{"id":35212,"date":"2021-02-10T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefabulous.co\/qa\/how-much-time-do-they-spend-deep-in-work\/"},"modified":"2022-12-19T16:38:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T16:38:02","slug":"how-much-time-do-they-spend-deep-in-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefabulous.co\/qa\/how-much-time-do-they-spend-deep-in-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How much time do they spend deep in work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Mary O.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">The most I&#39;ve done is 45  minutes. I get too distracted still when I try for longer. 25 minutes is next right now because it forces me to pick discrete tasks rather than a big, nebulous one.<\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"thefa-test2 thefa-entity-placement\" id=\"thefa-1124161562\"><div id=\"thefa-531831572\"><style>.thefa-test2 {margin-bottom: 24px;}<\/style>\r\n<div class=\"banner-content-position light-viol\">\r\n<div class=\"banner-text max400\">Stop wasting your life<\/div>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/start.thefabulous.co\/onboarding\/fabulous-initial?utm_source=community-qa&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=afterfirstquestionoranswer-purple-achievegoals\" class=\"banner-cta red w-inline-block\">\r\n<div>Start living today<\/div><\/a>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Karolina E.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">I have been struggling to focus on my work lately, but I have found that splitting my focused work time into 60 mins, 40 mins, and 30 mins with a 5-10 min break in between each helps me sustain working for two hours.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Monisha Z.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">It depends on whether or not if I have a clear and care-free mind. If I&#39;m stressed or have really bad anxiety, then it&#39;s hard to spend large periods of time focusing on my work. But if I&#39;m highly motivated and if I have a cleared mind, then I could maintain focus on every activity I do that day!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">James P.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">I usually only try for about 20 &#8211; 25 minutes. But if you really get into your work it&#39;s ok to go longer, and often times you won&#39;t realize that you have. Just allow yourself to really dive in and forget everything else and you&#39;ll know when it&#39;s a good time to stop based off of how you feel you&#39;ve done in relation to the work. Good luck and keep going. Small steps lead to big change so be nice to yourself, small steps come first.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Phoenix E.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">Focus less on the time and more on the quality. I try to give myself an hour or project or so (I&#39;m dual enrolled that&#39;s a lot of work.) But I have no real office space. And that makes it hard to focus. Today, when I started work I was immediately interrupted by a missing notebook, and then I had to use the bathroom, and then my mother came home and have me a 30 minute story of her collage professors before turning on the news. In order for deep work to work, it&#39;s up to you to find out how much you can take. But it can only be good work if distractions are eliminated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">S Rgio S.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">I spend 25 minutes in deep work. However, once the time is up, I spend another 25 minutes in deep work untill I have finished my task.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Deborah I.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">I&#39;m a full time student so I try to study at least 4-5 hours a day. Usually I use the pomodoro technique to keep me focused and motivated. If I have to read, study or write a summary I set my pomodoro&#39;s length at 50 minutes. This gives me enough time to read through some material and understand it. When I have to do practice questions I use the 25-minute pomodoro since they&#39;re faster to solve than &quot;read and study chapter one&quot;.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Anna G.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">I like to spend at least thirty minutes in deep work. For me that is with background noise but not something so interesting that I can&#39;t focus anymore. The rest of the time of upto 3 hours I like noises, getting up moving and doing different parts of the project.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Roger Z.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">about an hour or so, i get distracted really easily so sometimes i never do get a chance to study. I also suffer from depression and anxiety which really makes me overthink things that sometimes can be about my grades and studies. That\u2019s why i downloaded this app. I figured it may motivate me from time to time \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Isa As A.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">stau si lucrez foarte mult. de dimineata pana seara,  uneori cate 13 ore pe zi, stiu ca nu e bine, dar am foarte multe de facut si trebuie facute.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">C I.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">It can be hard for me to not get distracted sometimes, so I&#39;ve been trying to start small by investing 15-30 minutes on a given project, and just do as much as I can in that time.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Jonathan X.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">Sometimes 20 minutes. Other times multiple hours. It depends on how invested I am in the task and how easy I make it to ignore distractions.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Hermann X.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">I put on a classical playlist and spend like 45 minutes deep focusing with a 15 minute break. I like the Pomodoro technique but the breaks are just too frequent and short for me.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Ned N.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">I use an app called Focus, which is the pomodoro technique, many apps available for this method, combined with OmniFocus which is the GTD method, I drag my action list from OmniFocus into Focus supports and 25 minute sessions, 5 minute breaks for a total of two hours or until the task is done. After 4 sessions (2 hours) take a longer 20 minute break. You can configure your sessions longer or shorter in Focus, the default works well for me.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Barbora Y.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">Not as much as I used to. I get distracted easily and my mind drifts all the time. I often think about people from my past who I\u2019ll never be with again and torture myself with these intrusive thoughts. I often think about my future, full of worries and anxiety. I want to slow down and relax and be calmer and more present. But it\u2019s very hard for me to do so. I\u2019m still looking for my inner peace.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Nawalnz E.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">Given 25 minutes, but actually i spend more times, 1-2 hours or even more. The 25 minutes duration is helpful to get me started. Because that&#39;s my problem is &#8211; to get started.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Crissy F.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">I&#39;m just starting to exercise my focus so what I do now is start off with half hour power work. Meaning I just focus on one task and power through one task for a whole half hour. The goal is to be able to do this for hours at a time.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Kay E.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">It depends what I&#39;m working on and what day it is. After I finish work Monday to Friday I might only do 25 mins of deep work. At the weekend it could be 2-3 hours at a time.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Noah P.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">An average of 30 minutes should suffice as the brain&#39;s attention span is about 45 mins. This would do for someone who already has a routine for deep work.<br \/>\nFor someone starting out on acquiring this habit,  it could be daunting.<br \/>\nI would propose spending 20-25 mins when starting  and gradually increase to 45 mins.<br \/>\nThe most important thing is to start with what is comfortable and keep pushing the limit until you reach the goal \ud83d\ude0a<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Ross T.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">It depends on the amount of work I&#39;ve got to do! I&#39;ll always do at least 25 mins and will sometimes do as much as 90 minutes in one burst but not more!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-answer\">\n<div class=\"who-answered\">Nanos M.<\/div>\n<div class=\"detailed-answer\">I cant stand to exercise, so I just pull out a yoga mat or stand on a rug and stretch. 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