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Message from Dean - May 8th 2007
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.232
EAN: 9781585425525
Edition: Revised
ISBN: 1585425524
Label: Tarcher
Manufacturer: Tarcher
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: April 05, 2007
Publisher: Tarcher
Studio: Tarcher
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Originally published by Tarcher in 1988, The Now Habit has sold more than 58,000 copies, and is as relevant as ever!
Author Neil Fiore offers the first comprehensive strategy to overcome the causes of procrastination and to eliminate its deleterious effects. His techniques will help any busy person get more things done more quickly, without the anxiety and stress brought on by failure to meet the workplace's pressing deadlines.
This revised, redesigned edition includes a new introduction and a section that provides strategies to understand and deal with the complex role technology plays in procrastination today.
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I don't know that you can ever say that any method, however brilliant, is for everyone, but if nothing else has worked for getting you to stop procrastinating, you'd be silly not to get this book.
More specifically, the "un-schedule" is a counter-intuitive approach for enlisting help from the part of yourself you've been fightinmg with for too long now. Imagine feeling compelled to do the things that are truly important, instead of being pulled towards the distracting behaviors of old. Neil will show you how. Get the book. You'll find something in it that will be transformational.
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Fiore used to work as a counselor for groups of procrastinating Ph.D. students at Berkeley. I am currently a procrastinating Ph.D. student at Berkeley. Not surprisingly, his advice is spot on for me. I wrote the following review for my blog:
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I am currently reading - not Sartre, not Foucault - but Fiore. Who is Neil Fiore, Ph.D.? He is the man who will enable me to finish a draft of my dissertation by May. Therefore, he is more important to me than any French guy and/or philosopher could ever be.
Neil Fiore is the author of The Now Habit.
Katharine recommended this book as the most productive way to put off writing my dissertation. She was right. Fiore has special credentials when it comes to my seemingly intractable case. He was a counselor for a group of procrastinating doctoral candidates at, get this, UC Berkeley. Over time, he discovered an interesting difference between those who finished writing in a reasonable amount of time ... Read More
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This book promotes the internalization of a Protestant work ethic, which is perhaps what readers may indeed desire. Fiore has some interesting insights into the psychology of the chronic procrastinator, but I found the book's ideology too much to swallow:
"We all have a number of things we would like to accomplish, things we tell ourselves we 'should' accomplish -- increasing our net profits, learning to play the piano, making a million dollars, taking a vacation, writing a book, finishing a degree, repairing the house, losing ten pounds, spending more time with friends, getting up earlier..." --- how much more bourgeois can this book get?
Procrastinators, you are more than producers!! No matter how "fun" efficiency can be, life is more than setting and meeting goals.
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I do see myself in the book and it gives me a perspective on why I keep putting off the work. It did help me the first week I read it, but the influence fade away over time. It is a book and it takes serious effort to "do it now" on your part. I try to resume the now habit this week and will continue reminding myself of doing it.
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This book nails it all. I was a bit scared with some of the reviews before buying. But thank goodness I brought. This book is far more worth then its price. This book have the content to change your life for betterment for ever. Thanks Neil for writing such a wonderful book. It really changed my attitude towards any work.
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