Only after implementing "working from home" can we know who is the real culprit affecting productivity?

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The following article comes from self-talk and childish language

Author: Wendell stay

I am Wind, a rational thinker, exploring the philosophy of life, pursuing self-growth, focusing on spiritual growth and self-improvement. Join me to rebuild yourself from the inside out and get a free and rich life. Good morning, the trainer awakens the beautiful morning light with sound on the weekend morning on March 2nd: This article is the 9th batch of dry goods delivered in March 2020, 3656 words, 8 minutes of reading time. temperature. Source | ID: Self Growth Guide Anchor: Xuan soundtrack: The coast is really clear. 2020 begins with a frightening and angry plague. let us see. Since the Spring Festival, we have been stuck at home for more than a month. We no longer work in the company from nine to five, but work from home. In the past, the feeling of not wanting to go to work has been swept away, but there will be some new problems: no one cares about you, so it depends on personal self-awareness and discipline. Meeting with a team requires remote video, and communication is obviously worse than face-to-face conversation. Before cooperating with others, you must be prepared to grasp the main points, clarify ideas, and express clearly, so as not to waste communication time. These difficulties are not too big for me. What made me think is that I worked two or three more hours from home. This reflects my inner belief that the more work I do, the more I produce. However, the inputs and outputs of work are not as simple as they seem. Every book on improving efficiency tells you more or less the same thing: Seize time and race against time, just like 996, it is very popular in the Internet industry, and time is used as a bargaining chip in competition. I believe that everyone's productivity is different because we have different brains, ideas, preferences and habits. Therefore, we should not focus on finding new tools to improve efficiency, but on our mental state. For example, procrastination is closely related to anxiety, so exploring and understanding your inner fears is very important. Action requires motivation, so it's more important to develop personal habits so you can easily roll bigger and bigger snowballs than coffee and chicken blood. Today, what I want to share with you is the work input and output. Linear work Most of us spend our lives thinking of work as a linear function. By "linear" we mean that your output is directly proportional to the time you spend. Therefore, two hours of work will yield twice as much as one hour, and eight hours will yield four times as much as two hours. We all had this experience when we were young. There are many things to remember at school. What you spend two hours remembering is usually twice what you spend an hour remembering. So when we grow up, we think that everything works like this. but it is not the truth. The most important thing to consider is that work related to mental labor will not be carried out like linear work. Most linear jobs are basically repetitive, such as courier, driving a taxi, working as a data clerk in the office, or frying chicken legs at McDonald's. For these jobs, two hours are twice as productive as one hour, four hours are twice as productive as two hours, and so on. Sadly, many Internet companies apply the idea of ​​linear work to programming that requires a lot of brainpower. In their opinion, 16 hours of programming output is twice as much as 8 hours. They advocate more time for better products and services. As a result, the poor Cheng Cheng always went further and further on the way to work overtime. However, they are wrong about this idea, because most mental labor does not produce linear returns, but decreases with time. Diminishing Work Imagine you jog outside for 10 minutes, which is obviously a very healthy thing. Now imagine that you run outside for 20 minutes, which is also very healthy, but the fitness effect may not be twice that of 10 minutes. What if you run for an hour? It is likely that you will still get most of the benefits from the first 10 minutes of exercise. The reason for the decrease in exercise returns is simple, because your muscles become fatigued. As muscles fatigue, their ability to be stimulated for further growth will gradually diminish until they are absent. According to the clerk, or fried chicken legs at McDonald's. For these jobs, two hours are twice as productive as one hour, four hours are twice as productive as two hours, and so on. Sadly, many Internet companies apply the idea of ​​linear work to programming that requires a lot of brainpower. In their opinion, 16 hours of programming output is twice as much as 8 hours. They advocate more time for better products and services. As a result, the poor Cheng Cheng always went further and further on the way to work overtime. However, they are wrong about this idea, because most mental labor does not produce linear returns, but decreases with time. Diminishing Work Imagine you jog outside for 10 minutes, which is obviously a very healthy thing. Now imagine that you run outside for 20 minutes, which is also very healthy, but the fitness effect may not be twice that of 10 minutes. What if you run for an hour? It is likely that you will still get most of the benefits from the first 10 minutes of exercise. The reason for the decrease in exercise returns is simple, because your muscles become fatigued. As muscles fatigue, their ability to be stimulated for further growth will gradually diminish until they are absent. According to the clerk, or fried chicken legs at McDonald's. For these jobs, two hours are twice as productive as one hour, four hours are twice as productive as two hours, and so on. Sadly, many Internet companies apply the idea of ​​linear work to programming that requires a lot of brainpower. In their opinion, 16 hours of programming output is twice as much as 8 hours. They advocate more time for better products and services. As a result, the poor Cheng Cheng always went further and further on the way to work overtime. However, they are wrong about this idea, because most mental labor does not produce linear returns, but decreases with time. Diminishing Work Imagine you jog outside for 10 minutes, which is obviously a very healthy thing. Now imagine that you run outside for 20 minutes, which is also very healthy, but the fitness effect may not be twice that of 10 minutes. What if you run for an hour? It is likely that you will still get most of the benefits from the first 10 minutes of exercise. The reason for the decrease in exercise returns is simple, because your muscles become fatigued. As muscles fatigue, their ability to be stimulated for further growth will gradually diminish until they are absent.

