I am so stressed out by so tiny things
Become frail whenever alone
Fuck
Twisted twine
Only music soothes
But just a bit
So stressed out
So trapped in a device of myself
So conflicted inside
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I can’t force myself to sleep
I just make it up
以前看某本书，讲影响力。说有科学家做实验，把一种南美鸡的雌鸡的发请的时候的基本节奏、韵律录下来，播给公鸡听。结果，自然地，就是公鸡毫不犹豫地发请了，不管错误的季节，错误的场所，也不管方圆十里根本没有雌鸡的存在。
也有证据表明人类也是差不多了。前几天才看到一个心理学实验。对于100分和一块，绝大多数的人直觉上认为100分比1块多。
大部分Productivity Gurus也把这个原则应用起来。他们总是说要把大任务分成小块，能多小就多小，不然那件事情会显得太过巨大，无从下手。
具体一点，我试过对同样的内容，做两种计划，结果差很多。1个小时写两篇提纲，跟半个钟头写一篇提纲，有任何区别吗？没有。但是明显地我在后者的安排里做的东西更多，不仅完成了一篇详细到可以写的提纲，还打了下一篇的草稿。一天下来比前者的安排多写了两篇提纲，而且质量不能同日而语。在大块时间多工作量的安排，大部分时间都在dawdle，看看这看看那，开电脑就想起要做别的事情…显然潜意识里我认为前者比后者艰巨两倍。
我跟南美红毛鸡好像没什么本质区别。
我觉得女人是善用这一个原理的一个物种。
你明知到她脸上的是粉底不是人皮，眼皮上的那个东西更是毫不羞愧被称作“假”睫毛，你还是觉得她…”索”
甚者，你的理智清楚地告诉你你以为是眼睛的部分有一半是画出来的，嘴唇的颜色是chanel的不是血液的，你还不是…对 吧?
It is inputed in English not because Zhuangbility but the fact that this post is gonna be included in my GRE journals…
I am still savoring the ecstasy this night brought me, everything seems so beautiful and all those stuff went wrong seems to be a precursor to the success tonight like all the failed experiments of Thomas Edison. When I tell you what happened tonight you will feel deluded by its triviality yet I still reckon this as an important progress. It’s just a tiny progress in front of tons of failed trail and don’t-works-for-me techniques, but it is virtually glorified by these screw-ups like a droplet to a lone wanderer after a hard journal through the desert. When I came back home tonight it’s already 11pm and what’s ahead of me are:
One issue practice
Two versions of Issue topics
Five compendium Issues topics
Five good sentences to be included to the “Armory”
Plus some non-compulsory tasks:
Find and/or make a good new plan for the AW preparation and the general test
Get to know what AW is REALLY about
…etc.
Daunting as it started, I still managed to accomplish most of routines and a couple of non-compulsory ones.What’s more important is that I FELT the pleasure of getting something done, especially when they started to be intimidating but I conquered them and lifted my mood! That’s the spirit of GTD and any other personal management model.
What I did actually? (From the most important to the least)
Cut off the Internet
It’s a shame but I’ve got to admit that I am not a little Internet addicted. Actually I can do only trivial things that not require any brainpower input when I’m online. Even worse when I had access to internet by any means I WILL access and that entails incessant distraction to the current task.
It’s just a random thought that taking my notebook to the desk of my dad, a weird place that no WI-FI signal can be found. But it had come to realization. It’s not a perfect place to study but only there I can be Internet-deprived. Cutting off the internet is the sufficient condition for the following factors
Be in a good mood (and quench the bad mood)
You know it’s always easier to win when you are winning. Sounds paradoxical but it’s true that we human are inborn avoiding about anything whose failure seems to be a certainty. You are most likely to do what you’re familiar with and good at first. Many are not doing anything outside Reading when they were preparing for TOEFL since reading is usually the easiest part and others seems to be too balky to even start.
The opposite is true as well. Despite the fact that I accomplished so much tonight when I occasionally catch a glimpse of the remaining numerous tasks my enjoyment is dampened to minimal. But back in earlier tonight when I sighted that there was only one routine task left I was given enormous joy. The mechanism is the same:
We tend to be tricked by partial fact. Yet the positive side or the negative side is totally up to you. I sincerely suggest you to alway look on the bright side of the light. I had suffer enough for guilty feelings that impede me from doing anything productive.
Do everything for a genuine purpose
You won’t get anything if you getting things done merely for getting things done. I had written 30 outlines for issue yet gain virtually nothing from it. The reason is that I force myself to write them without true purpose. I knew my AW is at stake and writing outlines are essential yet somehow I failed to establish connection between them until tonight. Probably the bane is the internet for it constantly interrupt me from thinking how should I approach certain stuff and deprive me of any reflection needed to deliver quality tasks.
A genuine purpose is so near and so far, without reflection in depth it’s likely to be overshadowed by false purpose from without.(I must study hard for I am a good student! I must do this or my GRE would fail! I must do this otherwise I will disappoint myself again)