Chapter 1 Section 3 makes 4 hours equal to 8 hours -- traveling with time (4)

In the workplace, everyone wants to improve their work efficiency.

 

We all live in a four-dimensional space. Because of the time dimension, everything cannot stop forever, nor can it happen at the same time. What we are looking for is how to improve work efficiency, let 1 be equal to or greater than 2, and free ourselves from endless work.

 

But it is not easy to do it. So, is this proposition designed to capture the eye? Of course not. When talking about how to "use", let's first take a look at how long it will take for adults to concentrate heavily.

 

Normally, it is impossible for us to concentrate completely within 8 hours. We should understand this truth when preparing for the postgraduate entrance exam in college. Postgraduate exams should be the most concentrated time for everyone. Can someone sit in the library for 12 to 16 hours a day? Maybe you have more time to go to bed. If you don't believe it, you can go to the library for a lap. The root cause is physiological. Science proves that adults are highly concentrated for about 25 minutes to 45 minutes. Children are shorter, 5 to 10 minutes. Therefore, adults generally have 45 minutes to attend classes, kindergarten children only have a course length of 10 minutes. As we grow older and train our consciousness, our time for concentration will be extended, but beyond a certain limit, we will be relaxed. Long and intense work can only cause a sharp drop in efficiency. For example, when we drive at a high speed, if we only stare at the white lines on the road, the driver will be very sleepy. After a while, you need to relax ".

 

So how long does it take to concentrate on 8 hours of work? We have previously conducted a survey for professionals aged 22 to 27, and concluded that less than 20% of respondents spend about five hours a day; 50% of respondents have concentrated 4 hours a day. It is worth noting that there are industry differences among them. The more intense mental labor and creative labor, the less time it takes to concentrate. Record your daily efficient working hours. If it takes about 4 hours to reach the normal level, it means we are as normal as most people.

 

This leads to the first step we advocate to improve efficiency: Find the most efficient daily peak hours. Taking writing as an example, when there is a burst of ideas, the difference is that some people in the morning, some people in the evening, my personal writing time is usually after 8 o'clock. Everyone should not regret the passage of time-when we repent, the current time is also wasted, we should pay attention to how to find out their own peak hours, make good use, you can relax at other times. During off-peak hours, our efficiency will be relatively poor. How to find the peak period? -- The answer is to record and find our own peak time (High Efficiency time) by recording the time expenditure every day and summing up the best time. I started to take time notes from January 1, 2000, and my use of time has been gradually improved.

 

In addition, "credit is always greater than hard work" is always the truth. You need to pay more attention to the results of your work than to the time and effort you have invested, although the latter is the inevitable Foundation of the former. In the workplace, most of the work is based on the results. For example, the work that has been developed for 10 hours is unavailable for various reasons, and this employee is still considered useless by the company, employees with long-term useless functions will be expelled from the company.

 

I came up with a history. In 2000, I went to the job fair because I was looking for a job. At that time, a psychology student spoke about the skills of applying for a job. She mentioned that "sales is the result, none of the results were in vain. "I didn't agree with this idea at the time. At that time, the company under a state-owned enterprise is entering the bottleneck period, paying a lot and having no performance. It is not recognized by the company, and it is always hard to work, because of other reasons. After many years of thinking, I think it is funny. The social or company's standard for sales is: no result (set a list) is useless. Many industries and positions also apply this standard. It can be seen that increasing efficiency and increasing investment at the same time is the focus of actual work, while long overtime and blind work should not be the core. According to the objective fact that everyone has limited concentrated time, long overtime means longer work, but at the same time, the proportion of the effective time is reduced accordingly, and the output will not increase significantly.

 

Those who are superstitious about overtime may agree with the point of view in some time management books that "slaves who do not do time will in turn enable time. They are too high to look at themselves-time is not enough to enable you, we are not able to enable time, do not think that time is the spirit, we can grasp more time resources. Time is parallel and we can only manage ourselves.

 

Since we can only manage ourselves, what is the core and premise of 4 hours equals 8 hours? The answer is: the tolerance is not perfect, understanding yourself. Without understanding ourselves and accepting our imperfections, it is difficult for us to make full use of our potential, making it harder to get along with the world around us. For example, when most people are lazy at work, those who do not learn to forgive themselves will repeatedly blame themselves and waste their time on remorse, those who learn to understand themselves will first acknowledge the facts-there are indeed cases where concentration is not concentrated enough; then, they will forgive themselves-everyone has limited time to concentrate; then, find a solution-use the time record method to find your own golden time period, and seize the key points to make the investment more productive.

 

In short, we can work together to achieve sustainable development, understand the physiological characteristics of people, grasp the key points, and forgive ourselves, so that we can get 8 hours of results with 4 hours of investment.

 

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