Название: On Time: Finding Your Pace in a World Addicted to Fast
Автор: Catherine Blyth
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Биографии и Мемуары
isbn: 9780008189990
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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
Introduction: There is enough time
1 Is the World Spinning Faster? Why time feels less free
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
3 Slaves to the Beat: Why time changes speed and so do we
WHAT NOW? A FLEETING BIOGRAPHY OF THE PRESENT
5 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Procrastination: And how to stop
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
8 Time Thieves: A handler’s guide to bogus convenience, meetings, email and other botherment
9 Timing: Making time serve you
10 Sticking at It: The secret life of routines, plans and deadlines