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Get Better at Deep Breaks - the Blacklight

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Productivity hacks are our jam at the Blacklight, as seen here, here, and here. Today we’ve got two new ones on the agenda: deep work and deep breaks. These practices go together like PB&J, milk and cookies, and, if it’s after 5 o’clock, gin and tonic. But first, let’s start with some definitions. Deep work, a term coined by best-selling author and Georgetown computer science professor Cal Newport, is the ability to focus intently without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. That simply means you’re working on something hard, and you’re thinking hard about it. This isn’t like the much-lauded flow state, where you’re so absorbed that you lose all sense of time and space. With deep work, you give your undivided attention to the task for around 50 minutes. Then, it’s time for a 10–15-minute break. Unfortunately, many of us have yet to access the magical productivity levels created by deep work. We’re constantly distracted because we can’t shake the siren call of our phones. For ex

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