“You waste years by not being able to waste hours.” — Amor Tversky
“There is an inverse relationship between things on your mind and those things getting done”. — David Allen
“People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.” — Brian Tracy
前置作業
Planning and doing are two different modes of operation. Separate planning from doing. 1 Spend some time on assessment before any commitments/effort. It’s worth it. 2
❗️Be aware of the difference between “being in motion” and “taking action” 3
❗Too much → Procrastination
“Patience only works if you do. Doing the work + patience = results. Planning to work + patience = procrastination” — James Clear
Preparation Always Beats Planning.
- Planning is based on the expectation of order. Preparation is based on the expectation of chaos.
- Plan for order and you’ll be destroyed by chaos. Prepare for chaos and you’ll thrive in any condition.
See also: Hope for the best, prepare for the worst
No matter how often I tried to just jump right in a new task, I found that I performed my best when I invested a little bit of time in formulating a plan—By defining some CLARITY before starting something saves me a huge amount of time later on.
Mise en place is a French culinary phrase which means “putting in place” or “gather”. It refers to the setup required before cooking, and is often used in professional kitchens to refer to organizing and arranging the ingredients (e.g., cuts of meat, relishes, sauces, par-cooked items, spices, freshly chopped vegetables, and other components) that a cook will require for the menu items.
When fishermen can’t go to sea, they repair their nets. When the sea is too rough to sail, the wise don’t simply wait for the storm to pass—they prepare for the moment it does. Even in stillness, there is progress. It’s not about idling; it’s about using the pause to build what comes next.
“The Pilot, The Plane, The Engineer” by Ali Abdaal
- The Pilot (10% of the day) → Planning
- The Plane (85% of the day) → Execution
- The Engineer (5% of the day) → Review
“G.P.S.” by Ali Abdaal
- Goal (完成的標準)
- Facts (完成任務時必須達成的具體標準或數據指標)
- What are the facts when I complete the goal?
- Feeling (完成任務後，團隊成員應該感受到的心理狀態)
- What do I expect to feel once I’ve completed the goal?
- Functionality (任務完成後，應能如何幫助他人)
- Why do I care for the goal in the first place?
- Facts (完成任務時必須達成的具體標準或數據指標)
- Plan
- What’s the plan that I am going to follow to get to the goal?
- What are the 3 to 5 major chess moves that I am going to do to get to the goal?
- System
- What do I need to do everyday / every week that will help me stick to the plan and achieve the goal?
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Footnotes
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Cognitive Miser — The tendency of human minds to think and solve problems in simpler and less effortful ways, rather than in more sophisticated and effortful ways, regardless of intelligence. → 在其他條件與因素不變的情況下，我們通常傾向選擇最省力的路徑。由於那些無意識且熟練的神經例行程序運行起來輕鬆自如，而需要深思熟慮的有意識決策則較為費神，身為認知吝嗇者，只要尚可應對，我們往往依賴自動化的神經例行程序，而非投入心力進行有意識的決策。而在執行神經例行程序的動作時，我們往往會進入出神的狀態。Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary 對「出神 (trance)」的定義之一是: 「一種使你因專注於其他事物而未察覺周遭變化的狀態。」 ↩
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Motion will never produce a final result. Action will. Always choose action over motion. ↩