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Normalmente odio scrivere recensioni, penso infatti che la mia scrittura sia abbastanza mediocre e non penso di avere mai grandi concetti da aggiungere alle migliaia di recensioni già reperibili online, ma questa volta sento il bisogno di fare un'eccezione.
Faccio un'eccezione perché penso che Deep Work abbia in se il suo motivo di essere rivoluzionario: viviamo in un mondo iper connesso e iper pieno di informazione, e lo giudichiamo come un vantaggio, siamo spesso occupati ad essere occupati, non riusciamo a stare 10 secondi in coda alle poste senza scrollare il feed di Instagram. Cal Newport ci vuole dire che chiunque riesca a scappare da questa confusione invisibile può veramente dare un senso ai propri giorni e portare avanti la propria visione personale, invece che “reagire” alla quotidiana overdose di inter-connettività.
Rivoluzione consigliata.
Really interesting readings: in a world of hyper specialisation, the author claims that problems can be solved easily when the solver has heterogenous experiences, using strong scientific evidence.
That happens because a part from some sports and disciplines, the world do not provide any direct and immediate feedback to our actions.
It made me reflect on the fact that society always pushes for single domain expertise, while young people should experiment as much as possibile, without the urge of “finishing their passion”
Highly suggested!
Even if though seems like he's trying to sell you the book while you're reading it, and sometimes you feel like “man, don't worry I've bought it and I'll read it, don't create unnecessary suspense! Even though if you're not a U.S. citizen some stuff may sound strange (but hey, you can take the principle and adapt it to your reality and even though you may not agree with his philosophy about credit cards, it's a really brilliant pack of advice, I really like the simplicity, the long term view and the automaticity of the system proposed. I wish everyone could read something like this in his life before his career, highly suggested lecture!
So many pages for a few ideas. Blame on me that I was expecting something different.