【什么是高效工作？】

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来源The Difference between Work and Efficiency
译者fluency

Do you know people who seem in perfect control of their lives? What does their attitude look like? Are they serious and know how to cope, or, conversely, are they scattered and disorganized? Successful people do not take their lives lightly. They are proactive and consider seriously the results they achieve. They know how to please, but they do not enjoy it their main source of satisfaction.

       在你身边，是否有将生活打点的井井有条的完美控？他们的生活态度是怎样的呢？他们严肃认真，并且懂得如何处事，还是完全相反——生活的七零八碎，杂乱无章？成功者可不会草率对待生活。他们具有前瞻性，并且会仔细斟酌所得的成果。虽然他们懂得如何开心，但却不将其作为最重要的开心果。

The topic I present to you in this article concerns the constructive attitudes that you can adopt to be in complete control of your life. Think of the difference between work - or discipline - and effectiveness. We tend to believe that if we work hard we will get higher results. But this relationship is not quite true.

       我在这篇文章中给大家展示的主题是，如何采取积极态度来完全把握生活。让我们来仔细想想，工作——或者说教条——与高效的区别。我们倾向于认为，一分汗水一分收获。但这种关系并不准确。

On the one hand, your work can be inefficient; that is to say, you make efforts but receive little results. In this case, it is better to revise the way you work. This article will offer you tools to help you on that.

       一方面，你的工作效率低下，也就是说，你尽力了，但是收效甚微。这种情况下，最好改变一下工作方式。本文将为你的改变提供帮助。

On the other hand, your job provides you with results, but these results aren’t the kind that are really helpful to your self-realization. This is what happens when you just react, without concerning yourself about the fact that your actions produce results. Your vision, and a proactive approach, can help you avoid this pitfall.

       另一方面，你的工作虽有所获，但是这些成果并不能真正帮助你实现自我价值。这种情况的出现是由于你只是一股脑工作，而没有考虑自己的行动是否能产生效果。长远的眼光和积极的方式能助你避免跳入这种陷阱。

Thus, it is useful to work hard and be tough, but these attitudes become thoroughly useless if your actions don’t bring you your desired results. For example, I could take six months to review the text of this article. I would then suffer the syndrome of "the author who seeks perfection." However, perfection does not exist! During these six months, I could just change a few turns of phrase, or add or remove commas. The work would not essentially change.

       因此，努力工作顽强拼搏是必须的，但是如果得不到期待的结果，这些态度全是徒劳。举例来说，我可以花六个月的时间来反复修改这篇文章，并且被冠以“追求完美主义的作者”的大名。但是，根本不存在什么完美主义！在这六个月中，充其量就是改改几个转折词，添加或删掉几个标点符号。工作的本质并没有改变。

Yet in doing so, I could believe that I am rigorously working. But my work does not really provide me with results. Don’t worry though, I am a perfectionist enough to devote the necessary time to my projects. But I also am careful not to pour into the obsession of the perfectionist, which quickly becomes a hindrance to creativity and improvement. By the trap of being too perfect, we spend less time on that which allows us to really improve! What a paradox!

       然而，在做这件事情时，我可以感受到自己是在严格工作的。可是结果并不如我所愿。当然不要担心，我是花了充足的时间来完成这项任务的。与此同时我也小心谨慎，不让自己陷入完美主义者的漩涡，因为这只会成为创新和进步的拦路虎。当我们吹毛求疵追求完美时，真正花在进步提高的时间反而变得少之又少！真是自相矛盾！

Efficiency is therefore your actions in connection with the results you want. Ask yourself, "To what extent do my actions enable me to fulfill myself?" “Do the resources I use allow me to get more and better results with less effort?" If you do not bother to ask these questions (and answer them), you condemn yourself to performing a number of actions that waste time and take you nowhere.

       因此，效率是行动和结果的综合。问下你自己：“我的行动到底多大程度上满足了自己的目标？”“自己利用的资源有没有让自己事半功倍？”如果你嫌麻烦，不问自己这些问题（并且回答它们），那么只有怪你自己导致徒劳无功。

Effort is important. It is even a component of effectiveness. But effort alone can make us tremendously inefficient! People with "principles," that force them only to follow strict rules are often tough, but not necessarily effective. I don’t mean, naturally, the sort of principles that mean respecting laws and acting morally towards others. It is important for everyone to follow those principles

       努力很重要，甚至是效率的一个组成部分。但是只有努力也会让我们低效至极！那些恪守“制度”的人们，被迫遵守严格的规定，殊不知这些规定并不利于高效。当然，我不是指那些值得尊敬的法律和应当恪守的道德准则。

I'm talking about rigid rules that we invent for ourselves and we follow in any situation. "I always do perfect work" is an example of such strict principles. It is commendable to strive for perfection. But if deadlines are too short, it’s better to spend time working on an “imperfect” piece of work than submitting a “perfect” work late. Our principles should be more useful; you need to be able to modify certain principles based on a case-by-case basis, otherwise you get disastrous results!

       我指的是在任何一种情况下，我们给自己立下的严格规矩。“我的工作总是完美无缺”便是严格规矩的例子。追求完美固然好，但是，如果限期过短，如期完成略有不足的工作总比逾期成就“完美”要好些。我们的规矩应该更实际些；你应该按照积累的基础，修正一些条条框框，否则，结果不堪设想哦！

Remember, the key to efficiency is to be concerned about your actions providing maximum results with minimum effort. Some say it's a lazy way of thinking. But I'll bet those who say this are not efficient themselves.

       记住，提高效率的关键在于事半功倍。有人说这是一种懒人的思考方法，但是我敢打包票，说这句话的人，本身肯定效率不高。

Why? Simply because they would know that when we are efficient and get results, it increases our motivation, and we work with even more passion to see our dreams come true. This attitude is hardly the definition of laziness!

       为什么呢？简单来说，是因为他们将会看到，如果我们能够高效的获得成果，我们便会动力十足。随后，我们会更加积极的逐梦。这哪能称得上是懒惰的态度呢？

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