I'm Brad McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

Have you ever spent an entire day at work and in your life feeling that you're really

busy, you're doing all this stuff, you're sending emails, you're getting to do's done,

you're checking stuff out on your news feeds, and at the end of the day you look back and

you realize, man, I really wasn't all that productive.

I didn't get much done, even though I felt busy.

And on top of that, my brain feels fuzzy, I feel distracted, I can't really focus, I

have this sort of anxiety that there's stuff that I need to be doing, but I don't know

what it is.

Well, if that's you, this podcast is for you.

My guest today is Cal Newport.

I've had him on the show before, we talked about his book, So Good, Dicantic, Nor You.

Anyways, Cal is back with a new book called Deep Work, Rules for Focus Success in a Distracted

World.

And guys, this is one of the best books I've read and it's one of the, one of the big life

changing books for me and I'm not exaggerating with this.

In Deep Work, Cal makes the case that we live in an environment and in a culture that promotes

shallow work, sort of distracted work that doesn't really get a lot done and it keeps

us away from Deep Work, which requires focused, intense concentration for long periods of

time and that this Deep Work, if we're able to develop the skill of doing Deep Work,

we'll set us apart in our career and the economy and also give us a more meaningful

life.

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