Deep work is the power to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time-a superpower in our increasingly competitive economy. In Deep Work, author and professor Cal Newport presents 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 uses examples from Carl Jung to social media pioneers to demonstrate how great thinkers have focused their minds in a nonstop world.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Digital Minimalism and Deep Work, a groundbreaking philosophy for pursuing meaningful accomplishment while avoiding overload

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?

Long before the arrival of pinging inboxes and clogged schedules, history's most creative and impactful philosophers, scientists, artists, and writers mastered the art of producing valuable work with staying power. In this timely and provocative book, Cal Newport harnesses the wisdom of these traditional knowledge workers to radically transform our modern jobs. Drawing from deep research on the habits and mindsets of a varied cast of storied thinkers - from Galileo and Isaac Newton, to Jane Austen and Georgia O'Keefe - Newport lays out the key principles of slow productivity, a more sustainable alternative to the aimless overwhelm that defines our current moment. Combining cultural criticism with systematic pragmatism, Newport deconstructs the absurdities inherent in standard notions of productivity, and then provides step-by-step advice for cultivating a slower, more humane alternative.

From the aggressive rethinking of workload management, to introducing seasonal variation, to shifting your performance toward long-term quality, Slow Productivity provides a roadmap for escaping overload and arriving instead at a more timeless approach to pursuing meaningful accomplishment. The world of work is due for a new revolution. Slow productivity is exactly what we need.

Most college students believe that straight A's can be achieved only through cramming and painful all-nighters at the library. But Cal Newport knows that real straight-A students don't study harder--they study smarter. 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.

You will learn how to:

- Streamline and maximize your study time
- Conquer procrastination
- Absorb the material quickly and effectively
- Know which reading assignments are critical--and which are not
- Target the paper topics that wow professors
- Provide A+ answers on exams
- Write stellar prose without the agony

A strategic blueprint for success that promises more free time, more fun, and top-tier results, How to Become a Straight-A Student is the only study guide written by students for students--with the insider knowledge and real-world methods to help you master the college system and rise to the top of the class.

A focus on passion over skill can be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job hopping. Spending time with professionals who admit to deriving great satisfaction from their work, Newport uncovers the strategies they use and the pitfalls they avoid in developing their compelling careers.

Cal reveals 4 Rules for falling in love with your job:

#1: Don't follow your passion
#2: Be so good they can't ignore you
#3: Turn down a promotion
#4: Think small, act big

Cal Newport's manifesto is mandatory reading for anyone fretting about what to do with their life, or frustrated by their current job situation. So Good They Can't Ignore You provides an evidence-based blueprint for creating work you love, and will change the way you think about careers, happiness, and the crafting of a remarkable life.

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 bestselling author of Deep Work introduces a philosophy for technology use that has already improved countless lives.

Digital minimalists are all around us. They're the calm, happy people who can hold long conversations without furtive glances at their phones. They can get lost in a good book, a woodworking project, or a leisurely morning run. They can have fun with friends and family without the obsessive urge to document the experience. They stay informed about the news of the day, but don't feel overwhelmed by it. They don't experience fear of missing out because they already know which activities provide them meaning and satisfaction.

Now, Newport gives us a name for this quiet movement, and makes a persuasive case for its urgency in our tech-saturated world. Common sense tips, like turning off notifications, or occasional rituals like observing a digital sabbath, don't go far enough in helping us take back control of our technological lives, and attempts to unplug completely are complicated by the demands of family, friends and work. What we need instead is a thoughtful method to decide what tools to use, for what purposes, and under what conditions.

Drawing on a diverse array of real-life examples, from Amish farmers to harried parents to Silicon Valley programmers, Newport identifies the common practices of digital minimalists and the ideas that underpin them. He shows how digital minimalists are rethinking their relationship to social media, rediscovering the pleasures of the offline world, and reconnecting with their inner selves through regular periods of solitude. He then shares strategies for integrating these practices into your life, starting with a thirty-day digital declutter process that has already helped thousands feel less overwhelmed and more in control.

Technology is intrinsically neither good nor bad. The key is using it to support your goals and values, rather than letting it use you. This book shows the way.

What if getting into your reach schools didn't require four years of excessive A.P. classes, overwhelming activity schedules, and constant stress?

In How to Be a High School Superstar, Cal Newport explores the world of relaxed superstars--students who scored spots at the nation's top colleges by leading uncluttered, low stress, and authentic lives. Drawing from extensive interviews and cutting-edge science, Newport explains the surprising truths behind these superstars' mixture of happiness and admissions success, including:

- Why doing less is the foundation for becoming more impressive.
- Why demonstrating passion is meaningless, but being interesting is crucial.
- Why accomplishments that are hard to explain are better than accomplishments that are hard to do.

