Beginning to think that Cal Newport's Deep Work should be read with the qualifier: "written by an academic, in a field where deep work is disproportionately rewarded; may not apply if to other professions."
That isn't to say it isn't valuable. Just that you should be careful.
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I think it's an excellent book.
It does require discipline to do well.
Very few people have my phone number (biz or personal). When my partner started living with me I was astonished at how intrusive her phone (calls and FB, WhatsApp, etc) was compared to mine.
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That's not to say I don't like people, or don't like talking to people. I do.
I just don't like interruptions when I'm doing stuff.
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After testing most of the book's ideas, I've concluded that Deep Work does have benefits.
But, for many professions, the marginal benefit of an extra hour of deep work and an extra hour of something else ... well, it's not as clear cut a win as Newport makes it out to be.
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I started reading Free To Focus, but it requires you to sign up to a website to get various materials. Within a week i was being bombarded with multiple emails per day. So much for being free to focus.
Don't bother with this book.