2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
Time, will you ever slow down?
Every day new chores and responsibilities fall on us, sometimes we want to envy people who know how to abstract themselves from everything and relax. And if you are not one of them, then it will be very interesting for you to read this article, because it contains the best tips on efficiency from geniuses who lived two centuries ago.
And don't think that their experience is hopelessly outdated. Only about two hundred years have passed, life did not have time to change dramatically, the rules are the same, only the time given per move is an order of magnitude less.
On June 5, 1828, Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky wrote the following lines:
To live means to feel, to enjoy life, to feel constantly new, which would remind us that we are living …
If you think these words have nothing to do with productivity, then you should read them again, trying to understand the essence.
One of the main reasons for human laziness is blindness. It kills the taste for life, which inevitably leads to a drop in the desire to work.
A person who has decided to waste at least one hour of his time is not yet mature enough to understand the full value of life.
These words, not devoid of meaning, belong to Charles Darwin, an outstanding English naturalist. If you observe yourself, you may discover an interesting fact: the more you are lazy, the more you are lazy. Sorry for the tautology.
Spending an hour of time on a meaningless activity, you risk losing a day, a week, a month of your life. Therefore, if you want to be effective, try not to be distracted by nonsense. Reading books is a good way to relax, an hour of flipping through the feed on a social network is a bad way …
There is hardly a higher pleasure than the pleasure of creating.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
Learn to enjoy your work. Without this, any undertaking is doomed. Conversely, doing what you love gives you the strength with which your productivity will amaze you.
Everything can be undertaken with courage, but not everything can be done.
Napoleon Bonaparte
These words are intended to warn you against a serious misconception: you cannot complete the 10 projects you have started. You can be as stubborn and hardworking as you like, but if you spend resources on a lot of tasks, then in the end you will not get anything.
Try this: take one step north, then one step west, the next step east, and the last step south. You have taken four steps, but have you become closer to at least one side of the world? No. Now imagine that you are facing not four tasks, but 10. What will be your productivity if you take 10 “steps”? It will tend to zero.
The following quote also belongs to Napoleon, but it applies to the effectiveness of collective labor.
There are two levers by which people can move - fear and self-interest.
There is an opinion that the productivity of an employee depends on his salary. And this is the most terrible delusion. Money is by nature secondary. You will be able to force a person (yourself as well) to work efficiently either by fear or profit. Take a car worth 10 million rubles on a loan for six months on the security of your apartment. I bet one hundred to one, your productivity in the matter of making money will grow exponentially, because otherwise you will lose everything.
It's amazing how determination, courage and willpower awaken from the belief that we are doing our duty.
Walter Scott
Convince yourself that it is your duty to work on your project, that you are obliged to do the work not because of material values, but because of your conviction: no one but you can do it.
Idleness is not rest.
James cooper
We have partially touched on this issue earlier. To reiterate, to achieve maximum productivity, you need to rest, but not mess around. Rest is a change in the type of activity.
Nothing in history is done without a conscious intention, without a desired goal.
Friedrich Engels
No matter how trite it may sound, it is paramount to set a goal, to break a large project into small subtasks. If you want to be effective, then every time you do something, ask yourself: “What am I doing? Is it profitable for me?"
The great mind manifests itself in a striking balance of all faculties; insanity is the disproportionate stress or overabundance of each ability individually.
Lam Charles
To complete any, even the simplest, task, you need to be versatile. In other words, you cannot grow bread just by digging the ground. Even if you are fluent in this skill.
And finally, the most important advice of the genius of the 19th century:
The more a person writes, the more he can write.
William Hazlith
The more you work, the more you are able to create.
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