The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your LifeFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Lucifer Effect comes a breakthrough book that draws 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. This is the first paradox of time: Your attitudes toward time have a profound impact on your life and world, yet you seldom recognize it. Our goal is to help you reclaim yesterday, enjoy today, and master tomorrow with new ways of seeing and working with your past, present, and future. Just as Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences permanently altered our understanding of intelligence and Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink gave us an appreciation for the adaptive unconscious, Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd’s new book changes the way we think about and experience time. It will give you new insights into how family conflicts can be resolved by ways to enhance your sexuality and sensuality, and mindsets for becoming more successful in business and happier in your life. Based on the latest psychological research, The Time Paradox is both a "big think" guide for living in the twenty-first century and one of those rare self-help books that really does have the power to improve lives. |
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... actions. The core of your life can be reduced to two types of actions: those taken and those not taken. Each action—whether taken or not taken—is associated with positive and negative consequences, with specific emotions, and with a ...
... actions. The core of your life can be reduced to two types of actions: those taken and those not taken. Each action—whether taken or not taken—is associated with positive and negative consequences, with specific emotions, and with a ...
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... Actions. What caused us to do one thing and not another? We all want to feel joy, pride, wisdom, and prudence and we ... ACTION GOOD OUTCOME BAD OUTCOME Taken Joy & Pride Dumb & Foolish Not Taken Regret & Distress Wise & Prudent Imagine ...
... Actions. What caused us to do one thing and not another? We all want to feel joy, pride, wisdom, and prudence and we ... ACTION GOOD OUTCOME BAD OUTCOME Taken Joy & Pride Dumb & Foolish Not Taken Regret & Distress Wise & Prudent Imagine ...
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... action. If anticipated costs outweigh anticipated benefits or gains, they won't go forward. They only go forward when they expect gains to predominate. We have discovered through decades of research that each type of person routinely ...
... action. If anticipated costs outweigh anticipated benefits or gains, they won't go forward. They only go forward when they expect gains to predominate. We have discovered through decades of research that each type of person routinely ...
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... actions and attitudes. They also become more educated and may thus gravitate to less physically dangerous occupations. However, excessively future-oriented business people sacrifice sleep, friends, family, and personal fun in order to ...
... actions and attitudes. They also become more educated and may thus gravitate to less physically dangerous occupations. However, excessively future-oriented business people sacrifice sleep, friends, family, and personal fun in order to ...
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... actions to which your old perspective tied you. It's like the classic joke: A guy from the city is walking down a country road past a farm when he sees a farmer feeding pigs in a highly unusual manner. The farmer is standing under an ...
... actions to which your old perspective tied you. It's like the classic joke: A guy from the city is walking down a country road past a farm when he sees a farmer feeding pigs in a highly unusual manner. The farmer is standing under an ...
Contents
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seven Time Your Body and Your Health | 189 |
nine Love and Happiness | 245 |
eleven Resetting Your Psychological Clock | 295 |
twelve Out of Time | 313 |
Other editions - View all
The Time Paradox: Using the New Psychology of Time to Your Advantage Philip G. Zimbardo,John Boyd No preview available - 2010 |
The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time that Will Change Your Life Philip G. Zimbardo,John Boyd No preview available - 2009 |
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Amos Tversky asked attitudes balanced time perspective become behavior believe Bugs Bunny clock Dalai Lama death decisions depression drugs emotional enjoy Enron Estragon experiences fatalistic feel focus Freud friends future consequences future orientation future time perspective future-oriented goals happiness hedonistic human imagine influence investment Kenneth Lay Kurt Lewin less life’s lives memories mental mind negative one’s participants past past-negative past-negative time perspective past-positive time perspective people’s percent Phil Phil’s Philip Zimbardo positive predict prefrontal cortex present hedonism present orientation present-fatalistic time perspective present-oriented programs Psychology relationships reported rewards score sense sexual social Social Psychology spend Stanford Stanford prison experiment strategies stress success suicide bombers things thought Time-out tion tomorrow transcendental future transcendental-future time perspective USA Today waiting York Zimbardo ZTPI