I was interested in reading this book, but… — Deep Work Q&A

(1) Confirmation Bias – YES; He keeps asking us to quit social media citing super performers who live without network tools; In fact use the tools that are only useful for your goals and throw away the rest.

(2) Staying away from books that have nice stories that fit with what the author is trying to say – REALLY? No. The reason why authors use examples is to make it easy for people to understand their concepts and to keep them engaged. If the author were to only write their core concepts and theories – Often they would end up reading their own books. At the end of the day you have to understand that the author is try to sell a book filled with ideas – But the recent trend is to sell one idea in a book – because “why not?” They can write ten books that way – and sell ten ideas; If they put all the ten ideas in one books – They could only sell one book! So you are now burdened to read hundreds of books to cultivate a hundred ideas! Sad, but true! If you were to throw out all the books that have these short stories, that the author chooses to prove a point, you will end up throwing almost all the books on iTunes Library.
But I admire authors, that present short stories about cases where his theory backfired. i.e. I have read books where the authors clearly mention “what not to do” But in this case the author only concentrates on examples that favor his theories.

(3) DEEP WORK & FAILURE – YES; Deep Work != Success (Deep Work does not guarantee success) But, Deep work is the pre-requisite to success. If Success is a fortress you have to cross this moat of Deep Work, but just because you were able to cross the moat does not mean that you will be successful. Deep Work goes hand in hand with the 10,000 rule of malcolm gladwell – If you want to cross the 10,000 hour potential – It means that you should be able to give up everything for 10 years not just Internet, You should get rid of TV, Radio, FM, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Orkut, or whatever. They are just habits that are designed to be sticky. Either way if you don’t have a goal – What is the point of not using all of this? The author does not concentrate on this population. He assumes that everybody had a goal ! That is far from the truth almost 80% of people have useless goals – i.e. will not produce any useful products or services! EITHER WAY THIS BOOK IS ONLY FOR WRITERS, EDITORS, SCRIPT WRITERS, TRANSLATORS, FINANCE INDUSTRY AND PROGRAMMERS, ONLY PEOPLE WHO WORK WITH KNOWLEDGE. Only for people who need to keep learning throughout their lives! Less than 10% of people need to do this – Thus this book is not really useful for everyone. This book is crap for people who work in an assembly line for example. They work like machines and do they really need this book? NO – Will they succeed by Deep Work? NO – Deep Work only works in fields that give exponential returns! Knowledge that keeps building on your old knowledge. DEEPWORK != SUCCESS; Success today is measured by the amount you make – THe amount you make need not depend on how much you learn or how much you make. If you sit at the top of a huge corporation, you make money by virtue – without really doing anything. Thus, you are successful by not doing anything i.e. by not disturbing the existing set up, you are a SUCCESS -How good is that?