The Tyme Paradox: A Novel

And people think I write pervy stuff. Oh, Eoin, you devil. Can't wait to read the rest of the series. I've been shipping Artemis and Holly for ten damn years! View all 5 comments. Aug 28, Emma rated it it was ok Shelves: Highly disappointed by this book. Artemis Fowl was such a huge part of my childhood, and I spent forever waiting for this last book to come out. I had already sort of moved on from the series, but I was looking forward to it because I expected another excellent book out of the 4 book winning streak of the series.

Obviously this book was written out of popular demand, not because the author had a really well-structured, tailored plot in mind to continue the series with. It felt li Highly disappointed by this book. It felt like bad fan-fiction. And this book created cliches within the series. The most suspenseful parts of the book were supposed to be that a Opal Koboi came back for the THIRD time, and b Butler nearly died for the third time, too.

Strange to think that Koboi used to be my favorite villain of the series Okay, if you're going to have the main, surprising twist of a book be that some villain you thought was dead comes back for revenge, make it only happen ONCE. Like in The Opal Deception. Then it's good--that book was my favorite of the series.

Come on, like we didn't see THAT coming! Not to mention, this time it's completely illogical and blows huge holes in the plotline of the entire series. And she has to come back in the possible seventh book because the ending is a cliffhanger--Opal gets away.

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If you're such an awesome bodyguard, why do you keep dying?? Again, first and second time we cared about it and we were really scared, but the third time makes all of the surprise go away. It's difficult to create your own cliche, but Colfer seems to have managed two of them Yes, it's a time travel book--it's going to be confusing. But does it have to be so confusing that at the end we find ourselves asking "What the hell just happened??

May 23, Niki rated it did not like it Shelves: I'm not going to finish this one after all, I'm just going to admit it. It's like a ghostwriter took up writing this one because Eoin Colfer couldn't be bothered, and everything just took a turn for the worse, with a ridiculous, rushed plot and additions like "Holly cracked her neck, she always did that before using magic" No, she didn't?? Such a thing was never mentioned in the previous not one, not two, but five books in the series. I don't care if I'm nitpicking, but I enjoyed the first few bo I'm not going to finish this one after all, I'm just going to admit it.

I don't care if I'm nitpicking, but I enjoyed the first few books, and even while reading the first few pages of this one, I knew I couldn't do it. I should also mention that I really hate time travelling in books. It's just one of the reasons I DNFed this one. Jun 03, Stephanie L catteabooks rated it really liked it Shelves: I mean, sometimes you can't help but start to feel things for someone who's been with you for every saving-the-world adventure, especially when you're a hormonal teenage boy or elf.

Obviously, the story isn't all about Holly and Artemis making goo-goo eyes at each other though I not-so-secretly wish it were. In this fantabulous installment, Artemis must find a way to cure his mother of a presently incurable fairy disease, so he takes his friends on a time-travel journal to do battle with his worst adversary yet: Unfortunately, there are some missteps along the way--because things just aren't allowed to be simple for Artemis and Holly--and they end up with a lapful of trouble from Earth's greatest threat, Opal Koboi.

As with the previous book, here is where Artemis's true character bursts through: He's still fourteen almost fifteen and a child, but that doesn't mean he can't make a difference, and he still doesn't let age define what he can and can't do. I wish I had been as persevering--or stubborn. This actually concludes my reread of the series; I have yet to read the seventh and eighth books for the first time. Though I have the seventh ready to go, I think the last one will probably just break me, so we'll hold off on it for now.

Dec 22, Dorotea rated it it was amazing. Eoin Colfer is a great writer. I devoured his books, and I read multiple times. Artemis Fowl is a series that I will always remember. I read them when I was about Then I found out one of my classmates was reading them too, I approached him with something along the lines of "oh, are you reading this book too? But something changed in that moment, and well, I Eoin Colfer is a great writer. But something changed in that moment, and well, I never picked up the sequel to Opal Deception.

