What was the best advice you ever received on being productive?
如何變得更有效率，你收到的最好的建議？
“Focus is a skill, son”
專注就是種技能
What separates successful people from unsuccessful people is their ability to focus on a task that will make them successful.
成功人士和非成功人士的區(qū)別在于成功人士總能專注在讓自己變得成功的事情上轩勘。
We tend to speak about focus like it’s a gift from God. Something that a few are blessed with, but us mortals will never be able to achieve.
我們總會說這是來自上天的天賦绊寻。有些幸運的人能得到冰蘑，我們普通人永遠(yuǎn)的得不到的東西。
Focus is a Godly ability - but it is not a divine talent it is a skill.
專注是個挺神的能力-但是它不是神圣的天賦，只是個技巧。
First you must practice being focused. How?
首先你要練習(xí)專注，如何？
It’s simple.
很簡單
Pick up a book and read it for thirty minutes straight. If you drift off go back to where you last remember reading and start reading again. No water breaks. No glancing at your phone. No bathroom breaks. No matter how much you want to move don’t move until the thirty minutes is up.
拿起一本書連續(xù)的閱讀三十分鐘。如果你迷迷糊糊睡著了奔垦，就回到你最后閱讀的地方開始重新讀。不能喝水休息，不能看一眼你的手機(jī)，不能上廁所。無論你多么想動也不能動直到三十分鐘結(jié)束雷袋。
After you finish, spend five minutes writing down everything you remember. This will be hard at first, but it will get easier over time.
當(dāng)你結(jié)束了蛋勺，花五分鐘時間寫下你記住的所有東西刃泡。這一開始會很難烘贴，當(dāng)你不斷的進(jìn)行禁添，就會變得容易。
Keep extending the time until you are able to sit and read without getting distracted for two hours. Your ability to focus on reading and to write down what you remember will help you in every facet of your life, because reading comprehension is essential to learning almost every other new skill.
不斷的延長時間直到你能不分心的坐著閱讀兩個小時桨踪。你專注閱讀的和寫下閱讀內(nèi)容的能力將影響你生活的方方面面老翘，因為閱讀和理解是學(xué)習(xí)生活中其他技能的基本能力锻离。
“You don’t know how to say no to a good time and that’s what will keep you from living a good life,”
你不知道如何拒絕一段美好的時光铺峭，這將使你遠(yuǎn)離美好的生活
I wanted to go to UCLA for undergrad but my dad told me that a big city would eat me alive because
“You don’t know how to say no son.”
I couldn’t say no to friends
I couldn’t say no to video games
I couldn’t say no to drugs
我想去UCLA讀大學(xué)汽纠，可是我的父親告訴我疏虫，大城市會把我生吞活剝的永罚，因為“兒子，你不知道如何說不”
我對朋友說不了不
我對電子游戲說不了不
我對毒品說不了不
Your ability to say no to your impulses allows you to have control over your life. If you don’t learn how to say no to yourself and others all the other pieces of advice in this thread will be worthless.
你對自我沖動說不的能力會讓你更能掌握自己的生命卧秘。如果你不知道如何對自己和其他人說不呢袱，所有其他的建議都是沒有用的。
You will forever be at the effect and never the cause.
你永遠(yuǎn)只知道改變卻不知道為何改變翅敌。
Learn to say no.
學(xué)會說不
And when in doubt
當(dāng)猶豫時
Ask yourself “What would the strongest version of myself do?”
問問自己“最強(qiáng)版本的你會怎么做羞福？”
You’ve always known the right answer - it’s time to start acting like it.
你總是知道正確答案—現(xiàn)在是付諸行動的
原文作者及出處：William Beteet,From Quora
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