This article is from WeChat official account:Man and God work together (ID: tongyipaocha), Author: People and Gods work together, original title: “Energy Management More Important than Time Management”, title picture from: Visual China

1. Why doesn’t time management work?

Readers who like this account should be familiar with “time management”. Those who want to continue to learn at work will encounter a basic contradiction that time is limited and what you want to do is unlimited, so There is “time management”, with many methods and factions, and there are nothing more than two ideas:

Quantity: How to allocate time reasonably;

Quality: How to improve the utilization efficiency of unit time.

For example, the most common Pomodoro, cut a whole piece of time into several large sections, with a small interval in between, the large section is used for learning, and the small section is used for rest, allowing you to focus more on work time and improve utilization effectiveness.

Time management is undoubtedly scientific, but its scientific nature has the assumption of a “rational man”, assuming that we are a selfless, emotional time machine that does things according to plan.

For example, there is a principle of time management: plan ahead and think less during execution. It requires you to turn your daily work into subconscious actions, and not to think about the meaning in the execution, which is equivalent to turning yourself into a worker on the “task assembly line”.

Unfortunately, we are not “rational people”. We know that our mobile phone is a waste of time and still can’t help but want to use it. Knowing that the Deadline is right in front of us, we just can’t help but want to play a game. If we are really “rational people”, what time management do we need? In fact, for those who manage their time very well, they are only slightly worse if they don’t use this time management. For a patient with severe procrastination, time management often only makes them anxious, not action.

This article will talk about energy management, which is more important than time management.

2.Everyone releases energy in a different way

The first part of energy management is also time management, but it is different from traditional time management. It requires you to find your energy distribution status every day and every week.

In time management, all times are equivalent. There is no difference between 40 minutes of Pomodoro in the morning and 40 minutes in the afternoon; but in energy management, time and time are different.

For example, every time a listed company announces its financial report, I listen to several financial report meetings every day, in the morning, afternoon and evening. Recently, I read New York University’s word meaning analysis of tens of thousands of listed companies’ communication minutes. The results showed that the words used in the morning meeting were more positive and the words used in the afternoon meeting were more negative. This difference also affects investor sentiment. Statistics show that listed companies that prefer to have a financial report at 8 o’clock in the morning have an annual increase of 1.5 points compared with companies that have a financial report at 3 in the afternoon.

The mood in the morning is better than that in the afternoon. Many people may feel this. Further research has found that the human brain is suitable for tasks that require concentration in the morning, such as some very logical tasks. In the afternoon, the brain’s attention is not easy to concentrate. It is suitable for tasks that require divergent thinking, such as brainstorming.

Of course, this comprehensive statistical result is of little significance to individuals. Some people are night owls, and some people like to get up in the morning to read written articles, and their energy release methods are different.

The meaning of “energy management” is to recognize that time is not indifferent, and people are not indifferent. The way we release energy is not the same. Everyone has his own time rhythm and it is impossible to ask for it. All people follow the same schedule.

More importantly, Energy management” does not require us to overcome our own weaknesses. It believes that everyone should feel their own inner rhythm without overly forcing themselves. Try to achieve the best state of study and work.

But this creates another problem. Time has only one direction, but energy has two directions. What drives you to act is not only positive energy, but also negative energy. If as soon as you pick up the book, the positive energy in your heart will disappear, and the negative energy will immediately occupy your consciousness, should you follow the direction of the negative energy?

3. Negative energy management

You want to secretly take a postgraduate entrance examination and make a detailed study plan, but when you are studying, you look at your phone for a while and unknowingly waste half an hour. After that, you will feel:

A. Very guilty, study hard and make up the time

B. Half an hour of pleasure made you suddenly lose your interest in learning. I thought to myself, what is the point of my tossing myself so much? Is the postgraduate entrance examination really so important?

If your choice is A, then your learning state will oscillate between the two states of “feeling tired of secretly playing for a while-feeling guilty to learn quickly”, which is called “negative feedback” Loop”.

An example of a classic “negative feedback loop” is an air conditioner. When the room temperature is low to a certain level, it will immediately work inefficiently. When the temperature rises to a certain level, it will work normally.

If your choice is B, then when you feel guilty, you will always have the following questions in your heart:

“I work so hard, what if I fail to pass the test?”

“I entered graduate school, what can I change?”

“If you give up at the end, it’s better to give up now”

Your state of learning is: “feeling tired of playing secretly for a while-feeling that your contribution is not worth-giving up completely”, which is called “positive feedback amplification”.

An example of “positive feedback amplification” in daily life is when karaoke, if the microphone and speaker are at a certain angle, the sound signal will oscillate and amplify back and forth, producing a sharp howling sound.

The function of the negative feedback loop is to return the system to normal, and the “positive feedback amplification” will eventually cause the system to collapse. Simply put, A is the twists and turns of “from entry to master”, and B is the collapse of “from entry to giving up”.

What happened to make you give up like this?

Before choosing B, a person often has to repeatedly toss in the state of A several times. Just like a person who chooses to commit suicide, he has often given up suicide countless times before. A person who chooses to give up must “give up” before. Between “persistence”, hesitated many times.

As a result of time management, in the short term, “negative feedback loops” are the mainstay, allowing you to return to the positive path, but in the long run, some people will instead move toward “positive feedback amplification”.

Why does the state A appear after the state A lasts for a long time? When you decide to secretly take a graduate school, you have already considered the pros and cons. Why do you have to go back and consider the question of “worth or not”?

