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Deep Work
- Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
- Narrateur(s): Jeff Bottoms
- Durée: 7 h et 44 min
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So Good They Can't Ignore You
- Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
- Auteur(s): Cal Newport
- Narrateur(s): Dave Mallow
- Durée: 6 h et 28 min
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In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is good advice. Not only is the cliché flawed - preexisting passions are rare and have little to do with how most people end up loving their work - but it can also be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job hopping. After making his case against passion, Newport sets out on a quest to discover the reality of how people end up loving what they do.
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Really?
- Écrit par Lopsster le 2020-06-30
Auteur(s): Cal Newport
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Digital Minimalism
- Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
- Auteur(s): Cal Newport
- Narrateur(s): Will Damron, Cal Newport
- Durée: 6 h et 59 min
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Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It's the key to living a focused life in an increasingly noisy world. In this timely and enlightening book, the best-selling author of Deep Work introduces a philosophy for technology use that has already improved countless lives.
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Live with intention
- Écrit par Luiz le 2019-05-05
Auteur(s): Cal Newport
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How to Become a Straight-A Student
- The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While Studying Less
- Auteur(s): Cal Newport
- Narrateur(s): Johnathan McClain
- Durée: 5 h et 19 min
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A breakthrough approach to acing academic assignments, from quizzes and exams to essays and papers, How to Become a Straight-A Student reveals for the first time the proven study secrets of real straight-A students across the country and weaves them into a simple, practical system that anyone can master.
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worth the read!
- Écrit par Nicholas beaudry le 2019-03-08
Auteur(s): Cal Newport
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The Psychology of Money
- Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
- Auteur(s): Morgan Housel
- Narrateur(s): Chris Hill
- Durée: 5 h et 48 min
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Money - investing, personal finance, and business decisions - is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money.
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I am very disappointed with the psychology on money
- Écrit par Persy Wang le 2021-06-29
Auteur(s): Morgan Housel
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Slow Productivity
- The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
- Auteur(s): Cal Newport
- Narrateur(s): Cal Newport
- Durée: 9 h et 30 min
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Our current definition of “productivity” is broken. It pushes us to treat busyness as a proxy for useful effort, leading to impossibly lengthy task lists and ceaseless meetings. We’re overwhelmed by all we have to do and on the edge of burnout, left to decide between giving into soul-sapping hustle culture or rejecting ambition altogether. But are these really our only choices?
Auteur(s): Cal Newport
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Courage Is Calling
- Fortune Favors the Brave
- Auteur(s): Ryan Holiday
- Narrateur(s): Ryan Holiday
- Durée: 6 h et 5 min
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Almost every religion, spiritual practice, philosophy and person grapples with fear. The most repeated phrase in the Bible is “Be not afraid.” The ancient Greeks spoke of phobos, panic and terror. It is natural to feel fear, the Stoics believed, but it cannot rule you. Courage, then, is the ability to rise above fear, to do what’s right, to do what’s needed, to do what is true. And so it rests at the heart of the works of Marcus Aurelius, Aristotle, and CS Lewis, alongside temperance, justice, and wisdom.
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Stay in your lane, Ryan.
- Écrit par Cherokee199X le 2023-01-23
Auteur(s): Ryan Holiday
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So Good They Can't Ignore You
- Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
- Auteur(s): Cal Newport
- Narrateur(s): Dave Mallow
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In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is good advice. Not only is the cliché flawed - preexisting passions are rare and have little to do with how most people end up loving their work - but it can also be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job hopping. After making his case against passion, Newport sets out on a quest to discover the reality of how people end up loving what they do.
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Really?
- Écrit par Lopsster le 2020-06-30
Auteur(s): Cal Newport
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Digital Minimalism
- Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
- Auteur(s): Cal Newport
- Narrateur(s): Will Damron, Cal Newport
- Durée: 6 h et 59 min
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Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It's the key to living a focused life in an increasingly noisy world. In this timely and enlightening book, the best-selling author of Deep Work introduces a philosophy for technology use that has already improved countless lives.
