LibGuides: Faculty Learning Community : Deep Work (Spring 2025)

General Information

The format of our Faculty Learning Communities has now been updated to include an eLearn shell. This change has made to allow for more flexibility and opportunities for asynchronous participation. In-person meetings will still be scheduled, but the eLearn shell will be the primary source of communication/discussion. This semester we will have a set of recurring questions for each chapter, and discussion boards in the eLearn shell so participants can post their thoughts as they read the book. To get added to the Spring 2025 eLearn shell, send an email to FLC facilitator Prof. Jason Keeton (jkeeton4@jscc.edu).

Faculty Learning Community Reading

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
ISBN: 9780349413686
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Physical copies of the book are available upon request. Reach out to Mrs. Stacey Williams (office: 115A Classroom Building; email: swilliams62@jscc.edu) or Prof. Jason Keeton (office: 101A Science Building; email jkeeton4@jscc.edu) to request a copy of the book. We have a limited number of copies, but there is an additional copy of the book available via the JSCC Library.

From a New York Times bestselling author, learn to master one of our economy’s rarest skills–the ability to focus–and achieve groundbreaking results.

Deep work is the power to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time–a superpower in our increasingly competitive economy. In Deep Work, author and professor Cal Newport presents four rules for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill:

1. Work Deeply
2. Embrace Boredom
3. Quit Social Media
4. Drain the Shallows

A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, Deep Work uses examples from Carl Jung to social media pioneers to demonstrate how great thinkers have focused their minds in a nonstop world.