CPS Lecture #116: Dan Pink on When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

When is the best time to start something new? Change jobs? Schedule a class? Get married? In answering these questions, Daniel Pink has written a book that in its first week of publication has already reached No. 2 on The New York Times’s bestsellers’ list. In that book, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, Dan shows us that timing is everything. He challenges the popular assumption that timing is an art and demonstrates how we can use it as a science. Using an impressive body of psychological, economic, and biological research, he provides us with insight into using time to our advantage. Dan also offers tips that emphasize timing as a vehicle to a successful and enjoyable life.

In his CPS lecture, Dan will discuss his book, which has also been featured in The Washington Post, Inc. and Business Insider.

JOIN US on Friday, February 16, at 7:30 pm for a CPS Lecture with Daniel Pink on the impact that timing can have on our daily lives. A #1 bestselling author of two other books, To Sell is Human and Drive, Dan will discuss how timing can be the key to success.

About Daniel:

In addition to being an editor at Wired and Fast Company, Dan works at The Sunday Telegraph as a business columnist. He is the author of numerous, award-winning books and often appears on the PBS Newshour, NPR’s Hidden Brain, and other TV and radio networks. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Republic, Harvard Business Review, and Slate. He has been honored by Thinkers 50 as one of the world’s best (top 15) business thinkers for the past six years, and his TED Talk on the scientific principles underlying motivation is one of the top 15 of all time. From 1995 to 1997, Dan was the chief speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Northwestern University, he received a JD from Yale Law School and honorary doctorates from the Pratt Institute, Georgetown University, the Ringling College of Art and Design, and Westfield State University. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and 3 children.

About CPS Lectures:

CPS Lectures is a free discussion series that takes place in San Francisco. It is a program of the nonprofit The diaTribe Foundation. The series honors the memory of Cyril Patrick Shaughnessy, Jr., Kelly's father, who died in late 2002 and loved discussions and learning.

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Thank you so much for so much encouragement and support of this series. We so hope to see you on February 16 and we look forward to what we know will be a most compelling discussion.