Slow productivity
Can't keep up? Are you having trouble concentrating on important tasks? Or are you even on the verge of burnout?
We perceive busyness and stress as synonymous with productive effort, leading to lengthy to-do lists, constant multitasking, and a scattered mind. And if we still haven' t finished everything, we need to speed up!
However, Cal Newport shows in another Melville book that the opposite is true: The key to excellent results is to do less. Using the work habits of prominent thinkers, scientists, and artists, he demonstrates why the current definition of productivity is perverse and comes up with a way of working. One that guarantees more concentration, creativity and great results.
The book will allow you to slow down, among other things, thanks to the findings:
It' s often not our boss or clients' fault that we work ourselves to the limit, but ourselves.
Maximum work commitment actually delays the completion of important things.
More than sophisticated task management systems, transparent communication will help you with overload.
We can learn about the natural pace of work with variable intensity from hunters and gatherers.
How to get others to not just pass the work on to you, but also contribute.
We' ve been trying to get to work quickly for at least the last seventy years. It's not working. It' s time to try something slower.
They wrote about the book:
If enough people in knowledge professions embrace slow productivity, we can revolutionize the world of work.
- National Public Radio
A brilliant book for all of us who have lost faith in traditional productivity advice but still yearn to do meaningful things.
- Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks
Slow productivity presents an opportunity to understand why we often feel frustrated by the demands of the world we live in — and what we can achieve if we choose to work differently.
- Meera Lee Patel, writer
Cal Newport
(* 1982) is the author of the international bestsellers Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and So Good They Won' t Miss You. He has a doctorate in computer science from MIT and lectures at Georgetown University in Washington. You won' t find him on X, Facebook, or Instagram, but outside of university, you can find him with his family or writing articles and books. He is a long-time contributor to The New Yorker magazine and his website, calnewport.com; He also records the Deep Questions podcast. He lives in Takoma Park, Maryland, with his wife and three sons.
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Jan Melvil Publishing s.r.o., Roubalova 383/13, 602 00 Brno 2, Česká republika, www.melvil.cz 
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