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.
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...
评分 评分刚读完约翰•佩里的《拖拉一点也无妨》,拖延到现在都没有睡的我觉得有必要来写一篇读后感。 正如作者在后记里说的,写这本书的目的不是让拖延症患者改掉拖延症,而是让他们感觉好一点儿,当然包括他自己。 作者就是一位重度拖延症,流露于字里行间的拖延症气息让同为拖延...
评分首先,当你打开这本书之前,卤煮希望你确定一件事,那就是你并不是抱着“我要治好我的拖延症”的心态去看的。关于拖延症的书有很多种,其中可以分为两类,一类是让你治疗的,譬如如果你已经点开了这篇书评你一定已经很熟悉的《拖延心理学》,另一种便是让你放弃治疗的,譬如这...
评分definitely a self-comfort and relief
评分非拖延症患者抱着篇幅短看起来快的心情读了这本书,没有太大共鸣。唯一一点关于veritical还是horizontal organizer,我显然是和作者一样是horizontal的。不过如今的搜索功能强大,超过了检索,适合我们这种人。哈哈。
评分同道中人的經驗和鼓勵
评分最有用的无非就是让自己意识到自己到底为什么会procrastinate,但是对于如何对付它,并无什么卵用
评分##kindle# 稍幽默,却没多大用,总之你要想办法借外部激励去让自己多做事情…那谁,别上网瞎瞅啦,该搬砖啦…其实一篇文章就能说完,老头儿写成一小本书也是吹水…
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