Jedi technique: how to save mysletoplivo at work and in everyday life
Productivity Books / / December 19, 2019
What is mysletoplivo
Those who are engaged in intellectual work, familiar with the constant ups and downs productivity. Sometimes the work is not advancing a step a couple of days, and then a complex project done in a few hours.
We often think that we do not have the time, while in reality we mysletoplivo limits.
Maksim Dorofeev, "Jedi technique"
Maksim Dorofeev calls mysletoplivom certain reserve of mental strength that helps us to remain rational and collected. When mysletoplivo ends, we become impulsive and instead work doing any nonsense: look out the window or seals in facebook.
How does this relate to the Jedi techniques
"Jedi technique" - a collection of proven techniques that help preserve mysletoplivo.
The basic amount of this resource is wasted and you do not even notice when it happened. But you feel the unpleasant consequences: you could hardly sit on the job until the end of the day, you know what to do, but have no idea how, feel tired and useless.
Maksim Dorofeev long studied the literature on personal performance, the research related to our way of thinking and memory. This knowledge allowed us to develop a system, which at the time helped him to escape from the congestion.
In fact, a combination of the known systems of personal effectiveness: GTD David Allen, Michael MYN Linenbergera, seven skills of Stephen Covey, essentialism Greg McKeon, the elements of time management Gleb Archangel and others. Only with an emphasis on practice, set out the maximum available, and with detailed instructions on how to implement them into your life.
What to do
Mysletoplivo to save and use it when it matters most - in incomprehensible situations.
The first universal rule, it is the same advice at all times: in any strange situation - think.
Maksim Dorofeev, "Jedi technique"
Of course, situations where it is necessary to include the brain, very much. Therefore, to think of everything mysletopliva may not be enough. But you can help your mind, knowing one of its feature: he loves everything simple and understandable.
If you set yourself a challenge "to make an important project," then hang on for long. And went to the place where everything is simple and clear (yes, the seals, and entertainment). But if you give the brain the job easier ( "Create project plan", "Draw a rough layout option", "Make a plan presentation "," Make the first slide with the title "), he turns to the work, and several approaches will be an important project made.
This is just one of the techniques for saving mysletopliva. In the "Jedi techniques" examined more than a dozen of these techniques.
What are the tricks to save mental resources
Under the Jedi hiding techniques they - practices that help save mysletoplivo and perfectly cope with their daily duties. Here are some actions that need to be regularly in order to become more productive.
1. regularly restores
We can not always operate at maximum capacity: it is a straight road to burnout.
Dorofeev leading theory antihrupkosti Nassim Taleb. Man - this is a perfect example antihrupkoy system. Something fragile under stress breaks antihrupkoe becomes better than before.
The example with the training. Imagine that you run 1 km and exhaled. During the holiday feel as sore feet and aching body. But on the next workout you will have easier, and even a couple of you can run 2 km. You adapt. The same with the person occurs in stressful situations.
But here's the most important point: no rest, you will not get better, and broke. Development is precisely the point of rest. Therefore, after each heavy case, after each working day, week, month, give yourself time to calm exhale and relax.
2. clean inbox
Get familiar with all the members of your life. Place your order in notebooks, diaries, zametochnikah, lists of emails uncovered tabs in the browser, documents on the desktop.
Dorofeev calls work with inbox stage digestion. No need to immediately rush to do all the things that you find in a diary, or respond to a dozen letters. Treat them: carefully review and mentally for themselves decide what to do with them. Highlight important and get rid of all unnecessary.
3. Correctly formulate the problem
You've probably already heard about Zeigarnik effect: Unfinished business better remembered and constantly swirling in his head, thus robbing you mysletoplivo.
To unfinished business ceased to disturb you, make a plan for implementation. even not enough of a plan, and a couple of steps. For one thing: articulate the steps correctly. Do not write the list of cases simply "meeting on Monday" or "Call".
- Problem Statement - is the answer to the question "What should I do?"
- The wording should start with a verb in the infinitive form.
- Problem to be chewed detail.
- The objective should be the first step toward the goal.
Going back to our example, the task "meeting on Monday" should be several small puzzles:
- Write to calendar information, and set a reminder.
- Meet with a representative of an advertising agency in the office on Monday at 16:00.
- To say that the first version of the campaign we did not like.
- List the shortcomings.
