Whole brain super learning ability

Chapter 12 Efficient Time Management (3)
A consultant who studies "time management" at Harvard University suggests: use the "level assignment" method to list the things to be done (including study and others) within 2 days or 1 month, and arrange them according to priority.The most important and urgent cases are classified as A, etc.; the next ones are classified as B; For things like A, arrange more time and the "peak period" when you have the most energy; up.The study of each subject is also divided into several levels. The more important ones, or the courses that require hard work are listed as A, etc., and the rest are analogized.In this way, you can grasp the key points, use the main to lead the secondary, and study in a targeted and methodical manner, so as to achieve the effect of drawing inferences about other cases from one instance.Otherwise, grabbing one hand at the east and another at the west will make you disorganized, at a loss, putting the cart before the horse, and working hard to no avail.

To arrange study, there must be a "daily plan".A time management expert once said: "Long-term plans will only make people depressed." He also said: "If you want to achieve your goals as soon as possible, in addition to long-term plans, you must also make daily plans. Make life organized and regular .” People are very prone to burnout and forgetfulness.If the plan is too far and too big, if it cannot be realized for a while, it will lose its freshness, make people bored and depressed.It often happens that a one-week or one-month plan cannot be completed on schedule due to a day or two of delay.So it got delayed longer and longer, and accumulated more and more, and finally turned into planning for the sake of planning, completely ignoring the purpose of planning?What effect does the plan help us achieve?Such a plan becomes a theory on paper and loses its original meaning.

Therefore, we should develop a habit of carrying a diary with us, and make a plan for the next day every morning or evening, the more detailed the better.At the end of the second day, check again carefully, how much has been completed, and what is still unfinished, and then list the plan for the next day, and so on.This is to review the gap between the "planned day" and "actual day" based on the diary, find out the cause of the gap, and take corresponding measures to narrow the gap in the next day, so that the plan can be restored to its original state. significance.

Let's not focus too much on long-term plans and lofty goals.As long as you can ensure that the daily plan is completed on time, and develop the habit of completing the day's work on the same day, you will virtually complete long-term plans such as weekly plans and monthly plans.

The more precise the calculation of time, the more perfect things will be done. If you can also take "minutes" as the unit, strictly demand yourself, and complete the prescribed study plan within the prescribed time, then you will not cherish the free and undisciplined attitude. The habit of time can be completely eradicated.

Each discipline produces different responses and different degrees of thinking activity in the mind.Due to the differences of each person, everyone also has their own favorite subjects and subjects that feel headaches. According to psychological surveys, as far as ordinary people are concerned, the subjects that are most likely to make the mind tired are foreign languages ​​and mathematics.Therefore, when arranging courses or learning progress, try to avoid arranging foreign language classes and math classes, or other troublesome subjects on the same day.Moreover, the study time of these subjects should be arranged as far as possible when the mind is the most active, that is, at 10 am as mentioned above, in order to enhance the learning effect.

In addition, we must pay attention to the coordination of biological rhythm, psychological rhythm and physical time rhythm, so as to obtain the highest learning effect.

Everyone has their own time rhythm, different identities, different occupations, different physical and psychological differences, and their own time rhythms are also different. As far as students are concerned, some people cannot achieve good results no matter how hard they study and work hard. This is The reason is that the internal and external rhythms cannot be coordinated.

In order to adjust the internal and external rhythm, first of all, do not force the internal or external time rhythm to be changed, but use a gradual method to slowly integrate it. For example, do not force yourself to study when you are tired, and do not waste time at will when you are full of energy. The best adjustment and integration of external time can achieve the highest learning effect.

If you want to concentrate on studying, you must first adjust your learning emotions.In the process of learning, the most common thing is to use "poor learning mood" as an excuse for being lazy, and it is yourself who suffers in the end.

The well-known economist Adam Gullit has served as an economic consultant for several large companies, and he writes speeches non-stop every day.In the busy life, he also has almost breathless tension.Therefore, in the gaps between work, for an hour or more than 1 minutes, he tried to divert his mind.Or watch a show, or play a video game.The atmosphere changed quickly, the mood was changed, and the best rest was obtained in a short time.

From this we can see that it does not take a long time or a large space to change the mood or change the atmosphere.Sometimes 5 minutes, 10 minutes is enough.

Everyone has their own specific biological clock.Some people are used to going to bed early and getting up early, and some people are used to going to bed late and getting up late. It is easy for "night owl" people to arrange their study time freely, but not if they take classes or exams; classes or exams are usually during the day, and the time is uniformly stipulated.This is difficult for people who are used to studying at night and resting during the day.The only way is to change the night owl type into a normal type as soon as possible.Because the circadian rhythm has a very tenacious stability.An experiment showed that even if one stayed in a dark cave for 100 days where day and night could not be distinguished, the difference in human circadian rhythm was only 40 minutes a day.It can be seen that if you want to change the night owl lifestyle, you will need to spend more time.It is too late to change before the exam.

Time management requires optimizing the use of overall time, that is, maximizing the productivity of that time, rather than just considering the amount of time available.

For example, if A sleeps for 5 hours a day, deducting 2 hours of eating and resting time, there may be 17 hours that can be used, but due to lack of sleep, the productivity is 5 units per hour. It is 17×5=85 units.B sleeps 8 hours a day, needs 2 hours of eating and resting time just like A, and can use 14 hours a day, and its productivity per hour is 8 units, and A’s productivity in a day is 14×8= 112 units.Obviously, even if A sleeps only 5 hours and B sleeps 8 hours, B is still more productive than A.Therefore, when discussing time management, two factors must be considered, namely, the quantity of time and the quality of time.