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Live with intention
- Écrit par Luiz le 2019-05-05
Auteur(s): Cal Newport
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How to Become a Straight-A Student
- The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While Studying Less
- Auteur(s): Cal Newport
- Narrateur(s): Johnathan McClain
- Durée: 5 h et 19 min
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A breakthrough approach to acing academic assignments, from quizzes and exams to essays and papers, How to Become a Straight-A Student reveals for the first time the proven study secrets of real straight-A students across the country and weaves them into a simple, practical system that anyone can master.
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worth the read!
- Écrit par Nicholas beaudry le 2019-03-08
Auteur(s): Cal Newport
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The Psychology of Money
- Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
- Auteur(s): Morgan Housel
- Narrateur(s): Chris Hill
- Durée: 5 h et 48 min
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Money - investing, personal finance, and business decisions - is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money.
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I am very disappointed with the psychology on money
- Écrit par Persy Wang le 2021-06-29
Auteur(s): Morgan Housel
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Slow Productivity
- The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
- Auteur(s): Cal Newport
- Narrateur(s): Cal Newport
- Durée: 9 h et 30 min
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Our current definition of “productivity” is broken. It pushes us to treat busyness as a proxy for useful effort, leading to impossibly lengthy task lists and ceaseless meetings. We’re overwhelmed by all we have to do and on the edge of burnout, left to decide between giving into soul-sapping hustle culture or rejecting ambition altogether. But are these really our only choices?
Auteur(s): Cal Newport
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Courage Is Calling
- Fortune Favors the Brave
- Auteur(s): Ryan Holiday
- Narrateur(s): Ryan Holiday
- Durée: 6 h et 5 min
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Almost every religion, spiritual practice, philosophy and person grapples with fear. The most repeated phrase in the Bible is “Be not afraid.” The ancient Greeks spoke of phobos, panic and terror. It is natural to feel fear, the Stoics believed, but it cannot rule you. Courage, then, is the ability to rise above fear, to do what’s right, to do what’s needed, to do what is true. And so it rests at the heart of the works of Marcus Aurelius, Aristotle, and CS Lewis, alongside temperance, justice, and wisdom.
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Stay in your lane, Ryan.
- Écrit par Cherokee199X le 2023-01-23
Auteur(s): Ryan Holiday
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The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (Expanded and Updated)
- Auteur(s): Timothy Ferriss
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
- Durée: 13 h et 1 min
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This expanded edition includes dozens of practical tips and case studies from readers who have doubled their income, overcome common sticking points, and reinvented themselves using the original book. Also included are templates for eliminating email and negotiating with bosses and clients, how to apply lifestyle principles in unpredictable economic times, and the latest tools, tricks, and shortcuts for living like a diplomat or millionaire without being either.
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As expected... there is a catch!
- Écrit par Jules le 2017-11-15
Auteur(s): Timothy Ferriss
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A World Without Email
- Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
- Auteur(s): Cal Newport
- Narrateur(s): Kevin R. Free
- Durée: 9 h et 16 min
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Modern knowledge workers communicate constantly. Their days are defined by a relentless barrage of incoming messages and back-and-forth digital conversations - a state of constant, anxious chatter in which nobody can disconnect, and so nobody has the cognitive bandwidth to perform substantive work. There was a time when tools like email felt cutting edge, but a thorough review of current evidence reveals that the "hyperactive hive mind" workflow they helped create has become a productivity disaster, reducing profitability and perhaps even slowing overall economic growth.
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Another Essential Book to Improve your Work Life!
- Écrit par funkyman33 le 2021-03-10
Auteur(s): Cal Newport
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Essentialism
- The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
- Auteur(s): Greg McKeown
- Narrateur(s): Greg McKeown
- Durée: 6 h et 14 min
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Essentialism is more than a time-management strategy or a productivity technique. It is a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution toward the things that really matter.
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Why does this book exist?
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2020-08-24
Auteur(s): Greg McKeown
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Auteur(s): Daniel Kahneman
- Narrateur(s): Patrick Egan
- Durée: 20 h et 2 min
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The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman at last offers his own, first book for the general public. It is a lucid and enlightening summary of his life's work. It will change the way you think about thinking. Two systems drive the way we think and make choices, Kahneman explains....