I bought the sequels for my brother years after, but I never read them. Now I am 20, but I decided to pick it up again. Because it was utter nonsense, it's not just "for boys", it's something I loved and I am not ashamed of it, and I don't care about what people think. Obliviously, I am used to more heavy books, and this is still a children book, it was an easy quick read. But you know what? I can totally see why these books attracted me so much. This kid outsmarted everyone, Holly Short Spinella in Italian, which is the version I read was a badass female character, the plot was not about romance, the whole Fairy People element was something that has always interested me, and it just was so good.

Plus, the writing is good, which makes the book enjoyable even though I'm not a child anymore. It might not be perfect, but this. This was my Harry Potter. This was ten times better than Harry Potter. Artemis Fowl and the TIme Paradox is a interesting and original story about a teenage prodigy who is also a criminal mastermind. In the previous books he has discovered a race of mythical beasts and has had many confrontations but eventually has made peace with them.

But now he must ask for a big favor, he needs to go back in time using demon magic. His mother has caught a fatal sickness that can only be cured by a brain fluid of a Silky fur lemur. The problem is that it went extinct four years Artemis Fowl and the TIme Paradox is a interesting and original story about a teenage prodigy who is also a criminal mastermind. The problem is that it went extinct four years ago, and the last one was killed by Artemis Fowl himself. So now Artemis has to go back in time and fight his hardest opponent yet: Jul 21, Michelle rated it really liked it.

It's super genius fun! It was a lot of fun to see just how far Artemis has evolved over the past 5 books. I almost found 10 year old Artemis a bit revolting. It should be interesting to see how his mom features in the next books now that she knows all of his secrets concerning the People. I wonder if he'll recruit his younger brothers for some of his future schemes. Mar 22, Kimberley doruyter rated it it was ok. Sep 11, Anna rated it liked it Shelves: This book only furthered my displeasure that stemmed from the 5th book. Colfer stretched out his plotline to unnecessary proportions.

Since the subject of this novel was time travel, there were many questions left unanswered, especially because Colfer could not establish one set of rules for his time traveling universe. What happened with the whole warning of "Don't interact with anybody from the past or it will affect the present" deal?

I vaguely understood that Fowl understood time travel to wind around the idea that even if the event had not happened yet, it had still happened i. But then why would No. Mind wiping - what about Julius? I would believe even that small interaction would cause change in the future. Artemis seemed to remember the past wrongly. At one point, he even has a revelation as to why this is so, but we never get back to it. This was a very important idea in the plotline - why were things not as Artemis remembered them?

And why are we never told why this was so? How the hell did Artemis get a message to past Mulch? Why was Artemis not smart enough to think of getting the lemur after his past self had sold it? The past Artemis needed the money to find his father. If he had succeeded in stealing the lemur from himself, it would have screwed up the future. Considering that the 4th book has happened, Opal will somehow return back to her time and time will occur as normal and she will try to regain power through the coarse of the rest of the books.

Why on earth would Colfer leave opening for another freaking novel about Koboi? And two more things: The twins were useless - they did nothing for the plot or characters. Why add them in at all? Everyone keeps mentioning the power of warlocks, when I thought that the 5th book made it perfectly clear that they were all dead except for No. Though I was unsatisfied with the general subject and plotline of this book, it was a generic, fun read. I was less displeased with this one than the 5th one. View all 6 comments. After the awkwardly misjudged character of Minerva Paradizo in the last book, the series really recovers its wings here, as we get back to Artemis and his fairy friends doing what they do best, going on a high-risk adventure of epic proportions.

With each book in this series it manages to pull off the remarkable feat of topping the stakes of the previous entry. This time Artemis is facing his toughest opponent yet — himself — and just when you thought that was tough enough Colfer throws in a huge twist that ups the stakes even more.

I also remember the satisfaction of vindication when I first read this book. This subtext just became a ship. One thing's for sure - with a cliffhanger this size there's going to be plenty of action and adventure in the next book. Aug 14, Shaya rated it liked it Shelves: I didn't like this as much as other Artemis Fowl books I have read, but I liked the themes. I was ready for the series to end last book, or when Commander Root died.

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One of the interesting themes I found was when the book showed Commander Root's real feelings about Holly. No, nothing shocking, he wasn't in love with her. But, he did think she did a great job and when he was hard on her it was because he felt he had to. I liked the exposition that the part of Root we normally saw was all an act.

