By John Perry

This isn't a e-book for invoice Gates. Or Hillary Clinton, or Steven Spielberg. essentially they've got no hassle getting stuff performed. For the nice majority folks, notwithstanding, what a convenience to find that we’re no longer wastrels and slackers, yet doers . . . in our personal means. it could sound counterintuitive, yet in accordance with thinker John Perry, you could accomplish much by means of placing issues off. He calls it “structured procrastination”:

In 1995, whereas no longer engaged on a few venture I must have been engaged on, i started to think rotten approximately myself. yet then i spotted whatever. in most cases, I had a name as someone who obtained much performed and made an affordable contribution. . . . A paradox. instead of attending to paintings on my vital tasks, i started to consider this conundrum. i noticed that i used to be what I name a based procrastinator: somebody who will get much performed by way of no longer doing different things.

Celebrating an almost common personality flaw, The artwork of Procrastination is a smart, captivating, compulsively readable book—really, a tongue-in-cheek argument of principles. Perry bargains inventive suggestions, just like the protecting to-do record (“1. examine chinese language . . .”) and job triage. He discusses the double-edged dating among the pc and procrastination—on the single hand, it permits the procrastinator to fireplace off a letter or paper on the final attainable minute; at the different, it’s a perilous time suck (Perry counters this by means of by no means browsing until eventually he’s already hungry for lunch). Or what can be procrastination’s maximum reward: the opportunity to complete astounding, superb issues by way of now not sticking to a inflexible agenda. for instance, Perry wrote this ebook by way of warding off the paintings he was once alleged to be doing—grading papers and comparing dissertation principles. How fortunate for us.