I believe that many people must have the habit of not having a meal until 12 noon, or not having the idea of ​​having dinner until 6 pm.Especially in business districts or near schools, as soon as 12:12 noon arrives, you can see crowds coming one after another, and every restaurant is full of people, which is very different from the scene of 10 minutes before 10:[-].In fact, as long as you arrive [-] minutes earlier or half an hour later, you can avoid crowds.

Some people may think that the school lunch break is arranged at 12 noon, and crowds are inevitable.But many people still copy this "life routine" into their non-working days.After the implementation of the two-day holiday system, many people pay more attention to leisure activities. Every holiday, scenic spots and entertainment venues are always overcrowded.Watching a performance may require a queue of 1 hour to buy tickets; there is a lot of traffic on the road to the scenic spot, and it takes a lot of time to move slowly in the traffic formation, and when you set foot on the return journey, you will suffer from traffic jams ; When eating, I didn't come to the restaurant until I got the customary time. As a result, the restaurant was full of seats, and it might take another half an hour for the guests to leave.

In fact, if you stagger the bad time, the situation is completely different.Choose to watch the morning performances, or wait until non-holidays to watch, so you don’t have to spend time queuing up; go to and leave the scenic spot 2 or 3 hours earlier or later than the average person, except for the time you stay in the scenic spot. The reduction can also avoid the suffering of traffic jams caused by crowds; most people are used to eating Chinese food at 12 o'clock, and if they arrive at the restaurant 10 minutes earlier, they will be able to find a seat easily.

There are many similar situations. Some habits will lead us to unknowingly fall into unfavorable situations. If we can stagger the bad timing early and make some adjustments in the schedule, we can save a lot of time.

No matter how busy the job is, occasionally there will be some free time. For example, the meeting ends 10 minutes earlier than scheduled, the teacher finishes class 10 minutes earlier, the original 3-hour drive arrives half an hour earlier, or the express delivery has not yet arrived. Arrived, there is no way to carry out the next work, waiting for the file is the idle time.

Free time usually cannot be planned in advance. At this time, there may be no spectrum in mind. If you want to do other work first, you may feel that you don't have enough time.At this time, you might as well deal with some trivial matters, or prepare the materials needed for future work or schoolwork.

If you are a student, you can use this short few minutes of free time to sort out the books and stationery on the desk or classify the homework received in the past few days.

After a morning of study, your desk may have been messy.Finding a pencil is like playing hide-and-seek, requiring a lot of rummaging.It is better to use the spare time to tidy up the desks, centrally locate the stationery, put the books on the desk into the school bags, and clear outdated materials.Furthermore, you can also take advantage of organizing the desks and at the same time, pick out and place the textbooks needed for the next few studies.In this way, you will find that when you need a certain book or tool, you don't have to rummage through the box, and it will be more handy to directly open the materials you have prepared before entering the next homework.

If you are a person who goes to work, you need to organize your business cards, just like organizing your desks.In the process of work, I often come into contact with relevant customers or colleagues, and it is common to receive dozens of business cards in a week.There are so many business cards, if you can use the spare time to sort them out, it will be much more convenient when you need to find them.In fact, you can recall the name on the business card while sorting out the business card, think about what this person’s needs are, what this person’s suggestion for the product is, or further conceive whether there is room for cooperation with this company... In addition to understanding the customers you may contact in your future work, you may also find important points that cannot be ignored. At the same time, you can also try to learn the advantages of others in the process of sorting out business cards.

In fact, the same is true for work, and the same is true for study. Prepare your own "useful free time plan".This plan does not need to include complex and difficult tasks, as long as it considers some simple, non-time-consuming, and interruptible tasks at any time.Accumulate a little to make a lot, gather sand to form a tower, make full use of spare time, and make effective use of these small hours, and the accumulation is quite considerable.Emily Bronte, a British female writer, grew up in a poor family. She had to bear a lot of housework and household expenses. The daily work of washing, kneading dough, and cooking kept her busy from morning till night.But when she is in the kitchen, she always carries paper and pen with her. When she gets tired of kneading the dough, she writes down the inspiration she thinks of. The content on the website is the well-known classic literary masterpiece - "Whistling Heights".

Unlike idle time, gap time refers to the gap between scheduled trips, or waiting time while work is in progress.For example: the rest time between two classes, the waiting time for stewing a pot of meat after putting the ingredients into the pot and then simmering, the waiting time before watching a movie or the waiting time for admission, the time spent when transferring to the bus The waiting time is the gap time.

The gap time is usually fixedly included in the daily routine of life, which is also the biggest difference from the temporary free time.The breaks between classes, the waits for a pot of stew, the waits before a play, the waits for a bus to arrive, all of which we have known for a long time.It's just that the gap time is always intermittent, which is usually ignored by people.

Although it is intermittent, if you can grasp the time between notes, it is a good opportunity to learn.

Learning and success is not easy to come by, but it is not indefinitely, grasping the gap time can add a lot of effect and strength to your learning process.

Pay more attention to your gap time, whether it is waiting for the bus, going to and from get out of class, waiting to watch a drama, don't let them slip through your fingers, any gap time is a good opportunity to learn.

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