How can busy people improve their thinking efficiency?

What factors are interfering with work?

1. Resources for help: colleagues and friends may ask for some information through landline, mobile phone, email receiving, QQ, RTX, or even in person.
2. Follow-up of multiple tasks: maintenance of old projects and formulation of new projects. At the same time, to keep up with the progress of several major tasks, we need to constantly communicate with colleagues in different departments to get the latest status of task progress, and to put forward demands and requirements in a timely manner.
3. External customer communication: communicates with customers from time to time (this communication takes at least half a day ).
4. Administrative trivial matters: such as ticket posting reimbursement for business trips, administrative approval for various matters applied for in the company, and various signatures.
5. The impulse to learn: To make up for or improve their own capabilities, constantly learn to charge.
6. Many subscribed information updates are often distracting. : The technical growth above the professional needs to constantly pay attention to a variety of new professional information, read a variety of professional summary, this is also relatively distracting.
7. Whimsy: when there are too many information and needs to be reached, various thoughts and thoughts are always coming into your mind, so that you cannot focus on what you need.
8. Productivity tools are not powerful: as daily work is completed on computers and networks, various computer crashes, viruses, software crashes, software upgrades, insufficient disk space, and other interference, and network disconnection, unsmooth, slow network speed, and so on are particularly disturbing, disturbing attention, and reducing work efficiency.

But how can we improve our work efficiency? When you were a child, before someone taught me how to do things, you had to think about what you wanted. Otherwise, you would find that what you did is meaningless. In fact, the same is true for work efficiency. Only by understanding the work itself can the work be highly efficient. Therefore, the quality of work is positively related to the amount of time invested by individual workers. Therefore, how to improve the efficiency and quality of thinking and decision-making in an environment with scarce time, scattered energy, and endless interference is an internal task that every manager must complete on his own.

How much time and effort does it take?

Someone asked, "isn't a lot of thinking about decision-making a single question? Is it useful to spend a lot of time ?" However, these people may not know that the decision-making "One Mind" also depends on clear and mature thinking conclusions, and the maturity of thinking is not a short process.

Innovative ideas may be just inspiration, not thinking, but thinking. Thoughts will soon be generated and will soon disappear. However, thinking is the seed of thinking. As long as a good idea is generated and a certain amount of energy is invested in thinking, a systematic and structured thinking will be achieved. When we continue with some ideas, we will often be able to make decisions and judgments, and then generate action plans.

The process of thinking is not a one-stop process. It is a process of growing up with creative thoughts, constantly adding and forming ideas, and discussing maturity.

It takes time and energy to think about it. Knowledge will ages, but thinking will ferment and sublimate.

Long-term things that have a major impact and require complex resources and long-process completion require a long time of thinking, although it may be due to the idea of "one mind to one" and "one head to one hot", it is impossible to make a "one mind to one hot" decision.

I have found that long-term planning, strategic orientation, system design, and operation modes are the most important things that require managers to spend time and energy thinking.

Can the implicit ability of "thinking efficiency" be improved?

No doubt, of course! Focus as long as you thinkEffective focus, AddEffective Way of ThinkingThe efficiency of thinking can be improved.

"Effective Focus" requires many years of industry or job experience to sum up these effective thinking dimensions. Further turning into a decision-making model is a non-low requirement on managers.

I think it is worth reminding me that we should avoid the three simple ways of thinking: linear thinking, direct analogy, and analogy ".

1. The typical linear thinking model is the "causal model": to see a phenomenon, it is interpreted as "because ...... So ......", Then, make actions or make comments.

What kind of judgment is not linear thinking? When we see the phenomenon, we want to analyze the genes, soil, and possibility of changes, and there are many preconditions for influencing the possibility of changes. When we think of similar events in history, know the results and effects of the analysis, and compare the differences between them. The analytical judgment is not a linear thinking judgment, but a higher level of judgment.

2. "direct analogy": this has some characteristics, and another has such characteristics. I can directly refer to this practice.

