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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 153.753
EAN: 9781416541981
ISBN: 1416541985
Label: Free Press
Manufacturer: Free Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: August 05, 2008
Publisher: Free Press
Studio: Free Press
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Your every significant choice -- every important decision you make -- is determined by a force operating deep inside your mind: your perspective on time -- your internal, personal time zone. This is the most influential force in your life, yet you are virtually unaware of it. Once you become aware of your personal time zone, you can begin to see and manage your life in exciting new ways.
In The Time Paradox, Drs. Zimbardo and Boyd draw on thirty years of pioneering research to reveal, for the first time, how your individual time perspective shapes your life and is shaped by the world around you. Further, they demonstrate that your and every other individual's time zones interact to create national cultures, economics, and personal destinies.
You will discover what time zone you live in through Drs. Zimbardo and Boyd's revolutionary tests. Ask yourself:
• Does the smell of fresh-baked cookies bring you back to your childhood?
• Do you believe that nothing will ever change in your world?
• Do you believe that the present encompasses all and the future and past are mere abstractions?
• Do you wear a watch, balance your checkbook, and make to-do lists -- every day?
• Do you believe that life on earth is merely preparation for life after death?
• Do you ruminate over failed relationships?
• Are you the life of every party -- always late, always laughing, and always broke?
These statements are representative of the seven most common ways people relate to time, each of which, in its extreme, creates benefits and pitfalls. The Time Paradox is a practical plan for optimizing your blend of time perspectives so you get the utmost out of every minute in your personal and professional life as well as a fascinating commentary about the power and paradoxes of time in the modern world.
No matter your time perspective, you experience these paradoxes. Only by understanding this new psychological science of time zones will you be able to overcome the mental biases that keep you too attached to the past, too focused on immediate gratification, or unhealthily obsessed with future goals. Time passes no matter what you do -- it's up to you to spend it wisely and enjoy it well. Here's how.
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On the positive side, getting a handle on one's time perspectives isn't easy, but is vital to living well, and this is one of the few books which focuses on that topic. From that standpoint, I certainly benefitted from reading the book, and I suspect that I'll be ruminating about these ideas for quite some time (no pun intended).
To get a sense of your own current time perspectives, I highly recommend doing the online surveys found at www.thetimeparadox.com/surveys; this is quicker ... Read More
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Are you the life of the party? Will nothing ever change in your life? Do freshly baked cookies make you nostalgic of your kid years? Each of these questions are three of the seven ways people relate to time, each with its very own pros and cons. Every choice you make is guided by your own, personal inner time zone. In The Time Paradox Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd state that it is key to understand how you relate to time if you want to make smart and wise decisions on how to spend your time. With ... Read More
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Philip Zimbardo has been influencing the way I think about life for many, many years now. I originally discovered him on PBS psychology specials long ago and was fascinated by what he had to say back then and still today. He's one of those people you discover in a lifetime, that draws your attention whenever he decides to pop out and have something to say. He doesn't do it often, but when he does, I want to hear it and I wasn't disappointed. He has such a wonderful, clear way of speaking and explaining ... Read More
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We haven't bought the book yet. We listened to Zimbardo's talk to the Commonwealth Club and discussed his work in relation to our own family and found it quite worthwhile.
One is automatically suspicious of any metaphor-paradigm that explains everything from individual behavior to the relationships between nations. Still, there's a lot to think about here.
Valuable, challenging, and worthwhile. Listen to the Commonwealth Club's presentation and then decide if you want to ... Read More
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This book shows that people view time in different psychological ways. The authors divide people into different time perspectives of past-negative, past-positive, present-hedonistic, present-fatalistic, holistic-present, future, and transcendental-future. There are tests in the book and online at [...]. The test will show you how high you rate in all the different time perspectives. There are positives and negatives for each, a balance among them is better than rating extremely high in one. Past-negatives ... Read More
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