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Very difficult to follow in audio format
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2017-10-06
Auteur(s): Daniel Kahneman
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Never Finished
- Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within
- Auteur(s): David Goggins
- Narrateur(s): David Goggins, Adam Skolnick, Jacqueline Gardner
- Durée: 11 h et 6 min
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Can’t Hurt Me, David Goggins’ smash hit memoir, demonstrated how much untapped ability we all have but was merely an introduction to the power of the mind. In Never Finished, Goggins takes you inside his Mental Lab, where he developed the philosophy, psychology, and strategies that enabled him to learn that what he thought was his limit was only his beginning and that the quest for greatness is unending.
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This is my #1 Listen
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2022-12-16
Auteur(s): David Goggins
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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
- A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
- Auteur(s): Eric Jorgenson, Tim Ferriss
- Narrateur(s): Vikas Adam
- Durée: 4 h et 53 min
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Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur, philosopher, and investor who has captivated the world with his principles for building wealth and creating long-term happiness. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant is a collection of Naval’s wisdom and experience from the last 10 years, shared as a curation of his most insightful interviews and poignant reflections. This isn’t a how-to book, or a step-by-step gimmick. Instead, through Naval’s own words, you will learn how to walk your own unique path toward a happier, wealthier life.
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Released for free
- Écrit par Sarah le 2021-07-11
Auteur(s): Eric Jorgenson, Autres
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Atomic Habits
- An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
- Auteur(s): James Clear
- Narrateur(s): James Clear
- Durée: 5 h et 35 min
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No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving - every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change.
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An actually actionable self help book.
- Écrit par Mr P J Hill le 2019-07-07
Auteur(s): James Clear
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Getting Things Done
- The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
- Auteur(s): David Allen
- Narrateur(s): David Allen
- Durée: 10 h et 23 min
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David Allen reads an all-new edition of his popular self-help classic for managing work-life balance in the 21st century - now updated for the new challenges facing individuals and organizations in today's rapidly changing world. Since it was first published more than 15 years ago, David Allen's Getting Things Done has become one of the most influential business books of its era and the ultimate book on personal organization.
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Needs a PDF
- Écrit par Trevor le 2019-11-27
Auteur(s): David Allen
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$100M Offers
- How to Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No
- Auteur(s): Alex Hormozi
- Narrateur(s): Alexander Hormozi
- Durée: 3 h et 48 min
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The methods contained within this book are so simple, so instantaneous, and so effective, it’s as if they work by magic. If you implement even one tactic in this book, you’ll see the change in your prospects' demeanor. And you’ll know the $100M Offers method worked when you start hearing, “What do I need to do to move forward?” before you even ask for the sale.
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21 year old car salesman
- Écrit par Parker Raaymakers le 2021-09-16
Auteur(s): Alex Hormozi
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Four Thousand Weeks
- Time Management for Mortals
- Auteur(s): Oliver Burkeman
- Narrateur(s): Oliver Burkeman
- Durée: 5 h et 54 min
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Nobody needs to be told there isn’t enough time. Whether we’re starting our own business, or trying to write a novel during our lunch break, or staring down a pile of deadlines as we’re planning a vacation, we’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and ceaseless struggle against distraction. We’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient and life hacks to optimize our days.
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about the follies of typical time management
- Écrit par A le 2021-09-07
Auteur(s): Oliver Burkeman
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The ONE Thing
- The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
- Auteur(s): Gary Keller, Jay Papasan
- Narrateur(s): Timothy Miller, Claire Hamilton
- Durée: 5 h et 24 min
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This is an audiobook for busy people. If you want less on your plate and more for your life and career, tune in to the #1 Wall Street Journal best seller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results. The ONE Thing will bring your life and your work into focus. Authors Gary Keller and Jay Papasan teach you the tricks to cut through the clutter, achieve better results in less time, dial down stress, and master what matters to you.
