DEEP WORK:
Rules for focused success in a distracted world
By Cal Newport
Piatkus. 296 pages. £14.99
ISBN 978 0 349 411 903
This is a secular book about the benefits of being able to concentrate hard at work.
It is a recommended text at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, because if ever anyone needed to be able to immerse themselves fully in their work it is preachers grappling with Scripture to prepare sermons to feed the souls of God’s people.
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