The Cost of a Distraction Is the Climb Back

The interruption took a minute.
Getting back took twenty.

That's the part nobody counts.

Deep work isn't fragile because it's weak.
It's fragile because it's high.

Every distraction knocks you down the hill,
and you have to climb again
just to reach where you were.

Guard the climb.
The depth is where the value is.

– Serguey Asael Shinder