《效率就在于管理好你的时间、精力和注意力.docVIP

Effectiveness Is All About Managing Your Time, Energy, and Attention 文章出自： Effectiveness Is All About Managing Your Time, Energy, and Attention I bet you think you’d be able to do a lot more if you had more time. If so, you’re probably wrong. Having more time is only a piece of the puzzle. It’s not so much just the quantity of time that we should consider, but the quality of time, too. This is largely the foundation of the idea ofheatmapping your productivity and the engagement threshold. In each case, time is only one factor – with energy and attention being the others. The fact that time is only one of three factors doesn’t discount the importance of time, for having an abundance of creative energy or being especially engaged doesn’t help much if you don’t have enough time to do anything with them. Manifesting change in the world takes time, but that’s not all it takes. The reason why thinking in terms of time, energy, and attention is important is that many of us operate as if more time equals more capacity, when in reality it often doesn’t . Anyone who’s sat at their desk at the end of the day in that awkward middleground where they’re neither working nor playing understands this. Yet the overriding tendency is to sit there nonetheless because the operating assumption is that more time working equals more work done, evidence to the contrary be damned. We like to think in terms of time because it’s a lot easier than to try to evaluate the trinity of time, energy, and attention – our TEA – especially since time is objectively measurable. If we’re in a scenario where others are directly or indirectly evaluating our output, a dutifully completed time card is a safe fallback because, as we’ve already observed, more time at work equals more work done. And, in fairness, it’s hard to gauge someone else’s energy and attention from the outside when you’re in a large organization, so the time card gives us something to go by. Many of us creatives don’t work in those envi