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 xiv
... believe time perspectives are learned, not inborn, and, like all learned behaviors, they can be relearned and modified to make them work in a more ideal way. We all have the power to adjust our time biases to optimize our decision ...
... believe time perspectives are learned, not inborn, and, like all learned behaviors, they can be relearned and modified to make them work in a more ideal way. We all have the power to adjust our time biases to optimize our decision ...
Page xvii
... the veterans, as it never occurs to them that they are trading their most valuable resource . . . their future, for their past, by not controlling their present. I believe present transcendence and future hopefulness are Prologue xvii.
... the veterans, as it never occurs to them that they are trading their most valuable resource . . . their future, for their past, by not controlling their present. I believe present transcendence and future hopefulness are Prologue xvii.
Page xviii
... believe present transcendence and future hopefulness are essential components of a successful therapeutic intervention. 6. When they come to this realization, they begin to understand the importance of Time Perspective (TP) and how it ...
... believe present transcendence and future hopefulness are essential components of a successful therapeutic intervention. 6. When they come to this realization, they begin to understand the importance of Time Perspective (TP) and how it ...
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... believe that more time has passed than really has. As you travel through life, you encounter many optical and temporal illusions, most of them much more complex than these examples. While there may be no “right” way to view the ...
... believe that more time has passed than really has. As you travel through life, you encounter many optical and temporal illusions, most of them much more complex than these examples. While there may be no “right” way to view the ...
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... believe that they had plenty of time before their speech—those in the “on time” condition—do stop to help. This behavior is consistent with their choice of vocation. People who have devoted their lives to helping others would be ...
... believe that they had plenty of time before their speech—those in the “on time” condition—do stop to help. This behavior is consistent with their choice of vocation. People who have devoted their lives to helping others would be ...
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