英語(yǔ)美文:懶人思維，聰明工作

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In The Importance of Being Smart, I wrote how smart people can achieve much more – with much less effort – than those who just work hard. There’s a comment there by Frode that I’d like to discuss: "lazy people seem to be smarter, as they use a lot of brain energy on finding an easier way to do stuff."

Interesting, isn’t it? Lazy people seem to be smarter. But I agree that thinking like lazy people is a good way to work smart. Here are two reasons:

Lazy people find ways to accomplish something with the least amount of effort. If you are lazy, you will diligently find ways not to work. Applied to finishing tasks, it means that you try to accomplish it with the least amount of work possible.

Lazy people ensure that when they work, they do things that have impact. Why? Because it allows them to gain more with less. They don’t bother doing something that won’t give them results.

Of course, what I mean here is thinking like lazy people, not actually being lazy. You still need to have strong work ethic. But you also need to do things the smart way.

Here are four things you will do if you think like a lazy person:

1. Question whether or not something is worth doing. Don’t do something just because everyone else does it. Ask yourself: is it really necessary? Is it really worth doing? If the answer is no then there is no reason to do it.

2. Do only things with the most impact. Your resources are limited so invest them only on things that give you the most return. Think ROI.

3. Take the shortest path. Don’t waste your time on unnecessary bells and whistles. Do only the things that are necessary to get the job done. Cut everything else.

4. Use as much leverage as possible. Before doing something, find the things you can leverage. Do you know someone in your network who can do it better or faster than you? Can you market it to your existing customers? Can you achieve more than one thing at once? Whatever you do, always use the power of leverage to your advantage.

在《聰明人的重要性》中，我描述了聰明人如何可以比那些只是勤勞工作的人用較少的努力獲得更多?，F(xiàn)在我想討論一下弗羅德的一句話：“懶人似乎更聰明些，因?yàn)樗麄兛偸墙g盡腦汁尋求做事的簡(jiǎn)便方法。”

是不是很有趣？懶人似乎更聰明些。但是我同意像懶人那樣思考是聰明工作的好辦法。有如下兩條理由：

1、懶人總是用最少的力氣完成某事。如果你很懶惰，你將會(huì)致力于尋找不工作的方法。將之應(yīng)用到完成任務(wù)中時(shí)，這意味著你試圖用盡可能少的工作來(lái)完成它。

2、懶人在工作的時(shí)候，他們所做的事情一定對(duì)工作影響。為什么？因?yàn)檫@樣他們能付出較少獲得較多。他們不會(huì)去做那些沒(méi)有結(jié)果的事。

當(dāng)然，我指的是像懶人那樣思考，而不是變得懶惰。你需要有強(qiáng)烈的職業(yè)道德，但是你也需要巧妙辦事。

如果你想像懶人那樣思考，下面是你需要做的四件事：

1、質(zhì)疑這件事是否值得做。不要因?yàn)閯e人都做，你就去做。問(wèn)你自己：是否有必要？是否真的值得做？如果答案是否，那么就沒(méi)有理由去做它了。

2、只做那些最有影響的事。你的資源是有限的，所有就只有把它們投資在帶給你最大回報(bào)的事上?？紤]下投資收益率。

3、走最短路徑。不要把你的時(shí)間浪費(fèi)在附屬的東西上。只做能完成工作的必要事情。省去其他所有事情。

4、盡可能多的使用杠桿效應(yīng)。在做事之前，發(fā)現(xiàn)一些你可以撬動(dòng)的因素。你認(rèn)識(shí)一些比你做的更快更好的人？你能否把產(chǎn)品推銷給現(xiàn)有的客戶群？你能一次性達(dá)到多個(gè)目標(biāo)嗎？無(wú)論你做什么，記得利用杠桿效應(yīng)的優(yōu)勢(shì)。