Cal Newport's 2016 bestselling book 'Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World' that defined deep work as professional activities performed in distraction-free concentration that push cognitive capabilities to their limit.
Published in 2016 by Grand Central Publishing, "Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World" became a Wall Street Journal bestseller and transformed how knowledge workers think about focus and productivity.
Newport coined the term "deep work" in a 2012 blog post and expanded it into the book. He defines it as:
"Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and are hard to replicate."
The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it's becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. Consequently, those who cultivate this skill will thrive.
Modern work culture—open offices, constant connectivity, social media—actively undermines our capacity for the sustained concentration required for deep work.
Newport structures the book around four rules:
Design rituals and routines to support deep work:
Train your mind to tolerate absence of novelty:
Be selective about digital tools:
Minimize shallow obligations:
Newport advocates scheduling every minute:
Newport cites research showing:
Newport suggests 3-4 hours of deep work per day is realistic for most knowledge workers, with the understanding that this is the maximum even for trained practitioners.
Plan deep work in advance, protect it ferociously, and accept that some days will inevitably be shallow-work-heavy.
For any activity, ask: How long would it take to train a smart recent college graduate to complete this task? Activities requiring extensive training are deeper.
The book:
As a computer science professor at Georgetown University, Newport brings:
Newport expanded these ideas in:
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