These insights are accompanied by step-by-step instructions to help any student adopt the relaxed superstar lifestyle--proving that getting into college doesn't have to be a chore to survive, but instead can be the reward for living a genuinely interesting life.

How can you graduate with honors, choose exciting activities, build a head-turning resume, gain access to the best post-college opportunities, and still have a life? Based on interviews with star students at universities nationwide, from Harvard to the University of Arizona, How to Win at College presents seventy-five simple rules that will rocket you to the top of your class. These often surprising strategies include:

- Don't do all your reading
- Drop classes every term
- Become a club president
- Care about your grades, Ignore your GPA
- Never pull an all-nighter
- Take three days to write a paper
- Always be working on a grand project
- Do one thing better than anyone else you know

Proving you can be successful and still have time for fun, How to Win at College is the must-have guide for making the most of these four important years--and getting and edge on life after graduation.

This deliberately provocative book is a good way for a smart student to see how out-of-the-box thinking can lead to success in college.--Seattle Times

From New York Times bestselling author Cal Newport comes a bold vision for liberating workers from the tyranny of the inbox--and unleashing a new era of productivity.

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. Equally worrisome, it makes us miserable. Humans are simply not wired for constant digital communication.

We have become so used to an inbox-driven workday that it's hard to imagine alternatives. But they do exist. Drawing on years of investigative reporting, author and computer science professor Cal Newport makes the case that our current approach to work is broken, then lays out a series of principles and concrete instructions for fixing it. In A World without Email, he argues for a workplace in which clear processes--not haphazard messaging--define how tasks are identified, assigned and reviewed. Each person works on fewer things (but does them better), and aggressive investment in support reduces the ever-increasing burden of administrative tasks. Above all else, important communication is streamlined, and inboxes and chat channels are no longer central to how work unfolds.

The knowledge sector's evolution beyond the hyperactive hive mind is inevitable. The question is not whether a world without email is coming (it is), but whether you'll be ahead of this trend. If you're a CEO seeking a competitive edge, an entrepreneur convinced your productivity could be higher, or an employee exhausted by your inbox, A World Without Email will convince you that the time has come for bold changes, and will walk you through exactly how to make them happen.

Haz menos cosas. Trabaja a un ritmo natural. Obsesionate con la Calidad. Del autor del bestseller del New York Times Minimalismo digital y Trabajo profundo, una filosofía innovadora para conseguir logros significativos evitando la sobrecarga. Nuestra definición actual de productividad no funciona.

Nos empuja a tratar la sobrecarga de trabajo como un sustituto del esfuerzo útil, lo que nos lleva a listas de tareas imposiblemente largas y a reuniones incesantes. Estamos abrumados por todo lo que tenemos que hacer y al borde del agotamiento, y nos vemos obligados a decidir entre ceder a la cultura del estrés o rechazar por completo la ambición. Pero, son realmente éstas nuestras únicas opciones? Mucho antes de la llegada de las bandejas de entrada y las agendas saturadas, los filósofos, científicos, artistas y escritores más creativos e impactantes de la historia dominaban el arte de producir un trabajo valioso y duradero. En este libro oportuno y provocador, Cal Newport aprovecha la sabiduría de estos trabajadores del conocimiento tradicionales para transformar radicalmente nuestros trabajos modernos. Desde el replanteamiento radical de la planificación de la carga de trabajo, pasando por la implantación de cambios estacionales, hasta la reorientación del rendimiento hacia la calidad a largo plazo, la Slow Productivity ofrece una hoja de ruta para escapar de la sobrecarga y llegar, en cambio, a un enfoque más atemporal de la búsqueda de logros significativos. El mundo laboral necesita una nueva revolución. La productividad lenta es exactamente lo que necesitamos.

Do Fewer Things. Work at a Natural Pace. Obsess over Quality. From the New York Times bestselling author of Digital Minimalism and Deep Work, a groundbreaking philosophy for pursuing meaningful accomplishment while avoiding overload 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? Long before the arrival of pinging inboxes and clogged schedules, history's most creative and impactful philosophers, scientists, artists, and writers mastered the art of producing valuable work with staying power. In this timely and provocative book, Cal Newport harnesses the wisdom of these traditional knowledge workers to radically transform our modern jobs. Drawing

LAS 4 REGLAS IMPRESCINDIBLES PARA RECONCILIARTE CON TU TRABAJO Y ALCANZAR LA FELICIDAD

REGLA #1. No persigas tus sueños
REGLA #2. Hazlo tan bien que no puedan ignorarte
REGLA #3. Rechaza un ascenso
REGLA #4. Piensa en pequeño. Actúa a lo grande

Vivimos en una relación compleja con el trabajo. Se ha instaurado la creencia de que todos tenemos una pasión oculta, una vocación que rige nuestro camino profesional y que debe conducirnos hacia la felicidad laboral. Sin embargo, la realidad es que cada vez hay más gente descontenta, frustrada e insatisfecha.

