Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

By Cal Newport

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. In this book, Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite.

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Book Information

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publish Date: 01/05/2016
Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781455586691
ISBN-10: 1455586692
Language: English

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December 06, 2016

These eight books, the top in their category, make up the shortlist for the 2016 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

December 01, 2016

The five finalists in the Personal Development & Human Behavior category help us make sense of ourselves and the world around us, to dig deeper and get to work. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

November 01, 2016

If you're going to read 40 business books published in 2016, make them this 40—or, I suppose, choose from among them. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

March 03, 2016

Douglas Rushkoff, in his usual expansive and incredibly erudite manner, dissects the digital economy and points a more considered way forward. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

January 21, 2016

In the second part of our interview with Cal Newport, we ask him what his biggest question about work culture is, and what books have influenced him. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

January 20, 2016

A Q&A with Cal Newport

By Dylan Schleicher

Cal Newport has a penchant for challenging accepted wisdom and exposing a deeper truth in our work lives. His new book explains why the technology taking over our work is undermining our ability to do it to our greatest ability. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

January 07, 2016

Cal Newport details the advantages of deeper focus and concentration, of "deep work," and how to cultivate it. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

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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.

About the Author

Cal Newport's background is in computer engineering, and is currently on the faculty at Georgetown. He runs the popular advice blog, Study Hacks, and has a tremendous presence and following online.

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