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The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing

by John R. Perry

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[2024-01-17]

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What surpises me in this short, entertaining, yet somewhat enlightening book is that I found myself in literally every chapter!

The effect was so strong that I was even taking notes while reading it cover-to-cover during a train ride. And yes, it was a time well spent, because after succumbing to a nature of a structured procrastinator instead of fighting it, I'm feeling reasonably better and apt to achieve more.

This essay explained me precisely what I used intuitively but did not value enough for making a system out of it:

  • Why horizontal organization of work environment is so important,

  • How to rank incoming tasks by a "good enough result" criteria,

  • Why stupid situational TODO-lists lead to real progress,

  • How to deal with other people and not be upset much because of their sometimes ruined expectations.

The latter of the techniques I still have no master.

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