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CM 275: Mithu Storoni on Working Smarter

2024/9/22
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Mithu Storoni: 超高效工作并非指单位时间内完成更多任务,而是指在单位时间内产出更高质量的智力成果。 现代知识工作者面临着信息过载和创新需求的双重挑战,传统的工厂模式工作方式已不再适用。 大脑的工作模式遵循幂律分布,即高强度工作时间短,中等强度工作时间较长,低强度工作时间最长。这种模式与狩猎采集社会的工作模式以及大脑内部的活动模式相符。 为了优化工作效率,建议将工作时间分成90分钟左右的单元,每个单元内先进行高强度工作,再逐渐降低强度,最后完全休息。 休息分为两种:充电式休息(短暂休息,调整状态)和恢复式休息(长时间休息,恢复精力)。 应对枯燥工作的方法是增加工作难度或进行多任务处理,以保持大脑在最佳工作状态。 应对“疲惫且兴奋”状态的方法是转移注意力,做一些能让人忘掉工作的事情,然后放松休息。 在快速变化的技术环境中学习的最佳策略是:从已知知识出发,逐步扩展学习范围(“80/20原则”或“20%步进学习法”)。 应对不确定性的方法是:适应不确定性,并积极拥抱不确定性。 根据大脑的节奏调整工作安排,例如在一天中精力充沛的时候进行高强度工作。 每个人都有独特的“齿轮性格”,即在不同刺激水平和环境下工作效率不同;找到适合自己的工作环境至关重要。 “齿轮网络”比喻了三种不同的工作状态:齿轮一(缓慢)、齿轮二(专注)、齿轮三(分心);要高效工作,需保持在齿轮二状态,这需要前额叶皮层充分参与。 散步有助于分散注意力,进入专注状态,并激发创造力;这与大脑的注意力机制有关。 工业化时代将身心分离,导致现代人身心失衡;通过结合身体和精神的节奏,例如运动和放松练习,可以改善身心状态。 Gayle Allen: 作为访谈主持人,Gayle Allen主要负责引导话题,提出问题,并对Mithu Storoni的观点进行总结和补充。她没有提出自己的核心论点。

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As a knowledge worker, you face two challenges. First, you need to take in staggering amounts of information to stay current. Next, you're expected to convert that information into innovative solutions that benefit your team and your company.

While expectations for consuming and processing information have changed, most of our mental habits harken back to factory model days. Yet we’re ignoring the tremendous power of our human biology, namely, our brains.

What if we designed an optimal work style built around key features of the human brain? That’s the question Mithu Storoni works to answer in her book, Hyperefficient: Optimize Your Brain to Transform the Way You Work. She likens brain function to a car engine with multiple gears. Then she shares how to best put those gears to work for us, and how best to shift them as circumstances change.

It’s just the right book – with just the right information – for the age we’re living in.

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