Time management can only constrain your external behavior, but cannot manage your inner energy. In the A state, whether it is “tired” or “guilt”, it will make you have negative energy of “self-doubt”. The negative energy you keep accumulating in self-discipline is when you can’t bear it, then you begin to reflect on yourself. The reason for this “not worth it”.

Negative energy is not a bad thing, on the contrary, it makes you more sober and more rational.

The reason why you feel “tired” is because you don’t like postgraduate entrance examinations at all, you don’t want to learn, and you don’t like to passIn the life of a poor student for a few years, you just hope to get rid of your current state of life through the postgraduate entrance examination; the reason you feel “guilty” is because you think you have chosen the right path, but in the end you find that you can’t resist the “Siren’s” singing”.

After you put too much energy into something that you don’t understand the meaning, your heart protests through the “negative energy” method, so negative energy is the “rational voice”.

The role of positive energy allows you to pursue future hopes, while the role of negative energy allows you to face your behavior rationally. Energy management is to maintain the balance of these two energies. Let you be both passionate and rational.

The reason why your heart is full of “negative energy” is because you haven’t found the real meaning of doing this.

4. What is freedom

Well, after writing two thirds of the article, I can finally say that this book called “The Courage to Be Disgusted” is my original intention to write this article, but if I introduce it at the beginning of the article A philosophy book about the meaning of life, do you think it has something to do with you?

This book co-authored by Japanese writers Kishimi Ichiro and Koga Shiken introduces the humanistic psychology theory of Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler.

Going back to the example in this article, a working person who wants to take a postgraduate entrance examination usually feels that the job is not ideal; then why change jobs? Generally, I want to find a job that is richer or more fulfilling. If I can achieve a state of financial freedom, I can do whatever I want.

This is the logic of ordinary people’s pursuit of one thing: When people feel that they are not free, they first start to pursue success. They think that after success, they can gain real freedom. Therefore, many people refer to “rich” as “financial”. free”.

Adler believes that on the contrary, people should first allow themselves to be in a state of freedom before they can pursue success. Otherwise, even if he succeeds, it is just “unfree success.”

How to understand? Some time ago, Bill Huang, known as “the man with the largest single-day loss in history,” added 5 times leverage, but was calculated to blow up his position and lost tens of billions of dollars a day.

Some people are puzzled. He has a net worth of tens of billions. Why should he add such a high leverage? The reason is simple. On the surface, he can use no leverage, but in realityIn fact, he is not free, and leverage has controlled his behavior. According to the media, it took 9 years for his net worth to change from 200 million U.S. dollars to 5 billion U.S. dollars. It took 3 months to go from 5 billion US dollars to 15 billion US dollars. Why can’t he take any more time to make himself the richest man in the world and leave his name in history?

Just like the prisoner in “Shawshank’s Redemption” after he was released, he was free, but he always felt that he was still under surveillance, and he had to raise his hand to report when he went to the toilet.

Adler’s freedom is influenced by Kant’s philosophy. He believes that freedom is what a person does are really meaningful things, not driven by his own desires, otherwise you are just a “tool person”.

You choose to take the postgraduate entrance examination because you desire a better job, gain more wealth and sense of accomplishment, but you don’t have it now. But when you think about it this way, the “you who took the postgraduate entrance examination” is reduced to the “tool man” of the “future you”.

People are inherently loose, and future achievements cannot be confronted with the pain of reality. Under strict time management, the heart is easily filled with negative energy. The only “positive energy” that can be countered is the “postgraduate entrance exam”. The meaning of “you now”.

The book says: “Any experience in itself is not the cause of success or failure. We are not suffering because of the stimuli in our own experience. In fact, we will find factors that meet our goals from our experience.”

It means that what you are experiencing now, whether it hurts or praises you, depends entirely on the meaning you give to this experience.

Therefore, “professionals with more financial opportunities” does not give enough meaning to the postgraduate entrance examination. It has nothing to do with “now you”, and “change to a major you like very much” has enough meaning. It has something to do with “you who you are now”.

There is a very vulgar word called “live in the present”, but it is one of the cores of Adler’s theory. In his opinion, a Go national player who is thinking hard about how to beat the opponent, and an audience who is obsessed with chess. , The latter is more free, because the audience has the present, and the chess players are pursuing the unknown future.

5. Don’t use “inferiority complex” as an excuse

Many people may not be convinced, and give various examples: my classmate, who doesn’t seem to be someone who wants to understand, went to a closed class, was admitted as a civil servant, and now worksFrom 9 to 5, there is a lot of welfare, so don’t mention the meaning, people still have to push themselves when it is critical.

But this example can only show that your classmate has been in the A state and has not entered the B state, and the negative energy accumulated by his A state will not disappear with his success, but in the future The form of entering into the B state of positive feedback amplification may be to let yourself go at work, or to be willful in marriage, because all the energy in life is ultimately to be expressed.

In energy management, the negative energies such as “weariness” and “guilt” caused by non-self-discipline are called “inferiority” in Adler’s theory, and “inferiority” because of not reaching the ideal self. Dele also believes that “inferiority” is not a bad thing, but you can’t use “inferiority” as an excuse.

Negative energy makes you more awake and sensible, but it also makes you indecisive and resentful, and if you want to accumulate enough positive energy to fight it, you need to find the meaning of this action—not society The defined utility is not the achievement in the eyes of others, but the current meaning of life that belongs to you only.

This article is from WeChat official account:Man and God work together (ID: tongyipaocha), author: people and gods work together