內容簡介
Wall Street Journal Business BestsellerAn Amazon Best Book of January 2016 in Business & Leadership PickA Business Book of the Week at 800-CEO-READ
One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results.
Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way.
In DEEP WORK, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four "rules," for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill.
A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, DEEP WORK takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories-from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air-and no-nonsense advice, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. DEEP WORK is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world.
作者簡介
Cal Newport, Ph.D., lives in Washington, DC, where he is a writer and an assistant professor of computer science at Georgetown University. He also runs the popular website Study Hacks: Decoding Patterns of Success. This is his fifth book.,,
精彩書評
Praise for So Good They Can't Ignore You:"Stop worrying about what you feel like doing (and what the world owes you) and instead, start creating something meaningful and then give it to the world. Cal really delivers with this one." —
Seth Godin, author, Linchpin,"Entrepreneurial professionals must develop a competitive advantage by building valuable skills. This book offers advice based on research and reality--not meaningless platitudes-- on how to invest in yourself in order to stand out from the crowd. An important guide to starting up a remarkable career."—
Reid Hoffman, co-founder & chairman of LinkedIn and co-author of the bestselling The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career,"Do what you love and the money will follow' sounds like great advice -- until it's time to get a job and disillusionment quickly sets in. Cal Newport ably demonstrates how the quest for 'passion' can corrode job satisfaction. If all he accomplished with this book was to turn conventional wisdom on its head, that would be interesting enough. But he goes further -- offering advice and examples that will help you bypass the disillusionment and get right to work building skills that matter."—
Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind,"This book changed my mind. It has moved me from 'find your passion, so that you can be useful' to 'be useful so that you can find your passion.' That is a big flip, but it's more honest, and that is why I am giving each of my three young adult children a copy of this unorthodox guide."—
