Deep Work
Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
BBB Library: Personal Success
ISBN: 978-1455586691
Editorial Review
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 instead celebrates the power of its opposite.
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If you’re willing to struggle to deploy your mind to its fullest capacity to create things that matter, then you’ll discover that depth generates a life rich with productivity and meaning.
Deep work is way more powerful than most people understand. It’s commitment to this skill that allowed people like Bill Gates to make the most of an unexpected opportunity to create a new industry. To leave the distracted masses to join the focused few is a transformative experience.
Tasks that leverage your expertise tend to be deep tasks and they can therefore provide a double benefit: they return more value per time spent and they stretch your abilities, leading to improvement. On the other hand, a task that anyone can pick up quickly is one that doesn’t leverage expertise, and therefore it can be understood as shallow.
It’s difficult to prevent the trivial from creeping into every corner of your schedule if you don’t face your current balance between deep and shallow work, and then adopt the habit of pausing before action and asking, “What makes the most sense right now?”
For most businesses, if you eliminated significant amounts of this shallowness, their bottom line would likely remain unaffected. If you not only eliminate shallow work but also replace this recovered time with more deeper alternative, not only will the business continue to function; but it can also become more successful.
Addictive websites thrive in a vacuum: if you haven’t given yourself something to do in a given moment, they’ll always beckon as an appealing option.
To master the art of deep work you must take back control of your time and attention from the many diversions that attempt to steal them.
Instead of scheduling occasional break from distraction so you can focus, you should instead schedule the occasional break from focus to give in to distraction.
The use of a distracting service does not, by itself, reduce your brain’s ability to focus. Instead, it’s the constant switching from low-stimuli/high-value activities to high-stimuli/low-value activities, at the slightest hint of boredom or cognitive challenge, that teaches your mind to never tolerate an absence of novelty.
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