Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

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 peo-pie 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 argulng that distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce masslve beneflts. He then presents a rigor-ous training régimen, presented as a serles of four “rules” for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill. A mix of cultural critlcism and actionable advice, DEEP WORK takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories and no-nonsense strate-gies. DEEP WORK is an indispensable gulde to anyone seeking focused success in a dlstracted world.