Focus and Deep Work

Attention as something you design for, not something you summon

4.5(4,103 reviews)88,900 learners

Created by Rachel Adeyemi

Updated March 2026EnglishAll levels6h 30m48 lectures

What you will learn

  • Identify where your attention actually goes, with evidence
  • Design a week that contains real blocks of uninterrupted work
  • Reduce interruption at its source rather than resisting it
  • Handle the guilt of being slower to respond
  • Build a shutdown routine that lets work end
  • Sustain the habit past the initial enthusiasm

Course content

12 sections · 48 lectures · 6h 30m total length

  • What this course covers, and what it does notPreview03:00
  • How to get the most out of itPreview04:00
  • Setting up and downloading the exercise files06:00

  • Attention and its limitsPreview15:00
  • Attention and its limits in detail07:00
  • A closer look at attention and its limits06:00
  • Worked example: attention and its limits10:00
  • Where attention and its limits goes wrong08:00

Topics covered

Attention and its limitsAuditing your weekCalendar designInterruption at sourceNotifications and toolsSaying noManaging expectationsShutdown routinesRest and recoverySustaining the habit

Requirements

  • No prerequisites

Description

Most productivity advice fails because it relies on willpower on a bad day. This course treats attention as an environmental and structural problem: what your calendar allows, what your tools interrupt, and what you have agreed to that you should not have.

Your instructor

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Rachel Adeyemi

Executive coach and former head of people

4.6 instructor rating1,63,600 learners3 courses

Rachel coaches senior leaders and used to run people teams, which means she has seen both sides of most difficult conversations. Her courses are practical, structured and free of positive-thinking filler.

Learner reviews

4.54,103 reviews
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  • 4 star33%
  • 3 star7%
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  • 1 star2%
  • FZ
    Farid Z.16 August 2025

    Very practical. I applied something from module four at work the same week.

  • LG
    Lucas G.12 January 2026

    Genuinely well structured. I have started three courses on this topic and this is the first one I finished.

  • SL
    Sam L.9 January 2026

    Good balance between theory and doing. I would have liked a couple more exercises, but that is a small complaint.

  • SK
    Sam K.12 September 2025

    Worth it for the section on common mistakes alone — I recognised two things I have been doing wrong for years.

  • DV
    Dmitri V.16 November 2025

    Very practical. I applied something from module four at work the same week.

  • ZR
    Zoe R.9 March 2026

    Solid content, but a few sections move quite fast and I had to rewatch them.

  • QL
    Quentin L.16 February 2026

    The pacing is right. Nothing is padded out, and the exercises are short enough that I actually did them.

  • JK
    Jonas K.14 January 2026

    The instructor answers questions properly rather than pointing you at the documentation.

  • EB
    Elena B.20 March 2026

    Very practical. I applied something from module four at work the same week.

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