Isaac Newton's deep work methodfrom @kolbykirschner

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Way you've been taught to learn is completely backwards, and Isaac Newton proved that. You sit down to work, check your phone, switch tasks five tier, and at the end of the day, you feel like you've got nothing done. Jumping from task to rank, but never going deep enough to actually make real progress. But true geniuses don't learn like that. Newton used a completely different method, and if you use it, you'll outperform 99% of people in half the time. Welcome to how a true genius learns, a series where we steal the strategies from history's greatest minds. Today is Isaac Newton. Modern world we live in is built for distraction. In school, you focus for an hour, maybe two, then you switch to a different subject. At work, you're constantly bouncing between different rank. But this is the exact opposite of how Newton operated. Newton asked himself a question to help us understand the entire worse, and that was, why does an apple fall? And to answer this question, he literally invented new branches of mathematics and physics. No, yeah, maybe we should pay attention to how we learned. What made Newton different was obsessive single task focus. He would build what I call a fortress of solitude. He'd work for sixteen no eighteen hours straight on a single problem. No distractions, sometimes even skipping meals and barely sleeping. No multitasking, no switching, just one question until it broke. So if you feel like you're working all day better you're getting nowhere, it's not that you're lazy, but it's because you've been trained to think shallow. But if you wanna think how how Newton did, start with this. Per day when you wake up, pick one big question, one thing that you want to work on solving that day. Not 10 things, one. Rank out two to four hours, no phones, no switching tasks, no distractions, go all in. But when you get stuck, do not switch tasks. It will feel uncomfortable, but sit with the discomfort because that is exactly where breakthroughs happen that most people do not have. People who change the world don't do more things like you've been told, but they go deeper on few.