Every notification you check and feed you aimlessly scroll through makes it harder to work without distraction for an extended period of time. While deep work sounds simple, Newport believes most people have trained themselves out of this way of working through addictions to disruptive social media and technology. He attributes this success to the unique philosophy he described in his book. My previous rate of two good papers a year… leapt to four good papers a year, on average, once i became a much more encumbered professor,” he wrote in his book, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World. “Not only did I preserve my research productivity, it actually improved. Quickly he began to see positive results.Īfter taking a job as a computer science professor at Georgetown University, Newport’s professional obligations did drastically increase, but he continued to produce original research. He also experimented with tactics like travelling on foot to give himself more time in isolation and actively sought out isolated spaces to work without interruption.
He carefully blocked out his day, and created space for long, uninterrupted hours to write papers and do research. In order to prepare for his transition, Newport spent his final two years at MIT honing and improving a unique productivity philosophy called deep work. However, as his thirties loomed and Newport neared his transition to professorship, he worried that his new demanding schedule would leave little time to explore high-value work like original research and writing.
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