
Deep Work
- 303 pages · about 5 hours
- First published 2016
- 16 editions
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1 About this book
One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results.
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.
- Business & economics
- Employee motivation
- Distraction (Psychology)
- Success
- Cognition
- Mental fatigue
- Attention
- Success in business
2 What to expect
An argument that focused, distraction-free work is rare and valuable, with practical rules for doing more of it. Clear and direct.
Good for readers who want: focus, productivity, and practical advice.
3 About Cal Newport
4 More by Cal Newport
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