Chapter 29 6.a Regarding efficiency

Everyone wants to be more efficient.However, it is strange how so many so-called experts often ignore a very simple and obvious fact-in fact, just as no machine can run at 100% power all the time, no one can have 100% power. efficiency. Remember, you can't be 100 percent efficient, at least not all the time.There are times when you'll be very efficient, but that's not going to last forever; and sure, if you force yourself to be so, you'll be like those machines running at 100 percent power, It was scrapped early due to excessive wear and tear. I often see some students only do a few pages long task list.It's a waste of time, they spend too much time planning things that never get done.Everyone's ability and efficiency have an upper limit.Let's see what a man like Lyubishev with countless achievements in his life has to say:

"People often say that they work fourteen or five hours a day. There may be such people. But I can't do that much in a day. The highest record of my academic work is eleven hours and thirty minutes. Generally, I I am content with seven or eight hours of pure working time. My highest record month was July 1937. I worked 316 hours in a month, and the average daily pure working time was Seven hours. Of course, everyone sleeps and eats every day. In other words, everyone has a certain amount of time to spend on standard activities. Work experience shows that about twelve-thirteen hours can be used for non- Standard activities such as office work, academic work, social work, entertainment, etc."

Therefore, when making a time budget, be sure to leave room.First, you must know that unexpected events will definitely happen, so you have to set aside some time to deal with these unexpected events; second, you must use appropriate methods to rest and relax in order to recover a good state and do more things.In addition to work and study, you must ensure that you have enough other normal life activities.I often advise college students to have a vigorous love affair before graduating from university, or at least to have a sneaky one, which is the reason. To be a normal human being - this is everyone's right.Every day and every night, as a normal person, we have to do a lot of things outside of work and study.Drink tea or coffee, some people even have to drink some wine; read newspapers, read books, of course more people like to watch TV or watch movies; take a walk, climb mountains, and some people Go to the gym regularly to make sure you are in good physical condition; men look at girls, women look at handsome guys, there is no doubt that for adults, regular and healthy sexual intercourse is very helpful for mental health...

If you spend most of your time working and studying, you are achievement-oriented.If you spend most of your time having fun, you are life-satisfaction-oriented.Everyone is different, some people can get more fun in work and study, and some people can get more happiness in the trivial things of life. So, you need to determine who you are.In many cases, bear's paw and shark's fin really cannot have both.Again, you have to choose.And this understanding will make you very clear about a simple fact: to choose means to give up.If you do one thing, you may not be able to do another thing; even if you think you can do two things together, in fact, you have already determined that it is impossible to do the third thing.

According to the law of the golden section, if you can plan 10 hours a day, then if you are sure that you are a work-oriented person, you should plan like this: use about 6.18 hours for work and study, and use About 3.82 hours left to have fun - because you're human after all.Conversely, if you are sure that you are a life satisfaction-oriented person, you can plan like this: use about 6.18 hours to enjoy joy, and use the remaining about 3.82 hours to work and study-because you still have to Find ways to support yourself. Everyone's ability to focus is different.On rare occasions, a person can concentrate beyond the limit.Just look at those who play mahjong for days and nights, or those who do nothing but take drugs every day, or those who sit in front of the computer for a long time and play games.However, these are negative examples.Through the principles mentioned above, you can know that these people should be controlled by their own brains, not those who control their own brains.In a sense, we have to say that the mental development of such people is not very sound, because they are too easily satisfied and only satisfied with simple sensory stimuli, and rarely or even unable to perceive those that need to be obtained through complex operations. the kind of spiritual pleasure.

Believe me, with a certain amount of practice, you can definitely get rid of your brain's control and then fully control it; or at least partially get rid of your brain's control and then have some ability to control it.Do you know what you can do to be sure you made it, or at least part of it?The method is very simple, look at the things you do every day, how many are boring but very important; how many are very interesting but not important.If you spend your day doing things that are very important but may not be fun, it means that you have completely escaped the control of your brain and become the real master of your brain.

