Time and timing are endlessly interesting topics that other authors have explored with skill and gusto. Here are six books, listed in alphabetical order by title, that will deepen your understanding: 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think (2010) By Laura Vanderkam We each get the same allotment: 168 hours each week. Vanderkam offers shrewd, actionable advice on how to make the most of those hours by setting priorities, eliminating nonessentials, and focusing on what truly matters. A Geography of Time: Temporal Misadventures of a Social Psychologist (1997) By Robert V. Levine Why do some
Time and timing are endlessly interesting topics that other authors have explored with skill and gusto. Here are six books, listed in alphabetical order by title, that will deepen your understanding: 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think (2010) By Laura Vanderkam We each get the same allotment: 168 hours each week. Vanderkam offers shrewd, actionable advice on how to make the most of those hours by setting priorities, eliminating nonessentials, and focusing on what truly matters. A Geography of Time: Temporal Misadventures of a Social Psychologist (1997) By Robert V. Levine Why do some cultures move fast and others slowly? Why do some abide by strict “clock time” and others by more fluid “event time”? A behavioral scientist offers some fascinating answers, many based on his own peripatetic adventures. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (2013) Edited by Mason Currey How have the world’s greatest creators organized their time? This book reveals the daily habits of a range of creative powerhouses—Agatha Christie, Sylvia Plath, Charles Darwin, Toni Morrison, Andy Warhol, and 156 others. Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You’re So Tired (2012) By Till Roenneberg If you’re going to read one book about chronobiology, make it this one. You’ll learn more from this smart, concise work—organized into twenty-four chapters to represent the twenty-four hours of the day—than from any other single source. The Dance of Life: The Other Dimension of Time (1983) By Edwar...
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WHEN, an instant New York Times bestseller, is also now available in paperback! If you're in the Washington, DC, area, join me tonight (Tuesday January 8, 2019 at 7pm at Politics and Prose Bookstore) to kick off the paperback tour and learn how to apply the ideas in WHEN during the new year.
