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    The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing

    The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing

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    by John Perry


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      ISBN-13: 9780761175001
    • Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, Inc.
    • Publication date: 08/28/2012
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 112
    • Sales rank: 247,161
    • File size: 694 KB

    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.

    What People are Saying About This

    Bruce McCall

    “I intend to write a rave about The Art of Procrastination just as soon as I’ve cleared my desk this afternoon—or at least by first thing tomorrow—because reading this straight-talking, badly needed book has changed my life.”
    —Bruce McCall, writer and illustrator for The New Yorker

    Various

    “A splendid way to avoid one’s work.”
    —Ben Schott, author of Schott’s Original Miscellany

    “Do not put off reading this charming guide to more effective procrastination. Dr. Perry is the Fabius Cunctator in our war against the Hannibal of the undone. Be gone, elephants of nagging duty.
    —P. J. O’Rourke, author of Holidays in Hell

    “Insightful, sensible, and amusing.”
    —Harry G. Frankfurt, author of On Bullshit

    “John Perry is the wittiest philosopher since Marx (Groucho), and he brings to this book a delightful combination of wisdom and humor.”
    —Thomas Cathcart, coauthor of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .

    “The Art of Procrastination is a gem—its practical wisdom as spot-on as its humor. Now that I’ve devoured this hilarious and insightful tome, I not only know that I’m a structured procrastinator, but I’ve also picked up some invaluable tips on how to fool myself into being more productive, which to put to use someday.”
    —Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction

    “What are you waiting for? Read this book!”
    —Patricia Marx, author of Starting from Happy

    “John Perry’s book is lively, funny, engaging and wise. And—fortunately for procrastinators—short. It’s just the thing for a moment or two away from the task at hand!”
    —Timothy A. Pychyl, PhD, author of The Procrastinator’s Digest

    “I intend to write a rave about The Art of Procrastination just as soon as I’ve cleared my desk this afternoon—or at least by first thing tomorrow—because reading this straight-talking, badly needed book has changed my life.”
    —Bruce McCall, writer and illustrator for The New Yorker

    “There are lessons both deep and funny to be found in our capacity to put things off, and Perry is the ideal guide—a writer of superlative wisdom and wit. Forget whatever you were supposed to do next, and read this book.”
    —Mark Kingwell, PhD, coauthor of The Idler’s Glossary

    “The Art of Procrastination rings startlingly true. Perry reconstructs the inner dialogue of the procrastinator with a droll, lighthearted style that has inspired me to try his strategies (alarm clocks, self-deceptions, and self-forgiveness).
    —Patrick Byre, CEO, Overstock.com

    Ben Schott

    “A splendid way to avoid one’s work.”
    —Ben Schott, author of Schott’s Original Miscellany

    Patricia Marx

    “What are you waiting for? Read this book!”
    —Patricia Marx, author of Starting from Happy

    Patrick Byre

    The Art of Procrastination rings startlingly true. Perry reconstructs the inner dialogue of the procrastinator with a droll, lighthearted style that has inspired me to try his strategies (alarm clocks, self-deceptions, and self-forgiveness).
    —Patrick Byre, CEO, Overstock.com

    Harry G. Frankfurt

    “Insightful, sensible, and amusing.”
    —Harry G. Frankfurt, author of On Bullshit

    Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

    The Art of Procrastination is a gem—its practical wisdom as spot-on as its humor. Now that I’ve devoured this hilarious and insightful tome, I not only know that I’m a structured procrastinator, but I’ve also picked up some invaluable tips on how to fool myself into being more productive, which to put to use someday.”
    —Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction

    Thomas Cathcart

    “John Perry is the wittiest philosopher since Marx (Groucho), and he brings to this book a delightful combination of wisdom and humor.”
    —Thomas Cathcart, coauthor of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .

    PhD Timothy A. Pychyl

    “John Perry’s book is lively, funny, engaging and wise. And—fortunately for procrastinators—short. It’s just the thing for a moment or two away from the task at hand!”
    —Timothy A. Pychyl, PhD, author of The Procrastinator’s Digest

    P. J. O’Rourke

    “Do not put off reading this charming guide to more effective procrastination. Dr. Perry is the Fabius Cunctator in our war against the Hannibal of the undone. Be gone, elephants of nagging duty.
    —P. J. O’Rourke, author of Holidays in Hell

    PhD Mark Kingwell

    “There are lessons both deep and funny to be found in our capacity to put things off, and Perry is the ideal guide—a writer of superlative wisdom and wit. Forget whatever you were supposed to do next, and read this book.”
    —Mark Kingwell, PhD, coauthor of The Idler’s Glossary

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    Discover the power of putting things off: “Insightful, sensible, and amusing” (Harry G. Frankfurt, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of On Bullsh*t).

    This is not a book for Bill Gates or Steven Spielberg. Clearly they have no trouble getting stuff done. For the great majority of us, though, what a comfort it is to discover 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.”

    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 work at the last possible minute; on the other, it’s a dangerous time suck. Most importantly, he explores what may be procrastination’s greatest gift: the chance to accomplish surprising, wonderful things by not sticking to a rigid schedule.

    “John Perry is the wittiest philosopher since Marx (Groucho), and he brings to this book a delightful combination of wisdom and humor.” —Thomas Cathcart, author of The Trolley Problem

    “Reading this straight-talking, badly needed book has changed my life.” —Bruce McCall, writer and illustrator for The New Yorker

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    This is a fun audiobook—guaranteed to make fellow procrastinators chuckle and laugh throughout its relatively short run time. By the way, it took John Perry 16 years to turn his essay into a book and it may well have been worth the wait.”
    DWD’s Reviews

    “With a charming brand of vocal confidence and one of the clearest baritone voices in audio, Brian Holsopple does a wonderful job of delivering . . . [Perry’s] invitation for procrastinators to stop beating themselves up.”
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    DWD's Reviews
    This is a fun audiobook—guaranteed to make fellow procrastinators chuckle and laugh throughout its relatively short run time. By the way, it took John Perry 16 years to turn his essay into a book and it may well have been worth the wait.”
    DWD’s Reviews
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