How do people produce things that matter? Up by 7 for breakfast… Two hours of uninterrupted writing… An afternoon of meditation and thinking on long walks in the woods… Light the fire and lamps… In bed by 10… Deep Work Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capacities to their limit. Deep work helps you learn complicated things. Deep work helps you produce better quantity and quality of results. The Deep Work Hypothesis The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy.