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3.98 AVERAGE
3.98 AVERAGE
challenging
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It's 3.5 stars. Contains some useful reflections around deep work and some advice about how to foster deep work, but I was expecting more actionable suggestions and insights. Still, it was a pleasent reading.
No words for how incredible this book is! There’s such a great balance between theory and practical information and I couldn’t help but want to get through this book as quick as possible. Instead, I took in all the words and advice a little at a time spanning the reading of this book over 2,5 months or so.
I’m a big Cal Newport fan especially after having read Digital Minimalism and still applying so many lessons from that book. Deep work seemed like the logical advancement of growing my attention and focus on what is important.
It’s a book I’m going to have to read again to dive deeper into the lessons and step by step metrics I can take to implement a wider array of the advice given. As a distracted individual and someone who’s just started a new position with more responsibility, this book was a godsend. Both personal and professionally I’m understanding what my distractions are and how to implement small changes with a huge impact to how I go about my day and life really.
Highly recommend for the distracted individual and those in a high-pressure, entry-level workspace as well as students who don’t want to burn out during their studies. Thank you Cal
I’m a big Cal Newport fan especially after having read Digital Minimalism and still applying so many lessons from that book. Deep work seemed like the logical advancement of growing my attention and focus on what is important.
It’s a book I’m going to have to read again to dive deeper into the lessons and step by step metrics I can take to implement a wider array of the advice given. As a distracted individual and someone who’s just started a new position with more responsibility, this book was a godsend. Both personal and professionally I’m understanding what my distractions are and how to implement small changes with a huge impact to how I go about my day and life really.
Highly recommend for the distracted individual and those in a high-pressure, entry-level workspace as well as students who don’t want to burn out during their studies. Thank you Cal
This is the best career-focused book I've read, I can't recommend it enough. It's especially relevant to careers where ideas are more important than what you actually produce (e.g. software developer vs window installer), but I think would benefit anyone who would do better in their career/life by developing the ability to focus intensely for long periods of time, which I think is most people.
Last year I read another of Cal's books and it had really good ideas but was horribly written. A few months ago I started listening to his podcast (Deep Questions with Cal Newport) and loved that it has all of his great ideas without the terrible writing of So Good They Can't Ignore You. He definitely improved as a writer (and he actually talks about how much his work improved as he was writing this book and applying its principles) and I'm much more excited about his other newer books now.
One of the most impressive things about this book is how Cal responds to opposing ideas. I remember my high school English teachers saying that you should anticipate criticism of your writing and proactively respond to it, and Cal does that with such surgical precision and conciseness that I'm actually fully convinced of I think everything he says here.
It's rare to have new ideas, and even more rare for them to be easily understandable and applicable. Cal's advice here is often immediately intuitive and cuts right past toxic hustle culture and into how to live a more meaningful and fulfilling life by setting boundaries and maximizing your potential within them. Calling this life-changing feels dramatic, but this is certainly work-changing for me.
Last year I read another of Cal's books and it had really good ideas but was horribly written. A few months ago I started listening to his podcast (Deep Questions with Cal Newport) and loved that it has all of his great ideas without the terrible writing of So Good They Can't Ignore You. He definitely improved as a writer (and he actually talks about how much his work improved as he was writing this book and applying its principles) and I'm much more excited about his other newer books now.
One of the most impressive things about this book is how Cal responds to opposing ideas. I remember my high school English teachers saying that you should anticipate criticism of your writing and proactively respond to it, and Cal does that with such surgical precision and conciseness that I'm actually fully convinced of I think everything he says here.
It's rare to have new ideas, and even more rare for them to be easily understandable and applicable. Cal's advice here is often immediately intuitive and cuts right past toxic hustle culture and into how to live a more meaningful and fulfilling life by setting boundaries and maximizing your potential within them. Calling this life-changing feels dramatic, but this is certainly work-changing for me.
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Newport is passionate about his notion of "deep work", and that comes across in his book. I definitely found some interesting tidbits that I am considering utilizing in my own work-days. But the overarching feeling I received from reading this was that he was focusing on privileged white men who had the necessary time and means to delve into "deep work". The book also reads like a self-congratulatory treatise. If I had a dollar for how many times Newport mentions all the papers he published I could buy like one and a half burritos from Taco Bell. Inflation am I right? Don't get me started...
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reflective
medium-paced
This book really changed my way of understanding on how not only to work but how to tackle life’s challenges!
نتونستم باهاش ارتباط برقرار کنم و همون مقداری هم که ازش خوندم، بهزور بوده و رهاش کردم. شاید حوزه علاقه و فعالیتهای آدم هم اثر بذاره روی چنین اتفاقی.
Good advice, definitely has some ideas I want to implement into my own work and personal life style.
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Lots of great advice for improving your focus and managing your time. Would work well for those who have more control over thir time in the first place, but probably difficult if not impossible to apply if an office underling.