At this point - in fact, most things in this world are the same - you don't necessarily have to be the best.There is a simple algorithm: if the full score is 100 points, you can still follow the law of the golden section, and 61.8 points is just right.Because a score above 61.8 means that you have to give up a lot to get it.If you don't believe me, just look at the Olympic champions, they are rarely without injuries.Of course, more people have been injured to the point where you can't possibly know-because all you know are champions who stick to the end.The persistence I am talking about here does not refer to their perseverance, but to their luck.You know, those who have to retire early due to injuries also have super perseverance.Even those champions are likely to be overdrawn at all.Also, know that they can't stay that way forever.

Many people give up halfway, often because their goals are set too high, and at the same time, they do not have a clear understanding of the price to be paid to achieve such a high goal.I often feel that a lot of my happiness is based on my own self-knowledge.I know what my strengths are and what my weaknesses really are, so I'm less likely to daydream normally.For example, I went to be an English teacher—I knew that I would be a good teacher, but I also knew that some of my own limitations prevented me from becoming Yu Minhong or something like that in this field.But so what?I'm doing just as well.Even mediocre people have the right to be happy.

I went to the gym to work out and was amazed to find that my genes were actually good.With just a little exercise, I can get very full muscle.But I know what I want.I don't want to train myself like a bodybuilder.Because training like a bodybuilding coach requires you to practice twice a day, consume at least 150 minutes before and after each time, and at least five meals a day, and sleep no less than 9 hours; and a direct result of this is that fitness coaches often The income is not high.So, I thought I couldn't trade my time and income for a bodybuilder-like figure.But why do I have to have 100 points? A score of 61.8 is what I am now, with a height of 1.72 meters, a weight of 75 to 80 kilograms, and a waist circumference of about 2 feet 4—very good.

Speaking of this, you should understand why you have read a lot of time management books before, but in the end you got nothing, right?The reason why you think those books are useless is not necessarily because the truths written in those books are not correct (of course, it does not rule out that most of those books are indeed rubbish-the high-quality goods are always a minority).The problem lies in yourself - you actually set yourself a goal of 100 points every time!Even if the method in the book is correct, the method you practice is obviously unreasonable.Of course, you have read a lot of books other than time management that should be particularly useful, but for the same reason, you have not gained much...

Get out your pen and paper again and make a list of things that, while uninteresting, are actually very important to you.If you are a student, that thing may be to memorize English words; if you are a teacher, that thing may be to correct students' compositions; if you are a programmer, that thing may be to write detailed comments for your code ; if you're a business manager, that thing might be writing next year's budget for your picky boss...   Either way, pick one thing you think is most important.Then, make a schedule for yourself, and focus on this matter for at least 2 hours a day in the next week or even a month.Of course, it would be better if you can focus for 3 hours.Believe me, in most cases, 2 hours is basically enough.If you insist on finishing the things that require you to focus on 4 hours a day, then you will definitely be envied by the people around you.Trust me, and more importantly, you'll gain respect for it -- because they know they can't do it themselves, even though you didn't, and don't need to, remind them. In fact, I bet you can't do it without training for 2 hours on something you don't like -- because no one can do it without training. You can refer to the so-called time-slicing method.For example, you need to focus on this matter for 2 hours, or 120 minutes.Then you should break down the tasks of the day into 6 pieces, and each piece takes 20 minutes to complete.You take 20 minutes as the basic time unit for your focus, and after each time unit, take a 5-minute break and try to reward yourself - drink a cup of coffee or milk, smoke a cigarette if you are not afraid of health problems, or give Your boyfriend or girlfriend calls and says something nasty... In the last minute of the 5 minutes of the break, pick yourself up, try to recover, and move on to the next basic time unit - another 20 minutes. Therefore, when you plan your time, you should understand that in order to be able to fully concentrate for 120 minutes, you will eventually need to plan for about 150 minutes of time expenditure.This method is very simple, but very effective.And because it's simple and effective, it's easy to feel the effects.So, it should be easy for you to stick to.Of course, after a while, this method of dividing your time becomes less necessary for you.Because, after all, you can more freely focus on the very important things you should do-whether it is interesting or not.