And, you can see the current Commander using the same techniques. Another interesting theme is how you see your past selves. Artemis meets his year-old self in the past. He knows what the year-old Artemis will do, but is at the same time unhappy with who he was. I think he is at peace with who he was even though he did wreak some havoc in his past. Maybe, he just tries not to dwell on it. Trust was another theme played around with. Artemis manipulated Holly Short to get her to agree to come into the past with him. Was it necessary for him to do that?

Maybe for an immediate response. Holly is very mad when hew tells her, but forgives him at least a little by the end. Will true trust ever exist in their relationship. I thought it was a bit pathetic when Artemis and Holly kissed, it was not necessary for the plot. I hope they won't become lovers. Overall, I was glad I read it. I wouldn't have minded if the last Artemis Fowl had been the last, or if this one is the last.

The themes were interesting to read about. View all 3 comments. Okay, this is a weird one. I think Artemis Fowl has overextended and is grasping for story at this point. Here we find Artemis and Holly going back in time to save a lemur for the purpose of curing Angeline Fowl of a fairy disease. Things got a bit too coincidental, like Artemis having destroyed the very lemur he would need in the future. Oh well, hopefully the next one gets better. Dec 11, Jacey rated it really liked it Shelves: Book 6 in the artemis fowl series was thoroughly enjoyable.

Now to be honest and fair, I listened to this while working and when I listen opposed to reading, my critical analysis kinds takes a back seat. A good reader can make up for a slightly incompetent writer without me really noticing. With that disclaimer, I'll say that I thought this book was quite good. The series is very original and well-thought out, especially considering the sea of young adult fantasy that is full of so much flotsam Book 6 in the artemis fowl series was thoroughly enjoyable.

The series is very original and well-thought out, especially considering the sea of young adult fantasy that is full of so much flotsam and jetsam. UT just started book 2 reading, not listening and he says it's awesome, so it must not be the reader, it must really be good. Nov 03, Drewthereader19 rated it really liked it Shelves: This book was my favorite out of the whole series so far!

Only 2 more books to go and I am finished with this series. Jul 14, Connor rated it really liked it Shelves: I'm still really enjoying this series! Number 7 here I come. Dec 12, Ellie Neverland rated it it was amazing. Favorite book of all Artemis Fowl book. Colfer pulls it off very well resulting in the ultimate time paradox that will hurt your brain if you think too much about it. There is always a strong environmental theme in these books, but this one in particular really hammered the point home, focusing on endangered species both real and mystical.

Definitely my favourite of the series after the first book, it goes a lot darker and there were a lot less fart gags and an altogether more serious tone. Una cosa que me agrada mucho de Eoin Colfer es como introduce cada libro, siempre incluye una historia random sobre alguno de los personajes que se relaciona colateralmente con la historia posterior.

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Es como el Alfred de Batman. Buena entrega, aunque pudo ser mucho mejor. Nov 27, Alok Mishra rated it liked it. A very gripping tale Cheers to the author! Kelvin Sparks English Book Review In the book Artemis Fowl and The Time Paradox Artemis' mother is very ill and this disease is fatal and she caught it almost 'magically' and doctors, and the family are puzzled.

A little bit later in the story Artemis discovers the mysterious disease is indeed magic, and is known as Spelltrophy, the N1 a magical peace keeper fairy organization had 'eradicated' the disease before. Artemis did the research and figured out the disease spreads with the use of m Kelvin Sparks English Book Review In the book Artemis Fowl and The Time Paradox Artemis' mother is very ill and this disease is fatal and she caught it almost 'magically' and doctors, and the family are puzzled.

Artemis did the research and figured out the disease spreads with the use of more magic and the antidote is the brain fluid of a Lemur from Madagascar which is now extinct.

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3. The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Can Change Your Life?

When I first heard that the famed Philip Zimbardo was tackling the subject of time in psychology, I was so excited that I stayed up late one night listening to hour-long lectures on the internet and immediately added this book to my purchase queue I'm a dork, I know.

