提高个人效率有妙法
英语课
An Unorthodox System for Improving Personal Productivity
Forget David Allen and “Getting Things Done”. So long Stephen Covey and your Seven Habits. I will no longer be bound to the Time Trap. I have found the time-management strategy that is perfect for me:
Structured Procrastination 1
John Perry, a professor in Standford’s philosophy department, has articulated a radical 2 concept for getting things done.
“the procrastinator 3 can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.”
What could be easier?
Perry notes that procrastinators rarely do nothing; they do marginally useful things as a way of avoiding more important things. The trick is to ensure you have important tasks at the top of your list thereby 4 driving you to complete tasks of “lesser” importance.
Perry emphasises the importance of picking the right projects for the top of the list. They require two key characteristics:
They seem to have clear deadlines (but really don’t).
They seem awfully 5 important (but really aren’t).
I think this is going to work for me. I’ve got some policy manual work to do, so I’m going to reply to email that I received a couple of weeks ago. Once that is complete, I can consider John’s thoughts on being Horizontally Organized.
暂且别想大卫艾伦的‘时间管理’,先忘了斯蒂芬柯维以及你的‘七个习惯’。我已经不用整天抱着‘时间陷阱’寻找答案了,因为我已经发现了适合自己的时间管理策略。
拖延管理
斯坦福哲学系教授约翰佩里,阐述了关于时间管理的新观点:可以让爱拖延的人做有难度和有时间限制的重任,前提是这些任务相对来说更不重要。
那更容易的是什么呢
佩里注意到,拖延者很少什么都不做,他们避开更重要的事情,而做一些相对无关的事。秘诀是你的时间表最上面要有重要的事情,因此你就会愿意去完成相比较不太重要的事了。
佩里强调,选择时间表最上面的合适的计划很重要,需要具备两个特点:
1. 似乎有截止日期(实际上没有)
2. 似乎相当重要(实际上不是)
我觉得这对我很有效。当我手头有关于保险手册的工作要处理时,我就打算去回复我两周前接到的邮件去了。等完成之后,我开始觉得约翰的看法太正确了。
n.拖延，耽搁
- Procrastination is the father of failure. 因循是失败的根源。
- Procrastination is the thief of time. 拖延就是浪费时间。
n.激进份子，原子团，根号；adj.根本的，激进的，彻底的
- The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
- She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。
n. 拖延者, 拖拉者, 因循者
- General Peckem's communications about cleanliness and procrastination made Major Major feel like a filthy procrastinator. 佩克姆将军谈到清洁和拖延的那些简报，使梅杰少校感到自己象一个邋遢的、作风拖拉的家伙。
- This is also a great help if you are a procrastinator. 如果你是一个拖拉的人，这样会对你很有帮助。
adv.因此，从而
- I have never been to that city,,ereby I don't know much about it.我从未去过那座城市，因此对它不怎么熟悉。
- He became a British citizen,thereby gaining the right to vote.他成了英国公民，因而得到了投票权。
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