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  3. Part 2, Rule 1: Work Deeply
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Deep Work

Cal Newport's Deep Work: one card for each chapter of Part 1 and each strategy under his four rules, plus the terms he defines, such as shallow work and the four ways to schedule deep work. The matching games use the people and stories from the book.

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Part 2, Rule 1: Work Deeply

How to build deep work into your schedule: four ways to schedule it, routines that get you started, big gestures, working with other people, tracking it like a business, and switching off at the end of the day.

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Flashcards: 13
Pair match: 13
Part 2, Rule 1: Work Deeply – Flashcards
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Card #1

Rule 1: Work Deeply

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Rule 1.1: Decide on Your Depth Philosophy

Card #3

Rule 1.1a: The Monastic Philosophy

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Part 2, Rule 1: Work Deeply – Pair match
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An architect draws a building of five rooms in a line, ending in soundproof chambers for ninety-minute bursts of total focus↔Work deeply
You copy a famous author's rule of answering no email at all, and within a month your manager is furious↔Decide on your depth philosophy
Donald Knuth has had no email since 1990; letters go to a postal address and he answers them in a batch every three months or so↔The monastic philosophy
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