4. Use external storage
You have to have a backup of your brain. That is all the information about the meetings, tasks, projects and personal files must be stored somewhere else. As a rule, the external storage should consist of four components.
- Task list. Use as simple as a list of your personal or business affairs - without a hierarchy of priorities and binding to specific dates. Just write down everything that you need to do it regularly view and contribute to the new challenges. When you need it, simply open, look for 3-5 seconds and decide what you will do now.
- List of projects. This is a list of great things that you have not brought to an end. Ideal - to use the program, and where you can keep a list of tasks, and to attach tasks to large projects. It is easier to keep track of your progress and add new steps.
- The calendar. If you are usually not more than 1-2 meetings a week, the calendar you do not need - enough for the task list. Otherwise, write down all appointments in the calendar and put reminders for fidelity.
- storage reference system. Do not seek to find a single app for a smartphone, which is equally convenient to keep a list of books, save interesting links and store receipts for payment of utility. Think more suitable for your archive purposes, where you will put all the necessary and interesting. But do not forget that all the information has a shelf life, so you need to regularly review their palaces and mind wiping out all lose relevance.
5. Regularly review system
In order to work effectively and held without interruption, from time to time it is necessary to check if everything is okay with it. For this Maksim Dorofeev advised to conduct regular reviews.
- Weekly Review. Even a cursory review and fast better than nevdumchivy approach or nothing. Once a week, spend 5 minutes and check the list, correct wording, remove the excess and add a new one.
- Daily review. At the end of the day look at the tasks performed on the day. Think about whether you want to make additions (eg, restate the problem, "Ask the designer to make the layout" in the "Remind the designer of the layout"). And then proceed to the unfulfilled and think about what to do with them tomorrow, next week or month.
- Spontaneous review. When free time, but for some reason do not want to start a big business, conduct a quick review of the system. Look after your to-do list.
6. Reduce harmful switching
To get back to business after a brief diversion or distraction, it is necessary to spend extra mysletoplivo. The main enemy is in your pocket - it smartphone, Which constantly new alerts arrive.
Turn off notifications from apps and web services. Keep only the alerts from those people whose messages do require an immediate response. Experience suggests, contacts in the e-mail so as to not include and does not require an urgent response.
Handles all incoming asynchronously. This means that the message arrives in a special storage, as you refer to this drive at the time when the person ready.
7. Use the "wardrobe - balcony - giving"
In addition to tasks and projects, sometimes we have to work with the other entity - the idea.
The idea - it's something that maybe once for something useful. That's just we do not know when, why, and in what form it is useful, and whether it is useful.
Maksim Dorofeev, "Jedi technique"
Losing it would not be desirable, so just in case it is necessary to save. And here it is better to use the same system, as well as with material objects. In the cabinet we add up all the things that we use often. When things become too much a part of them is sent to the balcony. When and on the balcony is too many things that we do not use, once a year they were taken to the country.
When you have accumulated too many ideas that you still have no idea how to implement, get three and storage view them at different rates: in the "closet" look down once a week, on the "balcony" - once a month, and the "cottage" - a couple of times for year.
Do not turn it into bio-robots us
Dorofeev admits that often in their speeches to hear questions like "Do I turn into biorobot when everything is laid out on shelves and all tasks are clearly defined and achievable without too much brain effort? "Allegedly, this system did not remain a creative space impulses.
But if you carefully examine the system, make sure the Jedi techniques directed to the opposite: you are creative approaches to drawing up a list of tasks and turn his head. Do you have the confidence that nothing important is lost. Out of the list, you can always choose what you want to do at the moment.
And most importantly, you always present understanding of the consequences of what will happen if you do not do important work now, and spontaneously take something meaningless.
How long does it takes to follow these rules
It is necessary to conduct a daily review (three to five minutes per day), Weekly Review (15-20 minutes per week) to properly formulate the task in the list (additional 10-20 seconds per task) - so is coming up for an hour in Week.
Maksim Dorofeev, "Jedi technique"
Is not critical, agree. But the benefit is obvious. Also, do not forget that our focus is not on the time savings (it from you as much, and the rest), and respect for his intellect.
If during you time and again distracted by checking email, you forget about their promises, complaining about the lack of time, laziness blame yourself - time for you to move on the bright side productivity. Maxim Dorofeev book - one of the best publications in order to not only learn about effective receptions, but really learn how to apply them in practice.
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