Partly as a result of this and partly due to my scientific disposition, I was more than a little disappointed with this book when it came time to actually read through it. Its main issue is that, while the book is thoroughly grounded in the actual science of psychology insofar as psychology can be said to be a proper science , it is written and constructed in such a way as to read much more like one of those dreaded and rightfully derided self-help books.

I was a bit surprised not see an endorsement by Oprah. However, this in itself is not enough for the book to fail as an enterprise. Despite my disdain for the genre, I am nowhere near close-minded enough to write something off simply because it makes use of conventions which do not appeal to me. What let me finally dismiss this was the fault in the science itself. I do not know enough about the actual experimentation that resulted in many of the statistics and analyses in the book itself, so I sadly cannot speak as to how research into this book's central topic can be improved.

This is unfortunate, as I think the topic itself is fascinating, however flawed the conclusions of the book might be. My issue with the science of the book, however, lies with its transparent and largely unaddressed bias. I laud the authors' inclusion of the Holistic Present as an experience worth addressing, but so much of the rest of the book shows if not an ignorance of cultures outside the authors' then at least an offhand dismissal of them.

The authors associate being religious with a high tendency toward the transcendental future, something that applies only to the Abrahammic religions and even then only to the mainstream interpretations thereof. They isolate Buddhism as worth examining an excellent idea but lump Hinduism and all Chinese religions into a vast and nebulous "other" category. I understand if this is due to the statistical sample used for the development of this theory, but if that's the case then they really should have pursued broadening such data to refine their theory long before going so far as to publish a pop-science book about it.

Furthermore, even within the religious and cultural paradigm that the authors grew up in white, wealthy, Christian, western countries , oversimplifications of subcultural distinctions abound. For instance, Zimbardo being of Italian descent briefly examines the differences between southern and northern Italy, and offers a disturbingly simplistic view on this complex relationship. He does something similar with the economic differences between dominantly Catholic and dominantly Protestant countries, which feels almost like stereotyping. Perhaps worst of all, though, is a much more personal type of bias that displays itself throughout the book: While the authors spend some time addressing its negative influences surely anticipating this particular criticism , the vast majority of the book makes the Future time-perspective specifically the "planner" archetype look like the Philosopher's Stone of modern psychology.

Extensive lengths of text are devoted to the ways in which "Futures" are superior to the rest of us, and how we can all be more like them. I have never in my life been less shocked by a twist than when the authors reveal their own time-perspective profiles and they are astoundingly close to what the book portrays as the "ideal" balance. I must admit, at this point, that much of the data displayed in the book supports these conclusions. In fact, the authors are excellently deft at backing up their assertions with the results of experiments or research they've conducted.

However, I cannot help but to be conclusion-shatteringly skeptical of any result so clear-cut and so seemingly advantageous. All that said, I did quite enjoy reading this book. This is one of the few books I've ever read that demands to be written in. I don't just mean because of all the little puzzles and exercises the authors throw at you, either. There are also just many sections in which you'll find a result so completely counterintuitive, a statement so spurious and ripe for mocking, or a test that begs to be performed on your friends that you'll want to whip out a pen and annotate the whole book.

This is what I did, something I have never done with any other book before or since, and I don't regret it. I would say that those interested in time as a subject or modern psychology as a discipline would do well to read this book, but I offer this recommendation with two substantial caveats. The first is that any reader would be well-advised to enter this book in a very skeptical mindset, and the second is that anyone reading this book ought to have a pen at hand. Don't be squeamish about writing in it. It's the best way to do this. Those who are easily swayed in their opinion by lots of numbers or simple conviction should stay away.

Regardless, I hope the authors and their many colleagues continue to do follow-up research on this subject, both to see if these ideas hold up to deeper inspection, and also simply to gain greater insight into the human experience. Sep 17, Ashley rated it really liked it Shelves: For those who have studied psychology as an undergraduate or graduate student, you know Zimbardo, and probably from peer-reviewed journals.

This book is a nice gift to the mass market. Zimbardo attempts to write in a way that is digestible to the general public, but certainly the scientist in him shows. I find his work fascinating. The use of individuals' time perspectives to describe their abilities to understand, engage in, and respond to problems, both at the individual and societal levels, i For those who have studied psychology as an undergraduate or graduate student, you know Zimbardo, and probably from peer-reviewed journals.

