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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Written by:
Cal Newport
Narrated by:
Jeff Bottoms

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Book
71
Narrator
16
Release Date
January 5, 2016
Duration
8 hours 0 minutes
Summary
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.
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Anonymous

A shallow analysis on how to be productive. TL;DR - cut out distractions, especially social media, computers, smart phones, even telephones, and focus on being productive. Then you too can be a genius like the author. Maybe. The advice given in the book, which could be drastically condensed, is not helpful if you actually work as a software developer, which requires you to be at a computer, writing, reviewing, and testing code.

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Gary B.

Erratic and disheveled. Well written books resonate with many, this book lacks that appeal. A very interesting subject with poor execution.

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Harry Ric B

Good general call for finding time for isolated deep thinking and work. But book is twice as long as it need be.

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Keith Zenker

Excellent and straight forward with tools for practice . Just what the ADHD poster child needed. A work sheet/outline for dummies would be great. But I'm doing that my self to tailor the best fit.

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