The traditional concept of time management is to control one's life by improving work efficiency. Stephen believes that it is useless to base your happiness on the ability to control everything.
Urgency and importance are two concepts of time management. Are you doing something "urgent" or "important"? Some people will be "anxious". This book will make people realize step by step that doing "important" things is the most effective. The meaning of life is not speed or efficiency. What you do and why you do it are far more important than how fast you do it.
In nearly 30 years of time management books and practice, Stephen found that people's time management concepts have gone through three generations, and the book lists the characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of each generation. As far as my personal experience is concerned, I am ashamed of its accuracy. I never think that my own time consciousness conforms to the characteristics of three generations of time management. What surprises me even more is that I am still in the adaptation stage of the third generation. Fortunately, I am the third generation in form, but I have long-term expectations for goals and importance. This is my motivation after studying Alina Zhang's Handbook of Life Efficiency, and it is also my thinking perspective brought by studying Responsible Business.
I was particularly impressed by the "map" case about the relationship between pattern, action and attitude in the book, which can also be used as an example of future goals and directions. If we go to a place, such as Beijing, but you have a map of Shanghai, then no matter how hard you work-improving travel efficiency, changing to a car with less fuel consumption and speeding up-you will only get to the wrong place faster, and you can also work hard on your attitude-try your best to be mentally prepared for the goal, even if you don't care about the wrong direction.
These words are very good:
James allen, the author of "Thinking Man": The inside is constantly becoming the outside, and a person's living state comes from his inner state; His thoughts were transformed into actions, and his actions created his character and destiny.
If we want to make great changes in results, it is not enough to change attitudes and behaviors, methods or skills. We must change the basic patterns that produce them. It is more important than studying attitudes and behaviors to explore the patterns that produce these attitudes and behaviors.
This is also consistent with the dual system theory put forward by Dean Tan, the founder of responsible enterprise theory. Thinking is the commander-in-chief of behavior, and thinking and behavior are the external manifestations of thinking. Thinking is an internal mode, hidden in people's subconscious.
Look forward to the "importance" principle of the next time management model.