Joseph R. Ferrari
Autore di Still Procrastinating: The No Regrets Guide to Getting It Done
Sull'Autore
Joseph R. Ferrari, Ph.D., is a distinguished professor of psychology at DePaul University and the American Psychological Association's main resource on procrastination. Dr. Ferrari has been featured on ABC News and Good Morning America as well as on NPR, BBC, CBS, and NBC radio. He has been mostra altro interviewed in publications such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, USA Today, Grain's New York Business, Redbook, Parenting, Good Housekeeping, Elle, Vogue, Money, Men's Health, Scientific American, and Psychology Today. mostra meno
Opere di Joseph R. Ferrari
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I heard about Dr. Ferrari on the excellent podcast Ologies, which I think everybody should explore https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/ologies and he made such an interesting point about procrastinators (not just people who procrastinate, but more of a lifetime thing) were about 20% of the population, males and females, worldwide, and that that was higher than the rate of depression. So, he argued, we should stop sniggering about it and take it seriously, grasp the seriousness of the effects of chronic procrastination on the world.
Well, I was procrastinating about editing my second novel, so I pounced on this book.
I am sorry I did. As a procrastination tool, it is filled with such pithy nostrums as “make the first hour of your day about you- use this time to straighten one of your shoe shelves, clean up one section of your closet...”
Argh. Why in the name of all that’s good and holy (as my mother would say) would you spend that first, most potent hour of your day organizing SHOES????
Okay, Ferrari’s research is interesting. This book adds nothing to the self-help genre and in fact dashes scorn at most of the time organizer books out there. A waste of an hour or two.
See, this is what I get for procrastinating.
… (altro)
Well, I was procrastinating about editing my second novel, so I pounced on this book.
I am sorry I did. As a procrastination tool, it is filled with such pithy nostrums as “make the first hour of your day about you- use this time to straighten one of your shoe shelves, clean up one section of your closet...”
Argh. Why in the name of all that’s good and holy (as my mother would say) would you spend that first, most potent hour of your day organizing SHOES????
Okay, Ferrari’s research is interesting. This book adds nothing to the self-help genre and in fact dashes scorn at most of the time organizer books out there. A waste of an hour or two.
See, this is what I get for procrastinating.
… (altro)
Another self- help blah, blah, blah. Had a couple good points but just rehashed info.
Two years later I'm sitting at my breakfast table at 11:30am filling in old reviews on LibraryThing. This book has interesting ideas, but it's not the self-help work I was hoping for. It's more along the lines of explaining your predicament.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 5
- Utenti
- 72
- Popolarità
- #243,043
- Voto
- 2.8
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 13
https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/behavior/podcast-931-the-real-reason-yo...
“ Joseph Ferrari: … I’m in a class being … and she was teaching a course on self-defeating behaviors, masochism, choosing to suffer as she was moving into clinical, she was studying these particular topics and self-handicapping was one of the concepts, … I go to the library and I go and I look up the topic and I find nothing on the topic.”… (altro)