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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World Hardback - 2016

by Cal Newport

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Readers widely praised the book’s core message—that sustained, distraction?free focus is rare, valuable, and trainable—and many found its tactics (time?blocked deep work, shutdown rituals, limited social media, productive meditation) motivating and immediately applicable. Several reported meaningful changes in habits and productivity. Critics, however, called it overlong and repetitive, argued its ideas are largely common sense or unoriginal, and said the evidence leans on anecdotes and overstates causation. They also faulted a self?congratulatory tone, a narrow focus on elite knowledge workers, scant attention to managers or roles requiring constant responsiveness, and a lack of diverse examples. Overall, the reception was mixed: timely and useful as a reminder and spur to action, but not a groundbreaking or universally applicable blueprint.

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Millions of copies sold!

The bestselling modern classic that sparked a worldwide conversation about the value of concentration--and the true costs of fractured attention.

"I'm handing you the answer to the overwhelm you feel, and his name is Dr. Cal Newport." --Mel Robbins, The Mel Robbins Podcast, author of New York Times bestselling The Let Them Theory

Deep Work--the ability to focus without distraction on cognitively demanding tasks--is one of the most important abilities you can cultivate in our current moment. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce quality results in less time.

And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep--spending their days in a frantic blur of emails, online meetings, social media, and AI slop, not realizing there's a better way.

In Deep Work, bestselling author and professor Cal Newport makes the case for reclaiming focus as a critical skill in our digital world, providing step-by step instructions for achieving this goal, including four rules for transforming your daily habits:

1. Work Deeply
2. Embrace Boredom
3. Quit Social Media
4. Drain the Shallows

A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, Deep Work offers a vitally important message: in our age of constant distraction, focus is a superpower. With inspiring examples and clear rules, Deep Work will teach you to introduce this ability in your own life.

"As a presence on the page, Newport is exceptional in the realm of self-help authors ... Six pages in, I powered down my laptop. Twenty pages in, I left the house to buy an alarm clock so that I wouldn't have an excuse to sleep next to my phone."--Molly Young, The New York Times

"One of the few books I would call life-changing." --Tim Maurer, Forbes

"I've read lots of books about productivity and lots of books about distraction. For me, Deep Work is among the best, on both counts." --Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker

"[Deep Work] has changed how I live my life. Particularly, it's led me to stop scheduling morning meetings, and to preserve that time for more sustained, creative work." --Ezra Klein, The Ezra Klein Show

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  • Title Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
  • Author Cal Newport
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition..
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Grand Central Publishing, New York, New York
  • Publication date 2016-01-05
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9781455586691 / 1455586692
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.8 x 1 in (21.59 x 14.73 x 2.54 cm)
  • Category Business / Economics / Finance
  • Library of Congress subjects Success, Cognition
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2015032646
  • Dewey Decimal Code 650.1

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  • Choice, 08/01/2016, Page 0
  • New York Times Book Review, 01/31/2016, Page 27
  • Publishers Weekly, 11/09/2015, Page 0

About the author

Cal Newport is a computer science professor at Georgetown University and a New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including, A World Without Email, Digital Minimalism, So Good They Can't Ignore You, and Deep Work, which have been published in over 35 languages. He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Times, and WIRED, a frequent guest on NPR, and the host of the popular Deep Questions podcast.
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