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Cal Newport

    Cal Newport è un autore che si concentra sul raggiungimento del lavoro profondo e della concentrazione nel mondo moderno. La sua scrittura sfida le ipotesi comuni sul successo professionale, offrendo prospettive non convenzionali su come costruire un lavoro significativo. Attraverso le sue opere, ispira i lettori a rivalutare le loro abitudini professionali e a cercare una soddisfazione più profonda nelle loro carriere.

    Cal Newport
    How to win at college : surprising secrets for success from the country's top students
    How to become a straight - A student
    Digital Minimalism
    How to Be a High School Superstar
    Deep Work
    So Good They Can't Ignore You
    • So Good They Can't Ignore You

      • 304pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      In they eye-opening account, Cal New port debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is good advice. After making his case against passion, Newport sets out on a quest to discover the reality of how people end up living what they do. Spending time with organic farmers, venture capitalists, screenwriters, freelance computer programmers, and other who admitted to deriving great satisfaction from their work, Newport uncovers the strategies they used and the pitfalls they avoided in developing their compelling careers. Matching your job to a preexisting passion does not matter, he reveals. Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. This will change the way we think about our careers, happiness, and the crafting of a remarkable life

      So Good They Can't Ignore You
      4,2
    • Deep Work

      Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

      • 304pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      GetAbstract Summary: Get the key points from this book in less than 10 minutes. Professor Cal Newport presents a multipart argument for deep, concentrated work. He explains that work that demands your full focus is intrinsically valuable and rewarding. You need to be able to handle "deep work" to succeed in an information economy. Yet people face increasing distractions or social pressure that drive them toward shallow work. Newport develops his ideas with a blend of formal research, stories and personal accounts about the challenges and rewards of deep work. He provides tips for arranging your life to support deep work, which he sees as valuable, productive and rare. He makes his case persuasively and even poetically. getAbstract recommends his guidance to knowledge workers and anyone else who is seeking flow, creativity or focus. Book Publisher:Grand Central

      Deep Work
      4,2
    • Do Less, Live More, Get Accepted 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,  ·        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 to Be a High School Superstar
      4,1
    • Digital Minimalism

      • 304pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      In "Digital Minimalism," Cal Newport offers a practical guide to reducing digital distractions and reclaiming a meaningful life. He encourages readers to rethink social media use, prioritize meaningful interactions, and rediscover offline pleasures. This book is a timely call to take control of technology and find inner calm.

      Digital Minimalism
      4,1
    • Offers time-management strategies, tips on taking tests, techniques for writing essays better and faster, and self-assessment tests to help students analyze their study skills

      How to become a straight - A student
      4,0
    • The only guide to getting ahead once you’ve gotten in—proven strategies for making the most of your college years, based on winning secrets from the country's most successful students What does it take to be a standout student? How can you make the most of your college years—graduate with honors, choose exciting activities, build a head-turning resume, and gain access to the best post-college opportunities? 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 the class. These college-tested—and 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 knowProving that success has little to do with being a genius workaholic, and everything to do with playing the game, How to Win at College is the must-have guide for making the most of these four important years—and getting an edge on life after graduation.

      How to win at college : surprising secrets for success from the country's top students
      4,0
    • Tiny Experiments

      How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World

      • 304pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      'A compelling new take on a timeless concern' CAL NEWPORT'I loved this profound, practical and generous book' OLIVER BURKEMAN'A paradigm-shifting exploration of how to apply the techniques of science to modern life' TIAGO FORTE'One of the best productivity books that I've read' RYDER CARROLLWe're told productivity is all about single-minded focus, hard grind and big goals. Deviating from the linear path means failure. The problem: it's not true. In this transformative book, neuroscientist and entrepreneur Anne-Laure Le Cunff reveals the easier, proven method to achieve our ambitions: an experimental mindset. Ditching out-dated notions of chasing success, she demonstrates the joyful power of 'tiny experiments' in which goals are discovered, pursued and adapted on your own terms. Rooted in science and real-world success stories, Tiny Experiments is packed with tools to help you break free from limiting beliefs, harness the power of imperfection and apply your curiosity - to create a meaningful, productive life in an ever-changing world.

