The Art of Procrastination

About the AuthorJOHN PERRY is an internationally recognized philosopher and a professor emeritus at Stanford, where he taught philosophy from 1974 to 2008. In 2011, he won the Ig Nobel Prize in literature for the essay on which this book is based. (The Ig Nobels honor achievements in science “that first make people laugh and then make people think.”) He is also the co-host of the public radio show Philosophy Talk, which is broadcast regularly on more than 50 stations in 20 states. The father of three grown children, he lives with his wife in Palo Alto, CA

出版者:Workman Publishing Company

作者:John Perry

页数:112

出版时间:2012-8-28

价格:USD 12.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780761171676

图书标签:心理学拖延Procrastination英文原版Procrastination,心理？英文

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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 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.

读后感

这本书内容短小精悍，作者语言又很轻松诙谐，所以非常易读，连我这种不太爱看书的人也很快的读完了。当然还有另外一个原因，那就是，有更重要的事需要我去做……完了，我成结构化拖延者了，哈哈。 刚开始读这本书时没觉得怎样，可读过几页之后发现，天哪，要不要共鸣这么多，...  

有些读者似乎对本书没有提供详细的、系统化的防拖方法相当不满。不过，所谓系统化方法是什么呢？是指手把手、按部就班地指导一个人如何做事吗？事情因人、因时而异，岂有通行天下的指导方法。想要一劳永逸的得到指导，恐怕只有自卖为奴这一条路了。 另一些读者，似乎得到某种...  

这本小书终于跟大家见面啦！在翻译和出版的过程中，每次跟编辑MM提起它，我们都会不由自主地微笑起来，在我们心里，它是个无比可爱的作品。上市这几天来，看到大家在微博上热情的推荐和转发，也都是带着笑意，欢乐多多。一本谈拖延症的薄薄小书，为何如此招人爱？ 我觉得原因...  

用户评价

非常有趣的一本小书，大开眼界，让我这个拖延癌晚期瞬间如释重负——原来我也不是那么糟糕，原来我是结构化拖延症，即，为了不做某事而做了很多其它事。 昨去游泳，群里的人：哇，这么冷你都去，还是户外池，好厉害哦，龙哥白天都不敢去，你意志好坚定。 其实，这跟意志力没有丝毫关系，我只是在逃避做某事。相比某事，再冷的水我也能跳进去。为这事上个月看了14本书，完成了一个coursera课程，搞得自己很忙很有效率的样子。不过的确也是做了点事，一边拖延一边把其它事做了，不算是白白浪费时间。这么一看，拖延也不是一无是处。 斯坦福教授卖萌之作，短小精悍，语言风趣，几分钟一章，很快翻完。推荐给所有深陷自责、愧疚泥潭的拖延友邻。

超级治愈！If you want to stop procrastinating, it may be because you realize that procrastinating is making you unhappy. Perhaps you should go directly to the project of being happy and let procrastination take care of itself. If you want to know what happiness is, you need to go to the philosophers.

拖延论文的时候读完了 对于有严重拖延症+强迫症的人来说一直在戳膝盖和笑点 用词实在是太好玩了 总之就是反正鞭策干活的鸡汤是不管用的大家会拖延的还是继续拖延记得多给自己一点心理安慰..

暑期任务的第一本书，终于搞定了。强迫症，拖延症，追求完美……不重要。更好地认识自己，不要逼自己，肆意享受生活。

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