Susan三叶草 2021年12月12日 上午8:25

Unless you manage it mindfully, your personal resource allocation process will decide investments for you according to the“default”criteria that essentially are wired into your brain and your heart. As is true in companies,your resources are not decided and deployed in a single meeting or when you review your calendar for the week ahead. It is a continuous process-and you have,in your brain,a filter for making choices about what to prioritize.
But it's a messy process.People ask for your time and energy every day,and even if you are focused on what's important to you,it's still difficult to know which are the right choices.If you have an extra ounce of energy or a spare thirty minutes,there are a lot of people pushing you to spend them here rather than there. With so many people and projects wanting your time and attention, you can feel like you are not in charge of your own destiny. Sometimes that's good: opportunities that you never anticipated emerge. But other times,those opportunities can take you far off course,as was true for so many of my classmates.
The danger for high-achieving people is that they'll unconsciously allocate their resources to activities that yield the most immediate, tangible accomplishments.This is often in their careers,as this domain of their life provides the most concrete evidence that they are moving forward.They ship a product, finish a design, help a patient,close a sale, teach a class, win a case, publish a paper, get paid, get promoted.They leave college and find it easy to direct their precious energy into building a career. The students in my class are often like this— they leave school with an intense drive to have something to show for their education.
除非你用心管理，否则你的资源分配将根据“默认”标准进行，本质上就是与生俱来的，头脑里和心里的东西。公司也一样，资源不是在一次会议上或者当你回顾下一周的日历时决定和部署的。这是一个持续的过程——在你的大脑中，有一个过滤器，用来选择优先处理什么。
但这是一个混乱的过程。人们每天都在支配你的时间和精力，即使你专注于对你来说重要的事情，仍然很难知道哪些是正确的选择。如果你有额外的能量或者多余的三十分钟，有很多人会强迫你在这里而不是那里耗费。有那么多的人和项目需要你的时间和关注，你会觉得自己无法掌控自己的命运。有时候这很好:你从未预料的机会出现了。但其他时候，这些机会会让你偏离正轨，就像我的许多同学一样。
成就高的人面临的危险是，他们会无意识地将资源分配给能有最直接、最明显成就的活动。这通常发生在他们的职业生涯中，因为这个领域提供了他们前进的最有形的痕迹。他们运送产品、完成设计、帮助病人、完成销售、授课、赢得案例、发表论文、获得报酬、获得晋升。他们离开大学，发现很容易将宝贵的精力投入到职业生涯中。我班上的学生大都是这样的——他们离开学校时有着强烈的愿望，想展示他们在教育中获得的一些东西。