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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 and this book will point the way.

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As a presence on the page, Newport is exceptional in the realm of self-help authors, New York Times Book Review

DEEP WORK accomplishes two considerable tasks: One is putting out a wealth of concrete practices for the ambitious, without relying on gauzy clichés. The second is that Mr. Newport resists the corporate groupthink of constant connectivity without seeming like a curmudgeon, Wall Street Journal

As automation and outsourcing reshape the workplace, what new skill do we need? The ability to do deep work. Cal Newport's exciting new book is an introduction and guide to the kind of intense concentration in a distraction-free environment that results in fast, powerful learning and performance. Think of it as calisthenics for your mind-and start your exercise program today. -- Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and To Sell Is Human

DEEP WORK makes a compelling case for cultivating intense focus, and offers immediately actionable steps for infusing more of it into our lives. -- Adam M. Grant, author of Give and Take

Cal Newport is a clear voice in a sea of noise, bringing science and passion in equal measure. We don't need more clicks, more cats, and more emojis. We need brave work, work that happens when we refuse to avert our eyes. -- Seth Godin, author of What to Do When It's Your Turn

Cal Newport offers 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

Just when you think you already know this stuff, DEEP WORK hits you with surprisingly unique and useful insights. Rule #3 alone, with its discussion of the 'Any-Benefit' mind-set, is worth the price of this book. -- Derek Sivers, founder, Sivers.org

Here lies a playbook for professionals of all stripes to achieve true differentiation in a crowded talent marketplace. Cal Newport's latest shows why he is one of the most provocative thinkers on the future of work. -- Ben Casnocha, co-author of The Start-Up Of You

In this strong self-help book, Newport declares that the habits of modern professionals-checking email at all hours, rushing from meeting to meeting, and valuing multitasking above all else-only stand in the way of truly valuable work, Publisher's Weekly

[A] worthwhile distraction., ValueWalk --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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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. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Cal Newport is a computer science professor at Georgetown University, and a writer who explores the intersections of technology, work, and culture. He is the author of seven books, including, most recently, A World Without Email, Digital Minimalism, and Deep Work. These titles include multiple New York Times bestsellers and have been translated into over 40 languages. Newport is also a contributing writer for the New Yorker and the host of the Deep Questions podcast.

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Tamil Selvan

A Practical approach to deep work

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 4 February 2023

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Author has tried his best to establish deep work’s connection with growth in career. This book could feel too lengthy for a person who already has this realisation. Author has done a good job by adding notes on tactics in the end to revisit things faster than fishing.

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 5 February 2023

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Informative

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Pooja Nagar

Nice book and u should buy it

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 26 February 2023

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Aap i know about this book that it will helps alot to finish our work so u can buy it to just increase your productivity

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Srividhya Seshadri

Helpful for drastic PROFESSIONAL growth

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 28 December 2022

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Well! It is predominant that DEEP WORK is needed for improving in-demand cognitive skills, especially for knowledge worker’s. It contains well-defined Strategies to avoid time encroaching social tools. Frequent repetition on how to resist distraction and increase intense focus is lengthy.

Author’s interpretation on deep work (full concentration) from shallow is quite satisfying.

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Indira Priya Mavilla

Good quality.

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 5 March 2023

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Ramnath

How to concentrate in a chaotic environment .

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 2 March 2023

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Great book ! Very revealing, inspiring.

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 5 March 2023

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Loved it!!

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Siddhartha Satyabrata

Great buy

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Nice cover, nice pages

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JWH

An inspiring guide to working much better...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 18 December 2017

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This was quite an inspiring but challenging read. Not challenging in the sense of difficult - the book is very-well written and flows easily - but it goes against the grain of so many current social and work habits and fads. In this reader at least, the book did provoke quite a profound sense of loss when I realized what I could and did achieve earlier in my life against what my current distracted self can achieve. The book falls into two broad sections: the first is the why - why deep work is good but why it doesn't happen; the second is the how - tips to make deep work happen in your life, with very different approaches depending upon the nature of one's life and work.
The book does point out that deep work genuinely isn't for everyone - for different but related reasons, CEOs of huge corporations and carers of young children might be better off entirely working at the 'shallow' level. However, it does make excellent points about how routine administration, productivity checks and social discourse, especially using social media, are vampires of time and attention like nothing else. As well as being very useful for individuals, many managers could usefully read this book, to help empower workers to achieve more of real value and - and this point is not unrelated - stop constantly harassing them with administrative requests of little or no real importance. One important facet of this is it shows very persuasively how deep work is almost the opposite of long work, or overwork - working better decreases working time overall, with much better results. For employees, and intelligent employers, what is not to like about that? It really chimed in with my experiences in the organized working environment.
So highly recommended for anyone interested in how to work better on an individual level, or how work might be done better on an organizational level. I suppose I can't say better than that I actually made one set of the recommended changes immediately on finishing the book...

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Low quality. Entire book could be condensed to a leaflet.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 21 March 2019

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Author drags one or two points out into a whole book of filler. Keeps repeating the same points, backing them up with dragged out character stories and pseudo science. Very American writing style where everything is sensationalized and lacking in real substance.
I bought it after reading the kindle sample. If you've read the kindle sample, you've read the whole book - nothing else is added.

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Joe

most of them useless. This however is a true gem

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 8 October 2017

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I have read a lot of books on personal development and self help, most of them useless. This however is a true gem. I put it in the top 5 most useful books I have ever read. It is a great treatise on how to produce high quality work, and is becoming more relevant by the day (with our increasingly distracted world). I feel sorry for kids you are already addicted to their smartphones by age 10.

Highly recommend to anyone, and it has wide relevance across many fields. Also very readable and entertaining. It is a joy to read and has plenty of interesting tales and case studies to make the book flow perfectly, whilst imparting the necessary wisdom.

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Engineer

The idea is good, but the book has a lot of time waster fillers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 1 November 2018

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The thesis is simple, widely known and perhaps acknowledged. Technology, Internet and connectivity is killing our ability to focus and produce better outcomes (your work and life). Should it take half of the book to convince you?

I have started reading this book and I am still on page 72, but the style and examples are so awkward that, I decided to write a review now (the "it's ok" passport for all distracted CEOs, Furrer the craftman etc).

I decided to skip these repeating examples and concepts he is using to convince you and try to make the point. This book could have been much shorter.

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Richard

Repetitive

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 3 July 2018

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I did a little research before buying this book and I was already interested in this subject having read lots of articles on similar topics.

I'm not sure if I've learned something new that I haven't already read or watched from 5-15min reviews of the book.

In my opinion it could have been much shorter. I felt like I was wasting my time reading a lot of it as it was repeating examples and concepts.

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