Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective People 效率极低人群之七大习惯—转载

With a twist to the common list of habits that are useful to establish, here are 7 habits that you do best to avoid.

平常我们总在讲应该养成各种好习惯，而本文恰恰相反，我们在此列出的是我们最好要避免的七种习惯。

1. Not showing up.

Maybe you’ve heard this quote by Woody Allen: “Eighty percent of success is showing up.”

I think this applies to most areas of life. If you write or paint more, each day perhaps, you will improve quickly. If you get out more you can meet more new friends. If you go on more dates, your chances of meeting someone special increases. Just showing up more can really make a big difference. Not showing up will not get you anywhere.

1. 缺席。

也许你曾经听过伍迪•艾伦的一句话“80%的成功来自于出席。”

我想这个道理放到生活的很多领域都是适用的。如果你每天都坚持写作或绘画，你的水平就会很快提高。你出门的次数越多，结交的朋友就会越多。你参加的约会越多，你遇到心上人的概率就越高。仅仅只是更多出席就会使你的生活有很大改变。而缺席却会使你毫无收获。

2. Procrastinating half the day.

2. 拖拖拉拉。

3. When actually doing something, doingdome thing that isn’t the most important thing right now.

One of the easiest habits to get stuck in, besides procrastinating, is to keep yourself busy with unimportant tasks.

To be effective you probably need some kind of time management-system. It might be something really simple, like using the 80/20-rule at the beginning of each day. The 80/20 rule, or the Pareto Principle as it’s also known, says that you’ll get 80 percent of your results from only 20 percent of your tasks and activities. So you need to focus most of your energy on those few important tasks to be effective.

3. 做一些无关紧要的事情。

除了拖拖拉拉以外，你的另一个不良习惯之一可能就是忙于一些无关紧要的事情。

为了提高效率你可能需要某种时间管理方法。它可能会是一件极为简单的事情，比如在一天的开始使用80/20法则。80/20法则，也就是我们通常所熟悉的帕累托法则，认为80%的收获源自20%的努力。所以为了追求高效率你应该集中大部分的精力在那些极少数重要的事情上。

4. Thinking too much.

And thereby seldom taking action. Paralysis by analysis can waste years of your life. There is nothing wrong with thinking before you do something. Do some research, make a plan,and explore potential upsides and problems.

4. 考虑太多。

因为多虑而很少采取行动。沉浸在无尽的分析之中只会使浪费时间。行动之前加以思考是没有错的。做一些调查研究，制订一个计划，探究可能存在的有利以及不利因素。

5. Seeing the negative and downsides in just about anything.

When you see everything from a negative perspective, you quickly punch a hole in your own motivation. You find problems and faults everywhere where there are really none. Youcling to details. If you want to find a reason not to do something then that’s no problem. From a negative viewpoint you can find ten reasons every time.

5. 凡事过于消极。
当你凡事都从消极方面考虑时，你的积极性就会被大大降低。你会发现到处都是问题和错误，而这些问题本来是不存在的。但你抓住细节不放。如果你想要寻找一个不做某事的理由，这当然没有问题。而当你从一个消极面看问题时，每次你都可能找出10个借口。

6. Clinging to your own thoughts and being closed to outside influences.

It can be hard to admit that what you thought or believed was not the best alternative. So you cling to your thoughts harder and harder and keep your mind closed. This makes it hard to improve and for instance to become more effective. Even really considering the possibility that you can change your life can be difficult in this position.

6. 固执己见，与世隔绝。
我们总是认为自己的想法或信仰是最佳的，因此你越来越执着于自己的想法，与世隔绝。这会让你很难取得进步，比如说很难提高效率。在这种情况下，连认真思考改变人生的可能性都会变得很难。

7. Constantly on information overload.

With information overload I don’t just mean that you read a lot. I pretty much mean an overload in all input. If you just let all information flow into your mind, it will be hard to think clearly. It’s just too much stimulation.

7. 持续信息过剩。
信息过剩并不是说你过多地阅读，我差不多指的是输入信息的过剩。如果你让所有的信息都涌进大脑，这当然会不易理清思路，因为刺激源太多了。

Just like finding habits that can be useful for you, it’s important to find habits that are holding you back. Most of these 7 habits can easily become such a normal, everyday part of life that you hardly notice it (or how it’s affecting you). I’ve dabbled with all of them quite a bit. Not surprisingly I didn’t get much of the important stuff done. I’d also like to add that these are just7 broad habits you can establish to become highly ineffective in most parts of your life. I pretty sure there are several more.

就像寻找对你有益的习惯一样，寻找不利于你的习惯同样重要。这七种习惯中大多数都可以轻易成为你日常生活的一部分，以至于你很难察觉到它（或者它如何影响到你）。我曾经多次尝试，结果不必惊讶，那些重要的事情没有几个能完成的。同时我还想要补充的是，这只是在生活中你可能形成的影响效率的七个主要习惯，我很确定绝不仅仅只是这些。