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 xiii
... give into temptation? As you contemplate what you will do, you are influenced by a number of factors. For some people, the world is limited to all the forces they perceive in their immediately present situation, their biological urges ...
... give into temptation? As you contemplate what you will do, you are influenced by a number of factors. For some people, the world is limited to all the forces they perceive in their immediately present situation, their biological urges ...
Page xv
... gives you a score on each of the six time dimensions. The scales were developed and refined over many years, and they have proven to be both reliable (they give similar results each time they are taken) and valid (they enable testable ...
... gives you a score on each of the six time dimensions. The scales were developed and refined over many years, and they have proven to be both reliable (they give similar results each time they are taken) and valid (they enable testable ...
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... give you new ways of seeing and working with your past, present, and future. Over three decades, we have given our questionnaires to more than ten thousand people. Colleagues of ours in more than fifteen countries around the world have ...
... give you new ways of seeing and working with your past, present, and future. Over three decades, we have given our questionnaires to more than ten thousand people. Colleagues of ours in more than fifteen countries around the world have ...
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... gives direction and depth to our lives. For many of us, the time in which we are immersed is murky rather than gin-clean, and it prevents us from seeing up- and downstream. We may not even be aware of time until the stream runs dry, as ...
... gives direction and depth to our lives. For many of us, the time in which we are immersed is murky rather than gin-clean, and it prevents us from seeing up- and downstream. We may not even be aware of time until the stream runs dry, as ...
Page 9
... give to how we spend it. If a slightly annoying acquaintance 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 ...
... give to how we spend it. If a slightly annoying acquaintance 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 ...
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