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Ruined by narrators & music
- Écrit par foxrockets le 2018-06-28
Auteur(s): Gary Keller, Autres
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How to Win Friends & Influence People
- Auteur(s): Dale Carnegie
- Narrateur(s): Andrew MacMillan
- Durée: 7 h et 15 min
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You can go after the job you want...and get it! You can take the job you have...and improve it! You can take any situation you're in...and make it work for you!
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Things you probably need repeated
- Écrit par Wojtek le 2018-09-19
Auteur(s): Dale Carnegie
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Master one of our economy’s most rare skills and achieve groundbreaking results with this “exciting” book (Daniel H. Pink) from an “exceptional” author (New York Times Book Review).
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 of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four "rules," for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill.
1. Work Deeply
2. Embrace Boredom
3. Quit Social Media
4. Drain the Shallows
A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, Deep Work takes the listener on a journey through memorable stories—from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air—and no-nonsense advice, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. Deep Work is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world.
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- Bradly Helm
- 2018-08-02
So good. An essential read.
If you feel like you’re all over the place with your day and cannot get to what you need to do, this book is excellent. Very good discussion of the use of social media as well. Highly recommended.
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- Taylor
- 2021-04-16
Too many anecedotal stories
I bought this book so I could learn more about distractions and their influence on productivity Maybe it's presented farther along in the book, however the first hour was all stories and no methods, I didn't like the narrator and was effectively told that you need to either be rich, work in computer software(like the author does) or be the top of your field to be successful. I didn't love it!
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- Mathieu H.
- 2020-10-21
Worth it but you might wanna skip to the second part: the rules
If you have listened/read a lot of self help book about productivity, you can skip the first part.
The second part « the rules » is so good, it’s worth your time.
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- Jordan
- 2018-06-16
Pretty good
Learn how to say no, maximize your time and spend less time on social media
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- Hoopy Ford Prefect
- 2019-09-23
Little things that I wish could be done better
It’s a really good book. It eloquently diagnoses and describes a big problem with the way civilization is developing, a problem that most of us over a certain age have likely felt was there but lacked the words to expose it.
I wish that:
1. The reader could have done enough research to sound as though he was familiar with the knowledge in the book - little things like not knowing how to pronounce “Csikszentmihalyi,” for example.
2. The reader had pronounced the letter L in “also” - he says “awe-so,” which might be a feature of his natural accent but in this context makes him sound further underexposed to academic writing. (I’m sure there were other examples of pronunciations I found jarring, but “also” occurs many many times in this book!)
Mr. Bottoms’ vocal quality itself is quite enjoyable, though often I wished he could have sounded a bit less cheery and a bit more connected.
I’ve heard similar issues in other Audible productions that have made the listening experience less enjoyable for me. But this is still a really smart and useful book and I’m glad I bought it.
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- W. Wu
- 2018-11-15
Excellent with not just what (to do) but also how (to do)
An excellent book
- Excellent with not just what (to do) but also how (to do)
- Applicable to one’s personal as well as professional life
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- Vadim Avkhimenia
- 2018-09-22
One of the best listens of the year
#Audible1 the author explains all concepts very clearly in a step-by-step fashion. The material isn't advanced but with numerous examples of application it is easy to see why the subject is important.
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- j & b
- 2022-02-07
A " Re Read" that you visit repeatedly
an absolutely amazing book. the tools within this manuscript can be applied in everyday life both in your personal and work environments.. Unlike other books, Cal Newport has written a guide that provides ideas to structure your work and personal lives in a way that enables you to achieve more in both. I have found my productivity has grown while my spare time has also increased, allowing me time to pursue hobbies and my fitness goals as well. thank you Cal!
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- Amazon Customer
- 2018-10-25
Life changing
Life changing book about how to be the productivity powerhouse that you have wanted to be.
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- Olivier
- 2018-08-26
As good as advertised!
Perfect narration, great content, amazing research. I would recommend to anyone who wants a good idea of what deep work is and an idea of Cal Newport's work.
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- M.J.
