Wait
Title | Wait PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Partnoy |
Publisher | PublicAffairs |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2012-06-26 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1610390059 |
What do these scenarios have in common: a professional tennis player returning a serve, a woman evaluating a first date across the table, a naval officer assessing a threat to his ship, and a comedian about to reveal a punch line? In this counterintuitive and insightful work, author Frank Partnoy weaves together findings from hundreds of scientific studies and interviews with wide-ranging experts to craft a picture of effective decision-making that runs counter to our brutally fast-paced world. Even as technology exerts new pressures to speed up our lives, it turns out that the choices we make -- unconsciously and consciously, in time frames varying from milliseconds to years -- benefit profoundly from delay. As this winning and provocative book reveals, taking control of time and slowing down our responses yields better results in almost every arena of life -- even when time seems to be of the essence. The procrastinator in all of us will delight in Partnoy's accounts of celebrity "delay specialists," from Warren Buffett to Chris Evert to Steve Kroft, underscoring the myriad ways in which delaying our reactions to everyday choices -- large and small -- can improve the quality of our lives.
Wait
Title | Wait PDF eBook |
Author | Antoinette Portis |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2015-07-14 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1596439211 |
"A ... picture book about the joys of waiting and taking in what is around you"--
The Wait
Title | The Wait PDF eBook |
Author | DeVon Franklin |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2016-02-02 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1501105310 |
In this New York Times bestseller, Hollywood power couple DeVon Franklin and Meagan Good candidly share their courtship and marriage, and the key to their success—waiting. President/CEO of Franklin Entertainment and former Sony Pictures executive DeVon Franklin and award-winning actress Meagan Good have learned firsthand that some people must wait patiently for “the one” to come into their lives. They spent years crossing paths but it wasn’t until they were thrown together while working on the film Jumping the Broom that their storybook romance began. Faced with starting a new relationship and wanting to avoid potentially devastating pitfalls, DeVon and Meagan chose to do something almost unheard of in today’s society—abstain from sex until they were married. DeVon and Meagan share the life-changing message that waiting—rather than rushing a relationship—can help you find the person you’re meant to be with. The Wait is filled with candid his-and-hers accounts of the most important moments of their relationship and practical advice on how waiting for everything—from dating to sex—can transform relationships, allowing you to find a deep connection based on patience, trust, and faith.
We Used to Wait
Title | We Used to Wait PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca Kinskey |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 119 |
Release | 2014-10-24 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0262526921 |
Examines the making of music videos, originally performed by paid professionals, moving through an amateur stage, to a summer camp in 2011, called OMG! Cameras Everywhere.
Wait! Wait!
Title | Wait! Wait! PDF eBook |
Author | Hatsue Nakawaki |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | JUVENILE FICTION |
ISBN | 9781592701384 |
A young child learns that although creatures that appear can also disappear, parents will always be there.
Audrey, Wait!
Title | Audrey, Wait! PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Benway |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781595141910 |
While trying to score a date with her cute co-worker at the Scooper Dooper, sixteen-year-old Audrey gains unwanted fame and celebrity status when her ex-boyfriend, a rock musician, records a breakup song about her that soars to the top of the Billboard charts.
Wait, What?
Title | Wait, What? PDF eBook |
Author | James E. Ryan |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 72 |
Release | 2017-04-04 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 006266476X |
New York Times Bestseller “What, What? is a welcome—and joyful—reminder that true wisdom comes from asking the right questions. Should you read this book? Absolutely.” —Clayton Christensen, bestselling author of How Will You Measure Your Life? Based on the wildly popular commencement address, the art of asking (and answering) good questions by the Dean of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. Whether we’re in the boardroom or the classroom, we spend far too much time and energy looking for the right answer. But the truth is that questions are just as important as answers, often more so. If you ask the wrong question, for instance, you’re guaranteed to get the wrong answer. A good question, on the other hand, inspires a good answer and, in the process, invites deeper understanding and more meaningful connections between people. Asking a good question requires us to move beyond what we think we know about an issue or a person to explore the difficult and the unknown, the awkward, and even the unpleasant. In Wait, What?, Jim Ryan, dean of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, celebrates the art of asking—and answering—good questions. Five questions in particular: Wait, what?; I wonder…? Couldn’t we at least…?; How can I help?; and What truly matters? Using examples from politics, history, popular culture, and social movements, as well as his own personal life, Ryan demonstrates how these essential inquiries generate understanding, spark curiosity, initiate progress, fortify relationships, and draw our attention to the important things in life—from the Supreme Court to Fenway Park. By regularly asking these five essential questions, Ryan promises, we will be better able to answer life’s most important question: “And did you get what you wanted out of life, even so?” At once hilarious and illuminating, poignant and surprising, Wait, What? is an inspiring book of wisdom that will forever change the way you think about questions.