# Deep Work ## Metadata * Author: [Cal Newport](https://www.amazon.comundefined) * ASIN: B00X47ZVXM * ISBN: 1455586692 * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00X47ZVXM * [Kindle link](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00X47ZVXM) ## Highlights 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. — location: [58](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00X47ZVXM&location=58) ^ref-33339 --- The sixteenth-century essayist Michel de Montaigne, for example, prefigured Jung by working in a private library he built in the southern tower guarding the stone walls of his French château, while Mark Twain wrote much of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in a shed on the property of the Quarry Farm in New York, where he was spending the summer. Twain’s study was so isolated from the main house that his family took to blowing a horn to attract his attention for meals. — location: [69](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00X47ZVXM&location=69) ^ref-59213 --- Microsoft CEO Bill Gates famously conducted “Think Weeks” twice a year, during which he would isolate himself (often in a lakeside cottage) to do nothing but read and think big thoughts. — location: [81](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00X47ZVXM&location=81) ^ref-19582 ---