Recently in the history of reading information, I feel that in non-emotional aspects, the human brain and the daily activities of the computer are similar, are processing information, information through different forms of input, through certain processing to produce different kinds of output. Comparing human brains to CPUs, daily tasks to processes and threads, human tasks are often less efficient than computers. We can learn from the computer field in this area for many years of precipitation, help themselves to improve work efficiency, so as to save time to do what they want to do, such as exercise, accompany family, friends and children, go out to see what the world.
I cook a chestnut. When you have a lot of things to do, such as you want to learn English, to learn Java into, to learn the stock, in order to reasonably arrange the time, so that you do the right task at the right time, and get the best results, you need to understand the attributes of each thing. From the point of view of the thread and process of the computer, we can extract the following properties of the task:
- The time attribute . This thing is to be done in large chunks of time, or can be broken down into small pieces of time to do, is suitable for the morning, afternoon or evening to do. For example, learning professional knowledge is suitable for large chunks of time, while English can take small chunks of time to do. The efficiency of different times is not the same, varies from person to person.
- The priority attribute . That is, the importance of the task can be divided into high, medium, low three priority, or you define more levels of priority. For example, you think that learning Java can find the right job monthly income of 30,000, while playing games to watch TV just for a moment of entertainment, then you will learn Java priority set higher, no matter on the less game.
- Emergency level . What is the deadline for things to be done in 1 hours, or can be done slowly over a period of 1 months. For example, tomorrow to pay a paper, and you are responsible for the site project requirements one months later on-line, then certainly first to paper.
- The difficulty attribute . The task is not for me to finish, how difficult it is for me to finish this task. Understanding the difficulty of things helps us to arrange the task's energy distribution and time allocation rationally. For example, I want to learn English writing, the difficulty is good because I English, but you let me learn Arabic, I was a little drunk, that completely 0 basis, for me will be more difficult, then I may spend more energy.
- Feedback period . A task with a long feedback period usually takes a long time to complete, and you get less feedback before the task is completed, unless you finish it, it's hard to see the effect of the task. Vice versa. If the feedback period is long, then you may have a lack of motivation when you do this, which requires you to adjust your expectations or set milestones to help you do it. For example, learning HTML, one night you can write a beautiful web page, and learning a foreign language to write a paper, it may take you months or even years of time. The feedback period of playing games is very short, so we are willing to play happily, the truth is the same.
- Interrupt Cycle . If we are interrupted by something else when we are doing something, we are done with another thing and then come back and continue to do it, if it exceeds a certain time, we can not continue to start from the place of interruption, but to start from the beginning, then this time is the interruption cycle. Break the short cycle of things, we'd better not to interrupt it, otherwise it will lead to a waste of time and energy. Understanding the interruption cycle helps us to properly schedule tasks for time allocation and improve efficiency. For example, you read a new novel, in the middle of the six months did not see, and then picked up when you have forgotten what you said before, you have to preview again from scratch.
Understanding the properties of the task, we can arrange task assignment and deal with things in the know, and for some changes can be based on the nature of different tasks to make corresponding adjustments, improve efficiency and time utilization. Time but we are the most precious and fair wealth for all, can make good use of time to do things, it is not good?
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