Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted WorldAN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF 2O16 PICK IN BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP WALL STREET JOURNAL BUSINESS BESTSELLER A BUSINESS BOOK OF THE WEEK AT 800-CEO-READ Master one of our economy’s most rare skills and achieve groundbreaking results with this “exciting” book (Daniel H. Pink) from an “exceptional” author (New York Times Book Review). 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 super power 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. |
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... abilities. Deep work, in other words, was exactly the type of effort needed to stand out in a cognitively demanding field like academic psychiatry in the early twentieth century. The term “deep work” is my own and is not something Carl ...
... abilities. Deep work, in other words, was exactly the type of effort needed to stand out in a cognitively demanding field like academic psychiatry in the early twentieth century. The term “deep work” is my own and is not something Carl ...
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... ability to perform deep work . Benn was no exception to this trend . " I was always getting on the Internet and checking my e- mail ; I couldn't stop myself ; it was a compulsion , " Benn said , describing himself during the period ...
... ability to perform deep work . Benn was no exception to this trend . " I was always getting on the Internet and checking my e- mail ; I couldn't stop myself ; it was a compulsion , " Benn said , describing himself during the period ...
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... ability for deep work , Benn excelled . " Some people show up not prepared , " he said . " They can't focus . They can't learn quickly . " Only half the students who started the program with Benn ended up graduating on time . Benn not ...
... ability for deep work , Benn excelled . " Some people show up not prepared , " he said . " They can't focus . They can't learn quickly . " Only half the students who started the program with Benn ended up graduating on time . Benn not ...
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... ability , you're likely to fall behind as technology advances . The second reason that deep work is valuable is because the impacts of the digital network revolution cut both ways . If you can create something useful , its reachable ...
... ability , you're likely to fall behind as technology advances . The second reason that deep work is valuable is because the impacts of the digital network revolution cut both ways . If you can create something useful , its reachable ...
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... ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. As a consequence, the few who cultivate this skill, and then make it the core of their working life ...
... ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. As a consequence, the few who cultivate this skill, and then make it the core of their working life ...
Contents
Deep Work Is Rare | |
Deep Work Is Meaningful | |
Embrace Boredom | |
Quit Social Media | |
Drain the Shallows | |
Conclusion | |
Discover More | |
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