Author's note
1 Portrait of a procrastinator
2 The Procrastination Equation
The result of eight hundred studies plus one
3 Wired for procrastination
Putting off is human nature
4 Procrastination
How modern life ensures distraction
5 The personal price of procrastination
What we miss, what we lose and what we suffer
6 The economic cost of procrastination
How businesses and nations lose
7 Optimising optimism
Balancing under- and over-confidence
8 Love it or leave it
Finding relevance in work
9 In good time
Managing short-term impulses and long-term goals
10 Making it work
Putting the pieces into practice
Postscript: Procrastinations's Chapter 11
A step-by-step guide to getting things done
Acknowledgements
Endnotes
Index
Dr. Piers Steel is an internationally recognised expert on human motivation and the foremost authority on why people put things off. A professor of Human Resources and Organizational Dynamics at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business, he’s spent the last ten years studying procrastination and the decades before that embodying it
"The book is great" - The Guardian "The Procrastination Equation is
crammed with surprising insights about procrastination and human
nature – as well asconcrete, helpful solutions for fighting
procrastination." -
Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project "The
Procrastination Equation will teach you how to bust the excuses
that are preventing you from doing your best work and living your
best life. So don’t put it off any longer. Read this book. Today."
- Daniel Pink, author of Drive and A Whole New Mind
"Procrastination is the saffron spice of human behavior, where even
small amounts of this tendency can shatter the best of intentions.
In this illuminating book Piers Steel shows us the secrets of
procrastination, how it affects us and how we will, one day, be
able to prevail." - Dan Ariely, author of The Upside of
Irrationality and Predictably Irrational "In his absorbing
first book Steel looks closely at the oft-misunderstood habit of
procrastination. His engaging guide will appeal to a wide audience
of past, present, and future procrastinators and researchers trying
to get a handle on the science of putting things off." - Publishers
Weekly
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