Name: 如何聚焦你的優先事項，縮小你的興趣範圍 - 大學資訊極客網 (How to Focus Your Priorities and Narrow Down Your Interests - College Info Geek)
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One of the biggest sources of stress in my life is that

在我生活當中，其中一項最大的壓力來源就是

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I have too many interests, and I often find it difficult

我的興趣太多了，而且我經常發現很難

to 不定詞

And I get a lot of questions from students

and viewers who have the exact same problem.

So if you feel like you have this problem as well,

所以如果你覺得你也有相同的問題

and it's often been referred to as the "Paradox of Choice".

One person who has done a lot  of research on this problem is

the Columbia School of Business professor, Sheena Iyengar.

哥倫比亞大學商學院教授 Sheena Iyengar

And she summed this problem up really well when she said:

她將該問題做了一個很好的總結，她說 :

"There are times when the presence of more choices can make us choose things that are not good for us."

「有時候，有更多選擇的存在反而讓我們做出對自己不利的選擇。」

"For me, the clearest example is that the more retirement fund options a person has,

「對我而言，最顯而易見的例子就是一個人的退休基金選擇越多

the less likely they are to save for their old age."

他們越不可能為老年生活做儲蓄。」

因此，這裡有一個很重要的大問題

How do you narrow down this ridiculous amount

而這些選項才是你真正要投注時間、

Well, there's a story about the billionaire investor Warren Buffet

聽完億萬富翁投資者華倫·巴菲特的故事後

The story goes that Buffet was talking with the pilot of his private jet

巴菲特在跟他的私人噴射飛機的飛行員聊天時

and the pilot asked him about how he could narrow down his career goals and really focus.

這位飛行員問他是如何將他的職涯目標縮減，並確實專注

He said, "First, write down your top 25 career goals."

他說：「首先，寫出你排名前25名的生涯目標。」

"Then once you have that list, circle the five most important goals on the list and come back to me."

「完成這張清單後，圈出裡頭5個最重要的目標，然後回到我這裡。」

and essentially at this point he had two lists.

List A, which were those five most important goals.

And List B which were the 20 other goals that weren't as important.

B清單則是指其餘20個目標，而這些是較不重要的

"The five that you had me circle are the most important things I should be focusing on,

「這5項你要我選出來的是最重要的，我應該好好專注在上面。」

whereas the 20 I didn't circle are less important so I can practice those intermittently when I have some spare time,

「而其餘20項未圈選的較不重要，所以等有空的時候再間歇地去實行這些目標。」

「但我不應該專注在這些目標上太久。」

"No. The list of twenty items you didn't circle is now your Avoid-at-all-Costs list.

「不，這20個你沒有圈選的目標你要不惜一切代價去避開它們。」

"These are goals and interests you have that have enough pull on your interests

「這些目標及興趣有著足夠的拉力，

that they will distract you from the five most important goals."

讓你分心並遠離最重要的5個目標上。」

"If you want to be superstar at something,

「如果你想成為某件事的超級專家，

you can't afford to be diversifying your attention across all these interests."

那你就更無法承擔這些令你分心的風險。」

Now, it is likely that this story is actually fake.

目前看來，這個故事事實上很可能是假的

that Buffet himself has said that he didn't

didn't give these instructions and have this guy do this exercise,

沒有給予這些指導，或讓這個人去做這個測驗

I think the exercise is actually still useful to do.

我認為這個測驗仍然是相當有用的

You can definitely go through that exercise,

but I want to share something that I discovered last week

但我想要分享我上周發現的東西

我也將此應用在我自己的生活中

a number of years online named Derek Sivers,

and the founder of a company called CD Baby.

And he's had a lot of success in his life,

他在人生的各方面都收穫許多成功

so I've been really inspired by his writings

and especially this book   note section on his website

尤其是他個人網站的書籍筆記專區

And last week, I saw that he put something on his website

上週，我看到他的網站新增了一些頁面

It's basically a page where he writes "What I'm doing now".

基本上就是說明他目前手邊在忙些什麼

He lists out a few of his main priorities

like being a full-time dad, being a programmer,

像是當一個全職老爸、當一個工程師、

answering emails, and writing blog posts.

And then he says, "These are my priorities right now.

然後他說：「這些是他目前首要做的事情，

And because of that, I'm not going to accept new opportunities."

也因為如此，他將不會接收新的工作機會。」

"I don't want to speak publicly, and I'm gonna focus my time on these things I've listed."

「我不想公開演講，我將要將我的時間都投注在我列出的這些事情上面。」

So this page serves as a couple of different functions.

Number one. It's a public declaration of his main priorities,

第一，這是公開宣示他主要的優先任務

which can help him justify saying no to other opportunities

當作對其他機會說不的正當理由

and explain that to other people who bring those opportunities to him.

並且解釋給提供他那些機會的人

但這個頁面同時也是對個人的提醒

of what he should be focusing his mind on.

不清楚應該專心於什麼事情上面時

Now, I think this Now Page is a fantastic idea,

我認為這個 Now Page 是個絕佳的主意

so just like the impossibilist concept that my friend, Joel, came up with,

這就像是由我的朋友 Joel 所提出的不可能原理

And now, you can go to Collegeinfogeek.com/now

現在你可以到 Collegeinfogeek.com/now

去看我目前生活中的目標是什麼

On that page, you'll see a similar layout to Derek's page.

在這個網站頁面，你可以看到與德瑞克的網站相似的排版

with a few different priorities listed out.

Since I'm a bit earlier on in my career than Derek is,

因為跟德瑞克相比，我的事業剛起步

about saying no to new opportunities on that page than he has been.

像德瑞克做的那樣，去拒絕新來的機會

On mine, I say that I'm still open to new opportunities,

對我來說，我一樣樂於接受新機會

but 90% of my time is still going to go towards those main priorities.

但90%的時間將用在我的優先事項

So if you're a student, or you're early on in your career,

所以如果你是個學生，或正開展你的事業

and you want to use this page for your own purposes,

你想要使用這樣的頁面去展示你自己的目標

my suggestion is to be a little bit more open

我的建議是對其他機會仍保持開放態度

to other opportunities and take a stand in that camp,

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