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△ 298｜The biggest difference between life and RPG is that its health bar can only be cleared once
In line with the principle of “the more serious the topic”, the more “realistic content” should be said, and the same is true for today’s content.
During the craziest time of my time management, I tried almost every To-Do List, Gantt, and scheduling app on the market. Generally speaking, when a person who claims that he wants to start time management and make his life more self-disciplined, starts to test various schedule management apps, or replaces a tool every once in a while, then this person is basically It is necessary to “desensitize” time management, or it should be said that time management is not suitable for such people at all.
Although it is said that “sharpening knives is not a mistake in chopping wood”, but people who have been sharpening knives all the time, this kind of “workers who want to do good things must first sharpen their tools, sharpen their tools, sharpen their tools, sharpen their tools and sharpen their tools.” The act of sharpening one’s weapon and sharpening one’s weapon is essentially taking the first step away from A sense of ritual avoids choices, fears out of control.
When I started tossing around with various GTD (personal time management) software, it was because of an “accident” that I suddenly realized that my time management was exhausted, and then I rescued myself from this self-torture. I still make schedules now, but there are a lot fewer time blocks. I will only schedule some more important things. In the rest of the time, the finer the time and the finer the inspiration, the more “freedom” you will get. Inspiration and happiness.
Among all the GTD software, there is one software that is my favorite in both its design and core – Habitica, this is a software that disguises To-Do List as an RPG game, every time you set it Each To-Do is like a “task”. After completing it, your RPG character can get a certain amount of “experience points” and “gold coins”, and “experience points” are used to exchange “rewards”, and “gold coins” are Used to exchange equipment, so that you will get more things through To-Do in the future. The essence of this software lies in the reward part of self-design. It should be influenced by the concept of “delayed gratification” . The original intention of its design is that people can get the qualification to exchange for rewards by completing the agreed To-Do, and reward themselves. Afterwards, a self-disciplined “inner cycle” is formed.
Of course, you can also set some daily “should not do” things as To-Do. If you check it once, you will lose a small amount of blood. If you do enough in one day, then you It is possible that you will lose your RPG character and have to spend a high price on resurrection potions. For this setting, the first thing that many people should think of is “jumping”, that’s right – the program developer set a “deduction item” in the initial demo video to be “masturbate”, which is very in line with human self-restraint And the most direct way of expressing self-expectation – controlling desire – is of course a digression.
Let’s talk about another kind of people who live their lives as RPGs – today, the media calls them “extreme commuters” , people who live more than 50 kilometers away and have a daily commute time of more than 60 minutes can be included. The category of “extreme commuting”.
Their lives are no longer planned by the route indicators such as the number of lines to the number of lines, but become “I want to squeeze into the car in the 12th car, which is the closest train car to the transfer elevator, and I need to Arrive within 5 minutes and change to traffic, because there will be a subway leaving on time at 8:04” – their time has become a standard in minutes, and every action must be specified in the “permissible” range, but A certain action of others may become a fuse for them to lose control – for example, the No. 12 car suddenly stopped in a position where it should not be parked.
The rapid development and expansion of urban circles have formed “urban folds” between urban circles and urban circles . The prices, housing prices and commuting conditions in these folds have become the best choice for many extreme commuters, and such cities What is left in the folds is no longer entertainment, social interaction, and self, but “sleep”. Extreme commuters must ensure that they have enough sleep within the “specified” time in order to successfully board the punctual shuttle bus the next day. Subway, high-speed rail and even plane. Yanjiao is the “fold” of Beijing, Kunshan is the “fold” of Shanghai, but these folds are dead silence and blank every working day.
I have the experience of living in the twin cities, and I have to travel between Sichuan and Chongqing every week. At the conclusion meeting on the last afternoon of every Friday, I should not be able to control the joyful expression on my face. And the leaders of the company have also discovered this, so they especially like to let me say a few words at the summary meeting on Friday, and I usually end with the sentence “Have a nice weekend”, and their response to me is always ” See you next week”. Me and a bunch of people who don’t have weekends curse each other out – your weekends will be overworked too; don’t get too excited, next week you’ll have to deal with a bunch of shit.
Commuting on the high-speed rail is my favorite time, I don’t need to deal with work (because I use the excuse that there are many tunnels affecting the signal on the Chengdu-Chongqing high-speed rail), I can finally have the opportunity to wear headphones to block the surrounding, although I still take out my computer Dealing with trivial things, but this is the time when I usually deal with client emails – because this is the time when my temper is at my best.
Another job, I’m accurate to the minute. What time is the first bus to the airport in the morning, and what time does the subway from the airport to the city leave? At the transfer station with the largest flow of people, I had to get off from the car number to be able to immediately aim at the escalator and follow the crowd. My commute time at that time was more than 1 hour and 30 minutes.
What I love most about this job is Friday. I won’t choose the subway that squeezes canned sardines, but choose the airport bus that no one dares to choose at all, and even the staff will suggest that passengers choose rail transit to go to the city. Friday evening rush hour is scary, but I just like to enjoy this time in traffic while hiding on the airport bus. Later, I formed a tacit understanding with the driver of the airport bus. When I got on the bus, he would decide that he would play such a “role” based on my mental state and the position I chose to sit – if I sat behind him , he is the teller, and I am a qualified listener, collecting all kinds of situations in life in chatting with him; if I sit in the middle of the bus, he is a qualified driver, and will not disturb wearing The earphones and the neon window scattered by the rain cloud are integrated into me; if I sit in the last row with a tired face, if I choose the seat in the last row after getting in the car, he will say very kindly: you go to bed first , I’ll call you when I’m at the stop.
In the mechanical commuting life, I have to find a sense of “uncertainty”, so that this mechanical life will not completely bite me into the gears and make life and self become fragmented. It won’t make my life bar become that RPG character in Habitica in Mechanization – but cruelly, my health bar only has one chance to be cleared, and the RPG in Habitica can at least spend a lot of money on resurrection return.
I later gave up the job – and even later on time management, because of “an accident”.
In the planning of the itinerary from Kanazawa to Nagoya, a completely unexpected thing suddenly appeared. The original JR encountered a section of landslide, my wife and I’s itinerary was completely disrupted, but we decided to bite the bullet and listened to the explanation of the JR station staff, we had to change to a tourist bus at a place called Pig Valley. Go to Takayama City through the landslide section, and then continue to transfer to JR to Nagoya. This sudden setting made all the schedules in the future confused. The plan I originally listed on the calendar was to determine when we should take the JR by minutes and arrive at our destination at what time.
Before I changed trains in Pig Valley, I was still in a state of confusion because the schedule was out of control, but if there was another unexpected situation, such as losing luggage during the transfer, or missing a certain link of transportation, then I was completely out of control. . It all ended when the bus from Pig Valley went through a tunnel and suddenly broke into the view of the mountains, I forgot about the fear of losing control, because the scenery outside the window was so beautiful – it was all dark In the dark, unexpected landslides blocked the JR, we had to pass through the mountains of Pig Valley, and even we just sat on the side where we could see the mountain.
At that time, I remembered the airport bus on Friday, and I deliberately chose to lose control, because I wanted to see these unexpected things?
So far, I have deleted a lot of time blocks in the schedule, leaving the unexpected spaces that were originally occupied by the unexpected.
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