Cal Newport

Deep Work

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An Amazon Best Book of January 2016 in Business & Leadership Pick

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…
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  • Michael Vigatoshared an impressionlast year
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    Had to drop it. The first 20% of the book is just reiterating over and over again why deep work matters and gives no meaningful improvement points for the Reader. I know deep work is important, I already bought to book, get to the point

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  • forgetenothas quoted6 years ago
    Two Core Abilities for Thriving in the New Economy
    1. The ability to quickly master hard things.

    2. The ability to produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed.
  • zuzuhasanli97has quoted7 years ago
    Throughout history, skilled laborers have applied sophistication and skepticism to their encounters with new tools and their decisions about whether to adopt them. There’s no reason why knowledge workers cannot do the same when it comes to the Internet—the fact that the skilled labor here now involves digital bits doesn’t change this reality.
  • b7798205114has quoted2 years ago
    Tim Ferriss once wrote: “Develop the habit of letting small bad things happen. If you don’t, you’ll never find time for the life-changing big things

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