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AuthorCal Newport
PublisherGrand Central Publishing
Publication dateJanuary 5, 2016
Print length287 pages
Customer Reviews★★★★ / 17,929 ratings
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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 TimesBook 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.

An Amazon Best Book of 2016 Pick in Business & Leadership
Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller
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TheJoeFletch
11-01-2022 at 04:53 AM.
11-01-2022 at 04:53 AM.
I enjoyed this book and his podcast on Tim Ferriss.
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MikeyJohn
11-01-2022 at 02:32 PM.
11-01-2022 at 02:32 PM.
I can save you all some time - I've read the book. Just do one thing at a time. Don't try and multi-task because it's inefficient. If you focus on just one thing at a time you will get it done quicker and to much higher quality compared to if you multi-task.
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11-01-2022 at 02:42 PM.
11-01-2022 at 02:42 PM.
Quote from MikeyJohn :
I can save you all some time - I've read the book. Just do one thing at a time. Don't try and multi-task because it's inefficient. If you focus on just one thing at a time you will get it done quicker and to much higher quality compared to if you multi-task.

Thank you.
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11-01-2022 at 02:45 PM.
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BoastfulTent411
11-01-2022 at 04:49 PM.
11-01-2022 at 04:49 PM.
This book was great, and so were all of his others. Excellent writer.
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slcsez2000
11-01-2022 at 06:37 PM.
11-01-2022 at 06:37 PM.
Quote from MikeyJohn :
I can save you all some time - I've read the book. Just do one thing at a time. Don't try and multi-task because it's inefficient. If you focus on just one thing at a time you will get it done quicker and to much higher quality compared to if you multi-task.

Yes….and the sad truth is that is pretty much what every book says on this topic despite what every job description says haha

THe One Thing is another wonderful book on this.
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