20210261234 - The Whiteboard Effect

• The presence of the other party waiting for your next insight - be it someone physically in the same room or collaborating with you virtually - can short-circuit the natural instinct to avoid depth.

1. Distraction remains the destroyer of depth
   1. Separate your pursuit of serendipitous encounters from your efforts to think deeply and build these inspirations
2. When you retreat to a spoke to think deeply, when it is reasonable to leverage the Whiteboard effect, do so
   1. By working side by side with someone on a problem, you can push each other toward deeper levels of depth

Tags: #Productivity #lifeAdvice
Title: { Deep Work
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Author: & Cal Newport
Reference: Newport, Cal (2018). Deep Work: rules for focused success in a distracted world. Grand Central Pub.