The real reason you procrastinate: Learn how to stop putting off important tasks ... with a little help from master procrastinator Margaret Atwood

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Adam Grant, a renowned Organizational psychologist, organized the following TED conference on procrastination together with the writer Margaret Atwood. He says: "You procrastinate because you're lazy, right? Wrong. The truth is more complex -- and far more interesting. Learn how to stop putting off important tasks ... with a little help from master procrastinator Margaret Atwood."

Adam Grant, Speaker - TED profile

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> The real reason you procrastinate / TED

April Meeting: Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood

 
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Stone Mattress (The New Yorker, Dec 2011) - Verna has had several husbands, each having died of 'natural causes'. Verna then goes on a cruise to the Arctic and considers the single men among the passengers including several Bobs. But then she sees Bob Goreham who had raped her fifty-odd years ago when she was fourteen. She moved to a home for unwed mothers and the baby was taken away. But Bob does not recognise her and she plans to kill him via a 1.9 billion old stromatolite...

Wikipedia

Book

The New Yorker - Short Story Full Text


Digital profile about the author (external links)

> Wikipedia: Margaret Atwood

> Margaret Atwood's website

Youtube : Margaret Atwood, Stone Mattress (McClelland & Stewart)

March 23 at 5:30 p.m - A Posthuman World: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go as Speculative Fiction


DACE - EOI Málaga


On Wednesday, March 23 at 5:30 p.m. in the Assembly Hall of the EOI Málaga, Dr Rosario Arias, Professor of English Literature at the UMA, director of the Contemporary Literature Research Group in the European Environment (IGIUMA) of the University of Malaga and member of the University Institute for Research on Gender and Equality of the University of Malaga (IGIUMA), will tell us about a key work of contemporary literature in the English language: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.