Monday, December 26, 2011

Time

Time is a precious and scare resource. I believe time is a stick to measure how important one thing or one person to you. The more time you spend on something, the more important it is to you (maybe unconsciously). But the things that are measured as important to you are not necessary the things that you (consciously) think to be important to you. For most of us, there are something fall into that category; otherwise you would not be complaining about procrastination or time wasting. So? Start spending more time (as in amount) on the things that you consciously, that you want to care about! Initially, just put sheer number of hours on them. Reduce time wasting on unimportant things by spending more time on more important things.

Then there comes the concept of 'deliberate practice'. It is not only pure quantity of time that matters, but quality of the time you spend too. For the things you want to improve, you must do it at a more difficult level, with more concentration (no multitasking) and thought (think about how you can do it better). You are not practice for the sake of spending time, you are practice to learn something new. And, doing is more effective than reading. It does not mean that reading is not important; reading is important as a tools to extend your box of knowledge. But at the end you must be able to turn the knowledge you acquire into action. It only counts when you can produce something of your own. So try to produce something everyday. For a programmer, write some line of code. For an artist, sketch a new piece of drawing.

*On a side note, I should spend more time with my family, especially my sister.

3 comments:

  1. It never be enough to say that one is absolutely necessary to put time on their most productive niche and nothing else.

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  2. Great!
    I like the idea of single-tasking on something to improve it :D

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