HOW TO GET THINGS DONE WITHOUT A SPARK OF SELF-DISCIPLINE

Everyone knows the feeling of finally intending to answer a letter you received weeks ago, only to find it, many additional weeks later, buried under a pile of unpaid bills. Or the dismay of discovering your tax return is months overdue, while a fading Post-It note on your computer screen reads: “Make a to-do list!!” 

Some fifty percent of us are inveterate procrastinators. This book is for them. Passig and Lobo show how to escape the pressure of to-do lists and sort out your life without getting the sort of bad conscience caused by emails, requests, tasks, plans and duties – and without having to trick yourself into becoming something you’re not. A lot of things that stress us out because they demand to get done are, in fact, not worth a second thought. Passig and Lobo show readers how to organize life so as not to have be organized yourself.

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Berlin
  • Release: 06.10.2008
  • ISBN: 978-3-87134-619-4
  • 288 Pages
  • Authors: Kathrin PassigSascha Lobo

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HOW TO GET THINGS DONE WITHOUT A SPARK OF SELF-DISCIPLINE
Kathrin Passig Sascha Lobo HOW TO GET THINGS DONE WITHOUT A SPARK OF SELF-DISCIPLINE
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Kathrin Passig

Kathrin Passig was born in 1970. She is one of the digital age’s intellectual pioneers, having co-founded the Zentrale Intelligenz Agentur in Berlin as well as the “Techniktagebuch” blog. In 2016, she was awarded two prizes at the Klagenfurt literary festival, the Bachmann Prize and the Audience Prize. A self-styled “non-fiction author and dreamer-up of things”, she co-authored the 2007 book Lexikon des Unwissens with Aleks Scholz. 2012 saw the publication of Internet: Segen oder Fluch , which she co-authored with Sascha Lobo. She was awarded the 2016 Johann Heinrich Merck Prize for literary criticism.

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Sascha Lobo

Sascha Lobo, born in 1975, was previously a creative director for an advertising agency. Today he works as a freelance communications strategist. He works on commissions for the Central Intelligence Agency and is editor of the blog Riesenmaschine (Giant Machine), which was awarded with the Grimme Prize. His highly regarded book We Call it Work (written in collaboration with Holm Friebe) was published in 2006, and Getting Things Done Without a Spark of Self-Discipline (with Kathrin Passig) in 2008.