How to work and study efficiently and maximize the value of your unit time has become a compulsory course for everyone every day.
1. Moffat working method
When the body is tired, a sleep can restore our physical strength and energy;
But if the brain is tired, it is easy to fall into a groggy state in the same way, and even the more you rest, the more tired you are.
What's the problem? This is because many people have an unscientific understanding of "rest".
As we all know, when you are tired, you will show drowsiness and fatigue.
But if the brain is tired, what are the obvious manifestations? Will the same happen?
But in fact, before that, if you feel that your attention is greatly reduced and your efficiency is low, it proves that your brain is tired.
It's just that this feature is not easy for us to detect, so the brain has to remind us again through more obvious body signals.
Then, after mental work, how to make the brain rest efficiently and quickly return to a good state?
Many years ago, a young man encountered such confusion. He not only translates works, but also writes papers and detective stories every day.
In a word, these tasks need a lot of mental work to complete. He solved the problem like this:
There are three tables in the study. The first is the translation of the Bible he is translating.
The second is the manuscript of the paper, and the third is a detective novel he is writing.
Whenever he feels that his concentration is decreasing and his efficiency is decreasing, he moves from one desk to another and starts to work.
Doesn't that sound incredible?
This is because what really makes the brain feel tired is actually freshness. Yes, our brains are naturally so fond of the new and loathe the old.
Doing the same job for a long time will make the brain tired, and then there will be symptoms of inattention and unresponsiveness.
Just like a field, if the same crop is planted for several consecutive seasons, the fertility of the soil will drop a lot and the yield will plummet.
But if you plant a few crops back and forth, the fertility of the soil will be very gratifying and the yield will often be considerable.
Similarly, changing the job content can also make the brain excited again and give it a rest. This is called Moffat's working method.
From a scientific point of view, the principle is that the brain is divided into left and right brains, and the left and right brains are busy with each other.
The left brain is responsible for logic, reasoning, analysis, mathematics and language, while the right brain is responsible for images, music, imagination, creativity and emotion.
That is to say, when we work and study with our brains, in fact, only one area of the brain is running in a high degree of tension, and other areas are resting.
According to this feature of the brain, whenever we are distracted and inefficient, the correct method should be:
Switch between different work and study content, make another area of the brain active, start working, and let the tired area have a rest.