      Tiny Experiments
      3,7
    • Company of One

      • 272pagine
      • 10 ore di lettura

      Company of One is a refreshing new approach centered on staying small and avoiding growth, for any size of business. Not as a freelancer who only gets paid on a per piece basis, and not as an entrepreneurial start-up that wants to scale up as soon as possible, but as a small business that is deliberately committed to staying that way. By staying small, you can have freedom to pursue more meaningful pleasures in life, and avoid the headaches that result from dealing with employees, long meetings, or worrying about expansion. Company of One introduces this unique business strategy and explains how to make it work for you, including how to generate cash flow on an ongoing basis. Paul Jarvis left the corporate world when he realized that working in a high-pressure, high-profile world was not his idea of success. Instead, he now works for himself out of his home, and lives a much more rewarding and productive life. He no longer has to contend with an environment that constantly demands more productivity, more output and more growth. In Company of One, Jarvis explains how you can do the same, including planning to set up, determining desired revenues and keeping clients happy, and of course, doing all this on your own

      Company of One
      3,9
    • Outlines recommendations for business leaders on how to maximize a working team's professional productivity by improving administrative support and streamlining digital traffic.

      A World Without Email
      3,8
    • 'Brilliant and timely' - Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks From the New York Times bestselling author of Digital Minimalism and one of the world's top productivity experts, a groundbreaking philosophy for creating great work at a sustainable pace. Hustle culture. Burnout. Quiet quitting. Today we're either sacrificing ourselves on the altar of success or we're rejecting the idea of ambition entirely. But it doesn't have to be all or nothing. There is a way to create meaningful work as part of a balanced life, and it's called 'slow productivity'. Coined by Cal Newport, the bestselling author of Deep Work and Digital Minimalism, slow productivity is a revolutionary philosophy based on three simple principles: 1. Do fewer things. 2. Work at a natural pace. 3. Obsess over quality. Examining the stories and habits of ancient and modern scientists, philosophers, artists and scholars who worked in this way, Newport reveals just how transformative the slow productivity approach can be to producing a meaningful body of work. From managing your energy according to the season, to identifying which projects to pursue and which to set aside, to building a schedule that yields maximum output with minimum stress, this timely and essential book will revolutionise how you work, helping you to accomplish great things at a more humane pace.

      Slow Productivity
      3,7
    • The Time-Block Planner

      • 208pagine
      • 8 ore di lettura

      How do highly-successful people like Elon Musk and Bill Gates get so much done? The answer is time blocking; a time-management method that Cal Newport, productivity expert and bestselling author of Digital Minimalism, has been using for fifteen years. For the first time, this game-changing system has been captured in a daily planner that makes it easy for you to prioritise tasks and focus on the things that really matter. Using the time-block method you'll no longer be distracted by your inbox, social media and other peoples' demands for your time. The Time-Block Planner will help you push aside distractions and focus on the work that will make the difference to you.

      The Time-Block Planner
    • Cyfrowy minimalizm

      • 336pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      Cyfrowy minimalizm Jak zachowac skupienie w halasliwym swiecie

      Cyfrowy minimalizm
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    • Wie man immer Bestnoten bekommt

      Bewährte Lernstrategien, um mit geringstem Aufwand den Abschluss zu erreichen - für Schüler, Azubis und Studenten

      • 230pagine
      • 9 ore di lettura

      Effektive Lernmethoden stehen im Mittelpunkt dieses Buches, das darauf abzielt, Schülern zu helfen, ihre Noten zu verbessern. Es bietet praktische Techniken, die sowohl zeitsparend als auch leicht umsetzbar sind. Die Strategien sind darauf ausgelegt, das Lernen zu optimieren und die Motivation zu steigern, sodass Schüler ihre Lernziele effizient erreichen können. Zudem werden Tipps zur Organisation und Zeitmanagement gegeben, um die Lernzeit produktiver zu gestalten.

      Wie man immer Bestnoten bekommt
    • Der Block-dir-Zeit-Planer

      Die 90-Tage-Methode für mehr Zeit im Alltag

      Macher wie Elon Musk oder Bill Gates wissen schon am Vorabend, wie sie am nächsten Tag ihre Ziele konsequent verfolgen werden. Wie das konkret geht, zeigt Bestsellerautor Cal Newport und liefert gleich ein ganzes System für mehr Produktivität. Das Erfolgsgeheimnis: Arbeiten in Zeitblöcken, denen jeweils bestimmte Tätigkeiten zugeordnet sind. Newports Zeitplaner enthält 90 Tagesplanungsseiten, ergänzt durch jeweils eine ochenplanungsseite sowie einem Kästchen zum Abhaken fürs wohlverdiente Abschalten am Ende eines erfolgreichen Arbeitstags. Mit weniger Ablenkung, mehr Konzentration und einem klaren Plan erreicht man mehr, als man je für möglich gehalten hat und arbeitet nie wieder länger als bis 17:00 Uhr!

      Der Block-dir-Zeit-Planer