By Raúl Gorrín. In February 1975 and Bill Gates, a Harvard
sophomore , he was working on his program that would become the software behind
Microsoft two months later. Nothing disturbed him, not school work or exams. He
would doze off at the computer screen and wake up two hours later to continue
his work. His concentration was intense. A few months later he was on his way
to a multi billion dollar company. Bill
Gates is the perfect example of deep work.
Deep work is a book written by Carl Newport. “Deep work
is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task.
It’s a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and
produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you
do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In
short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive
twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go
deep—spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media,
not even realizing there’s a better way. “(Raúl Gorrín humanist entrepreneur)
Carl Newport is not suggesting that we go to the
extremes of Bill Gates. He would work through the night and blocked out the
rest of the world. The author suggest that we show dedication to deep work and
that it requires setting aside stretches of time each week (of say an hour or
two) when you work with urgency and your concentration is not disrupted by
anything, not even a brief moment of daydreaming or getting up for a cup of
coffee.
Examples were given in the book of Carl Jung, the
psychologist, building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind. He
spoke of a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to
Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air.(Raúl Gorrín humanist entrepreneur)
In the book, The Innovators by Walter Isaacson, he
writes about the greatest innovative minds. He writes how Bill Gates survived
by caffeine induced energy from 16 cokes a day to the happening of Apple
because the “demon-driven mesmeriser” Steve
Jobs. The thing they had in common was to block out the external
disturbances of the world.(Raúl Gorrín humanist entrepreneur)
In conclusion, there is no need for many of our
e-mails,, and Facebook and television and phone calls while we should be
concentrating on our work. During work time, apply everything effort you have
to give it a true and complete concentration to the cost of ignoring all the
external stimulates. Deep work is making the job everything at the time we are
involved. ( Raúl Gorrín humanist entrepreneur)
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