Addiction, Procrastination, and Laziness: A Proactive Guide to the Psychology of Motivation

The free sample is written simple easily understood English and promises an approachable and instructive book.The rest of the book is written by a person who obviously has no idea how to write clearly and and has no respect for his readers. It is a slapdash effort that gets worse and worse as it nears the end as he struggles to use as many big words as possible in order to achieve his desired page count.I kept working hard to get to a payoff that never came.Like the old joke" there's got to be a pony in here somewhere".Some word uses are frankly irritating such as repeatedly using the the word "nuance" when he means "aspect" to just give one example.I felt cheated. Don't waste your time.

At the small price for the Kindle edition, I decided to give this book a try.Very disappointed. There is not really any new advice here. Main points seem to be making the action more pleasurable and the procrastination habit less pleasurable, plus controlling environment. But you're left to your own device how to apply that.In the last chapter, the author gives examples where the tips are applied. In all cases, the advice is very (too) short. In some cases, the advice is just silly or unhealthy (sleep on a bad mattress, drink more coffee!).There are no real life examples, no real cases or no user feedback. It's just theoretical.Off course, the advice in the book can be added to whatever you're already doing. But it doesn't offer the insight the title promises.I think Self Discipline in 10 Days by Theodore Bryant is a much better choice.In a strange way, this book is kind of motivating: it seems way to easy to get a book published, I may try my own.

I liked the book, and although I am not entirely sure yet that it will work for me, it gave me some insight as to what goes on with addiction, procrastination and laziness. I was addicted to cigarettes for 13 years and gave them up 40 years ago. On the third try, I was finally successful using a similar program to this with a slow reduction of nicotine. Going 'cold turkey' has never worked for me, but slow change has. Today, I battle with overweight and lack of motivation from too many years of diet failure. I have some other bad habits, like staying up late, and knowing that it is bad just doesn't help me stop doing it. I have a lot of interests in life and I feel the pull of them distracting me from my goals all of the time. What this book did for me was that it helped me to see how the pleasurable things I enjoy were pulling me away from those goals, and the unpleasant things required for accomplishing my goals were so unpleasant in my mind that they were keeping me from doing them. So, I made a list of my goals and a list of the 14 psychological weapons and strategies in this book, and I applied each one to the 4 goals I listed. While I'm finding that I am making progress on the 1st goal, the last 3 haven't gone so well yet, and that being because my goals and life, in general, are very time consuming. I thought I would divide my time up each day into 4 time slots for the 4 goals, but it never seems to work out. However, being able to look over each of the 14 strategies before I start working on one of the goals seems to be helpful. I thought that maybe I'll have to work on only one goal until I've mastered it or formed a new habit. When I quit smoking, I was entirely focused on that one problem, how much I hated it, and had to get rid of it. The problem with diet and exercise is that it takes up even more of my time to focus on and is complicated by arthritis, now that I'm older. I also run out of gas sooner than I did when I was young. Focusing on just one thing makes everything else in my life (like my housework) fall apart, so the problem now becomes a matter of balance. Now, I've given myself a 5th goal, that of having balance in my life. Yeah, I really needed this book. I just hope I have enough years left to make it work.

The book is written like the author did most of his writing in academic situations where he had to stretch 10 pages worth of thoughts into a 50 page paper. Excessively wordy, and uses footnotes simply to add his own thoughts. It's a philosophical treatise on psychology. Meaning he pontificates on his own thoughts or on his observations of other people, rather than accurately describing his own experiences and how he changed.I was looking for solutions on how to stop procrastinating, not somebody's random rambling on what factors cause somebody to procrastinate.Not even sure I will finish the book. It's a good example of why publishing companies screen manuscripts and why editors exist. It's a waste of the $8 I spent on the book. Maybe if it had been only $2 I wouldn't be so annoyed.I mean, who reads a book to get a footnote on the "central limit theorem" from statistics that takes up half a page.

Not an enjoyable read. Very thick writing. All theory and no tangible tools to use. Would not buy again.

Strong arcticualtion on the pleasure principle, well thought out, very digestable. Helpful in terms of processing the behaviours of procrastination, inability to take action and gives strong methods on how to attack these problems.

Normally, when I dislike a book, I avoid leaving reviews at all. We don't have to like the same books! However, in this case I have decided to leave a one star review simply to warn people off who may be looking for a self-help book. This is not that book. This is so exceptionally academic! Boring! With no real tangible suggestions. There may be suggestions but they are hidden in amongst the full theoretical language. This book reads more like a phD thesis than a how-to. I expected so much more but got nothing. Disappointed.

Written by someone with "skin in the game" who has experienced the problems first hand. Not too much scientism, no sermonizing. Introduced me to useful concepts I hadn't thought of like "free pleasure." Much better than many books written by authors with fancy credentials. Would recommend to anyone seriously invested in self improvement.

I'd rate 4.5 stars.Describes very good practical techniques that one can employ if able to think rationally about task at hand.Would love to know how can anxiety about work be dealt emotionally to either increase drive or reverse anxiety to fear more about not doing the task than taking on it.

Sehr logisch nachvollziehbar aber in schwerem Englisch mit vielen Fachwörtern geschrieben. Ein online Dictionary hilft um den Inhalt vollständig zu verstehen.Dieses Buch hat meine Sicht auf alltägliche Entscheidungen verändert und lässt mich nun rationaler Entscheiden.