Deep Work

Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

296 pages

English language

Published March 1, 2016

ISBN:
9781455586691
Goodreads:
25744928

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4 stars (3 reviews)

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 the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way.

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 …

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Mi è piaciuto molto. Newport si fa araldo di uno stile organizzativo quasi marziale. Complicato se si vuole implementare al 100% e più adatto ad alcune mansioni che non ad altre.
Pone però spunti interessanti sui tempi moderni e come le distrazioni sono quasi totalmente integrate nel nostro modo di intendere il lavoro.