The use of individuals' time perspectives to describe their abilities to understand, engage in, and respond to problems, both at the individual and societal levels, is simply interesting. He offers analysis of some rather intense problems, such as describing the possible orientation of suicide bombers, among many other situations by which we are all bothered. I also like the appeal to the mental health field. Zimbardo presents research on happiness and how to improve, using the concepts of time perspective, your overall well-being.

Mar 14, Book Calendar rated it liked it. It focuses on different views of the past, present, and future. The basic views discussed are Past-negative, Past-positive, Present-fatalistic, Present-hedonistic, Future, and Transcendental future. This is an organization schema which I find interesting, but a bit contrived. The authors claim that having an overly present view of time can lead to hedonism and low impulse control, having a negative view of the past can create depression and stress, having an overly future orientation can limit your enjoyment of the present.

Their goal is to help a person have a more balanced view of time. They claim that time is your most valuable asset because it cannot be recovered. I liked the idea of a Transcendental future viewpoint, a view that there is more to this world than our current life time, either in the religious or philosophical sense leads to greater happiness. People who believe in god, religion, or have a clear positive philosophy tend to live better lives. This includes ideas like environmentalism, ethics, and a world view embracing hope. This book does not tell you how to manage your time.

It helps you think about and unveil what your own viewpoints on time are. The authors give several questionnaires and exercises to make you think about planning for the future, how you see your place in time, creating goals, and have an inventory on time to complete; the ZPTI Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory. This book is written for a general audience. It is a popular psychology title. There is an extensive bibliography and index. I enjoyed reading it. There was quite a bit to think about. Jul 11, Library Journal magazine rated it really liked it.

Managing Editor Heather McCormack has noticed the increasing sophistication of the self-help genre: According to psychologists Zimbardo emeritus, Stanford Univ.

Here, Zimbardo, a past president of the American Psychological Association renowned for his Stanford Prison Experiments, and research partner Boyd describe six major time perspectives. Through a questionnaire called the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory, readers can determine whether they are primarily driven by concerns with the past, the present, or the future as well as whether they view each time period positively or negatively and how that perspective might be influencing their behavior.

The authors further explore what has been learned to date about how to achieve a set of perspectives that seems most likely to help people become happy and successful. So little self-help material based on real science is published that, when something like this comes along, we owe it to our patrons to make sure it is readily available. For all public and most academic libraries. Oct 24, Mag rated it liked it Shelves: Each one of us has a different relationship to the present, past and future. We may be classified as predominantly: Then this orientation may be fatalistic or positive.

Most of us are mixtures of the above, but we all seem to have a dominant tendency. For the record, futures are the healthiest, presents most inclined to be late or take drugs, and pasts fatalistic to be stuck in life and depressed. The new Zimbardo-Boyd book is a crossover of a popular science Each one of us has a different relationship to the present, past and future. The new Zimbardo-Boyd book is a crossover of a popular science book and self help manual. It discusses what a healthy balance is, offers inventories to check what orientation the reader predominantly has and then strategies to change unhealthy tendencies.

Even though this book was far from the promise of changing my life, there were some things that I enjoyed there: Time inventories were fun. False memories were revisited- there is a lot of research pointing to the fact that memories can be both implanted with apparently little effort and recovered. The caveat with those is that both true and false memories can be recovered. An analysis of a suicide bomber was quite interesting as well, even though it was obvious enough, just clad in a different lingo. Mar 06, Robert rated it really liked it Shelves: The recommendation here, based on extensive research, is to increase your self-awareness and enjoyment of life by cultivating a combination of positive recollection and re-framing of your past past- positive , a healthy enjoyment of the present present hedonism and a wise investment of future-oriented time perspective.

Counterproductive time perspectives like past negative and present fatalism left unattended will probably continue to shape your life negatively. The simple remedy offered her The recommendation here, based on extensive research, is to increase your self-awareness and enjoyment of life by cultivating a combination of positive recollection and re-framing of your past past- positive , a healthy enjoyment of the present present hedonism and a wise investment of future-oriented time perspective.

