In the following passage, Cal Newport further explained the meaning of going deep within your work. He reiterated how deep work is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy at the same time that it also is becoming increasingly rare. Big trends in businesses today actively decrease people's ability to perform deep work. Most businesses promote the use of technology, but Newport disagrees with it and believes that it distracts us, weakens our cognitive abilities, and our ability to concentrate. From his knowledge, deep work is key to extracting meaning from your profession. To embrace deep work in your career, and to direct it toward cultivating your skill, is an effort that transforms a job from a distracted, draining obligation into something satisfying and enriching. Newport argues that when it comes to the embrace of depth, such resonance is inevitable. Whether you approach the activity of going deep from the perspective of neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy, these paths all seem to lead back to a connection between depth and meaning.
Our book club meeting for this week was successful. We talked about how society really is revolved around technology nowadays, and it is keeping us distracted. We also discussed how Newport reiterates many good points but is not very realistic in this time.
I agree with Cal Newport that people in today's society are not going deep into their work. As a student, I feel like many of us don't completely focus on our task or fully comprehend them because we just want to complete it. When someone goes deep into their work it isolates them form the rest because many don't bother to focus on a task to a certain extent, which is why I would believe that these people are valued more in our economy.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Newport that technology disrupts our ability to focus. It distracts us and makes students lazy and unproductive. Although there are positive things about technology such as communication and entertainment, we have taken that too far and now use technology too much. We have things such as Amazon and Postmates and even grocery deliveries that people use so they don’t have to leave the house. Society has become reliant and unproductive because of technology.
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