Deep Work: Speaker and Audience

Cal Newport, the author of Deep Work and many other life-changing novels discusses some tips that would help people be more focused in a distracting world. Newport shares multiple examples of many successful people that have used techniques such as isolation or implemented hours alone in their day to achieve both a better lifestyle and to achieve their goal. He also believes it is important to embrace boredom in our daily lives because it would lead them to success. Cal Newport was born on June 23, 1982. He attended Dartmouth College in 2004 and also attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009 for a Ph.D.  Newport is also studying the theoretical foundations of our digital age as a professor. This allows him to write about the impact of our advanced technology used throughout the world. Besides Cal Newport’s bestseller, he has also written So Good They Can’t Ignore You, How to Be A Highschool Superstar, How to Become A Straight A Student, How to Win at College, and Don’t Follow Your Passion. His book So Good They Can’t Ignore You it has been on  Inc. Magazine, The Globe and Mail, and 800-CEO-Read. Newport’s New York Timesop-ed. Newport’s How to student series has sold 150,000 copies. Cal Newport has also been invited to speak to our top countries schools like Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Dartmouth, Middlebury, Georgetown, and Duke. Besides getting to rewards on his pasts books, his newest book Deep Work has also gotten a lot of attention. Deep Work has been a Wall Street bestseller and it has received praises from New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and The Guardian. Deep Work is mostly targeted for people who want to actually be focused and successful. This book also helps you cut down on your social aspect. Newport offers ideas like deleting social media in order to help us focus. With social media being used constantly nowadays it is a good reason to cut down on it. Besides social media, Cal Newport also suggests time management. This is a very good idea considering how clean and how organized you are. Nonetheless, it also helps you know what you plan on doing in the day. The reason why time management was suggested is because in order to succeed in what you want to do, you have to set time aside to actually focus on your goals.