John Perry

The Art of Procrastination (eBook, ePUB)

A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Discover the power of putting things off: "Insightful, sensible, and amusing" (Harry G.Frankfurt, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of On Bullsh*t). This is not a book for Bill Gates or Steven Spielberg. Clearly they have no trouble getting stuff done. For the great majority of us, though, what a comfort it is to discover we're 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." Celebrating a nearly universal character flaw, The Art of Procrastination is a wise, charming, compulsively readable book-really, 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 relationship between the computer and procrastination-on the one hand, it allows the procrastinator to fire off work at the last possible minute; on the other, it's a dangerous time suck. Most importantly, he explores what may be procrastination's greatest gift: the chance to accomplish surprising, wonderful things by not sticking to a rigid schedule. "John Perry is the wittiest philosopher since Marx (Groucho), and he brings to this book a delightful combination of wisdom and humor." -Thomas Cathcart, author of The Trolley Problem "Reading this straight-talking, badly needed book has changed my life." -Bruce McCall, writer and illustrator for The New Yorker

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Workman Publishing Company
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761175001
• Artikelnr.: 37830338

Autorenporträt

John Perry is an emeritus professor of philosophy at Stanford University and currently teaches at UC Riverside. He is the co-host of the nationally syndicated public radio program Philosophy Talk, and winner, in 2011, of an Ig Nobel Prize in Literature for the essay "Structured Procrastination." He lives with his wife in Palo Alto, California.