Deep Work
Books | Business & Economics / Time Management
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Cal Newport
From a New York Times bestselling author, learn to master one of our economy’s rarest skills–the ability to focus–and achieve groundbreaking results. Deep work is the power to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time–a superpower in our increasingly competitive economy. In Deep Work, author and professor Cal Newport presents 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 uses examples from Carl Jung to social media pioneers to demonstrate how great thinkers have focused their minds in a nonstop world.
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Author
Cal Newport
Pages
288
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Published Date
2016-01-05
ISBN
1455586668 9781455586660
Ratings
Google: 4
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"You'll want to work on longform/hard projects after reading this. Decent tips for combating distractions, interruptions, and getting stuff done."
Jesse Gauntt
"Another interesting read from Cal Newport. Found this one much more relatable than the last I read. Newport gives suggestions for how to create more "deep work" in your day to day life - focusing completely without distraction. At my never-ending multitasking job some of this is definitely not feasible, but it's neat to read. A lot of cool real-life examples and I enjoyed being able to learn how the strategy to memorize a deck of cards."
Victoria Dears
"Fascinating and a compelling book arguing the need for focus and deep work in life. I am almost a convert now and ready to plunge in this style. Really a good read."
Santhosh Guru
"Main takeaway is avoid social media and emails since they're a distraction and interrupt deep work. Deep work being any work that involves intense concentration. Also multitasking actually makes one less productive and create lesser quality work. Set up routines to get into the mindset to do deep work. <br/><br/>There's some practical, common sense information in here, but stretches thin in a book that's twice as long as it should be."
Liesl Prentice
"<strong>Just ok</strong><br/><br/>Perhaps its because I’ve been living the life of the need for “deep work” for years and so already knew much of what was in here, or perhaps it’s because it’s always hard for me to read a professor’s take on what they’re assuming corporate life is (and I say this as a professor’s daughter and someone who had aspired to that life myself until I was called to a different vocation), I didn’t get a lot out of the book. I also thought about the assumption that email is always bad, always a distraction, and should often just not be answered. In some worlds, email represents relationship, collaboration, and teamwork. And when someone just doesn’t answer an email but doesn’t explain why, I find that extremely frustrating because it often holds up work I’m can’t do until they get around to it! I can’t be so Machiavellian to mine, but it also means that I’ve had to think through different interpretations to my work than “shallow” and “deep.” In any case, as in most of these books, there are a few good ideas in here, but I skimmed the whole book in about 90 minutes."
Sandra Hasenauer
