《Four thousand weeks - time management for motals》
Anyone seeking specific tools for productivity maximization, work-life balance, or attention hacking should be forewarned: you will be disappointed—and rightfully so. Much like how The Psychology of Money is less about finance and more about a reflection on human nature, 《Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals》 offers little practical advice on time management. Instead, it challenges the reader’s fundamental attitude toward time. Time is life itself. Therefore, to rethink time is to rethink existence.
The core thesis is that our modern approach to time is fundamentally flawed. We grip our goals with a white-knuckled intensity, fixating on the finish line and berating ourselves whenever we drift off-course. But life operates on its own axioms.
My favorite example in the book is the "traffic light paradox": at a traffic light, many drivers creep as close as possible to the car in front, hoping to surge forward the moment the light turns green. Yet, it is this very lack of patience that causes the delay. When things start moving, you have to accelerate slowly so as to leave space with the front car and avoid rear-ending.
Life follows similar patterns: yielding to the flow is often the only way to truly move forward.
去年我花了一些时间悟出了一些道理,现在看来与本书的一些观点暗合:慢即是快,停即是行,小即是大,出才能进。
阅读过半时,我一度认为这本书是在教人如何“别扭”;读到后来发现,它讲的是“顺应”的艺术 - 顺应时间与生命的自然法则。
要做到顺应,就必须先跟自己现有的思维模式“闹别扭”,而这需要训练。从去年开始,我尝试练习克服完美主义。我会有意识地告诉自己:“这件事千万不能做到完美”,而不是对自己说“不用做到完美,差不多就行了”。这两者有着本质的区别:“不用完美” 是程度上的自我妥协。 “千万不能完美” 是新的思维工具 - 这个工具的好处在于使人能够聚焦于绝对重要的事情 - 年纪越大事情越多这个工具就越重要。
就这些。