Tight? Heavy task? Teach you a trick to improve work efficiency, don't be a workplace gyro!
Coincidentally, my cousin's eldest daughter is in the first grade of elementary school. My cousin picks up and goes to school on weekdays, and sends cram schools on weekends. Even after get off work, she has to set a few alarm clocks to remind herself how many unfinished things she has to do with work and taking care of her baby. She said that she was like a spinning top, spinning non-stop for more than ten hours a day.
Workers who are parents have to make money and support their families, and inevitably feel that time is not enough. In order to balance the relationship between career and family, we work hard to learn time management and energy management, but in the end, we always have little success. When dealing with multiple tasks, we still cannot switch freely and be handy. Why is this?
Probably because, we don't know the "dark time" yet. Learning to use "dark time" can add value to our time.
Tight? Heavy task? Teach you a trick to improve work efficiency, don't be a workplace gyro!
So, what is "dark time"? In Liu Weipeng's book "Dark Time", he pointed out that "reading and remembering the things in the book is just memory, and does not involve reasoning. Only by reasoning can we deeply understand a thing and see places that others can't see. This part The process of reasoning is your thinking time, and it is also the 'dark time' that takes up a significant proportion of your life."
That is to say, only the time when we have thought deeply or conducted reasoning and deduction is the effective time we really spend on study and work, because only this kind of time will make our study and work effective. The reasoning and deduction rely entirely on our brains. Therefore, when we walk, buy vegetables, wash our faces, take the bus, and eat, these can fully mobilize our thinking, and the time we use our brains to think can become "dark time".
Tight? Heavy task? Teach you a trick to improve work efficiency, don't be a workplace gyro!
So, what exactly can we do to make good use of our dark time, allow us to complete more to-dos in 24 hours a day, and add value to our time?
We can do this by developing three habits:
First, learn to immerse yourself in reading.
In recent years, the popularity of electronic products has always fragmented our time. Our brains are always free from various kinds of information, thinking has become more and more superficial, and information has become more and more fragmented.
If we want the brain to enter a state of thinking quickly, we must change the habit of superficial reading and learn to read immersively. Let's imagine that when we meet a novel we like, we may not be tired of reading it for a few hours. If we see it, someone may call you and you will not hear it. This state is what is called "the state of ecstasy" in psychology. ”, this way of reading is immersive reading.
When we first try immersive reading, we may also be influenced by our surroundings and have difficulty concentrating. But if we cultivate this habit of reading consciously for a long time, our brain can quickly activate the neural network, awaken the existing knowledge in the brain, not only deepen the memory, but also quickly understand and absorb new knowledge.
Tight? Heavy task? Teach you a trick to improve work efficiency, don't be a workplace gyro!
Second, stay focused for a long time.
Many people in the workplace have this experience. They sit at their desks in the morning, turn on their computers, log in to QQ and WeChat, and are ready to receive messages at any time; they open the plan to be completed and find that there is a lack of data and information, so they open the web page and start searching. At this time, colleagues in QQ began to communicate again, and leaders in the WeChat group came to assign tasks.
When attention is constantly being diverted, it becomes difficult to stay focused for a long time. The effective way is to try to mute all social and communication tools during the time period when you need to concentrate, so that you are not disturbed as much as possible.
For specific methods, we can refer to the Pomodoro Technique: choose a task to be completed, set the Pomodoro time to 25 minutes, focus on work, and don’t allow anything unrelated to the task in the middle of it, until the Pomodoro clock rings, and then draw on the paper One X takes a short break (5 minutes is enough), every 4 Pomodoros, a total of 100 minutes, you can rest for a while.
Long-term use of the Pomodoro Technique can greatly improve work efficiency, and it can also give users a sense of satisfaction in achieving completion, which will further motivate users to remain efficient.
Tight? Heavy task? Teach you a trick to improve work efficiency, don't be a workplace gyro!
Finally, it is necessary to have the ability to resist interference.
From 1911 to 1918, when Chairman Mao was studying in Changsha, he deliberately let himself sit in the downtown area and read a book every day. For example, the vegetable market on Chengzhang Street in Changsha is a place he must go to every day. The reason why he chooses to study in a lively place is to cultivate his anti-interference ability, so that he can calm down at any time and place.
Before we use "dark time", we need to consciously exercise our concentration. Specifically, we can do this:
(1) Establish a strong sense of purpose. Before we do something, we have to set goals in advance. Brain research results show that the brain pays more attention to clear goals and stays focused for longer than vague goals. Therefore, when we set work goals, we must be clear about the goals. With a strong sense of goal, the completion of the work will be higher.
(2) Complete complex tasks in stages. Many times, the reason why we "slip" is not because we don't want to complete the work, but because the work is too complicated, and if we maintain a high degree of concentration for a long time, we will inevitably feel tired. And when faced with complex tasks, when we get frustrated, we want to turn to simple tasks. Therefore, we can complete the complex work in stages, and split the big goal into small goals, which is naturally easy to complete.
(3) Do complex work first and then do simple work. By observing how humans behave, psychologists have come up with a way to correct an indolent life, called "Prima's Law." The specific method is very simple: at the beginning of the day, rank the things you need to do in the day according to the level of difficulty, priority to complete the more difficult tasks, and then complete the less difficult tasks little by little. The sense of achievement in completing complex work will be like a snowball, which will trend our work motivation and keep us energetic, so our efficiency will naturally be higher, and we will be less sensitive to the disturbance of the surrounding environment.
Tight? Heavy task? Teach you a trick to improve work efficiency, don't be a workplace gyro!
In an interview, famous science fiction writer Liu Cixin once mentioned his experience of writing novels between work, which caused a lot of controversy. Let's put aside whether Liu Cixin is fishing at work or not. It is undeniable that Liu Cixin is a master of using "dark time". .
As a working parent, if you want to work with one hand and take care of your baby with one hand, come and use the "dark time" scientifically, and you will not let yourself be overwhelmed.