Always Pouting's Reviews > Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

I kind of have been procrastinating a lot lately, even my reading has fallen off, this social distancing and shut down has really torpedoed my routines so reading this feels timely and a good reminder of the need to prioritize and cut out superfluous activities. I'm not sure that this book needed to be as long as it was to be quite honest and I felt similarly about the other Newport book I read. The book makes a lot of intuitive arguments and I think most of us know the importance of being more deliberate about what we do and trying to engage in things that challenge us and help us grow. Its more so the implementation/execution that's the issue with a lot of these productivity related things in my experience. It can be useful though to read these things once in a while to reinforce those ideas or to try and recalibrate oneself into being more mindful/cultivating better habits. Four starts mostly because I think I needed this at this moment to help me get myself back into the habit of doing more work instead of just napping and watching TV all day. I really hope this shut down ends soon honestly.