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Why Does the Other Line Always Move Faster?: The Myths and Misery, Secrets and Psychology of Waiting in Line - Hardcover
How we wait, why we wait, what we wait for—waiting in line is a daily indignity that we all experience, usually with a little anxiety thrown in (why is it that the other line always moves faster?!?). This smart, quirky, wide-ranging book (the perfect conversation starter) considers the surprising science and psychology—and the sheer misery—of the well-ordered line. On the way, it takes us from boot camp (where the first lesson is to teach recruits how to stand rigidly in line) to the underground bunker beneath Disneyland’s Cinderella Castle (home of the world’s most advanced, state-of-the-art queue management technologies); from the 2011 riots in London (where rioters were observed patiently taking their turns when looting shops), to the National Voluntary Wait-in-Line days in the People’s Republic of China (to help train their non-queuing populace to wait in line like Westerners in advance of the 2008 Olympics).
Citing sources ranging from Harvard Business School professors to Seinfeld, the book comes back to one underlying truth: it’s not about the time you spend waiting, but how the circumstances of the wait affect your perception of time. In other words, the other line always moves faster because you’re not in it.
Citing sources ranging from Harvard Business School professors to Seinfeld, the book comes back to one underlying truth: it’s not about the time you spend waiting, but how the circumstances of the wait affect your perception of time. In other words, the other line always moves faster because you’re not in it.
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The taming of the queue. And how the queue tames us.
Waiting is torture. A unique feature of modern Western society, “queuing” is a world unto itself, with its own laws, its own psychology, its own history. It is universally loathed, perpetually misunderstood, actively studied, and, in the hands of a few masters like Walt Disney’s Imagineers, ingeniously manipulated. And now, in Why Does the Other Line Always Move Faster?, it becomes utterly interesting.
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Waiting is torture. A unique feature of modern Western society, “queuing” is a world unto itself, with its own laws, its own psychology, its own history. It is universally loathed, perpetually misunderstood, actively studied, and, in the hands of a few masters like Walt Disney’s Imagineers, ingeniously manipulated. And now, in Why Does the Other Line Always Move Faster?, it becomes utterly interesting.
David Andrews was raised in Bucharest, Romania, and Yacolt, Washington, and did a stint in the U.S. Navy as a Russian linguist.
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- PublisherWorkman Publishing Company
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 0761181229
- ISBN 13 9780761181224
- BindingHardcover
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. How we wait, why we wait, what we wait for-waiting in line is a daily indignity that we all experience, usually with a little anxiety thrown in (why is it that the other line always moves faster?!?). This smart, quirky, wide-ranging book (the perfect conversation starter) considers the surprising science and psychology-and the sheer misery-of the well-ordered line. On the way, it takes us from boot camp (where the first lesson is to teach recruits how to stand rigidly in line) to the underground bunker beneath Disneyland's Cinderella Castle (home of the world's most advanced, state-of-the-art queue management technologies); from the 2011 riots in London (where rioters were observed patiently taking their turns when looting shops), to the National Voluntary Wait-in-Line days in the People's Republic of China (to help train their non-queuing populace to wait in line like Westerners in advance of the 2008 Olympics). Citing sources ranging from Harvard Business School professors to Seinfeld, the book comes back to one underlying truth: it's not about the time you spend waiting, but how the circumstances of the wait affect your perception of time. In other words, the other line always moves faster because you're not in it. Dipping back to the first queue during the French Revolution to the state-of-the-art study of line management, this book comes back to one underlying truth: It's not about the time you spend waiting in a line, but how the circumstances of the wait affect your perception of time. The other line always moves faster because you're not in it. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780761181224
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. How we wait, why we wait, what we wait for-waiting in line is a daily indignity that we all experience, usually with a little anxiety thrown in (why is it that the other line always moves faster?!?). This smart, quirky, wide-ranging book (the perfect conversation starter) considers the surprising science and psychology-and the sheer misery-of the well-ordered line. On the way, it takes us from boot camp (where the first lesson is to teach recruits how to stand rigidly in line) to the underground bunker beneath Disneyland's Cinderella Castle (home of the world's most advanced, state-of-the-art queue management technologies); from the 2011 riots in London (where rioters were observed patiently taking their turns when looting shops), to the National Voluntary Wait-in-Line days in the People's Republic of China (to help train their non-queuing populace to wait in line like Westerners in advance of the 2008 Olympics). Citing sources ranging from Harvard Business School professors to Seinfeld, the book comes back to one underlying truth: it's not about the time you spend waiting, but how the circumstances of the wait affect your perception of time. In other words, the other line always moves faster because you're not in it. Dipping back to the first queue during the French Revolution to the state-of-the-art study of line management, this book comes back to one underlying truth: It's not about the time you spend waiting in a line, but how the circumstances of the wait affect your perception of time. The other line always moves faster because you're not in it. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780761181224
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