"Work four hours a week" reading notes

Used: It can be summed up in a nutshell: 80% of the output comes from 20% of inputs. Parkinson's Law: The importance and complexity of tasks are closely related to the time allotted to complete tasks. This is the magic of the looming deadline.
There are two ways to increase effectiveness: 1. Only do important things to reduce working hours (80/20 laws). 2. Reduce working hours to do the most important things (Parkinson's Law).
The habit of improving efficiency: first, the important things to be done every day can never exceed two pieces. Make a memo and remind yourself at least three times a day: "I'm not using all kinds of chores to avoid the most important things." "。
Two. Don't do a few things at the same time. Schedule up to two important goals or tasks per day. Everything is done independently from beginning to end without interruption.
Three. The information consumes the attention of the recipient. After a certain age, reading is easy to make the mind from the active innovation state into a passive receiving state. Anyone who reads too much and has too little brains will develop a habit of being lazy.
Four. Ability to develop selective neglect. 1. Develop and maintain the habit of low-information recipes. Start with the third word of each line, up to the third word. This is used in the eyes of the peripheral, and usually our peripheral space wasted on the margins of the page. Even if the key word in the next line is exactly in the position of the first three and three words, you also "read" the whole sentence with your eyes, and you only need very little eye movement.
2. Immediately began a week of media fasting. Starting tomorrow at least 5 days to quit any media, the following is the rule: do not touch any newspaper, magazines, audio-visual, non-music radio. It's no problem to listen to music at any time. Not on any news portal site. Instead of watching any TV, you can watch an hour of pure entertainment every night. Do not read any works except this book, in addition to bedtime reading one hour of fiction. In this week, the most taboo of any meaningless reading.
What time does it take to get out of the air? In the morning, the time spent reading a newspaper is used to talk to a loved one, to communicate with the children, or to learn the book. In the nine to five of the time to the day as the last day to complete their most important work. If there is time left to finish, you can do the training in this book. Recommending this book looks a little hypocritical, but it's not: the information in the book is not only very important, but it can be applied immediately, not tomorrow or the day after today.
3. Ask the person with the most informed information: what is the important thing happening in the world today?
Once the answer is found, it does not arouse his interest and immediately stops. In fact, most people can't remember what they heard or saw in the morning for one or two hours.
4. Get into the habit of asking yourself, "is there something urgent or important that I will use this information for?" "
Summary: It's not enough that information is only useful for something-information must be useful for urgent or important things. If that is not the case, do not draw on this information. Such information is meaningless if it is not used in important things, or if it has been forgotten before the opportunity to use it.
Five Practice unfinished and imperfect skills. Starting something doesn't mean you have to finish it. More does not mean better, stopping one thing is often 10 times times better than accomplishing one thing.
Learn a foreign language: 6 months of intensive concentration training can achieve 95% correct use of language skills, but it takes 20-30 years to achieve 98% correct use of language ability.

Six. Mastering the art of rejection and avoiding meetings.
In 2001, our new vice director of sales came to Truesan the company on the first day, and spoke at the company's full meeting with only the following words: "I'm not here to make friends." I was instructed to come here to build a sales team to sell our products, and that's what I wanted to do. Thank you. "So simple.
From now on, make a decision to let the people around you learn to focus.
Get into the habit of making a question in the e-mail while giving "if ... Then "the suggestion.