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The Procrastination Equation
How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done
Piers Steel(0)
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DON'T WAIT TO READ THIS BOOK: The world's leading expert on procrastination uses his groundbreaking research to offer understanding on a matter that bedevils us all. Writing with humour, humanity and solid scientific information reminiscent of Stumbling on Happiness and Freakonomics, Piers Steel explains why we knowingly and willingly put off a course of action despite recognizing we'll be worse off for it.
For those who surf the Web instead of finishing overdue assignments, who always say diets start tomorrow, who stay up late watching TV to put off going to sleep, The Procrastination Equation explains why we do what we do - or in this case don't - and why in Western societies we're in the midst of an escalating procrastination epidemic.
Dr. Piers Steel takes on the myths and misunderstandings behind procrastination and motivation - showing us how procrastination affects our lives, health, careers and happiness and what we can do about it. With accessible prose and the benefits of new scientific research, he provides insight into why we procrastinate even though the result is that we are less happy, healthy, even wealthy. Who procrastinates and why? How many ways, big and small, do we procrastinate? How can we stop doing it? The reasons are part cultural, part psychological, part biological. And, with a million new ways to distract ourselves in the digitized world - all of which feed on our built-in impulsiveness - more of us are potentially damaging ourselves by putting things off. But Steel not only analyzes the factors that weigh us down but the things that motivate us - including understanding the value of procrastination.
AUTHOR'S NOTE
CHAPTER ONE
PORTRAIT OF A PROCRASTINATOR
CHAPTER TWO
THE PROCRASTINATION EQUATION
The result of eight hundred studies plus one
CHAPTER THREE
WIRED FOR PROCRASTINATION
Putting off is human nature
CHAPTER FOUR
PROCRASTINATIONS
How modern life ensures distraction
CHAPTER FIVE
THE PERSONAL PRICE OF PROCRASTINATION
What we miss, what we lose, and what we suffer
CHAPTER SIX
THE ECONOMIC COST OF PROCRASTINATION
How businesses and nations lose
CHAPTER SEVEN
OPTIMIZING OPTIMISM
Balancing under- and over-confi dence
CHAPTER EIGHT
LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT
Finding relevance in work
CHAPTER NINE
IN GOOD TIME
Managing short-term impulses and long-term goals
CHAPTER TEN
MAKING IT WORK
Putting the pieces into practice
POSTSCRIPT
PROCRASTINATION'S CHAPTER 11
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
INDEX.
For those who surf the Web instead of finishing overdue assignments, who always say diets start tomorrow, who stay up late watching TV to put off going to sleep, The Procrastination Equation explains why we do what we do - or in this case don't - and why in Western societies we're in the midst of an escalating procrastination epidemic.
Dr. Piers Steel takes on the myths and misunderstandings behind procrastination and motivation - showing us how procrastination affects our lives, health, careers and happiness and what we can do about it. With accessible prose and the benefits of new scientific research, he provides insight into why we procrastinate even though the result is that we are less happy, healthy, even wealthy. Who procrastinates and why? How many ways, big and small, do we procrastinate? How can we stop doing it? The reasons are part cultural, part psychological, part biological. And, with a million new ways to distract ourselves in the digitized world - all of which feed on our built-in impulsiveness - more of us are potentially damaging ourselves by putting things off. But Steel not only analyzes the factors that weigh us down but the things that motivate us - including understanding the value of procrastination.
AUTHOR'S NOTE
CHAPTER ONE
PORTRAIT OF A PROCRASTINATOR
CHAPTER TWO
THE PROCRASTINATION EQUATION
The result of eight hundred studies plus one
CHAPTER THREE
WIRED FOR PROCRASTINATION
Putting off is human nature
CHAPTER FOUR
PROCRASTINATIONS
How modern life ensures distraction
CHAPTER FIVE
THE PERSONAL PRICE OF PROCRASTINATION
What we miss, what we lose, and what we suffer
CHAPTER SIX
THE ECONOMIC COST OF PROCRASTINATION
How businesses and nations lose
CHAPTER SEVEN
OPTIMIZING OPTIMISM
Balancing under- and over-confi dence
CHAPTER EIGHT
LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT
Finding relevance in work
CHAPTER NINE
IN GOOD TIME
Managing short-term impulses and long-term goals
CHAPTER TEN
MAKING IT WORK
Putting the pieces into practice
POSTSCRIPT
PROCRASTINATION'S CHAPTER 11
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
INDEX.