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Recently, I met some strange things: one student studies for ten hours every day, while the other student only studies for three hours every day. The latter scored higher than the former in the exam.
One girl exercises in the gym for two hours every day, while the other girl only exercises for forty minutes every day. Three months later, the latter exercised the vest line.
A newly graduated white-collar worker works 12 hours a day, and another writer writes at home for 3 hours a day. The latter is paid more than the former.
Why is this?
Is this world unfair?
No, please hear me out. The world must be fair.
Facts show that studying for three hours efficiently is better than taking out your mobile phone for ten hours. It is better to exercise in one place for 40 minutes every day than to train everywhere. I don't know where the efficiency of those who work every day but never take the initiative is lower than that of those who take the initiative to work for three hours.
Therefore, what is more important than time management is actually attention management.
Lack of attention is the greatest disaster for mankind in this era.
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I went to a lecture with a friend that day. While the teacher was talking, I took a notebook and wrote it down.
As for him, he looks at the teacher for a while and looks down at his mobile phone for a while.
He takes out his cell phone every five minutes. I thought he had a lot of business and didn't talk at first. Later, he kept watching it, which aroused my curiosity.
I sneaked a look at his screen, only to find that no one was looking for him at all. He just looked at other people's circle of friends, then bored Weibo, and then gave two praises to other people's circle of friends.
Later, I couldn't stand it anymore. Is anyone looking for you?
He said, what if someone wants to see me?
I said, no one has asked for you yet. Listen carefully. The teacher speaks very well.
Then he suddenly sat up straight, leaned in and asked me seriously, Brother Long, I always like to look at my mobile phone now, and I always feel that someone is looking for me, and I always feel that something important has happened that I didn't notice. Slowly, I found that I couldn't see anything except my mobile phone. Am I sick?
I replied, yes.
In fact, he got a very serious disease, which spread quickly in the Internet society. It is called "cell phone syndrome". As a direct result, he can't concentrate, can't think independently, is led by information, loses his way, and then doesn't know what he wants.
Say a few symptoms and see if there are any:
1. Do you always fantasize that someone is looking for you, and when you find it, you will open WeChat, friends circle and Weibo as soon as you have time?
Do you prefer watching short videos to writing?
Do you prefer reading short things to long things, such as novels, history and philosophy?
4. Do you feel that your memory is getting worse and worse, and you need to confirm it repeatedly to remember things?
5. Do you play mobile phone for more than five hours every day?
6. Are you lying in bed playing with your mobile phone at the moment? ...
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Anyway, if you have more than three strokes, the disease is attacking your central nervous system, gradually occupying your fragmented brain and making you a stupid person who can't think.
It's true.
Today, with the explosion of knowledge, the Internet has brought people too much convenience and helped people use a lot of time. These consultations, information and hot spots have greatly impacted our lives. However, these information consultations are difficult to translate into knowledge that can help them.
After all, real knowledge takes a long time to sum up, write and think deeply.
How much information is there in this era?
Let me show you a data first: 8 million new songs, 2 million new books, 6.5438+0.6 million new movies, 30 billion new blogs and articles, 65.438+0.82 billion tweets and 40,000 new products are produced worldwide every year.
I was shocked to see the news. What does this mean? It means that we have entered an era of information explosion. Now the information is not lacking, but flooding, not only flooding, but dazzling.
Every day, the information we read is constantly updated and exploded. In fact, it is only a short-lived hot topic, and some of them are even advertising marketing methods.
The so-called hot topics will become less important over time.
Take Wang as an example. What's the point of criticizing others and discussing their fortune?
Real knowledge is to learn to think about the meaning behind it: for example, how marriage law explains cheating, how American divorce law stipulates this situation, what kind of love can last, and the industrial chain behind artists. ...
These are not news, and a WeChat article can make it clear. On the contrary, it needs a lot of thinking and information to become knowledge for its own use.
The information that whizzes by, which we call junk information, brings some talk to others at most, but it is difficult to turn it into knowledge and bring some essential significance to people.
