Learning to Work Deep: A review
We live in an inter-connected world, filled with collaborative tools and awash with information. But we also live in a deeply-distracted world and this is the serious downside to the interconnectivity we enjoy. We live in a world where few people seem to have retained the ability to concentrate deeply on a single project. This is no less true of missionaries, or at least all missionaries that are connected to the Internet through their phones and computers on a fairly consistent basis.
In Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, Cal Newport seeks to convince us of the importance of learning once again the skills of focused concentration and shows us some simple rules that he has learned to help him overcome this constant allure of distraction.
Newport is a professor of computer science (Georgetown) as well as a profilic author who writes about the impact of… Read the whole post
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