The most important principle of efficiency improvement-Doing one thing at a time

previous time popular time management method-tomato work law, said to choose a task you have to complete, the tomato time set to 25 minutes, focus on work, not allowed to do anything unrelated to this task, until the tomato clock sounded, and then a short break (5 minutes on the line), Take a break for every 4 tomato sessions. I tried it a few times and at the end of the day I felt that the tool was not very practical and it was a bit too complicated to manage time.
Although this tool does not apply to me, but I think the essence of the tomato working law is very right, that is, in a period of time you only focus on one thing, the heart without distractions, this is the key to a great increase in efficiency, specifically to focus on how long, rest, not really so important.


Liu Weipeng In his article also analyzes, "multi-tasking" switching needs to spend a lot of extra expenses, if only one task, there will be no such loss.

programmers know that task switching takes a lot of extra expense, and in layman's terms, you first need to save the current context so that you can switch back smoothly the next time, and then load the context of the target task. If a system keeps moving back and forth between multiple tasks, it can take a lot of time to Daoteng on the context switch, virtually wasting a lot of time. In contrast, if only one task is done, there is no such loss. That's why people who focus on time use much more efficiently than people who don't focus. The dark time of the task switch seems to be very low, even many people think that "multitasking" is a good thing (sometimes it is), but the accumulation of time will be found that the cost of switching more and more. In addition, the brain must have a certain amount of time to "warm up" when it starts a task, and this time varies from person to person and can be changed by practice. For example, you read a book, suddenly feel a bit bored, can't help open the browser, 10 minutes later you want to continue to read, but to revert to the ideal state, but need a period of time to concentrate on the memory of the relevant knowledge all activated, so as to enter the "state", Because after you've been on the grid for 10 minutes, these memories have been suppressed. If this "warm-up" state requires a quarter of an hour, then seemingly 10 minutes of surfing the internet actually takes 25 minutes. If the example of reading is not vivid enough, there is a better example for programmers: You write a program that is high, and you suddenly get called to open a meeting and write half of the code there. How long will it take you to get back into the state when you're done? Or, you are debugging the program, you have spent 20 minutes of the bug may be related to the code to understand the back and forth, the heart built a rough map, just then, you are called to open a meeting (:D), after the meeting will come back, imagine, It's going to take some time to think about what you just figured out. The ability to get into the state quickly can be exercised, which, according to my personal experience, can be reduced to at least 3-5 minutes. But it is hard to achieve it in such a short time to be fully in state. The so-called fully-entered state, for example: you read a 3-hour book, or debugging a half-hour program, is often full of related things, all this knowledge is active, in other words, all the relevant memory neural network in your brain is activated, to achieve such a forget the time of the passage of the "immersion" State (psychologically called "streaming experience"), not three or two minutes of things. And once this state is destroyed, the efficiency of the intangible will be greatly compromised. This is why I always tend to create chunks of time to read important things, because it helps to "immerse" in it, so that new knowledge can be fully integrated with the various existing knowledge in the brain, which is very helpful for deep memory.

to do a good job Doing one thing at a time or need the relevant techniques, such as the following:

When you're in the state, do a little more, or you'll have a good rest: Sometimes it's not working for a couple of days, and sometimes it's normal to work 12 hours a day while working.

Just do the thing that has the biggest impact. --jason Cohen

When you're in a high-performance state, take note of anything that distracts you, such as Google search terms, brainstorming ideas, new ideas, and so on. If you write them down, it won't bounce back.


Related references 1. Liu Weipeng, Dark time: http://mindhacks.cn/2009/12/20/dark-time/ 2.Etienne garbugli,26 time Management Hacks i Wish i ' d known at 20,http://www.slideshare.net/egarbugli/26- Time-management-hacks-i-wish-id-known-at-20

The most important principle of efficiency improvement-Doing one thing at a time