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The Procrastination Equation de Piers Steel

The Procrastination Equation

Autor Piers Steel
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 dec 2011
Scientifically rigorous, hugely entertaining, compelling and readable, this text will solve your problems of procrastination and get you motivated to live the life you want.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780273767701
ISBN-10: 0273767704
Pagini: 366
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 126 x 195 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:2. Auflage
Editura: Pearson Education

Notă biografică

Dr. Piers Steel is an internationally recognised expert on human motivation and the foremost authority on why people put things off. A professor of Human Resources and Organizational Dynamics at the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business, he's spent the last ten years studying procrastination and the decades before that embodying it

Cuprins

Author's note 1 Portrait of a procrastinator 2 The Procrastination Equation The result of eight hundred studies plus one 3 Wired for procrastination Putting off is human nature 4 Procrastination How modern life ensures distraction 5 The personal price of procrastination What we miss, what we lose and what we suffer 6 The economic cost of procrastination How businesses and nations lose 7 Optimising optimism Balancing under- and over-confidence 8 Love it or leave it Finding relevance in work 9 In good time Managing short-term impulses and long-term goals 10 Making it work Putting the pieces into practice Postscript: Procrastinations's Chapter 11 A step-by-step guide to getting things done Acknowledgements Endnotes Index

Recenzii

"The book is great" - The Guardian "The Procrastination Equation is crammed with surprising insights about procrastination and human nature as well asconcrete, helpful solutions for fighting procrastination." - Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project "The Procrastination Equation will teach you how to bust the excuses that are preventing you from doing your best work and living your best life. So don't put it off any longer. Read this book. Today." - Daniel Pink, author of Drive and A Whole New Mind "Procrastination is the saffron spice of human behavior, where even small amounts of this tendency can shatter the best of intentions. In this illuminating book Piers Steel shows us the secrets of procrastination, how it affects us and how we will, one day, be able to prevail." - Dan Ariely, author of The Upside of Irrationality and Predictably Irrational "In his absorbing first book Steel looks closely at the oft-misunderstood habit of procrastination. His engaging guide will appeal to a wide audience of past, present, and future procrastinators and researchers trying to get a handle on the science of putting things off." - Publishers Weekly

Descriere

In this groundbreaking book, the world's leading expert on procrastination, Dr Piers Steel, reveals the truth about why procrastinate -- and shows us what we can do about it. Using a powerful mix of psychology, science, self-help, and a decade of his own research, Dr Steel shows us what effect procrastination has on our lives, and offers real hope to sufferers everywhere. New to this revised edition, Dr Steel shows exactly how to apply the techniques in common problem areas, resulting in a step-by-step procrastination busting guide for work, money matters and losing weight.