You Check Your Phone Every 5 Minutes

April 17, 2025

“Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things … fail because we lack concentration- the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?” -John D Rockefeller

‘Deep work’ is a concept that was popularized by Cal Newport’s book. It describes a flow state free of distraction that allows you to push your cognitive capabilities to your ceiling. It typically takes someone 15-20 minutes to really settle into a state of deep work. Here’s the problem:

The average American checks their phone 205 times during the day or, roughly every 5 minutes. We live in a perpetual shallow state of work.

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