Deep Work

Deep Work is an excellent book for realizing how detrimental the typical employee’s work habits of checking email every 5 minutes, constant meetings, and other distractions are to their ability to perform high-quality work. Newport also shares good suggestions for reclaiming your focus and doing what he calls “deep work.” 

The book strongly advocates for the importance of having as much time as possible without distractions to achieve flow and perform optimally. This book helped me become much more conscious about how I work.

Not all the problems of an organization belong to other people.

Sometimes you’re part of the problem. One of the issues people struggle with is managing their increasing workloads and maintaining a high level of quality. Deep Work helped me understand how much focus we need to get into the flow and produce at a high-level.

If you’re someone who feels like they’re always nibbling at the edges of productive work, but never quite getting into a deep flow of things, then this is the book for you. 

If you are looking for a way to improve your ability to learn and focus, Deep Work by Cal Newport is just the book for you.

This book emphasizes the importance of extreme focus and getting into a state of flow by building guardrails around your time and attention. By eliminating distractions and focusing on one thing at a time, you can improve your brain’s cognitive function and learn things beyond what you currently know.

This form of studying is extreme, but it allows you to concentrate deeply and achieve more in less time. Reading this book can help you… show more.

This valuable book by Cal Newport provides practical advice on how to cultivate a deep work ethic and achieve extraordinary results in your work and personal life.

Newport argues that the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task is becoming increasingly rare yet is one of the most valuable skills in our economy.

Through relatable stories and actionable advice, Newport presents a rigorous training regimen, consisting of four rules, for transforming your mind and habits to support deep work.

This book is an indispensable guide for anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world. It offers practical… show more.

I’ll start with the way my own journey began: with practical, nuts and bolts ‘physical’ style actions.

For this I recommend Cal Newport’s first book, one of my top three non-fiction titles of all time. 

I got so much from Cal’s book that it’s difficult to sum up in a short review, but his advice helped me establish work behaviours and routines that led to the completion of two fiction titles (my debut novels) and another non-fiction title (my third) during the worst of the COVID pandemic.

I recommend you look at all of Cal’s work but begin with Deep… show more.

This book has such an annoyingly catchy title! I really wish I'd come up with that. The central premise is that if we eliminate distractions and really make space to do real quality thinking, that's what makes us productive. I am totally on board with that and very much share Cal's view of the importance of deep work, and he explains it so well. Also, Cal has been on my podcast, Beyond Busy, twice, and he is such a great guy.

This book advocates a way of life I took to a couple of years ago – and have tried to stick to, ever since. Across the world, we professionals find it a big problem to focus on something and get it done. Distraction — especially the online kind — has become the bane of our life, making it almost impossible to go deep into any one activity or project. This book comes as a welcome departure from the current norm and tells us how we can avoid flitting from one thing to another or being pulled in different directions by… show more.