Here's a question for you. Do you feel overwhelmed and burnt out at least some of the time?

I'm going to guess the answer is yes, because rates of overwhelm and burnout are soaring.

And a massive part of the problem is we live in a futuristic world with prehistoric brains.

And we jump from email to WhatsApp, to social media, to rolling news, and round and round we go.

And it's killing our ability to use our most important resource, which is our attention.

If you can't focus, you can't be truly creative

and you certainly can't find flow. I am creating a course to address this exact issue about

banishing burnout and finding flow and I'm going to be sharing more on that over the coming weeks.

But in the meantime, here is the brilliant author of

Deep Work and Digital Minimalism, Professor Count Newport. Deep work is undistracted. So it means

it's an activity in which you are not context shifting. So if you're also glancing at a phone,

if you're also glancing on email, it's not deep work. You're in a state of context confusion, which you're if you're also glancing at a phone, if you're also glancing on email,

it's not deep work.

You're in a state of context confusion, which you're getting a fraction of cognitive capacity.

So it's undistracted work and it's on something cognitively demanding.

So you're applying a cognitive skill that you have developed or trained to, to produce something with your brain that has more value.

You're doing that in a state of non-distraction.

Shallow work is my term for everything else.

So deep work is where I'm locked in the one thing, just using a cognitive still trying to create real value from my brain.

And then everything else is shallow work.

The thing you mentioned, I think is key. Deep work is something

that you can get more comfortable with. So the ability to focus on something very intensely

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