Mastering Deep Work
How Knowledge Workers Reclaim Their Attention in an Age Designed to Steal ItBy Lukas ahLberg
Length10h 57m
About this audiobook
Why do intelligent, capable people repeatedly make financial decisions they later regret? Why do high earners struggle to save, investors panic during market downturns, and successful professionals remain trapped in unhealthy money habits? In *The Psychology of Money for Smart People Who Make Bad Financial Decisions*, certified financial planner Wesley Garrison argues that most financial mistakes are not caused by a lack of knowledge—they are driven by hidden beliefs, emotional patterns, and deeply rooted money stories formed long before adulthood.
Drawing on fourteen years of experience working with clients from diverse financial backgrounds, Garrison reveals how emotions often influence financial behavior more than spreadsheets, calculators, or investment strategies. He explains that every money decision operates on three levels: the technical layer, the habit layer, and the meaning layer. While most financial advice focuses on technical knowledge, lasting change requires understanding the deeper beliefs that shape behavior.
The book explores common psychological traps that affect decision-making, including loss aversion, status spending, lifestyle inflation, anchoring, and the sunk-cost fallacy. Readers learn why they hold losing investments too long, overspend to maintain appearances, or avoid financial decisions altogether. Garrison also examines the money beliefs inherited from childhood and shows how these invisible narratives continue to shape adult choices.
Beyond psychology, the book provides practical guidance on saving, investing, retirement planning, debt management, insurance, and financial conversations with partners and family members. Rather than overwhelming readers with complex systems, each chapter concludes with one actionable step designed to create immediate progress.
This is not a promise of overnight wealth or financial freedom through shortcuts. Instead, it offers a deeper understanding of why people behave the way they do with money and how to create healthier financial habits that align with personal values and long-term goals. The result is greater confidence, better decision-making, and a more intentional relationship with money throughout every stage of life.
Audiobook details
GenreBusiness and Economics
Length10 hrs 57 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 4, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Chapter 1 — The Attention Problem of Our Time
3Chapter 2 — What Deep Work Is, and What It Isn’t
4Chapter 3 — The Cost of Shallow Work You Don’t See
5Chapter 4 — The Mental Conditions That Make Deep Work Possible
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6Chapter 5 — Designing a Day That Holds a Deep Block
7Chapter 6 — The Two-Hour Block: Anatomy of a Useful Deep Session
8Chapter 7 — The Friction You Don’t See: Why You Can’t Stay With Hard Work
9Chapter 8 — Notifications, Tabs, and the Surface-Level Noise Layer
10Chapter 9 — Email and Slack as the Designed Distraction Stack
11Chapter 10 — The Calendar That Makes Deep Work Possible
12Chapter 11 — The Workspace: Physical, Digital, and Social
13Chapter 12 — Tools You Actually Need (and the Ones You Don’t)
14Chapter 13 — Working Deeply in an Open-Plan Office
15Chapter 14 — Deep Work From Home: The Other Set of Problems
16Chapter 15 — Deep Work in Short Windows: When You Only Have 90 Minutes
17Chapter 16 — The Recovery After: Why Rest Is Part of Deep Work
18Chapter 17 — Building the Habit: Months 1-6
19Chapter 18 — When Deep Work Stops Working (and What That Means)
20Chapter 19 — Deep Work With ADHD or Atypical Attention
21Chapter 20 — Deep Work as a Manager (Where Your Calendar Isn’t Yours)
22Chapter 21 — Deep Work and Career: The Quiet Career Compounding Effect
23Chapter 22 — A Decade of Practice: What Lukas Has Seen
24Conclusion
25About the Author
26Appendix A — A Day-by-Day Walkthrough of a Deep Work Week
27Appendix B — Twenty Common Obstacles and How to Get Past Each
28Appendix C — Reading List for People Who Want to Go Deeper
29Appendix D — Case Studies From the Coaching Practice
30Appendix E — A Glossary of Working Concepts
31Appendix F — Questions I Get Asked Most Often
32Appendix G — More Stories From the Practice
33Appendix H — Sample Practice Weeks Across Professions
34Appendix I — Final Reflections After the Coaching Is Done
35Appendix J — A Final List of Practices
36Appendix K — Specific Practices for Specific Kinds of Work
37Appendix L — A Note on Building the Practice With Others
38Appendix M — A Final Word
39Appendix N — A Year in the Life of a New Practitioner
40Appendix O — On Failure
41Appendix P — Closing
42Appendix Q — Letters From Readers
43Appendix R — A Postscript on Skanör
44Acknowledgments
45Appendix S — Notes Toward a Second Edition
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