Yo, today's QOD is Deep Work is the killer app of the Knowledge Economy.

Here we go.

Welcome back to the QOD of the Day Show. I'm your host, Sean Croxton, and Sean Croxton.com.

We got a brand new speaker on the show today. His name is Kyle Newport.

I've been reading this book Deep Work over this last week. And this book right here is a game changer.

Let me tell you what Deep Work is. 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.

So the question is, how much time are you spending in deep work? Distraction-free work?

Where you are working on your craft and producing something. You ever wonder how authors get so many books written?

So they come out with a new book every year. You're like, damn, how are they sitting there writing so many books?

Because they're in a state of deep work and concentration.

What most of us do is like shallow work. And then we distract ourselves.

Shallow work, Facebook, shallow work, TV, shallow work, Instagram, constantly checking notifications.

So our brains never get a chance to go into a deep state of concentration and flow.

But we're all capable of that. We just have to change our environment.

He's going to talk about a Bollinger Tower. So I want to give that some context.

Bollinger Tower is a two-story stone home that the famous psychologist Carl Jung built for himself.

And there was no electricity there. It's just where he went to work and to write. Distraction-free.

And he meditated and he went on walks. And that was it.

So if you ever wonder how Carl Jung got so much stuff done, how there's so many volumes of his work, that was how he did it.

And that's what you can do. Remember little by little, little becomes a lot.

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