18 Minutes
豆瓣
Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done
Peter Bregman
简介
Based upon his weekly Harvard Business Review columns (which is one of the most popular columns on HBR.com, receiving hundreds of thousands of unique page views a month), 18 MINUTES clearly shows how busy people can cut through all the daily clutter and distractions and find a way to focus on those key items which are truly the top priorities in our lives.
Bregman works from the premise that the best way to combat constant and distracting interruptions is to create productive distractions of one's own. Based upon a series of short bite-sized chapters, his approach allows us to safely navigate through the constant chatter of emails, text messages, phone calls, and endless meetings that prevent us from focusing our time on those things that are truly important to us.
Mixing first-person insights along with unique case studies, Bregman sprinkles his charming book with pathways which help guide us -- pathways that can get us on the right trail in 18 minutes or less.
目录
Introduction p. xv
Part 1 Pause
Hover-Above Your World
1 Slowing the Spin p. 5
Reducing Your Forward Momentum
The-Girl-Who Stopped Alligator Man p. 10
The Incredible Power of a Brief Pause
3 The Day Andy Left "Work Early p. 15
Stopping in Order to Speed Up
4 Frostbite in the Spring p. 20
Seeing the World as It Is, Not as You Expect It to Be
5 Multiple Personalities Are Not a Disorder p. 25
Expanding Your View of Yourself
6 Why We're Fascinated with Susan Boyle p. 30
Recognizing Your Own Potential
7 You Don't Have to Like Him p. 34
Where Do You Want to Land?
Part 2 What Is This Year About?
Find Your Focus
8 What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do p. 43
Choosing Your Next Move at the Intersection 'of the Four Elements
9 Reinvent the Game p. 48
Element One: Leverage Your Strengths
10 I'll just Take the Shrimp p. 52
Element 2 Embrace Your Weaknesses
11 Heated Seats p. 56
Element 3 Assert Your Differences
12 The Pilot Who Saved 155 Passengers p. 61
Element 4 Pursue Your Passion (Desire)
13 Anyone Can Learn to Do a Handstand p. 65
Element 4 Pursue Your Passion (Persistence)
14 A Recipe for Finding the Right Work p. 70
Element 4 Pursue Your Passion (Ease)
15 What Matters to You? p. 76
Element 4 Pursue Your Passion (Meaning)
16 I'm the Parent I Have to Be p. 81
Avoiding Tunnel Vision
17 I've Missed More Than Nine Thousand Shots p. 85
Avoiding Surrender After Failure p. 38
when the Future Is Uncertain p. 89
Avoiding Paralysis
19 Maybe p. 95
Avoiding the Rush to fudgment
20 What Is This Year About? p. 100
Creating Your Annual Focus
Part 3 What Is This Day About?
Get the Right Things Done
21 Dude, What Happened? p. 111
Planning Ahead
22 Bird by Bird p. 115
Deciding What to Do
23 Wrong Floor p. 121
Deciding What Not to Do
24 When Tomorrow? p. 125
Using Your Calendar
25 The Three-Day Rule p. 130
Getting Things Off Your To-Do List
26 Who Are You? p. 134
The Power of a Beep
27 It's Amazing What You Find When You Look p. 139
Evening Minutes Reviewing and Learning
28 An 18-Minute Plan for Managing Your Day p. 144
Creating a Daily Ritual
Part 4 What Is This Moment About?
Mastering Distraction Mastering Your Initiative p. 153
29 Move the Table p. 154
Avoiding the Need for Motivation
30 Never Quit a Diet While
Reading the Dessert Menu p. 159
We Need less Motivation Than We Think
31 The Nintendo Wii Solution p. 163
Having Fun
32 The One-Two Punch p. 168
Getting Started and Keeping It Going p. 33
Am I the Kind of Person Who p. 174
Telling the
Right Story About Yourself
34 The Hornets Stung My Mind p. 180
Getting Out of Your Own Way
Mastering Your Boundaries p. 186
35 The'Time Suck of Collaboration p. 188
Saying Yes Appropriately
36 But Daddy p. 191
saying No Convincingly
37 The Third Time p. 196
Knowing When to Say Something
38 We're Not Late Yet p. 199
Increasing Transition Time
39 I Don't Want to Go to Ski Class p. 204
Decreasing Transition Time
40 We'll Regress
We'll Forget You. We'll Replace You p. 209
Managing the Tension of Relaxation
Mastering Yourself p. 214
41 Does Obama Wear a Pearl Necklace? p. 215
Creating Productive Distractions
42 Would You Smoke Pot While You're Working? p. 220
Avoiding Switch-Tasking
43 It's Not the Skills We Actually Have That Matter p. 226
Getting Over Perfectionism
44 Why Won't This Work for You? p. 231
The Value of Getting Things Half Right
45 Don't Use a Basketball on a Football Field p. 237
Staying Flexible
Conclusion: Now What?
46 You Don't Have Ten Gold Behaviors p. 246
Choosing Your One Thing
Acknowledgments p. 253
Index p. 257
About the Author p. 263