- 2016-11-17
Blocking off time each day to work without distractions will make you more productive
"Blocking off time each day to work without distractions will make you more productive" - This book
There, I just saved you another 7 hours.
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- Michael
- 2017-01-27
Formulaic Self Help
This is another book in the Formulaic Self Help Genre. The formula is: Propose an idea that everyone already agrees with, and take it to an extreme, then reference a handful of rich and famous people and claim they sort of follow your extreme proposal, then give a multistep program to implement your proposal in the reader's life.
Most books in this genre have the same weakness, they fail to point out that most people that follow their program are not rich or famous. Such books also don't discuss the many other rich and famous people who do the exact opposite of the proposed method, yet achieve greatness.
In this case, Deep Work is focusing and avoiding distractions while working. Good advice. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people that have great focus and avoid distractions while working but don't achieve greatness, because they are focusing quite deeply on the wrong thing. There are also a lot of people who create best with many people working together in a dynamic and distracting environment. Some with rock music, others with 10 screens of continuous data.
I am an introvert and don't engage in social media (never read or sent a tweet, check facebook about 3 times/yearm very limited email). I think the advice given would work pretty well for introverts, I am not so sure about this working for other personality types and work styles.
If you are an introvert with a social media addiction, this book may be helpful to you.
For me it was not worth my time.
The narration was OK for a self help book.
The PDF is basically just a list of references.
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- Anthony
- 2017-12-06
Academics ONLY
If you work in any kind of operational environment, this is not the book for you. I really struggled through the first 4 chapters...straining to not give up. Those first chapters consist of the author referencing other academics, as if this was a research paper. I finally skipped that last half of chapter four. On to the good part, so I thought... Give me some rules, as the title explains. Well, those don't help either unless you work at a university and can lock yourself in an office for at least 5 hours a day. Let me sum it up, turn off your phone and email (wow, thanks...original idea there that is not in hundreds of other books, but yeah, good advise). Then, get rid of all of your social media....eye roll. He even talks about one "professor" who happily tells the world that he gave up all email on January 1st 1990....yeah, 1990.... Ok, now batch your work. Yet, another example of another "professor" that only teaches in the fall and researches in the spring and summer so he can "deep work".
I was looking for a couple pointers on how to "focus in a distracted world", and what I learned was that I need to become a university professor.
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- Ethan
- 2016-02-15
Waste of time
Let me save you a few hours, this books is worth about three blog posts. The first half of the books is about why Cal believes Deep Work matters. Skip it, it's fluffy stories and motivation. The second half of the book is about how to do "Deep Work" If it's never occurred to you to restrict or remove email and social media then perhaps it's useful to read. There's a tiny section on block scheduling and a short section on improving focus and attention that could be useful, but are better already covered by Newport's Study Hacks blog.
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- Derek
- 2016-05-17
1.5x pace
Recommend listening at 1.5x pace to keep engaged throughout. Some dry points, but worth finishing as there are several actionable recommendations and ways to re-imagine how we spend our work and extracurricular time.
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- A curious visitor
- 2018-09-14
Not too deep...
The premise of the book is great - and I fully agree with it. However, the contents are mostly common sense and I personally didn't find anything I didn't already know and wanted to, in this book. I already shared the author's opinion that deep work is important and desirable before I read (listened to) the book. Unfortunately for me, he spends a huge chunk of the book selling the concept, supported by research evidence no one really needs (do we really need the details of dozens of scientific research projects to believe that we get more done when we direct our undivided attention to one focused, deep work?) then proceeds to give okay, but far from groundbreaking advice, such as controlling your schedule, making yourself less accessible to distraction, ignoring social media, etc. The added value in the book would make for a very meaty magazine article, but sadly, it makes a very content-light book that feels padded, with little substance and nothing ground breaking. I believe that my opinion has to do with the fact that the author is in academia, where an original thought, a completed research project, a dissertation, a well documented academic paper, a lecture, etc. is considered a tangible achievement in and of itself, while I'm a business owner i.e. I either get stuff done others are willing to pay for or I don't eat. And deep work has always helped me with that, so I didn't need to be sold on that. If you are a creative or business owner, you don't need or have time for 40 pages to make a simple point. You need the get-to-the-point summary and then you go deep and execute - or you'll be in deep something else.
