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Erteleme Sanatı (2012)

by John R. Perry(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 3

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English

genre

Humor

publisher

Sel Yayınları

review 1: Perhaps the anticipation of the book heightened my expectation for the book, I was very disappointed with the book. Several months ago, I read the award winning essay on "Structured Procrastination" by John Perry, and I thought it is pretty insightful. It's about one getting a lot of other things done by procrastinating to do what they are supposed to do. I thought I might be one myself, so I am all excited to get my hands on this book "The Art of Procrastination" (the first chapter is the essay itself).I was expecting to read some good insights from this Professor of Philosophy from Stanford University, perhaps talking about human nature and the tendency to procrastinate. However, as I read through the book, I am annoyed by his subtly arrogant tone and the grotesque argum... moreents.I find his point of super small to-do list like "drink coffee" and "turn on computer" to be trivial. It does allow you to strike off several items on your to-do list easily but seriously do you really feel accomplished striking these tasks off? Enough so to serve as a morale boost?One point that really quite got on my nerves is that when you procrastinate, some of the tasks miraculously disappear because your non-procrastinating colleagues get it done, or at least the bulk of it, when they finally can't stand it. He argued that missing deadlines is acceptable because most deadlines aren't hard deadlines anyway. I can't bring myself to accept such irresponsible attitude. Yes I do agree that many deadlines aren't really that important, and it's not a big deal not meeting them (That also depends on what you see as a big deal. Being sacked? Causing distress to other colleagues?), but I think that (at least attempt) meeting deadlines is just a way of respect for other people's time and energy. If everyone set their own deadlines after the written deadline, whose deadline is the deadline? I am very much disturbed by most of the content in this book, even more so by the goal of the book - to make structured procrastinators feel better about themselves. Maybe his way of working served him well in his prestigious job, but I simply can't appreciate it.
review 2: I picked up this book while waiting for my order at Kinkos and it sucked me in and I ended up buying it. It made me laugh because it was so entirely me! In fact, I'm writing this while procrastinating what I should be doing: exercising. Ugh. Anyway, it mostly was tongue-in-cheek, but it did have a few tips that were useful to help you avoid procrastinating. Mostly it just made me laugh. I read some to my husband who is entirely a non-procrastinator, and he was fairly disgusted by the book--by me? I'm not sure, I'm going to say the book. I highly recommend this to any procrastinator. less

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