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.
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 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”:
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 that
I 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 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 a letter or paper at the last possible minute; on the other, it’s a dangerous time suck (Perry counters this by never surfing until he’s already hungry for lunch). Or what may be procrastination’s greatest gift: the chance to accomplish surprising, wonderful things by not sticking to a rigid schedule. For example, Perry wrote this book by avoiding the work he was supposed to be doing—grading papers and evaluating dissertation ideas. How lucky for us.
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Not All procrastination are unproductive ! 1.Do not listen to advice from people who do not suffer from procrastination 2 Do not sit around feeling bad because you lack willpower 3 Avoid perfectionism 4 Learn how to be less annoying to the n...
評分剛讀完約翰•佩裏的《拖拉一點也無妨》,拖延到現在都沒有睡的我覺得有必要來寫一篇讀後感。 正如作者在後記裏說的,寫這本書的目的不是讓拖延癥患者改掉拖延癥,而是讓他們感覺好一點兒,當然包括他自己。 作者就是一位重度拖延癥,流露於字裏行間的拖延癥氣息讓同為拖延...
評分後天能做的事兒,就彆趕著明天做瞭。真沒想到馬剋·吐溫也能說齣這種話。看來作者的“結構化拖延法”的概括真的是很準確也很具有代錶性。 結構化拖延者有很多共同通病,稍微總結一下有以下幾種: 1. 會自欺欺人,自我安慰。 2. 是完美主義者 有時一件事沒有...
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很薄的小冊子,拖瞭兩個月讀完瞭,也算是對它的緻敬吧~吼吼
評分小技巧, displacement activity.
評分feel so much better~~~
評分definitely a self-comfort and relief
評分這本書的意思就是,如果你真的真的沒辦法改變拖延癥的習慣的話,至少讓自己不再糾結好瞭。對我來說挺有用的。
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