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 9
... passes whether we choose to spend it or not. Or perhaps it's because spending time can be intangible. In contrast, financial transactions involve deliberate action with material objects. For instance, you pay for your Why Time Matters 9.
... passes whether we choose to spend it or not. Or perhaps it's because spending time can be intangible. In contrast, financial transactions involve deliberate action with material objects. For instance, you pay for your Why Time Matters 9.
Page 15
... the experimenters. With no other people nearby, the seminarians are faced with a choice between helping a stranger in distress—as a Good Samaritan should do—or passing him by to fulfill the obligation to give Why Time Matters 15.
... the experimenters. With no other people nearby, the seminarians are faced with a choice between helping a stranger in distress—as a Good Samaritan should do—or passing him by to fulfill the obligation to give Why Time Matters 15.
Page 16
... passing him by to fulfill the obligation to give a speech about the importance of being a Good Samaritan. Would the ... pass by the distressed person because they are headed in a future-oriented direction, and their mind-set is focused ...
... passing him by to fulfill the obligation to give a speech about the importance of being a Good Samaritan. Would the ... pass by the distressed person because they are headed in a future-oriented direction, and their mind-set is focused ...
Page 26
... pass through this life only once, so it is vital that you make the most of the journey. The ideal we want you to develop is a balanced time perspective in place of a narrowly focused single time zone. A balanced time perspective will ...
... pass through this life only once, so it is vital that you make the most of the journey. The ideal we want you to develop is a balanced time perspective in place of a narrowly focused single time zone. A balanced time perspective will ...
Page 30
... passing, and end of our personal time. To us, a hundred years is a long lifetime, and a thousand years seems an eternity. We view each birth as the arrival and each death as the departure from life. At birth, each of us is a completely ...
... passing, and end of our personal time. To us, a hundred years is a long lifetime, and a thousand years seems an eternity. We view each birth as the arrival and each death as the departure from life. At birth, each of us is a completely ...
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