[有声书] 时间的悖论 - The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life - by Philip Zimbardo, John Boyd

阅读本书前，你可以先思考如下问题：

什么是时间？

你可以更有效地利用时间吗？

我们知道，财富有价，但时间无价。人生是短暂且有限的，而时间是我们度过一生的媒介。如果不能地充分地利用时间，那么我们将付出沉重的机会成本。

我们对时间的态度形成了时间观。在生活中，我们所做的每一个重大选择，都取决于我们的时间观。因此，关于时间的问题本质上就是关于人生意义的问题。

在《时间心理学》中，心理学家菲利普•津巴多和他的研究伙伴约翰•博伊德对时间观进行了深入研究，认为存在六种时间观：关注过去的消极时间观、关注过去的积极时间观、关注当下的宿命论时间观、关注当下的享乐主义时间观、关注未来的时间观、超越未来的时间观。此外，研究还发现：

1.你的时间观决定了你的人生观

2.偏激的时间观必会导致不健康的生活方式

3.每个人都能够调整自己的时间观，从而拥有平衡的时间观。

适度的未来时间观加上当下时间观，再辅以固定的积极怀旧时间观，这就是理想的组合时间观。如果你能根据情境灵活地转换时间观，就能有效地利用时间，拥有高效、健康的生活。

Your every significant choice - every important decision you make - is determined by a force operating deep inside your mind: your perspective on time - your internal, personal time zone. This is the most influential force in your life, yet you are virtually unaware of it. Once you become aware of your personal time zone, you can begin to see and manage your life in exciting new ways.

In The Time Paradox, Drs. Zimbardo and Boyd draw on 30 years of pioneering research to reveal, for the first time, how your individual time perspective shapes your life and is shaped by the world around you. Further, they demonstrate that your and every other individual's time zones interact to create national cultures, economics, and personal destinies.

No matter your time perspective, you experience these paradoxes. Only by understanding this new psychological science of time zones will you be able to overcome the mental biases that keep you too attached to the past, too focused on immediate gratification, or unhealthily obsessed with future goals. Time passes no matter what you do - it's up to you to spend it wisely and enjoy it well.