The simple remedy offered here is to consider cultivating and consistently developing those time-perspectives which offer positive rewards for past, present and future, while discarding, re-framing and transforming the rest. I think this book does a good job of simply making us self-aware. Feb 16, Brandy added it. What a fascinating book! I learned to see time management in an entirely new way.

Rather than a "how to fix this problem" book, the authors explain how our perception of time affects how we live as individuals and how members of entire cultures view and interact with each other based on perception of time. In addition to helping readers see how to recognize the value of time, the authors discuss the best ways for readers to get the most out of the time they have, based on the individual's time p What a fascinating book!

In addition to helping readers see how to recognize the value of time, the authors discuss the best ways for readers to get the most out of the time they have, based on the individual's time perspective. This is one of those books I wish government leaders would read as a way to come up with solutions. Sep 18, Amanda rated it really liked it. I often think about time, how it's a currency more valuable than money an idea the authors confirmed for me! But I'm off topic. This book--especially the first half--is fascinating.

I never considered how each person has a dominant time frame and how this perspective influences every decision in life. I th I often think about time, how it's a currency more valuable than money an idea the authors confirmed for me! I thought I'd definitely have a future perspective, but it turns out that I'm past positive with future right behind. I got worried until I found out past positive with future perspective in second place is the ideal mix for success and happiness in 21st century America! I lived in New York City when I picked this up and was about to head back to Pennsylvania in part because I wanted a saner pace of life.

I always believed that life in NYC was so turbo paced that it chipped away at people's humanity, mine included. And I was right! Boston, New York, and other northeastern cities lead the list as the fastest cities in America Consistent with the findings of the Good Samaritan research, Levine found that in general, cities with the fastest pace of life were the least helpful.

New York, New York, ranked third in terms of pace of life, was rated the least helpful city in America. Reading this put into words what I had long suspected and made me see my decision to move as an attempt to have a more healthy relationship with time. There are lots of other interesting points made in the book, but they are almost exclusively in the first half.

The authors take strange detours in the second half, expounding on how to save for retirement and how to age gracefully. The first half is much more philosophical and idea-oriented and less preachy. Pay closer attention to the first half. Jan 29, Dana rated it liked it. Yet I found it worthwhile enough to keep going and I am glad I did - some of the thoughts really did "change my life" as the authors claimed.

I also realize that my personality and time perspective are changing as I get older - and that is a good thing. Here are some key points I took away: What they are, you will be. Don't fret so much - it really doesn't matter in the end Jul 29, Jennifer rated it it was amazing Shelves: Really solid theory and research on our perspectives of time and what that entails or at least implies , from its links to personality traits to explanations for suicide terrorism.

This is NOT a s Really solid theory and research on our perspectives of time and what that entails or at least implies , from its links to personality traits to explanations for suicide terrorism. This is NOT a self-help book, although it does have helpful things and may be just what some people need myself included, hopefully.

This is NOT a 'scholarly work' ie academia-only , although the arguments and research ARE impressively solid and rigorous. It is a framework through which new and classic studies have been reinterpreted in terms of the psychology of time-- a very condensed summary of decades of research. It's pretty much a very decent starter to the entire field. Oct 27, Michelle rated it it was ok Shelves: This review has been moved to: Oct 12, Belal Al Droubi rated it really liked it Shelves: This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers.

To view it, click here. Not what I was expecting but some interesting insights about how our perception of time can affect our attitudes and how we can also change. Jan 02, Erika RS rated it it was ok. This book was full of good content that was lost in the presentation. Even when I first got the book as a promotional item , I was suspicious of it. The title and the reviews on the back work together to make it sound more self help oriented than science oriented.

The content supported this instinct. The opening chapters on the different time perspectives are well written, but the rest of the book contains a bunch of loosely related ways to use time perspectives to improve your life. They would This book was full of good content that was lost in the presentation. They would have made for great blog posts, but they only made for an okay book.

That said, unlike a lot of self-help books, this book at least has the advantage of being based on real and interesting science. Zimbardo and Boyd both have backgrounds as researchers who have studied time perspectives. Citations abound, and the authors do a good job of making the research accessible. This could have been a great book, and I was quite disappointed that it turned out to be only an okay book.

