你是否掉进了"时间管理"的陷阱
来源：有道
发布时间：2016-02-15 22:15:00
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内容提要：这些看似严苛的方法可能让你效率急剧下滑
In maximizing our time, we rob our moments of their color.
在我们试图最大化利用时间的同时，我们夺走了时间本来的精彩。
3. You're Less Effective
你变得效率更低
You may still think that you'd be willing to feel busier and less happy as long as you could be effective.
你可能仍然觉得如果能有效率的话，忙一点，就算不是那么快乐也没关系。
Effectiveness comes from two core factors: prioritization and achievement.
做事有效率的两个关键因素是：优先级和成就。
When we prioritize well, we choose to do the right things, not just the obvious things.
当我们合理处置好优先级的时候会选择做正确的事情，而不是那些摆在明面上的事。
Yet a strong time awareness makes us prioritize the urgent and immediate rather than the important and strategic.
然而强烈的时间意识使我们把那些紧急的事情列得比真正重要和有战略性的事情更优先。
Research by Microsoft, for example, suggests that 77 percent of U.K. workers feel they have had a productive day if they have emptied their inbox.
微软的研究表明，如果百分之77的英国工人清空了收件箱，那么他们就觉得这一天是有成效的。
It horrifies me to see the number of blogs and books that focus on getting to an empty inbox or zero tasks, as if either achievement were worthwhile.
聚焦于“清空收件箱”或者“把所有任务都完成”这两件事的博客和书籍的数量之多让我非常惊讶，就好像这两件事情值得我们花时间去这样做似的。
No business or life was changed by an empty inbox.
工作或者生活不会被一个空了的收件箱所改变。
Perceived time pressure also lowers our ability to achieve.
感觉到时间带给你的压力也会降低我们完成目标的能力。
Harvard researcher Teresa Amabile has shown that increased focus on time reduces our problem-solving abilities and our capacity to generate imaginative solutions.
哈佛研究员特蕾莎表明，把精力集中在时间这个概念上会减少我们的解决问题和产生富有想象力的解决方案的能力。
We don't think as well under the shadow of the clock.
同样，在时间限制的催促下，我们也不能很好地思考。
Beyond Time Management
说说时间管理之外的事情
It is true: We will be able to do more stuff if we focus on managing our time, but we don't need more repetitive, synchronized activity as we did in the Industrial Revolution.
事实：如果我们专注于管理我们的时间，我们将能够做更多事，但我们不需要更多的重复性和同步化的活动，正如工业革命中做的那些事一样。
We need more thinking, creativity, and problem solving.
我们需要更多的思考能力、创造力和解决问题的能力。
Time management was a brilliant invention that helped to transform society 250 years ago.
250年前的时间管理是一个伟大的发明，它帮助了社会转型。
Now it's time for us to develop a different strategy-one that starts from the recognition that, in our overloaded world, the greatest shortage is not of time but of attention.
现在我们是时候发展一个新的策略了--我们要意识到，在这个超负荷的世界里，人们最缺少的是注意力，而不是时间。