Deep Work

Name: Deep Work
Author: Cal Newport

by Cal Newport · 2016

🏷 Self-Improvement 📅 2016 📄 296pp

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Newport argues that the ability to focus without distraction is becoming both increasingly rare and increasingly valuable. Mastering deep work is the key to thriving in the modern knowledge economy.

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Cal Newport defines deep work as professional activity performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that pushes your cognitive capabilities to their limit. It creates new value, improves your skill, and is hard to replicate. Shallow work—email, meetings, social media—is almost the opposite.

Newport argues we are in an era of "attention residue": switching tasks means part of your attent…

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