Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations PDF

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Thank You For Being Late by Friedman - an Optimist's Manifesto to Thrive in the Age of Accelerations is an optimistic outlook to life written by Thomas Friedman, also a Pulitzer Prize-winner in the New York Times and a contributor to the New Republic. It can be compared to Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea, except that instead of the sea, it is delayed acceleration. This novel is a sort of spiritual parable, with a message of hope, "Time is money." In a world of instant gratification and deadline pressures, is there really anything worth doing or even being, except working? A world in which "Work is the worship of the moment," as Henry Ford once said, has been replaced by a "spinning circus of do-nothings."

The premise of the book is that people are becoming too busy and directed to care about what other people think. People in politics, business, and Hollywood continue to put their own interests ahead of the common good, while focusing on their own self-importance. In fact, as writer Thomas Friedman points out in his forward to this book, our financial institutions have become so fragile due to the subprime mortgage crisis that if they were not bailed out by taxpayer funds, they would fail. What's more ironic is that as the United States economy recovers from its own poor economic performance (notably caused by over-regulation and the advent of new federal debt) and heads into another recession, the parasites in Washington are busy gorging themselves, rather than feeding out of the trough of government handouts to businesses and special interest groups. The United States, according to Friedman's description of the situation, has become a banana Republic.
Thank You for Being Late by Friedman offers an alternative view of the way things should be done. The book's main theme is that success comes from working hard, smartly, and staying focus on the objective of achieving excellence in whatever you do. The book is very simple to read and provides plenty of examples of real people overcoming obstacles to reach their goals. The book will appeal to both academics and non-academics. It makes a good addition to any library and can even be taken with you to class.