preface

Readers have recently read a book called “80% of Your Time is Spent Wrong”, which makes an interesting point. Let me share it with you.

In the fast-paced world of the Internet, do you often feel like you don’t have enough time? The following may give you some insight.

Where did the time go?

Since we complain that there is not enough time to finish our study and work? So where is our time going?

I listed the possible options as follows:

  • Commuting time. Students who live far away may even spend two hours commuting every day. This is a huge waste of time. In this regard, some companies provide housing subsidies for employees to focus more on work. For example, Tencent 4K housing supplement is very popular recently (it is said to target students within three years of graduation).
  • A short video
  • Trivial “useless” information. If someone goes to jail, a celebrity takes drugs, etc
  • Maybe a lot of fun time. Too many games, for example
  • Worrying about or worrying about some trivial time. This situation is quite common. It may be difficult to concentrate on your work because of an exciting event
  • .

I don’t know if you have any of these problems, but I do.

I think the reason why we don’t have enough time may not necessarily be that we don’t work or study efficiently enough, but that we simply don’t have enough time to spend on them. There are differences between the two.

Less is an increase

Reducing is about letting go. It means getting rid of, getting rid of, getting rid of whatever is holding you back. Then you will have more time.

There are many ways to do this in the book, and I want to share one with you.

Useless stuff and chaos

Condense your study and work list to eliminate unnecessary baggage.

We are in an era of information explosion, we are facing new things and new problems every day, if we want to categorize all these, it will take a lot of time. “I’ve been working all day, I’m exhausted, and I’m not doing anything.”

We often talk about prioritizing, but don’t try to prioritize 10,000 things — that will eat up your time and get you stuck. The right thing to do is to find the things that need to be done and prioritize them. The first step is to let go of things and choices that you don’t really want or need — things that will only confuse you.

Going back to my career at the front end, the front end is evolving really fast, with new technologies coming out every day. We can’t learn everything, so we have to learn to compress our study lists. For example, we should pay more attention to the basic skills of the front-end — HTML/CSS/JavaScript, and for frameworks, UI libraries, packaging libraries, we should choose one to learn, and do the same. This is more efficient and time saving than us pursuing new technologies and researching one another, and will avoid more confusion.

Fast and slow

This chapter is a personal reflection.

I am working in Shenzhen now, and what I hear most is that the pace of Shenzhen is fast, so tired.

I feel this actually has something to do with personal habits. I think work and study can be fast paced, life can slow down.

It’s fast because there’s too much information, because it’s hard to try to do too much in a limited amount of time. But condensing your list a little, or changing some of your habits, might make a difference.

For example, reduce the amount of time you spend watching short videos like Douyin, and try to settle down and read some of your favorite books for a lazy weekend afternoon.

Or cut back on your commute and allocate that time to hobbies, such as working out. Many students feel that the economic cost of reducing commuting time is too great, especially new graduates. But instead of time, I still recommend time. I remember zhang Xinxu suggested the same thing in one of his blog posts.

conclusion

Give up to gain, learn to give up to get more time.