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Your ability to focus deeply has become both incredibly valuable and increasingly rare.
Cal Newport’s “Deep Work” addresses this modern paradox head-on.
Imagine trying to solve a complex problem while your phone buzzes with notifications, your email pings every few minutes, and colleagues drop by your desk for “quick chats.”
Sound familiar?
This is the world of shallow work that most of us inhabit—a place where constant distractions have become the norm, not the exception.
Newport defines deep work as “professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit.” In contrast, shallow work consists of “non-cognitively demanding, logistical-style tasks, often performed while distracted.”
The central thesis of his book is simple yet profound: the ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy.
