2015 35th Saturday

Three days holiday the next day, the morning to write notes summarize the next goal of 2015 years, the afternoon to see a long time, because a lot of Hollywood blockbuster online video can not see, but chose some Youku on the high score of the TV skit, the afternoon saw the "genius J" and play did not think of the version of the Dee, but also tried different styles, There is a lot of reasoning and laughter, in the unhappy time can be used for recreation.

Excerpt from a successful study of copper mining:

When we evaluate the value of a thing worth doing, should spend a lot of effort to do, should abandon a single point of view, but from two different dimensions, one is that the event will bring me the amount of income (cognitive, emotional, physical, physical benefits can be counted), namely " return value "; The second is the rate at which the yield decays over time, and what I call the" half-life ", the long-half-life event, will have a long and lasting effect on us.

These two dimensions are orthogonal and form a four-quadrant diagram. Everything we do in life, study and work can be put into this picture. Here I give a few examples:

• high yield, long half-life events: Find your true love, learn an effective way of thinking, complete an impressive trip, and a meaningful conversation with Daniel;
• High yield value, short half-life event: buy a fashionable clothes, play an afternoon hand tour, eat a meal, watch av tube;
• low-yielding, long-half-life events: practice one hour of calligraphy, recite a poem, memorize 10 words, read a classic novel, understand a chapter in philosophical works, repeat a skill exercise, and earnestly reply to a friend's email;
• low-yielding, short-half-life events: provoke or participate in a network pinch, aimlessly online roaming brush microblogging, using Mo mo know and so on the success rate is very low hooking up.

Also must pay attention to some negative income thing, should do more positive income long half-life thing, do not do negative income long half-life thing.

If we introspection, we may find that what we do most, like to do most, is "high yield, short half-life event", followed by "low-yielding value, short half-life event", and another two long-half-life events, we either do very little, or do very reluctantly, or do not have the conditions.

This phenomenon leads to the result that we unconsciously fall into a "short half-life bunker". In the bunker, we always catch the sand again and again, just to get a little pleasure, the sand has been drawn from the fingertips, and then again. Even if the process repeats more than once, we get the same result. Every day is a brand new day, but every day repeats the story of yesterday.

But the long half-life event is different, its benefits can accumulate and overlap. Even if the visible benefits of each event are negligible, the benefits can be passed on as long as the half-life is long enough to be a small cornerstone of future success . For example, recite a word, recite a word, although it may be forgotten in a few days, but when you re-recite the word, the first action left the base is still there, it can reduce the difficulty of jisong again. But if you're playing the Temple escape game, a succession of 10 minutes of victory may be wasted in an oversight, ashes, although may leave a high score record, but this figure, in fact, it is meaningless.

One more example, at noon to eat in the cafeteria, inevitably to queue up for 5-10 minutes, when most people will take out the mobile phone brush Weibo pass time, but if this time you take out is not a mobile phone, but a book of poetry, read a poem, How will it? Perhaps you will be a stranger, a nerd, a wenqing, but it doesn't matter, perhaps the beauty of the poem has been planted in your heart, and at some point began to take root.

We know that Steve Jobs has a famous "three stories of Life" speech, in 2005 at Stanford University. One of the stories is that he practiced calligraphy during his college years, a experience that tempered his aesthetic tastes and made him pay particular attention to the beauty of the product in later Apple products, so the event buried an important foreshadowing of its legendary success. The proceeds of the practice of calligraphy, for us ordinary people, at that time and today, are not so high, but this thing on the impact of life can be precipitated down, in a time and space opportunity when the mouth bursts of amazing power.

The so-called successful life is the result of accumulating countless or big or small gains.

See here, some people may think of time management in the "four-quadrant Time Method", also known as "Eisenhower Law." The theory classifies events from two dimensions of importance and urgency into four categories of important emergency, critical, non-critical, and unimportant emergencies, and in particular points out that people are often busy doing unimportant emergencies, ignoring important, non-urgent things. I admit that this view is very exciting, but in reality, it is difficult to carry out this law and benefit from it, because we modern people often fall into the "two incompetent", one is "choose incompetent", second, "Perform incompetent":

• "Choice of incompetence" is that we can hardly judge two things which is more important, such as two books to see which one is more valuable I do not know, such as two certificate to test which is more promising I do not know. So it became a prudence donkey, in indecision stay put not, until starved to death.

• "Executive incompetence" is what I know is important, that is, not doing it. In fact, for the general procrastination patients, the more important a thing seems, the greater the sense of fear inside, the easier it is to drag, and finally accomplish nothing.

So instead of sticking to the "Eisenhower rule", let go of the simple, easy-to-do "copper Mining Law":

Do as little as possible or do not do "short-income half-life" things.

In addition to the literal meaning, this law implies two layers of meaning:

1. The value of income is irrelevant, as long as it is not a "short half-life" thing, as long as the proceeds can be summed up, you do it, this can break the "choice of incompetence";

2. You don't have to do anything grand or big. Even to do things that are not important and not urgent, such as you now smoke a minute out of a few words can be, this is earned, so start, yes! This can break the "executive incompetence".

Indeed, after reading this article, you may still be a little confused, you still don't know what to do and what to do to succeed, but you can already tell yourself-from now on-you can do nothing. Everyone has the same time, once you have eliminated the things that should not be done, the rest of the time, no matter what you do, will add strength to you, accumulate kinetic energy, you will step by step, head not back to success.

2015 35th Saturday