Daily Productive Sharing 221 - Why Do Deadlines Work?

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#todo #time_management

当我们还在读书时，考试前的临时抱佛脚往往很管用；当我们读博时，面对三年的时间却无所适从；这是为什么？死限在其中有非常重要的作用。如果用物理学里的布朗运动来理解死限，可以这样：

1. 我们一天的可用时间是有限的；
2. 我们手上的任务如同颗粒一般会占据所有的可用时间；
3. 如果我们不设定死限，手上的任务就会膨胀，占据更多的时间；
4. 当我们设定比较紧张的死限之后，我们就需要压缩任务的执行时间，从而在单位时间内完成更多的任务。

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When we are still studying, the temporary hold before the exam often works well; when we are studying for a PhD, we are at a loss in the face of three years; why? Deadlines play a very important role here. If we use the Brownian motion in physics to understand the deadlines, it can be as follows:

1. we have a finite amount of time available in a day.
2. the tasks we have on our hands take up all the available time like particles.
3. if we do not set deadlines, the tasks at hand will expand and take up more time.
4. when we set tighter deadlines, we need to compress the execution time of the tasks so that we can accomplish more tasks per unit of time.

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individual particles in a gas will always spread out, endlessly distributing themselves equidistantly from each other, evenly filling the container they occupy.

Your calendar is the container/room. Your to-do list is the gas that spreads out into it.

Entrepreneur “Brownian Motion” is why deadlines work

It’s because a pressing deadline shrinks the container.

The solution isn’t to wish for more willpower to fight this effect… it’s to shrink the container that’s available.

Smaller container = less diffuse spreading-out of work. Their execution, in other words, is concentrated.

The best thing you can do to make yourself more productive… is make other plans.