Talking list

Xiao Hu works in a small company and has been particularly depressed recently.

His current company is small in scale, but influenced by the policy, it has expanded very fast recently. Because the speed of personnel recruitment is far behind the speed of expansion, it is natural for a person to have several jobs.

Xiao Hu often communicates with customers through feedback, when the boss suddenly gives an urgent order, and then his colleagues ask you for key data, suddenly thinking that there will be an emergency meeting in an hour.

I haven't figured it out yet. My girlfriend seems to have been wronged at work and needs your comfort.

These are very important things, as if they had been discussed, and they appeared in front of Xiao Hu at about the same time, giving him only a short time to solve them.

Xiao Hu's abilities in all aspects are quite good, but he faces these important things at the same time in a short time.

My head was still stunned for a while.

These things are difficult to adjust and do their best, but there are always many mistakes in the final work. Most bosses only look at your results and no one cares about your process. Therefore, Xiao Hu who made mistakes will often be scolded.

As for my girlfriend, it seems that she doesn't handle it very well, and she can't understand the desperate explanation.

Back to reality, most people often have the same situation as Xiao Hu. No matter at work or in life, there will always be many important things together, and most people are confused in the face of such a situation, dissatisfied with their final work quality and their life relationship.

And those people, in the face of swarming things, can always solve all kinds of problems. At work, under the condition of ensuring efficiency, their quality is not low at all, and their girlfriends are also very happy in life.

They give us the feeling that no matter how many problems we face, we can always finish them with high quality in a certain period of time.

In the face of a flood of things, how can we do things well consistently and correctly like the second kind of people? We need to acquire a kind of thinking: list thinking.

Inventory thinking refers to presenting complex things in the form of lists after a certain degree of induction and integration.

Simply put, make a list of things you want to solve.

The essence of this situation is actually the limitation of attention.

Our attention is limited. In the internet age, the value of attention can be said to be far greater than money. If you want to do well in your study, work and life, you must pay a lot of attention to every movement. Now, all kinds of information and products are constantly "grabbing" our attention, so that there is really not much attention left for us to control every day.

If we don't have list thinking, after being exploited every day, we have to pay attention to many things. Without a scientific and effective method, we often remember all kinds of chores in our minds before doing important things, and remembering all kinds of chores will consume a lot of attention. When we do important things, we need to change our attention, which will consume more and it is difficult to improve efficiency.

For example, I had a job before, and there were many small things every day, and I needed to arrange the processing time of small things and big things in my mind every day.

Although it is a small matter, if I forget to do it, it will definitely affect my future work. I also ignored the importance of attention at that time. So the initial idea is that I will keep these small things and big things in my mind and when to do them.

The result is:

I always remember the little things I need to do in the afternoon, because I am afraid to get up in the morning and forget. So my attention is consumed in some small things in advance. When I do something particularly important, I obviously feel more difficult and lack of attention balance, which also leads to my poor working condition and efficiency during that time.

After learning list thinking later, I made a list of my daily work.

First of all, I use the "28" rule (focusing 80% of my attention on the top 20% of the important events) to screen the events of the whole day, and put some chores that I need to do every day in a time period where I can solve all the chores together without affecting my work, and then fill them in the list, and other things will be arranged according to the specific situation.

In this way, what I needed to keep in mind before was "outsourced" to some extent. I don't need to constantly pay attention to sorting out and remembering in my mind. I only need to look at the list, which greatly improves my work efficiency.

In the face of overwhelming things, you can also make an overall list, arrange the time and details of things, and then make various small lists according to the types of things, outsource your memories, memories and transformations to the list, and put 80% of your energy on the top 20% of important things. You will find that your efficiency will become particularly high and you will handle things clearly and reliably.

How to master inventory thinking? It's actually quite simple. Just keep practicing and make a list for yourself. Don't think that making a list is just a list of things. Such a list is of little use, and there will be many details that need our attention.

Next, Pangpang will tell you some details of making the list.

1. design principles

A. Conciseness: It means to write down the most important and key content, and it is unambiguous. Two important purposes of the list are sorting and outsourcing. If we are vague and write a bunch of nonsense, we not only need to spend a lot of energy to identify the list, but also need to arrange the relationship between them, which completely fails to achieve the original purpose of designing the list.

For a simple example, when you are learning to cook a dish, you should not write a list with a small amount of peanuts, but how many grams.

B. Recall: Every time you do two points (1-2), you should recall the purpose of the list and make clear whether you have deviated from the direction of making the list.

C. Testing: Now those excellent products and functions will have internal testing stage, that is, a small number of people will be selected to experience new products and functions first, and then improve according to their feedback, and the products will get better and better.

Similarly, we can also regard the list as a product and give ourselves the opportunity of internal testing after the formulation is completed.

Take learning to cook as an example. When you make a list of dishes you want to cook, take this list to the kitchen and start cooking again. After doing this, you will know where the list is not suitable, where I am struggling when choosing, and make targeted changes to keep your list in a process of continuous improvement!

2. Implementation principles

A. List alarm: List alarm means that you set up a list and classify it, but you forgot it when you should have used it in the corresponding scene, and you can't remember it for a long time. At this time, it is necessary to set up a list alarm.

For example, if you are a frequent traveler, as we all know, it is particularly troublesome to miss something on business trip, so you specially designed a business trip list for business trip. But if you don't design a business trip alarm, sometimes you will forget to check with the business trip list. So at this time we need to set up a list alarm. This list of alarms must be a necessary behavior for you to travel from your current city to a business trip city.

For example, you always use your mobile phone to send messages to your girlfriend before going on a business trip, so you can set the message with your girlfriend as a list alarm and join the list. When you send a message to your girlfriend before your next business trip, you will remember to take out the business trip list to see if there is anything left behind, which will naturally reduce the trouble of business trip.

B. Identify the accident

No matter how many times the list has been revised and how close it has become to perfection, there will always be accidents, just like black swans always exist, so we need to add unexpected measures to the list.

Go abroad for a business trip before. Foreign calling cards are definitely necessary and on my list, but I bought them too late. Although I have paid for the calling card and checked it on the delivery list, the calling card may not arrive before my business trip, so I added the item of unexpected measures to the list. As it was later discovered that the local airport could buy local calling cards, the following contents were added to the unexpected measures:

Prepare your own response measures for emergencies in advance and put them on the list, which not only saves attention, but also can directly follow the list when an accident occurs, and also avoids the situation of being in a hurry in the face of accidents.

However, it should be clear that there is no perfect list, only a list that constantly suits you. Even if you think carefully about accidents and measures, there will still be times when you are at a loss. However, don't worry too much, the list has helped you avoid most emergencies, just small probability events. What you need to do at this time is to modify the list according to the actual situation.

Speaking of which, in fact, in the face of what is swarming again, we will no longer lament the lack of skills in two places at once, and we can solve it with list thinking.

First of all, follow the design principles to set a general list, classify these swarming things and arrange them at a reasonable time.

Then design a list according to the actions at each time point and follow the design principles.

In this way, everything was outsourced. Now you just need to set the alarm clock, and when you need to pick up the list, you can do it step by step according to the realization principle. If there is a problem, modify the list appropriately, so that the swarming things will be solved efficiently and correctly by you.

Summary: in the face of swarming things, lament the lack of skills? Mastering list thinking, listing things, and designing and implementing lists under certain principles will make you do things efficiently and correctly!

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