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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Page 7
... asking the farmer, “Excuse me. I can't help notice how hard it is for you to lift and carry and feed these pigs one by one at the apple tree. Wouldn't it save time if you just shook the tree and let the pigs eat what falls on the ground ...
... asking the farmer, “Excuse me. I can't help notice how hard it is for you to lift and carry and feed these pigs one by one at the apple tree. Wouldn't it save time if you just shook the tree and let the pigs eat what falls on the ground ...
Page 9
... asked you to invest money in her new business, you would probably consider the potential costs and benefits of the proposed transaction. If you judged her project a bad investment, you would have no problem saying no, even at the risk ...
... asked you to invest money in her new business, you would probably consider the potential costs and benefits of the proposed transaction. If you judged her project a bad investment, you would have no problem saying no, even at the risk ...
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... asked my teacher where I was. “Did you check in the tree in the middle of the playground?” my teacher replied. “He spends most recesses there, watching the other kids play.” There she found me, perched high atop that lone tree in the ...
... asked my teacher where I was. “Did you check in the tree in the middle of the playground?” my teacher replied. “He spends most recesses there, watching the other kids play.” There she found me, perched high atop that lone tree in the ...
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... asked my dad what had changed in his life from the time when he was my age to his current age of forty. He answered as honestly as he could, but people don't always know why they change. Sometimes they just do. The best answer that he ...
... asked my dad what had changed in his life from the time when he was my age to his current age of forty. He answered as honestly as he could, but people don't always know why they change. Sometimes they just do. The best answer that he ...
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... asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world. I. Baltasar Gracian (1601–1658) 10. two TIME A Retrospective on Time Perspectives Change alone is. All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has ...
... asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world. I. Baltasar Gracian (1601–1658) 10. two TIME A Retrospective on Time Perspectives Change alone is. All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has ...
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 |
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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