Category: Book reviews

The ability to focus: a review of Cal Newport’s Deep Work

I thought I wasn’t distracted – then I read Cal Newport’s Deep Work. Subtitled ‘rules for focused success in a distracted world’, Newport’s central thesis is that the ability to work ‘in a state of distraction-free concentration that push[es] your cognitive capabilities to their limit’ is a valuable skill in today’s world where digital distractions […]