Learning & talent
Your deep work budget
Real, focused work is where skill and value are actually built, and it is far scarcer than your calendar suggests. Every interruption costs roughly 23 minutes to fully refocus. Set your day and see how many deep hours actually survive.
- Real deep hours / day
- 1.6
- Per year (48 wks)
- 384h
- Lost to refocusing / year
- 576h
Cutting interruptions is usually a bigger win than adding hours. Protecting two unbroken focus blocks beats a day full of fragments.