The ten chapters of Procrastination Is the Assassination of All Destination: Stop Feeling Sorry for Yourself and Take Action
The book runs to ten chapters after a short opening note, and each chapter is built around three to five questions it answers in its first sentence.
What does each chapter answer?
Each chapter opens with the sentence that answers it, listed here in order.
- 1The Richest Place on Earth Is a Graveyard
A graveyard holds more unrealised wealth than every bank vault on the planet combined. - 2Too Busy Is a Lie
Every person on earth gets 168 hours a week, and nobody has ever been given a single hour more. - 3The Self Pity Loop
Feeling sorry for yourself is the most expensive hobby a person can have. - 4Getting Ready to Get Ready
Preparation is the most respectable form of procrastination ever invented. - 5What Next Year Actually Costs
The phrase “next year” has cost more people more money than any recession in history. - 6Ideas Are Worthless
An idea has a market value of precisely zero until somebody does something with it. - 7Launch Ugly
Imperfect action produces data and perfect plans produce nothing. - 8Kill the Excuse Vocabulary
Every excuse for not starting has been used before, by millions of people, in exactly the same words. - 9Nobody Is Coming to Save You
No mentor, investor, business partner or piece of software is going to act on your behalf. - 10Take Action
Most people who bought this book will not do anything with it.
What comes before Chapter 1?
A short note before Chapter 1 discloses that AI James Dooley is the digital avatar of James Dooley, credits the older sources of the title line, and says who the book is for.
The note is headed A Note Before We Begin
, and it asks three questions of its own:
- Where is the most valuable piece of real estate on earth?
- Who said it first?
- Who is this book for?