About the Author
JOHN 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
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.
“没事拖一拖,生活乐趣多”。 朋友,上面这句“不负责任”的话可不是我说的。我是个低调的拖延症患者,最多只会心里默默嘀咕,不会白纸黑字写出来。写出这句话的人是斯坦福大学的哲学教授约翰•佩里,他不仅是哲学家,还是个资深拖延症。很多年前,他写了一篇名为《结构化...
評分这本书比较早了,后来又在逻辑思维里听罗胖推荐过,再后来才决定看一看。 看之前已经知道大概内容了,这个老头儿的角度还是挺有意思也挺实在的,看看没有坏处。 老头儿说“不必追求完美”,只要“完成”或者“比完美差那么一点”就可以了。个人结合自己和身边人的例子,深以...
評分在这本书开篇,作者提到他并不是“结构化拖延”的始创者,至少几十年前Robert Benchley就做过这种事情了。 于是Google了一下这位Robert Benchley,果然找到了他在1930年写的一篇拖延弃疗病例。 简单翻译一下,作为这本书的补充/替代阅读材料吧。【反正我写的东西从来也没人看...
評分这种书特别适合看电子版,我是在上下班的地铁车厢里享受完了整本书。估计整个阅读过程我的形象让不少人心里犯嘀咕:一个人聚精会神地对着手机屏幕傻笑,还时不时露出恍然大悟的表情…… 所以说,这种轻松的读物才应该在电子阅读器上被轻松地一笑而过。顺便吐槽下,大部头的书...
迴頭在看書名裏麵的art真是意味深長。這本書不是教你如何戰勝拖延,而是live with it。讓拖延癥患者首先高興起來其實是個挺重要的事,不高興哪有力氣改正呢。書裏有很多萌段子,看完真的變成一個快樂的拖延癥患者瞭。。。
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评分沒有時間的同學可以隻看前三章
评分非常有趣的一本小書,大開眼界,讓我這個拖延癌晚期瞬間如釋重負——原來我也不是那麼糟糕,原來我是結構化拖延癥,即,為瞭不做某事而做瞭很多其它事。 昨去遊泳,群裏的人:哇,這麼冷你都去,還是戶外池,好厲害哦,龍哥白天都不敢去,你意誌好堅定。 其實,這跟意誌力沒有絲毫關係,我隻是在逃避做某事。相比某事,再冷的水我也能跳進去。為這事上個月看瞭14本書,完成瞭一個coursera課程,搞得自己很忙很有效率的樣子。不過的確也是做瞭點事,一邊拖延一邊把其它事做瞭,不算是白白浪費時間。這麼一看,拖延也不是一無是處。 斯坦福教授賣萌之作,短小精悍,語言風趣,幾分鍾一章,很快翻完。推薦給所有深陷自責、愧疚泥潭的拖延友鄰。
评分行文有趣,可讀性強,非常推薦。
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