Frank Patnoy, investment banker- turned writer, investigates four fundamental questions of the human experience: 1) What is time? 2) How do we decide? 3) Why do we procrastinate? 4) What does it mean to be human? In Wait: The Art of Science and Delay, he attempts to answer these questions using scientific studies and interviews from well-renowned psychologists, behavioral economists, anthropologists, philosophers, and social scientists. What Patnoy finds is an ironic relationship between the role of delay and a culture consumed with speed and efficiency.
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