{"id":11958,"date":"2013-05-07T08:15:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T13:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=11958"},"modified":"2013-06-03T17:29:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T22:29:30","slug":"new-stuff-tuesday-may-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/11958","title":{"rendered":"New Stuff Tuesday – May 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/p>\n

The Art of Procrastination<\/strong>:
\nA Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing
\nby John Perry
\nBF637 .P76 P46 2012<\/a>
\nNew Arrivals<\/strong>, 2nd floor<\/p>\n

I went over to the New Arrivals Island with stress on the brain. You know, the end of the semester is upon us, the library’s busier than it usually is, and people are frantically preparing final projects and studying for finals. I nearly missed this skinny book that exemplifies the opposite [or not, depending on your perspective] of what’s going on.<\/p>\n

Perry, emeritus professor of philosophy at Stanford University, takes the topic of putting things off very seriously. He ruminates from his decades of experience about the philosophical side of everyone’s favorite pastime and argues that it’s actually not necessarily a bad thing. Using the idea of akrasia<\/em>, the phenomenon behind going against our best judgment, the author provides strategies to overcome our inner perfectionism \/ procrastination to produce the right result: crossing items off of the to-do list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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