Please stop your futile efforts. You may just overmanage your time and waste your energy.

If one day, when you are walking in the street, someone pulls you behind you, and at first glance, it is an extraordinary person with a slightly bald forehead, saying to you: This benefactor, is it too hard to see you in a dark Tang Yin and sleepy?

What would you say?

"Yes and yes, the mobile phone is too much to let go! No time to rest! "

The expert replied: yes, yes, I used to be like this ... so now I am bald at an early age and I regret it. I shouldn't have worked so hard at first. . . .

If you pay attention to public places, such as canteens and restaurants, you will often see this phenomenon:

When eating, your mouth moves, your neck is crooked, your right hand moves chopsticks, and your left hand brushes the screen. There is no feeling of disobedience. I don't even know where to look without looking at my mobile phone! I feel out of place with my surroundings.

Do you think watching mobile phones in your spare time is to cherish life? Multitasking improves efficiency?

Don't!

There is also a term called "passing God of Wealth". Many diligent students just pass by the god of wealth in information. They put their schedules full, try to receive more valuable information and study against time. People use "eating melon seeds" to fill the gap in time, and he continues to "die" knowledge with the time when others eat melon seeds!

For example, I once set myself a great goal to read six books a week. Indeed, I can make time, speed up the page turning, skip boring fragments and ignore difficult chapters to achieve this goal, but what's the use?

The opportunity cost effect of this is that reading keeps me away from my mobile phone and is not damaged by fragmented information bombing. I can exercise my concentration and keep the habit of thinking with my head, that's all. It's hard to say how much knowledge I can gain!

Accepting knowledge does not mean absorbing knowledge. We may optimistically estimate that this knowledge will definitely be waiting for us to extract somewhere in our brain, and the subconscious mind lurking underground silently supports our knowledge construction. I hope so!

The desire for knowledge is worth encouraging, but it is unwise to lack thinking and know how to choose!

Don't deliberately give yourself a psychological hint of lack of knowledge, so I hope to solve this contradiction by further squeezing time. In the end, I can only be moved by my "perseverance" and have little effect!

This era is already an era of information flooding and knowledge explosion. Don't be afraid to miss anything. Knowledge and information are no longer scarce. You should know how to actively shield and protect your relatively scarce "attention resources"! Some world events, you don't need to know the middle process, and the result may have little to do with you. There is no need to chase hot spots unless you are really free!

Take stock of behaviors that over-manage time:

1. Don't concentrate on your meal.

Benefits:

Bring the illusory satisfaction of making full use of time.

Hazard:

First of all, it distracts attention, affects appetite, and accidentally eats too much;

Secondly, it will affect the secretion of gastric acid and the secretion of various enzymes in the pancreas, resulting in food not being fully digested, and often food not being fully chewed, which will also increase the workload of later organs.

We may all have the habit of washing our hands before meals, but we don't have the habit of washing our mobile phones, which is easily overlooked. In fact, even if the mobile phone doesn't have IP68 waterproof function, it is necessary to wipe it with a wet cloth frequently. Just say that the mobile phone is dirty and there are many invisible bacteria. If you are too lazy to clean your mobile phone often, be careful not to let it go to an unclean place like WC. Moreover, the mobile phone screen is small, which requires more attention and is more harmful to the eyes!

2. Stay up late and misappropriate sleep time

Harm: The function of sleep is to clean up the garbage after the brain runs all day, and another important function is to sort out and digest the information you receive all day. You can understand that the defragmentation function of computer disk takes time! Lack of sleep, garbage can't be removed, and information can't be optimized. In the long run, my brain will really be a mess, my memory will be misplaced, and I will forget it later. To put it bluntly, my brain is too messy and I don't know where to extract what I need!

3. Try to read quickly and don't take notes.

Benefits: I read 200 books this year. Oh, is it great?

Disadvantages: What is the main point of this book? I can only answer: didn't I tell you the title of the cover?

What did you get? Answer: I think it's well written and quite rewarding!

What exactly is it? Answer: I can't think of it for the time being. . .

Reading without taking notes, just like doing nothing, is irresponsible and should be condemned as it should be!

4. I only know how to memorize words, but I don't know what to output. I forget 180 words every second day and remember 20 words, but I don't know how to use them except nouns!

Correct posture: words should be memorized, which is only a unilateral input action, and there is no subsequent output action, which has little effect!

What is an output action? Try to compose an article or several interesting sentences with the words you recite, thus completing an output process and becoming a learning closed loop. You should know that the ultimate goal of memorizing words is to be able to use them, and writing articles is the best practice and test!

Never let yourself idle and feel guilty.

Many short-term seemingly "inspirational" behavior habits of drinking poison to quench thirst are actually hurting you. Mentally, your concentration is lost. Physically, some organs have insufficient blood supply for a long time, and your body's detoxification function is disordered.

Since I got into the habit of writing in the morning, I bid farewell to morning news, weather forecast and other information.

What! ? Don't even care about world events, aren't you afraid of out?

In fact, from the perspective of brain science, after more than six hours of sleep input, when you wake up in the morning, your brain is in a state of high potential energy eager for high-quality input. At this time, the so-called news gossip input with eyebrows and beards is by no means the best choice. Now is the era of information explosion, and attention has become a scarce resource, especially in the prime time in the morning!

For example, the weather forecast is the same. Unless you want to go out on foot, what does it matter to you whether it rains or not? In addition to affecting the mood, can you not go out because of this? Makes you feel more in control. The weather forecast is a forecast of the future. How accurate is it? Because the meteorological observation point is far away from where you are, its prediction results flow to your ears and are out of date. The best way to make the weather forecast accurate is to interact with meteorological observation points in real time, otherwise it is more direct to look up and see if there are dark clouds overhead before going out! Some people will be inexplicably disappointed when they hear the weather forecast that it will rain. For me, it is good to rain, purify the air, and walk in the rain with many waves!

There is no shame in doing nothing. Let yourself do nothing, not waste your life! No matter how wonderful the song of life is, if there is no proper pause and the combination of fast and slow rhythm, the appreciation value will be greatly reduced, and the song you hear will become singing!

If attention and information are regarded as buyers and sellers, information has been Party A's seller's market for a long time before the Internet era. It is too difficult to know what it is, so I can only cran my neck and ask around. But what about now?

Old ladies in their seventies and eighties brush their WeChat circle of friends on the official WeChat account, and preschool children can forget Tik Tok and Aauto more quickly. Do you still need to be eager to miss the first time of "world events"?

Now is the era of information explosion and attention is scarce. A lot of news is just an intermediate process of event development, plus my speculation. For example, the popular American TV series "The Founding of the People's Republic of Sichuan" wants to know who won every day, but I just don't know the result!

You may really need to chase a drama in your life, but focusing on one movie is enough. Without anyone, the world will turn. A lot of news and gossip are essential products for media people to make a living. You have no obligation to be their consumer. Find out what scarce time it is. It's your attention, not information!

I often hear the phrase "Don't go away, continue after the advertisement ..." Why don't you go away after your advertisement?

One last suggestion: now concentrate on eating!

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