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The Art of Procrastination : a Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging, and Postponing, Including an Ingenious Program for Getting Things Done by Putting Them Off by Perry, John, John Perry is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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This is not a book for Bill Gates. Or Hillary Clinton, or Steven Spielberg. Clearly they have no trouble getting stuff done. For the great majority of us, though, what a comfort to discover that were not wastrels and slackers, but doers . . . in our own way. It may sound counterintuitive, but according to philosopher John Perry, you can accomplish a lot by putting things off. He calls it structured procrastination:__In 1995, while not working on some project I should have been working on, I began to feel rotten about myself. But then I noticed something. On the whole, I had a reputation as a person who got a lot done and made a reasonable contribution. . . . A paradox. Rather than getting to work on my important projects, I began to think about this conundrum. I realized thatI was what I call a structured procrastinator: a person who gets a lot done by not doing other things.__ Celebrating a nearly universal character flaw, __The Art of Procrastination__ is a wise, charming, compulsively readable bookreally, a tongue-in-cheek argument of ideas. Perry offers ingenious strategies, like the defensive to-do list (1. Learn Chinese . . .) and task triage. He discusses the double-edged re
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Perry, John, John Perry
- Publisher
- Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780761171676
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Psychology, Fiction, Self Help
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