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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Cal Newport

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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

by Cal Newport
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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Mastering focus in the age of distraction.

If you're feeling constantly sidetracked by the noise of emails, social media, and endless meetings, "Deep Work" can be your guide to reclaiming focus. Cal Newport elegantly lays out strategies that can help you dive into tasks that require deep thought without getting lost in the shallows. It's ideal for anyone struggling to concentrate in today's distraction-fueled world, especially if your goal is to produce high-quality work efficiently. Newport's book is a call-to-arms for knowledge workers to prioritize depth over breadth.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2016)
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by Cal Newport
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ISBN: 9780349413686
Author: Cal Newport
Publisher: Little Brown
Date of Publication: 2013-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Personal Development, Philosophy, Business
Related Topics: Productivity, Management, Personal Development, Leadership, Self Help, Productivity, Personal Development, Business, Leadership, Psychology
Goodreads rating: 4.16
(rated by 191819 readers)

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Deep Work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep Work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, Deep Work is like a superpower in our increasingly competitive twenty-first-century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep—spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way. In Deep Work, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four "rules," for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill. 1. Work Deeply 2. Embrace Boredom 3. Quit Social Media 4. Drain the Shallows. A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, Deep Work takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories—from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air—and no-nonsense advice, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. Deep Work is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world.
 

Mastering focus in the age of distraction.

If you're feeling constantly sidetracked by the noise of emails, social media, and endless meetings, "Deep Work" can be your guide to reclaiming focus. Cal Newport elegantly lays out strategies that can help you dive into tasks that require deep thought without getting lost in the shallows. It's ideal for anyone struggling to concentrate in today's distraction-fueled world, especially if your goal is to produce high-quality work efficiently. Newport's book is a call-to-arms for knowledge workers to prioritize depth over breadth.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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