2016/03/07

90% of your daily attention are wasted on trivial

For those people who do not have enough resource, the only thing they could to is to gather the resources they have (time, energy, money and the courage) and bet on one thing they love. Strive to do the best and achieve an ultimate goal. However, half-hearted and indecisive are taboo. 

Many people have told me they have a lot of hobbies or many goals to achieve in their career life, they would love to take the challenge and try different jobs, but not proficient. In the end, they do not even know which career path to go, and finding a job became troublesome eventually.

In fact, everyone has limited resources (time, money, energy etc.), if you do not focus on one thing, you may be stuck in the “slow start of” phase forever. You just switch from the slow start phase in Job A to the slow start phase in Job B, and then Job C and D...However, you will never get into the quickly upgraded phase in one Job, not even to reach the plateau phase. Before entered into the quickly upgraded phase, you already switched into another new job you would like to challenge. In the end, only small group of people climbed on the quickly upgraded phase, and only a handful of people can reach the plateau phase. 


The consequences of stuck on the slow start phase is have to compete with a lot of employees for a relatively entrance job. Due to the harsh competition, you have to low down your salary to maintain this job for making living. In the real world, the distribution of wealth is extremely uneven. Those people who standing on the top of the tower occupy most of the world’s wealth. Even the in the area which people making money by their ability and talent, this imbalance is also very obvious. Below figure is the NBA player’s salary distribution in 2014-2015 season (the horizontal axis represents the player’s salary ranking, the vertical axis is the amount of the annual salary). 


For those basketball players in the NBA, they already have better skills than the players not in the NBA. However, most of NAB basketball players are still very poor. Now, you could imagine the income for lower level league basketball players.

This is not just happened in the professional sports industry. In most of areas of the job market, this pattern of income distribution prevalent. Although the specific shape is not exactly the same, the trend towards similar.

So if we combined the above two figures, we could see such a cruel result:

Kick the tires is very likely to be nothing, and focused investment on your career will obtain excess returns in the end. If your resources poor, then focus on doing one thing will be your only way out. Each of us has very limited attention everyday, so pay attention on one pile of things will surely ignore another bunch of things. Unfortunately, 90% of our attention are put on useless trivial. People’s attention is limited, so how can we use our attention wisely?

1. Start to plan and focus on the moment.
The reason why singers or movie starts do not worry about forgetting anything is because their assistant will help them take care of everything with a 24 hours plan everyday. The role of assistant is to help the singers or movie starts to focus on the most important moment---the present. For singers and movie starts, there is no need to worry about time and work schedule. We can not afford a assistant, but we can do our own assistant by short notes and daily, weekly, and even monthly plan.
----All maters shall be noted in one place
----Put all do things down after develop a To Do List
----Check your notes or to do list frequently
----Do not blindly imitate others when planning the program. Everyone is not the same individual. In order to achieve the best results, making the plan according to your own time, energy and customize preferences.

Making plans can bring us sense of security. We are always afraid of the unknown and uncertain things. We are afraid of our own money and energy, so we must always look at the progress in order to feel at ease, like playing the progress bar of the same game.

2. Never let the phone interrupt you.
Choose a suitable time, cut off contact with the outside world and focus on the tasks you need to finish.

The reason why many people feel that their lives always in a state of loads of information, because they got the wrong understanding of science and technology. The emergence of the mobile phone is not ready to let others find you, but let others find you when you want them.

3. Learn to choose.
You must know which things are the most important and you have to do by yourself, and which things are acceptable to be done by others.

4. Set a work area, only work here.
Neurologist Oliver Sacks suggested that if you want to accomplish two different projects completely on the same table, the table would be partitioned into two regions, doing different jobs in different regions. This is because entering a new space allows the brain to restart, thus ensuring unlimited creativity.

5. Only concerned about your life, only concerned the most important thing in your life.
People’s energy is limited, if you worry too much things, stick on 2 or 3 pieces and give up the rest. This include not only give up some of the work and life goals, even including your long standing habits and even some of your personal connections. Please remember, you are making choices for yourself in life.

90% of your daily attention are wasted on trivial, so pay attention on the most important thing is very significant in our life, our career and our business. Shinestar Holdings Group has dedicated in the steel industry over 23 years, we are proud to serve our clients with professionalism all over the world. As the trading subsidiary under Shinestar Holdings Group, Prime Steel Pipe is the export gateway for our manufactured steel pipes. Our main products including carbon steel seamless pipe, welded pipe, galvanized steel pipe, coated steel pipe, and steel pipe fittings. 





No comments:

Post a Comment