diff --git a/christian-lifestyles/DeepWork.md b/christian-lifestyles/DeepWork.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bb9a3e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/christian-lifestyles/DeepWork.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +# Deep Work + +## Newport's Last Argument: Deep Work is Meaningful +1. What about being a craftsman supports deep work and a good life? How is that made more difficult with knowledge work? + * There is a inherent good feelign about having created somethign with your two hands. Furthermore it made more difficult when you make the practical output of it invisible. +2. What is the neurological arugment that supports depth? What are some of the main ways we lose depth and peace throughout our day? + * Whatever we focus our worldview on that is what we tend to pay close attention. +3. What was Mihaly Csikentmihalyi's discovery regarding the best moments in our days? What was supprising connection does she have with free time? + * Our best moments are those when we are in a state of flow. Free time is often less happy than people spending time at work. +4. How does craftsmanship support our need for meaning in a culture that tends to state that all meaning is self-generated? + * not to generate meaning but to cultivate in the skill of understanding of the object inside. +5. What is Newport's point regarding coding, craftsmen, and cathedrals? + * His point is that knowledge work can also have the same craftsman mindset as the physical craftsman