(2020-03-17) Newport The Deep Life Some Notes

Cal Newport: The Deep Life: Some Notes. To me, the deep life is about focusing with energetic intention on things that really matter — in work, at home, and in your soul — and not wasting too much attention on things that don’t. (SimplestThing)

The tricky part in cultivating a deep life, of course, is figuring out what things matter. This will differ between different people. I strive to divide my focused attention among four categories:

• community (family, friends, etc.),
• craft (work and quality leisure),
• constitution (health), and
• contemplation (matters of the soul).

They all interact: constitution enables better craft, while contemplation, as it so often does, provides a template for basically everything that’s important.