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How I Handle My Attention
Recently,
I started to feel pressed. Having to work two different jobs, plus writing and
working on personal projects is difficult.I
would wake up earlier. I would separate my day into 3-4 different pieces and
try to fill them with various projects until I realized that it just doesn't
work. Why? Because time management is not as important as attention management.
I
learned a few things:
Focusing
on a task is returning to it every 48 hours.
There
is a cap of two different tasks that you can do within a single day. I learned
that it's not the work that exhausted me the most, but the switching between
different types of work.
And personal projects
should be taken care of on my own time (e.g.,on weekends and holidays).
The
more creative a task is, the earlier you should work on it. I am a morning
person, so I try to write before breakfast.
Just
telling yourself to do a specific activity five minutes longer than usual can
help create stillness, and it leads to high-quality focus.
Attention
is a rare resource. It's only the deep focus, the "deep work", as Cal
Newport calls it, that leads to high-quality results and productivity.You'll thank yourself later.
A. Stillness breeds focus.
B. Workweek should be for
work.
C. Devote 2020 to mastering
this vital skill.
D. If it takes longer, it's
not in the "focus zone"
E. Stay quiet, and I found
myself deeply focused.
F. What matters today is
where we focus our mental energy.
G. So I started to apply the
old time-management techniques to myself.
答案:【1】G【2】D【3】B【4】A【5】C