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

Newport, Cal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349411905 ISBN 13: 9780349411903

Publisher: Piatkus, 2016

Synopsis

One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results.

Deep Work is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world.

'Cal Newport is exceptional in the realm of self-help authors' New York Times

'Deep work' is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. Coined by author and professor Cal Newport on his popular blog Study Hacks, deep work will make you better at what you do, let you achieve more in less time and provide the sense of true fulfilment that comes from the mastery of a skill. In short, deep work is like a superpower in our increasingly competitive economy.

And yet most people, whether knowledge workers in noisy open-plan offices or creatives struggling to sharpen their vision, have lost the ability to go deep - spending their days instead in a frantic blur of email and social media, not even realising there's a better way.

A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, Deep Work takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories -- from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air -- and surprising suggestions, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored.

Put simply: developing and cultivating a deep work practice is one of the best decisions you can make in an increasingly distracted world. This book will point the way.

About this title

About the Author

Cal Newport, Ph.D., lives in Washington, DC, where he is a writer and an assistant professor of computer science at Georgetown University. He is the author of SO GOOD THEY CAN'T IGNORE YOU and three books of unconventional advice for students. He runs the popular website Study Hacks: Decoding Patterns of Success.

From the Back Cover

One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results. Deep Work will show you how.

'Deep work' is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It will make you better at what you do, enable you to achieve more in less time and provide the sense of true fulfilment that comes from the mastery of a skill.

In short, deep work is like a superpower in our increasingly competitive economy.

Developing a deep work practice is one of the best decisions you can make, and yet most people have lost the ability to go deep - spending their days instead in a frantic blur of email and social media, not even realising there's a better way.

This life-changing book presents a mix of cultural criticism, compelling manifesto and immediately actionable advice for cultivating your focus and achieving success across all aspects of life.

Deep Work is an indispensable guide to thriving in a distracted world.

'Depth isn't at odds with a full life - it facilitates it. I'm persuaded' Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks

'An introduction and guide to the kind of intense concentration in a distraction-free environment that results in fast, powerful learning and performance' Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive

'The most well-informed and astute collection of practical advice I have seen for reclaiming one's mental powers' Matthew B. Crawford, author of The World Beyond Your Head

Edition details

• Publisher: Piatkus
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0349411905
• ISBN 13: 9780349411903
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304