PSCY1105 DW1

1. What is deep work?

2. What example of influential individual using depth sounds the most interesting to you, and why?

3. What are network tools?

4. Why does the author have no stance in the debate between techno-optimism and techno-pessimism?  What it that debate about?

5. The book describes the story of Jason Benn, summarize it as if you were telling the story to a friend that has not read the book.

6. The author says that “deep work is not a nostalgic affectation… but a skill that has big value today”. How does that value manifest for a college student like yourself?

7. What are the High-skilled workers that the book talks about?

8. What is the insight from Sherwin Rosen’s 1981 paper.  

9. What is deliberate practice and how does it relate to the topic of depth in work

10. What is the proposed neurological mechanism for deliberate practice, and what are the implications for a college student.

11. What is the insight gained from Sophie Leroy’s paper “Why is it so hard to do my job?” again, discuss implications for yourself.

Answer each question in one paragraph