On Time: Finding Your Pace in a World Addicted to Fast. Catherine Blyth
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Название: On Time: Finding Your Pace in a World Addicted to Fast

Автор: Catherine Blyth

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Биографии и Мемуары

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isbn: 9780008189990

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2017

      Copyright © Catherine Blyth 2017

      Catherine Blyth asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

      ‘Primavera’ by Robin Robertson, from Swithering © Robin Robertson 2006, reproduced with permission of Pan Macmillan via PLSclear; ‘This Is the First Thing’ from The Complete Poems by Philip Larkin, reproduced with permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008190002

      Ebook Edition © June 2017 ISBN: 9780008189990

      Version: 2017-11-03

      For Saskia and Rafael

      ‘I would have written a shorter letter,

      but I didn’t have the time.’

      Blaise Pascal, 4 December 1656

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       Introduction: There is enough time

       THE TIME TEST

       Part One: How Time Went Crazy

       1 Is the World Spinning Faster? Why time feels less free

       BUSY

       Part Two: What is Time and Where Does it Go?

       2 How Time Gives Us the World: Why we invented it, how it reinvents us

       MENTAL TIME TRAVEL

       3 Slaves to the Beat: Why time changes speed and so do we

       WHAT NOW? A FLEETING BIOGRAPHY OF THE PRESENT

       4 It’s Not Working: How overload, digital distractions, productivity myths and time-poor thinking addict us to hurry

       WORK-LIFE BALANCE

       5 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Procrastination: And how to stop

       CLOCKWATCHING

       Part Three: How to Get it Back

       6 Body Clocks: Living by your biological timetable

       HOW TO BECOME A LARK (OR AN OWL) AND BEAT JET LAG

       7 Time Rich: How to hurry slowly, spend time better and lose it well

       NOW TRAPPING

       8 Time Thieves: A handler’s guide to bogus convenience, meetings, email and other botherment

       CARPE DIEM

       9 Timing: Making time serve you

       ON TIME

       10 Sticking at It: The secret life of routines, plans and deadlines

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