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Re:The Akrasia Effect: Why We Don’t Follow Through on What W... by Scarblac on Friday August 17, 2018 @04:40AM (#17781231)
I had the opposite experience. In general most self-help books do what you describe, but I thought Deep Work went into quite some detail on how to actually achieve it.

For instance the idea of how you deal with short moments of boredom in general (also outside of work) has a lot of influence on how good you are at ignoring distractions during work was an eye opener for me, and goes deeper than "secure big chunks of time to reach and be in the flow state".

Re:The Akrasia Effect: Why We Don’t Follow Through on What W... by beat on Friday August 17, 2018 @10:36AM (#17783096)
Learning to tolerate boredom again has been a real eye-opener for my own sense of self.