197 1 Nobel Prize winner HerbertSimon once said: In an information-rich world, the only scarce resource is human attention.
So businesses try their best to capture the most precious thing you don't care about at all: attention.
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Thirdly, what can really be transformed into knowledge is a small number of information sources, and this knowledge comes from long-term thinking and a lot of reading.
That information has been chewed many times, and even many ideas have been washed away. In the end, it's just a change of medicine.
For example, I wrote an opinion a long time ago, "Give up ineffective social interaction".
As a result, many articles came out: "High-quality solitude is more important than low-quality socialization", "Why should I give up ineffective socialization" and "What kind of experience is it to give up ineffective socialization". I have read these articles carefully, and the writing is better than mine, but my point of view has not changed.
So there are only a few opinions. It is meaningless to read and read, and it is just a waste of time.
However, reading only in fragments, without in-depth thinking, no matter how to read, just ruminate on an idea. In the end, it is a waste of time.
For example, have you ever thought: If you don't want ineffective socialization, what is effective socialization? What should a person do specifically to make his solitude become high quality; The so-called solitude, in addition to solitude, what other ways can there be?
Therefore, fragmented reading, intermittent information absorption, the biggest harm to the brain is to make a person's concentration ability worse and worse. Slowly, people can only read things in a few minutes, but can't read long stories and think deeply, and people will become more and more unable to concentrate.
Tell me a few more phenomena and see if you have been shot:
1. How long has it been since you finished reading a novel in three days or a week?
2. How long has it been since you finished watching a movie and then wrote a film review?
How long has it been since you spent two hours writing an article of more than 2,000 words to describe your thoughts and opinions?
4. How long has it been since you attended a class for two hours without looking at your mobile phone?
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You were shot again.
However, some people began to ask: in the face of such a large amount of information, shouldn't we make full use of the chicken rib time to absorb this large amount of information? There is too much information, I want to read it.
Actually, it is not.
Because with the information getting easier and easier, when a lot of consultation and news are presented to you, what you have to do is not to remember them all, but to do subtraction.
A person who can do subtraction and delete invalid information must be someone who knows what he wants.
People who always follow the trend, blindly pursue new things and never ask what they want are hard to develop.
A friend of mine, Xiaogang, likes to accept new things.
When other children were learning music when they were young, he pestered his parents to sign up for guitar lessons.
Later, when he saw that all his classmates had entered the system, he hurried to take an examination of civil servants.
Seeing that everyone else was resigning, he quickly resigned and went to an Internet startup.
A few days ago, I found someone else doing WeChat and opened a WeChat WeChat official account.
He sends what others pay attention to.
Hair. Hair, it's gone.
He often complains to me that I have been studying and I always can't learn well. I am doing everything others are doing, and I know all the information I should receive. Why have I accomplished nothing now?
The answer is simple.
Look at how many people around us learn because of fear and change because of fear. Everyone else is learning, so I learn and everyone else is paying attention, so I have to pay attention and everyone else is doing it, so I do it.
Don't ask yourself what you want, but force yourself out of fear and you will accomplish nothing in the end.
So, if you don't know what you want, don't ask yourself what you want before reading a message. Is this what you want? Next, you will waste your time after reading it.
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Therefore, when the information starts to explode, the most important thing is not to read it all and accept it all, but to ask yourself what you need first, and then look up the information you need and see the useful suggestions for yourself.
The rest, you don't have to pay attention. Instead of reading all your thoughts in a short time, it is better to take a book, read it in the interval, recite words, read a foreign language, or put on headphones, listen to music and be in a daze. The effect is better.
Information serves people, not controls them.
People should also control their attention, instead of being tied to the focus and walking around aimlessly.
In this world, everyone is pursuing wealth, but they don't know that attention must precede wealth. You will find that the cattle people in this era are super focused on doing one thing and are not disturbed by anything. When doing these things, they have their own world. In this world, they grow up silently and become the so-called "cattle people".