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The habit is in the 7th paragraph, after 2 images: > Rather than trying to complete your task in 20 minutes, take this time to write down your thoughts, and a
by pimlottc 1y ago
The habit is in the 7th paragraph, after 2 images:
> Rather than trying to complete your task in 20 minutes, take this time to write down your thoughts, and a step-by-step action plan of what you think you need to do to finish your task. Then go home. Rest. A feeling of incompleteness will motivate you to come back and finalize your work the next day. Only you will be full of energy, together with a settled plan. No doubt you’ll accomplish your task before lunch.
- goopypoop 1y agoa feeling of incompleteness couldn't even motivate me to finish thi
- dangus 1y agoOP discovered clocking out and going home, how innovative! Next up: how to poop on company time.
- rockercoaster 1y agoI wonder what the oldest reference is we can find to this practice. I bet it's very old. Oldest I know of is only the late 19th century, but I bet we could beat that by at least several hundred years. Surely it comes up at least once somewhere in Shakespeare?
- rco8786 1y agoSolid question for r/askhistorians
- alpinisme 1y agoYou need clock based wage labor for that. Which only really starts with the Industrial Revolution
- bluGill 1y agofarmers plowing a field do similar even though the sun is their clock.
- mejutoco 1y agoSmall aside someone might find interesting. Hopefully not offtopic. In Catalonia there used to be a thriving textile industry. Workers would work on a garment and fold it when it was time to go home, to unfold it the next day and resume work. That action (to fold) is in Catalan plegar. Still today people use that verb to mean being done with work today. "Quan plegues?" meaning when do you finish work, for example.
- mistersquid 1y ago> Surely it comes up at least once somewhere in Shakespeare? Doubtful because the concept of clocking and clocking out is an artifact of the shift from mercantilism to capitalism and the Industrial Revolution where people sold their time in exchange for money. Before that, in Elizabethan England, people were not free agents but subjects of British Empire. Merchants could control their destinies to some extent but did not exchange their labor so much as accumulated wealth through trade. They did not clock in and out. So, there was not company time vs. personal time. There was just time and people conducted their bowel functions in outhouses and chamber pots befitting their stations.
- rockercoaster 1y agoThe idea of avoiding work by taking a shit, though. Like I could entirely see Julius Caesar’s Gallic Campaign including a bit about punishing some soldier because he always managed to need to shit during the hardest parts of setting up camp, or something like that.
- al_borland 1y agoSounds like the Hemingway method[0], with notes. I do this all the time, quitting when I know what comes next, but noting it down so I don’t forget and become frustrated. [0] https://bk2coady.medium.com/the-hemingway-method-fb56bf938360 https://bk2coady.medium.com/the-hemingway-method-fb56bf93836...
- add-sub-mul-div 1y agoIt's weird how thoroughly people have internalized that tl;dr is supposed to be the default way to take in information now. Not only for themselves, but for others.
- christophilus 1y agoMost of what I read these days can be captured— almost entirely— by a good tl;dr. Unless I’m reading for pleasure, I’d prefer to read content that is as direct and succinct as possible.
- squigz 1y agoSure but this is only important if the only thing you care about is absorbing just the information without any of the context around it. That context is often imoprtant.
- bayindirh 1y agoThe problem with this approach, that I discovered is, normally what we assume as a filler can have a lot of information for other parts of our brain or life in general. I have enlightened from many small details in articles, books and papers. While looks unimportant and irrelevant, these parts can knock down dominoes in one's subconscious, resulting in enlightenment or closure on another subject. Even if that doesn't happen, I learn a couple of more things. tl;dr: reading tl;drs only is akin to chewing caffeine powder instead of drinking coffee. bland, uninspiring and non-rewarding. What we assume as useless is generally is the spirit of the matter.
- TeMPOraL 1y ago> tl;dr: reading tl;drs only is akin to chewing caffeine powder instead of drinking coffee. bland, uninspiring and non-rewarding. What we assume as useless is generally is the spirit of the matter. Which is how I drink coffee. Coffee is bitter, awful, and irritates bowel, wasting your time on extra toilet visits (of the longer kind). Adding milk makes things even worse (lactose ain't particularly light to deal with in adulthood). I wouldn't even touch this stuff, if not for it being the universally approved (socially and legally), ubiquitous wakefulness promoter (aka stimulant drug), and better alternatives are much harder to get (even prescribed, they're not meant to serve as coffee replacements). Caffeine powder (in tablets or otherwise) is how you get to "the spirit of the matter" while skipping all the misery and unpleasant side effects. I suppose it really is a good analogy to most of long-form writing that isn't pure fiction or explicitly for entertainment.
- TeMPOraL 1y ago> A feeling of incompleteness will motivate you to come back and finalize your work the next day. Unfortunately, in between there's sleep, which is the great feelings eraser / emotional cache flusher. So all that'll happen is that said "feeling of incompleteness" will distract me for the rest of the evening, then disappear at night. Come morning, it won't be there, so I'll have to read the plan to hopefully induce that feeling again.
- bayindirh 1y agoI do the same thing as the author does. Moreover, I keep these notes more frequently, to the project's notebook with my other thoughts during the day. When I return to the task, I get up to speed in ~10 minutes, and things way go smoother because a) I'll be rested, b) My brain would have processed the plan and came up with a refined version of it. When I read the plan I wrote, I automatically recall the refined version most of the time. Then, I get to work and finish what I have started. Interestingly, sleep doesn't erase my emotions, but pause them. I just continue from where I left.
- pvtmert 1y agosounds like you are more of a morning person, as a non-morning person, it usually takes me about 4-6 hours to get up-to-speed. because there would be some unexpected twists and turns that will distract me from the task. meanwhile, exact opposite. if i cannot "solve" an issue, if i just wait till the evening by going for a 100+km bicycle ride, i magically solve the problem in the evening (right about at dusk and after).
- satvikpendem 1y agoI don't get it, what do you do for 4 to 6 hours? I can understand an hour as sometimes I get coffee and relax into the work but 4 to 6 hours? That's like most of the workday already gone.
- pazimzadeh 1y ago
- gre 1y agoManually /compacting your context. Got it.
- vunderba 1y agoThis is related to the zeigarnik effect which states that an activity that has been interrupted may be more readily recalled. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeigarnik_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeigarnik_effect
- eduction 1y agoYou sound like you want your money back
- apwell23 1y agowhen will humanity be free of having to force ourselves to do boring stuff.