Tras pasar tiempo con todo tipo de expertos que disfrutan de su trabajo de forma genuina, Cal Newport desvela que la clave de la satisfacción profesional no radica en encontrar una supuesta pasión oculta, sino en el esfuerzo sostenido y el desarrollo continuo de nuestras habilidades y talentos. Lo esencial no es lo que hacemos para ganarnos la vida, sino cómo lo desempeñamos: la verdadera vocación se forja con el tiempo.

Como en sus anteriores obras, en especial Céntrate, Newport logra dos cosas a la vez. Primero, desentraña uno de los males que nos afligen, ayudándonos a entender el mundo y los obstáculos que enfrentamos. Segundo, nos proporciona herramientas para vivir mejor en él y sacar lo mejor de nosotros mismos.

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The 4 Essential Rules to Reconcile with Your Job and Achieve Happiness

Rule #1: Don't Chase Your Dreams
Rule #2: Be So Good They Can't Ignore You
Rule #3: Turn Down a Promotion
Rule #4: Think Small. Act Big

We live in a complex relationship with work. Many believe everyone has a hidden passion that leads to job happiness. However, more people are feeling discontented and frustrated. Cal Newport reveals that professional satisfaction comes from sustained effort and skill development, not from finding a hidden passion. True vocation is forged over time.

As in his previous works, especially Deep Work, Newport achieves two things simultaneously. First, he unravels one of the afflictions we face, helping us understand the world we live in and the obstacles we encounter. Second, he provides us with tools to navigate this world and bring out the best in ourselves.

El autor del bestseller del New York Times, Cal Newport, nos ofrece una visión audaz para liberar a los trabajadores de la tiranía de la bandeja de entrada y desencadenar una nueva era de productividad.

Los trabajadores del conocimiento modernos se comunican constantemente. Sus días se definen por un incesante bombardeo de mensajes entrantes y conversaciones digitales de ida y vuelta, un estado de charla constante y ansiosa en el que nadie puede desconectar y, por lo tanto, nadie tiene el ancho de banda cognitivo para realizar un trabajo sustantivo.

Nos hemos acostumbrado tanto a una jornada laboral basada en la bandeja de entrada que es difícil imaginar alternativas. Pero existen. Basándose en años de investigación, el autor y profesor de informática Cal Newport argumenta que nuestro enfoque actual del trabajo está roto, y luego expone una serie de principios e instrucciones concretas para arreglarlo. En Un mundo sin correo electrónico, aboga por un lugar de trabajo en el que los procesos claros -no los mensajes al azar- definan cómo se identifican, asignan y revisan las tareas. Cada persona trabaja en menos cosas (pero las hace mejor), y la inversión agresiva en apoyo reduce la carga cada vez mayor de las tareas administrativas. Por encima de todo, se racionaliza la comunicación importante, y las bandejas de entrada y los canales de chat ya no son fundamentales para el desarrollo del trabajo.

La evolución del sector del conocimiento más allá de la mente de colmena hiperactiva es inevitable. La cuestión no es si se avecina un mundo sin correo electrónico (lo es), sino si usted se adelantará a esta tendencia. Si es usted un director general que busca una ventaja competitiva, un empresario convencido de que su productividad podría ser mayor o un empleado agotado por su bandeja de entrada, Un mundo sin correo electrónico le convencerá de que ha llegado el momento de realizar cambios audaces y le indicará exactamente cómo llevarlos a cabo. //

From New York Times bestselling author Cal Newport comes a bold vision for liberating workers from the tyranny of the inbox--and unleashing a new era of productivity.

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.

We have become so used to an inbox-driven workday that it's hard to imagine alternatives. But they do exist. Drawing on years of investigative reporting, author and computer science professor Cal Newport makes the case that our current approach to work is broken, then lays out a series of principles and concrete instructions for fixing it. In A World without Email, he argues for a workplace in which clear processes--not haphazard messaging--define how tasks are identified, assigned and reviewed. Each person works on fewer things (but does them better), and aggressive investment in support reduces the ever-increasing burden of administrative tasks. Above all else, important communication is streamlined, and inboxes and chat channels are no longer central to how work unfolds.