You must be aware that many practices can be implemented only at specific times, organizational environments, executors, and technical conditions, and you are not in these conditions, it is hard to know very specifically and deeply. The two sides can use the same development path without looking like it. The specific point type can be used for reference, but the direct analogy makes it a secret. When you think about the problem, you need to take into account the above unexplicit underlying factors to know who you are and who you need to learn from, the "Little Swan" will not be treated as a duck, or, on the contrary, it was originally an "ugly duckling" but thought it was "Little Swan ".

3. "analogy mode": Describes the truth of your affairs in a metaphor, and uses the solution of things in the metaphor to inspire and derive the solution of things in reality.

This kind of thinking is especially difficult. Things In the metaphor are different from your actual situation. If you use this kind of thinking to derive a solution, it will be a bad dish! In fact, in terms of metaphor, things are a rhetorical method. It is a metaphor that allows people to quickly understand what the speaker wants to express. It is just a way to speak, it is not the same as the actual solution.

The analogy of Cross-Industry cases can quickly deliver a specific market position and Image Positioning. However, it is still not advisable to copy the model, strategy, and strategy of Cross-Industry cases, different industries have different characteristics, customers and markets, and different requirements. Different industries have different technical maturity and different policies and legal environments-different underlying soils cannot be copied.

This kind of thinking model that uses "analogy" for reasoning is not desirable, but it is not uncommon in reality.

Which of the following methods can improve thinking efficiency?

I will only share my actual use here, and I have already achieved remarkable results.

Method 1: quickly capture inspiration and thoughts with information tools.

1. Evernote (Chinese version is Evernote.
2. Quickly record to-do transactions in doit. Im.

Method 2: set a period of time for dedicated planning and summarization every day.

Now I like getting up early. The first hour after getting up early every day is set to the exclusive "Planning and summarizing time ". Within this hour, do not view emails, do not make phone calls, do not execute any transactions, and try to ask not to be disturbed, it is used to plan the key work of the day and summarize the experience of the day.

Summary is the recording process of classification diaries.

This one-hour plan will make your entire day's work tasks clear and focused.

Method 3: at least two periods of thinking are fixed every day, and the same type of questions are considered together.

People cannot think too far. Different types of problems need different points of attention. It is very inefficient to think about it in a single period of time. Similar problems are often related. This problem can be figured out, and another problem may be broken through. Therefore, thinking about the same problem in one time period will improve the efficiency.

For example, from half past one to half past nine noon, it is my personal thinking time. When I think out of my mind, I will record them to the do-to-do task of doit. Im and schedule them to be completed within the corresponding time range.

Method 4: write and draw on paper

It is reasonable to say that this method is the most traditional way of assisting in thinking, but with a computer, many people are used to directly typing words on the computer, thinking that the results can be obtained directly, it also saves time for writing.

However, I did find that writing and painting have the following advantages:

1. It may be because the angle of view is smaller and more focused. It is more efficient to think down than to look up (I have never studied what this is, but when I say "Meditation", it is generally a bow posture, it indicates that "bowing" is related to thinking ).
2. Writing and drawing are more efficient than thinking on computer words (anyone who has tried it knows ).
3. Lines and symbols give you more inspiration than words (look at architect groups and artist groups) (actual painting is another language system in which humans understand and express the world, numbers and formulas are the third language system ).

Writing and painting also requires a set of symbol rules, which will make your painting clear.

Method 5: Brain Chart Software helps divergent thinking

In addition to the traditional hand-drawn method to help you think, you also need to use the brain map to help you think. Using mind brain chart software to help divergent thinking can take all aspects of the problem into account, and the effect is good.

I prefer xmind, probably because it has a free version and is fully functional and can be used for both Windows and Mac. Link: http://www.xmind.net.

Method 6: Give questions every day"

Complete "thinking questions" one by one at a fixed time every day, and record the thinking process of these questions. They can be morning diaries or brain graphs.

In my experience, it is easier to classify thinking questions by monthly and thinking type to view and manage them.

My classification method is to create three brain Chart files, for example, professional questions in April 2013, personal questions in April 2013, and work questions in April 2013.

The subject of work thinking generated in April will be included in the "April 2013 work thinking questions" brain map file. The other two types are the same.

The above for the content of reference Li Yun's blog combined with their own finishing, the original address http://blog.vsharing.com/ligongzi/A1684765.html