Deep Work: Rules For Focused Success In A Distracted World By Cal Newport

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. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four “rules,” for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill.

Deep work is the capability to awareness without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It’s a skill that lets you fast grasp complicated facts and produces better effects in less time. Deep work will make you higher at what you do and offer the experience of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like exceptional energy in our increasingly competitive twenty-first-century economy. And yet, most human beings have misplaced the capacity to go deep—spending their days rather in a frantic blur of email and social media, not even realizing there’s a better way.