Kevin Kelly, Senior Maverick, WIRED magazine,"Written in an optimistic and accessible tone, with clear logic and no-nonsense advice, this work is useful reading for anyone new to the job market and striving to find a path or for those who have been struggling to find meaning in their current careers."—
Publishers Weekly 前言/序言
沉浸式寫作的藝術:駕馭心流,創造非凡成果 深入探索如何重塑你的工作方式,實現更高效率、更深層次的思考與創造。 在這個信息爆炸、乾擾無處不在的時代,我們的大腦正遭受著前所未有的“注意力稀釋”。每一封郵件、每一次通知、每一個社交媒體的刷新,都在悄無聲息地蠶食著我們進行深度思考和高質量産齣的能力。我們看似忙碌,卻常常陷入“淺層工作”的泥潭,無法觸及真正具有變革性的見解和成果。 本書並非一套僵硬的規則手冊,而是一份關於如何重構心智模型和物理環境,以適應現代工作挑戰的詳盡指南。它旨在幫助專業人士、創意工作者、以及任何渴望提升産齣質量的人,從持續的分散注意力中解放齣來,重新奪迴對自己時間的掌控權。 第一部:理解注意力的經濟學——為何“忙碌”不再等同於“高效” 我們首先需要正視一個現實:現代社會對我們的注意力實行著一種殘酷的“掠奪”。傳統的職場文化,尤其是對即時響應的推崇,實際上是在係統性地阻礙我們進入需要高度認知投入的狀態。 1. 淺層工作的陷阱與代價: 本書將深入剖析“淺層工作”的本質——那些不要求太多認知資源、易於復製的任務,例如迴復非緊急郵件、參加冗餘會議、以及在多個應用間快速切換。我們不僅要量化淺層工作占用的時間,更要評估它對“認知儲備”的消耗。每一次被打斷,大腦都需要耗費寶貴的能量來重新聚焦,這種“注意力殘留”是無形的效率黑洞。 2. 專注力的生理學基礎: 我們將從神經科學的角度探討“心流”(Flow State)的産生機製。心流並非玄學,而是大腦在執行高難度、高迴報任務時進入的一種最優運行狀態。瞭解多巴胺奬勵機製如何被即時滿足(如社交媒體通知)劫持,是重建專注力的第一步。 3. 傳統“時間管理”的局限性: 傳統的待辦事項清單往往隻是對任務的堆砌,它們無法解決核心問題:你是否有足夠連貫的時間和心智空間去處理那些真正需要思考的任務?本書強調,管理時間不如管理注意力資産。 第二部:構建你的“專注堡壘”——物理與數字環境的重塑 高效率的産齣不是在混亂中偶然發生的,而是需要精心設計的環境作為支撐。這一部分將提供一套實用的、可立即部署的策略,用於消除環境中的“摩擦點”。 1. 劃分工作區域的“儀式感”: 我們的環境會無意識地嚮我們發齣指令。你需要建立明確的物理邊界,區分“處理雜務區”和“深度思考區”。這種區域的劃分,哪怕隻是簡單的換一把椅子、打開一個特定的燈光,都能成為大腦進入工作模式的物理開關。 2. 擁抱“數字極簡主義”: 智能手機和電腦是效率的雙刃劍。我們將詳細拆解如何對數字界麵進行“硬核排毒”: 通知管理的終極策略: 區分“緊急信息”與“打擾信息”,並設置嚴格的批處理時間。 應用隔離法: 針對不同任務使用不同的瀏覽器配置文件或專門的工作環境,防止一個應用的通知汙染另一個任務的專注度。 定製你的主屏幕: 移除所有分散注意力的圖標,隻保留那些直接服務於你當前核心目標的工具。 3. 應對開放式辦公室的挑戰: 對於身處開放式辦公環境的人士,本書提供瞭一係列“軟性防禦”策略,包括如何有效溝通你的專注需求、使用“專注指示燈”(如降噪耳機)作為無聲的界限設定工具,以及利用午休或非高峰時段進行最高強度的集中工作。 第三部:深度工作的執行框架——結構化你的高價值産齣 環境準備就緒後,關鍵在於如何將時間塊轉化為實質性的成果。本書介紹瞭一套多層次的深度工作方法論。 1. 確定你的“生産力基綫”: 你需要誠實地評估自己每天能投入多長時間的無乾擾深度工作。是90分鍾,還是3小時?確定這個基綫,並將其視為神聖不可侵犯的時間,而不是可以被會議擠占的緩衝帶。 2. 深度會議的藝術: 會議是效率的頭號殺手。我們探討如何減少會議數量,並提升剩餘會議的質量。這包括:清晰的前置目標設定、嚴格的議程控製、以及拒絕參與那些沒有明確産齣要求的會議。 3. 批處理的智慧: 並非所有任務都需要即時處理。本書推崇將同類型的淺層工作進行“批次化”處理——例如,每天隻在固定的兩個時間點檢查和迴復郵件,將處理電子郵件這件事本身,變成一項可以被深度工作法則管理的任務。 4. 恢復性休息的必要性: 深度工作本質上是一種高強度的認知消耗。疲憊的大腦無法保持專注。因此,如何設計高效的“非工作時間”——高質量的休息、運動和真正的脫離工作狀態——與工作本身同等重要。恢復不是奢侈品,而是維持長期高産齣的燃料。 第四部:將深度工作內化為職業信仰 最終,本書的目標是讓你超越技巧層麵,將對專注力的追求融入你的職業哲學。 1. 擁抱“少即是多”的原則: 學會拒絕那些低價值、高時間消耗的請求。每一次對低價值任務的拒絕,都是對高價值産齣的肯定。我們將提供實用的溝通腳本,教你如何在不損害人際關係的前提下,堅定地維護你的專注時間。 2. 成果導嚮而非時間投入導嚮的衡量標準: 重新定義你的成功標準。你的價值不應由你坐在辦公桌前的時間長度來衡量,而應由你創造的有影響力的成果來衡量。這種思維轉變將為你追求深度工作提供持續的內在動力。 3. 長期心智的培養: 深度工作不是一次性的“衝刺”,而是一種需要持續打磨的技能。本書最後會指導你如何進行定期的“專注迴顧”,識彆乾擾源的演變,並不斷優化你的工作係統,確保你在信息時代始終保持思維的清晰度和創造力的巔峰狀態。 --- 本書獻給所有受夠瞭“錶麵忙碌”的專業人士:如果你渴望將有限的精力投入到真正能帶來變革和成就的少數任務上,這本書將為你提供清晰的路綫圖,讓你重新掌控你的心智資源,實現真正有意義的、不可替代的職業成就。