Why is the time control is not working
Productivity / / December 23, 2019
Issues of time management asked himself Seneca
Time Management promises that someday we will finally be able to control my life. However, the more effectively we use the time, the less we have of that time remains. We continue to roll uphill a heavy stone, like Sisyphus, only now do it a little faster.
In response to the ever increasing demands of modern life, we are trying to improve their efficiency. Given that life expectancy is only about 4 000 weeks, the alarm because of how we use this time, it is inevitable.
The efficient use of time served more Roman philosophers. For example, Seneca wrote about it in his treatise "On the brevity of life."
Seneca, the Roman Stoic philosopherWe allotted time flies by so quickly that, except that few except, we go out of life, is not having it well prepared.
Seneca proposes to abandon the pursuit of riches and honor and spend days in the philosophical reflections.
For the modern society is characterized by the feeling that we have to become more productive as possible, even if it does not bring us the promise of getting rid of stress. Time Management promises that even in an environment where the most prized profit, you can still live a meaningful and peace of mind.
Always be highly impossible
The first guru of time management which in 1898 could be called the American engineer Frederick Taylor, was hired steelmaker Bethlehem Steel to increase production efficiency. Taylor is considered the progenitor of the idea that personal productivity - solution to the problem of shortage of time.
Taylor conducted an experiment and invited several working surcharge to work at maximum speed. Their results were four times higher than the normal rates. So Taylor realized that every worker should ideally refiner much more.
But whereas the efficiency was primarily a way to convince or force other people to do more work in the same time, now we ourselves impose itself such a lifestyle.
Efficiency promises that you will do all the same, what you are doing now, only better, cheaper and faster. It would seem that what could be better? Only now work permanently in this impossible mode.
Why time management is not working
1. We no longer get tired
Experiment Taylor seemed promising, but in fact the workers were too tired after a while and could not quite cope with their responsibilities.
Almost all experts in time management are advised to keep detailed records of how we use the time, but it only adds to the feeling that time flies by irretrievably. And what we're thinking more about long-term goalsThe more frustrated every day, what else they have not reached. If still possible to achieve the same goal, the satisfaction of this goes amazingly fast, because as soon as it's time to set a new target.
Something similar happened when widespread devices that make life easier housewives. It would seem now to wash, do not need the whole day bent over the washboard and vacuuming the carpet can be cleaned in just a few minutes. Nevertheless, the hosts do not have more free time. With an increase in the effectiveness of various devices have increased and socially accepted standards of cleanliness.
2. We can not rest
We begin to feel that and your free time we have to spend productively.
We travel not for the love of everything new, and to replenish his treasury of impressions or shoot photos for your profile in Instagram. We run to improve their health, and not simply for the pleasure of movement. We deal with children, thinking what successful people have to grow.
Walter Kerr theater criticWe are all now read the book to get the benefit, go to the conference to make new contacts and close deals, and if we remain in a weekend at home, only to do repairs.
Himself rest in a culture where all are obsessed with productivity, is regarded as an opportunity to recuperate, to then work harder.
Accept the fact that you can not be productive at all times. You can give up opportunities to disappoint others and do not finish things. You do not have to earn more and more money, achieve more and more goals and realize their potential in all areas.
3. We can not do
Excessive efficiency is bad for business.
The famous American consultant in software engineering Tom DeMarco back in the 1980s argued that we should not limit employees rigid time frame. In his opinion, it is necessary not to focus on the efficient use of time, but rather to give more breaks.
Good ideas do not occur when you are feeling under the gun. The idea that time is alarming and negative impact on the work.
4. We are not prepared for the sudden
DeMarco believes that any increase in productivity inevitably requires concessions and compromises. We get rid of wasted time, but at the same time and from its advantages.
A good example - the visit to the doctor. The more effective the doctor spends his time, the denser will be his schedule. Most likely, you will have to stay longer in the queue, because the reception will be delayed a previous patient.
A similar situation arises when companies are trying to reduce costs and maximize the efficiency of their employees. The carefully planned out to be their time, the worse they will react to sudden challenges. Increase the response speed by simply turning on your free time schedule.
The closer to the time management, the farther away from you
For our desire to control time immemorial hidden motive - the fear of death. It is no wonder that we have so attracts the problem of efficient use of time. If we allowed it, we would be able to escape the feeling that "we leave the life, is not having it well prepared."
However, the modern enthusiasm for personal productivity has gone much further. We think if we find suitable methods and learn how to control themselves, then we can be happy.
We believe that our productivity depends only on us. This is a very convenient way of thinking from the point of view of those who benefit from the fact that we are no longer working and we spend more.
When every minute planned out, just do not have time to think, whether we live right.
Personal productivity is presented as a cure for permanent employment, although in fact it is, rather, just another form of employment. Therefore, it has the same psychological function that employment: to distract us, so we did not ask existential questions.