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- Oliver Nielsen
- 2016-11-09
Taking a stance!
A great productivity book that takes a stance and offers concrete steps you can follow, to be more productive. *Productive* as in *increased creative output* – not "productive" as in David Allen's GTD, where productivity largely means "crankin' widgets and emptying your inbox" – a surefire system to "get busy – and *stay* busy – while feeling productive".
I recommend Cal's book to anyone entrapped in social media and/or email and IM. Especially those who're doing creative work like writing, artistic endeavours, innovation, etc.
If that's you, this book will set you free, unleashing your creative work, by giving it the space, time, energy and *respect* (from yourself) that it rightly deserves – and *needs* in order to thrive, evolve, grow, and be *shared* with the world, in a format that is *usefu*l to other people.
Drafts and ideas on your laptop is just that: drafts and ideas. To turn that raw material (of genius maybe) into something real and concrete: takes deep work. It is the *difficult* part. The crucial, tedious 80% of the creation process. Doing deep work requires dedicated time, space and energy. And taking a stance – respecting *yourself* and *your work* enough. To *do* the work. Your *deep* work.
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- Rishi Agrawal
- 2016-03-12
don't waste your time
1) This book could be condensed into three words: "focus is good"... done. No need to read the book now.
2) Too much of the book is anecdotal and not scientifically rigorous. I did deep work, so you should too. Bill Gates is rich and he does deep work, so you should too. Jk Rowling is a good author and does deep work, so you should too..
3) This book is flooded with the author's personal tips, which makes it feels incredibly amateurish. An example of this is when he goes into depth about his email filter and process. Don't get me wrong, process and discipline is the difference between the good and the great. I just don't care about your personal email settings at all. It's like listening to four hour work week all over again.. Blehhhh.
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- ElleBee
- 2018-11-29
So dang good! Realistic, eye-opening suggestions.
My summary of action items collected from this book plus ideas it inspired me to add:
#1: Distractions. Recognize that you are allowing yourself to be distracted (constantly checking in on your phone, email, Instagram). Set boundaries for your distractions; set a block of time for distraction-free deep work; have a piece of paper nearby to write down any distracting thoughts that pop up, then keep working. Quit/drastically reduce social media usage. Embrace boredom which trains your brain to stay on one track (and go deep).
#2: Make It a Daily Ritual. Schedule a block of time for deep work everyday and make it a ritual. start with 1 hour and work to increase it.
#3: Shut-Down Ritual. Perform an evening shut down ritual (like revisiting your to do list and making plans for tomorrow) after work and/or before going to bed.
#4: Attention Residue. Don't give in to multitasking or you'll suffer attention residue; where your attention on the new task is still smeared with thoughts of the other tasks.
#5 Ruthlessly say no to as much shallow work as possible. Rid as much shallow work from your daily set of obligations as you can (meetings, phone calls, emails, chatting, admin tasks). Unsubscribe from as many emails as possible. Choose to not reply to emails that dont meet the criteria described in the book. Get out of meetings that dont really need you there. Let coworkers chat with you a few mins but then tell them that you (or you both) need to get back to work. Take a hard look at your to do list, are there some tasks you can just not do and the world will still go on?
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- Dominy family
- 2016-01-16
Not as deep as I hoped.
What did you like best about Deep Work? What did you like least?
Best: Makes a great case that distraction is the cancer to working/thinking deeply.
Worst: Literally goes on and on and on and on about email. I felt like the book should have been titled - Deep Avoidance of Email.
How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
The various profiles of people who work deeply and find ways to thrive in a distracted society were inspirational and thought provoking. ....So more of that, less of the nauseating email avoidance strategies.
What aspect of Jeff Bottoms’s performance would you have changed?
His voice isn't really deep or commanding enough to create the credibility I'd like to hear in a self-help audio-book.
Any additional comments?
Avoid this book and get So Good They Can't Ignore You by the same author.
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