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DEEP WORK: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World – Cal Newport

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Cal Newport discusses in his new book, Deep Work: Rules For Focused Success In A Distracted World, how professionals of today have started valuing quantity over quality; and how this has turned young professionals of today into puppets who try to indulge in extensive multitasking, dealing with multiple emails and projects. This prevents them from doing ‘deep work’; which is focused work free from all other distractions. This also means that the professionals of today should sort out their priorities.

Newport uses principles of psychology and neuroscience to enhance his points. He elaborates on how to improve a person’s cognitive abilities and how employers should encourage workers to not take shortcuts in completing projects. He claims that the best way to break away from the corporate race is to take a break from technology and social media and use some alone time to rewind and introspect. Newport enforces the beliefs of a non-technophile to deliver work that is productive and efficiently delivered.

 

Product Details

 

  • ASIN:  0349413681
  • Publisher:  Little, Brown Book Group (12 February 2016)
  • Language:  English
  • Paperback:  304 pages
  • ISBN-10:  9780349413686
  • ISBN-13:  978-0349413686
  • Item Weight:  220 g
  • Dimensions :  20 x 14 x 4 cm
  • Country of Origin:  United Kingdom
  • Generic Name:  Book
  • Condition: New
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Description

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 an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world.

‘Cal Newport is exceptional in the realm of self-help authors’ New York Times

‘Deep work’ is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. Coined by author and professor Cal Newport on his popular blog Study Hacks, deep work will make you better at what you do, let you achieve more in less time and provide the sense of true fulfilment that comes from the mastery of a skill. In short, deep work is like a superpower in our increasingly competitive economy.

And yet most people, whether knowledge workers in noisy open-plan offices or creatives struggling to sharpen their vision, have lost the ability to go deep – spending their days instead in a frantic blur of email and social media, not even realising there’s a better way.

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 surprising suggestions, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored.

Put simply: developing and cultivating a deep work practice is one of the best decisions you can make in an increasingly distracted world and this book will point the way.

Additional information

Weight 0.4 kg
Dimensions 25 × 15 × 3 cm

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