Zimbardo and Boyd have found time perspectives can explain a lot about behavior. In some ways, this is just yet another way of slicing and dicing people to understand how they behave that's a good thing; every new perspective gives insight. However, time perspectives have an advantage over many of the currently popular ways of slicing and dicing: Thus, the authors spend a fair amount of time discussing the different time perspectives and outlining the "ideal" time perspective.

Zimbardo and Boyd have found six major time perspectives.

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The time perspective of an individual is a mixture of these six types. The time perspectives they present are: Family and group oriented. May have feelings of guilt, resentment toward the past. Feels trapped by their past. Committed to enjoying themselves. May be perceived as irresponsible.

Subject to depression that is made worse by the feeling that it is inevitable. Sacrifices in the present for the future. Zimbardo and Boyd believe that the ideal time perspective is high on past positive, fairly high and balanced on present hedonistic and future, moderately high on transcendental future, and low on the negative perspectives. They authors spend a fair amount of time going into why this is a good time perspective, but their suggestions are, largely, consistent with common sense. Overall, I found this book a useful read, although I could have got by with skipping the second half of the book.

Jun 13, May Ling rated it liked it Shelves: Admittedly part of the reason the rating is so low is that I expected something academically more. This book is more of a self help than a treatise on time constraints and more a discussion of how different types of people think about time.

It's not quite self-help and not quite enough to make you feel like you got something truly cerebral and life changing. That said, it is an interesting framework to help a person realize there are multiple ways of looking at the same sort of thing called life Admittedly part of the reason the rating is so low is that I expected something academically more.

That said, it is an interesting framework to help a person realize there are multiple ways of looking at the same sort of thing called life. The book identifies six major ways of thinking about time, that coexist within society. While I can appreciate what the book is hoping to convey, I know of few people that do not experience only one way of thinking about time throughout their life.

It seems more the case that people vary from The Future Time perspective to any one of the others depending on what is going on their lives and the energy they carry around them. I also am not quite comfortable with the religious divisions the author comes out with. While spiritual beliefs might lead toward a tendency toward more than one perspective on a survey, the characteristics that follow as a result seem to be a bit of a fetch.

Indeed, if anything,were he to be truly scientific in methodology, he would need to adjust for religious predisposition before then evaluating these attributes. Consider, futuristic people are those that go to college, meet goals requiring large amounts of time, and are more successful. He marks Buddhists far lower in this trait. Religion has huge racial bias! Trading money for time, seems the focus on this book and the author spends a lot of time on this topic.

However, there are so many more important relationships that people have with time that go completely unaddressed by this book Quality of time, making your actions independent of perception of time, etc. I would have liked to see more or more novelty. For an author able to write a bestseller, the expectations are higher.

Oct 06, N. Certainly I've expected more from Zimbardo. The first section of the book was not bad at all, actually it was quiet informative and insightful. I liked Zimbardo's classification of the different time perspectives, and sure you may discover a lot about your own time perspective, that may even surprise you. Its the second half, that the book became more of a mission of maximizing the number of pages, in which most chapters came more like self help books rather than psychology, or at least not the s Certainly I've expected more from Zimbardo.

Its the second half, that the book became more of a mission of maximizing the number of pages, in which most chapters came more like self help books rather than psychology, or at least not the stanard of psychological info you would expect from a renowned psychology professor. I also disagree with Zimbardo in several points, he was eager to jump to conclusion in a way that prevented a thorough analysis of some important points. A fact that Zimbardo considered implies eastern's forgiveness with terrorism.

In my opinion, as an Egyptian, most Egyptians just didn't buy the US excuse for that "war on terrorism", knowing that it was just a false cover. That being the case or not, it is certainly quiet different from being forgiving with terror. Another simplification I found in Zimbardo associating fatalism with passiveness.

That may be the case sometimes, but accepting fate is completely different from being passive about it in most cases. According to Z tests , I'm a complete fatalist, however, in real life I'm completely positive about grabbing my opportunities and working hard for achievements. Oct 21, Emily rated it liked it. I read this so long ago. I remember thinking of all sorts of things I'd want to say about it when I finished it.