A Joosr Guide to... Deep Work by Cal Newport: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

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Discover how to maximize your concentration in order to boost your productivity and creativity. As the ultimate technique for "working smarter, not harder," deep work is a way to consistently find a state of concentration so focused that you are able to take your skills and creativity to a new level, and achieve more than ever before.

The approach outlined in Deep Work taps into the brain's natural processes, to get both your conscious and subconscious mind working toward the same goal. The result will not only help to increase your value within the industry that you work in, but can also allow you to feel deep satisfaction in your work, and give you more time to spend on the leisure and social activities that you enjoy the most. This book holds the key to getting the most out of your professional, academic, and creative activities, so get ready to "go deep!"

You will learn:

· How to cut down or eliminate the distracting daily tasks that break concentration

· Techniques to help you enter the intensely-focused state required for deep work

· How to harness deep work methods to become more productive.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joosr
• Release date: Jun 20, 2016
• ISBN: 9781785673627

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What’s it about?

Over the last two decades, the knowledge economy has become an increasingly important sector of most countries’ incomes, with many businesses now relying solely on the output of their employees’ brains. Web designers, programmers, and academics are obvious examples, but many other professions require knowledge workers such as architects, engineers, and lawyers.

This sector is becoming so large that the demand for knowledge workers is still growing, and those individuals who possess the required abilities are increasingly sought after. They are the deep workers of the world: the people who always seem to amaze the rest of us with not just the quantity but the quality of their work, done in the same amount of time that the rest of us have. It’s as if they have the ability to somehow compress time, achieving great things in the same timescale where others often get nothing done.

Deep Work will teach you how to tap into the mindset that allows individuals to produce their best, most creative ideas. Backed up by studies in psychology and neuroscience that reveal how the brain is wired, it takes advantage of this new information to help us hack the brain to encourage it to produce the right circumstances for deep work. As well as giving practical advice on improving your deep-working skills,