, you can use to play video games or

  • pursue something that's really interesting to you

  • or hang out with friends.

  • All that time spent relaxing may not seem productive

  • in the moment but it's gonna leave you refreshed and

  • able to focus with that all important blistering intensity

  • the next time that you do need to work.

  • Now in addition to all the practices that we've gone over

  • in this video, another essential ingredient in the formula

  • for intense focus is interest.

  • Without some amount of interest in your subject,

  • your brain is gonna resist all of your attempts

  • to focus on it.

  • And one of the best ways to spark that interest is to

  • give yourself a challenge, something to actively work on.

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  • for efficient learning.

  • For example, in the first ten minutes of their

  • into to probability course I found myself having to learn

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  • In a normal classroom I probably would've had to start out

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  • telling everyone my favorite dog is and then passively

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  • before actively being challenged.

  • And while this active approach to learning will help you

  • more quickly reach mastery of the specific

  • concepts you're studying, it all serves as crucial practice

  • for building a mental framework that will allow you to apply

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