Spending two hours at the gym doesn't give you any extra benefits than spending an hour. Spending an hour will only give you more benefits than spending 45 minutes. Most work is based on diminishing returns. why? Because your brain is like a muscle, you will be very tired. If you spend a lot of time every day thinking hard and making important decisions, the work you really do today will not produce as much as you expect. I have some friends who work in the advertising industry, and they are very busy, especially when they need an important presentation or bidding plan, they stay up all night until after 10pm. He noticed that during these extra hours, the work efficiency was very low. The four-hour output from 6 pm to 10 pm actually only takes two hours of work that day. To make matters worse, people can become tired, start doing bad work, and even make bad decisions. When you accumulate enough bad work results and wrong decisions, you actually inadvertently create more work for yourself because you have to constantly remedy things that were not done well before. Just like when I work from home recently, I can work longer indefinitely to solve problems. However, this long-term work did not allow me to solve the problem in the best way. Instead, when I woke up the next day, a good idea came to my mind, overturning a previously flawed plan and solving the problem perfectly in a short time. The night before, I felt bad working overtime. The problem is not resolved, I am tired. Sometimes, if you give more time, the benefits may even be negative. So in the worst case, you might even transition from diminishing returns to negative returns. For example, when I start writing, I make special arrangements to come out on Sundays, not go out, do not party, and want to suppress thousands of words during the day. But when I review these words every other week, I will find that there are an estimated 1000 words that can really be used, but this is not enough. At that time, I had to change my previous writing thinking, collect and reorganize materials, and rebuild the entire article, which added a lot of extra work to me. There is no positive benefit to writing on Sunday all day, even to next week. I got an important insight from it: When it comes to creative work, income not only decreases with time, but to a certain extent, it can even generate negative income. For many jobs, you may be emotional for the first few hours, but once two or three hours, you will start to lose your focus and want to use your phone to play games. At this point, you should stop for a while and don't add more time input linearly just because you want more output. Work that is highly socialized or requires a lot of team building can also generate negative returns if it takes too long. If employees are constantly supervised and forced, this will not increase their productivity, but it will annoy people and reduce their motivation to do things. Finding leverage points at work Every job has a so-called leverage point. The implementation of this leverage point allows you to do things more efficiently. If you are a team manager, the leverage point may be to create some communication channels to understand the status of employees; if you are a programmer, the leverage point may be to learn new languages ​​and technologies to make the work smoother. If you engage in face-to-face sales, the leverage point may be to make your appearance more professional and to understand your customers emotionally. For online content, for example, branding is a leverage point. The more you do in branding, the more perfect it is and the greater the impact of the product on other things. -Sales will become easier, traffic will be better, and people will spread your content more effectively. So doing some aspects of the job can make other things easier. In the face of work, you need to consciously find the point of leverage at work, so that you can use it to pry the power system of the entire work effortlessly, making the work more efficient. Made easier. In the face of work, you need to consciously find the point of leverage at work, so that you can use it to pry the power system of the entire work effortlessly, making the work more efficient. Made easier. In the face of work, you need to consciously find the point of leverage at work, so that you can use it to pry the power system of the entire work effortlessly, making the work more efficient.

Strategic delays are a common point of leverage. If you like hot pot, you must have this feeling. Because you have not eaten it for a long time, you always have a strong desire to eat it. At this time, I always invite a friend or two to go to the hot pot restaurant, order a pile of vegetables, and eat. But every time I eat it, the only idea is not to eat hot pot next time, I don't want to eat hot pot for the next few days. However, the hot pot will sound good after one week, and after two weeks, you will be ready to rub the hot pot again. In fact, your brain increases productivity in the same way. Just like the stomach, the brain needs multiple stimuli. If there are too many stimuli in a stimulus, it will be tired and rejected. Just like you spend hours at your desk at a time, your brain will definitely get bored with it. At this point, you need to press the pause button for your work, or do something else, or just enjoy yourself. When you go back to work, this leisure time actually makes your brain more efficient. This temporary delay is not real delay, but strategic delay, giving your brain a breathing space. In Paris Review · Writer Interview I, someone asked Haruki Murakami: How is your usual work day arranged? Haruki Murakami replied-When I entered the writing stage of a book, I would get up at 4 am and work for 5 to 6 hours. In the afternoon, I will run 10 kilometers or swim 1. 5 kilometers (or both). Then I will read some books and listen to music. Finally, I will sleep at 9pm. I repeat this routine every day and never change. Haruki Murakami knows very well that a person can work four to five hours a day without making much money. Therefore, he is not in a hurry to finish one book at a time. Instead, he chose to postpone strategically so that this leverage could bring long-term sustainable positive benefits to his work. People who work efficiently never fight against time. They know how to find a leverage point for their work and use strategic delays to increase their input-output ratio so that they can have both fish and bear's paw. In the future, telecommuting will become a trend. On the one hand, the conditions for telecommuting are becoming more and more mature. On the other hand, this mode of work will also allow people to arrange their lives more freely. So before this big trend comes to mind, think about where your work leverages, and how do you use strategic delays to increase your productivity? After the "Industry Facts" micro-research survey is completed, we will promptly feedback your research results and send them to the selected "training reference" e-books for 2019. With just one step, you can move your little finger quickly. This article is from the "Self-Growth Manual". Articles represent the author's personal views and do not represent the position of the Training Magazine. Please contact: editor@trainingmag.com.cn has changed from "shared bicycle" to "shared employee". In the future, you may not belong to the "learning method" of an unusual company. The critical crisis situation broke the ceiling. Bad leaders can only face "war" and "flight." On the marketization path of the enterprise-oriented university, this Internet company has changed from "bronze" to "king"