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Apr 2016
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Deep Work, Focused Success in a Distract...

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How can we screen out the chaos to make work more satisfying, productive, and meaningful?  Cal Newport, author of Deep Work, joins us to share the tools and rules for deep, meaningful work. 

  Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. 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.
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