Why productivity decreases

"To the creator of the freedom of working time like Me"

One months ago, I decided to change my bad habits--stay up late to four or five, get up at noon, skip breakfast and have lunch, and start working in the afternoon. After one months of adjustment, I can now sleep easily before one o'clock and wake up early in the morning. But I found my work efficiency is greatly reduced, what is this?

One of Paul Graham's ideas seems to explain the problem: the difference between the schedule of managers and creators. The manager divides the time by the hour and arranges the plan in advance at each fixed time-a speech, a meeting, or a private meeting. Managers look at their schedules when they work, and insert new tasks at any appropriate time, simple and efficient. But there is another category of people, called creators, such as programmers and writers, who work with a long period of uninterrupted time, usually at least half a day as a unit of time. People with programming experience know that once you start writing code, it's hard to stop and if you don't have to be interrupted, it takes a lot of energy to get back into shape. So creators hate sudden interruptions, such as emails, meetings and even afternoon tea time, which can ruin their entire half-day or even a day of work plans. Here we have to share the following classic picture.

And see how Paul Graham describes the day when he started his business:

"In the early 90 's, I didn't know how to arrange my day with a little time management skill," he said. Every day after dinner I began to write programs into the night Three o'clock, because no one bothered at night. Then I will sleep until about 11 o ' clock next day, and then go to the office to handle "official business" until dinner time. I did not think carefully about the reason why I have to arrange the time, only now I found that I effectively divided the day two full working days: Noon to evening to follow the manager's timetable, evening to early morning to follow the creator's timetable. "

It dawned on me! So I decided to take a serious look at how I planned to spend the day, and see where the reason for the decline in efficiency was. I used different colors to draw all kinds of activities in a time wheel, so that's a clear glance.

I split the day's activities into four categories:

Output: Code coding procedures, reading papers to write papers

Office: Back to the mail, see students, meetings, tea and snacks snack light.

Leisure: Party Sports draw a blog to listen to music play online

Sleep: zzz.

The following time roulette recorded my "unhealthy" day in the past. The most productive time period is always very late at night. There are several reasons: no distractions are easier to focus on, and more attention is needed when feeling tired. What's more, once you start working, you become a force of inertia, and you don't want to stop easily without accomplishing a particular task--------------no one bothers you and no strict time limit. The six or seven hours of the night were used very efficiently.

After trying to adjust my schedule, my time wheel became like this. Still seven hours of sleep, the output time appears to have increased on the surface. But the problem is obvious, now I want to use the afternoon time to complete the most "difficult" work, but I do not realize that this period of time is full of unavoidable interference, mail, meetings, see students, tea and small talk, even the afternoon sunshine is to let people feel unable to concentrate energy. Although I didn't waste the night, I tried to do something a few hours before bedtime. Although there is no interruption and interruptions, but two or three hours of time is a bit inadequate-inertia just formed and had to stop, because the biological clock urged me to wash and sleep.

I certainly do not want to continue the previous "unhealthy" routine, and hope to be able to maintain a healthy life while improving efficiency. In order to use time efficiently, it is necessary to avoid the intersection of output time and office time, and consciously reduce the interference of the outside world, of course, it also requires proper planning and stronger self-discipline ability. The following two time roulette can be referenced. If you want to accomplish a "difficult" task, it is better to shield off all leisure activities, postpone all the trivial matters that can be postponed, and find a quiet corner to work from the afternoon to the night. Of course, sometimes I feel that such a high intensity is unbearable, then put their own afternoon leave, starting from the evening, but also a period of time can be fully utilized.

Okay, here's the story. Of course, it is easy to say, do up to know that there are all kinds of resistance and variables, in practice self-examination self-discipline, efforts to grow, and mutual encouragement.