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David 的精神食粮
走进心静如水的境界
一个仅仅储存大部分我们事物的系统与一个百分百储存我们事物的系统之间有一光年般远的差距。很少有人深有体会，原因是很少有人拥有百分百空闲的大脑，换言之，很少有人完全将每个项目，行动计划和对自己或他人的承诺在我们的外部大脑中清晰可见的整理好。
如果你没有将一个系统该有的放在里面，那么你不会有一个完全可信任的系统，同时你维护该系统的动力也会减弱。如果你的系统没有将可让计算机操作的部分与你的行动计划关联，那么你的大脑会始终记得你需要打开电脑处理工作。你很可能会将邮件留在收件箱中或者将文件夹放在桌面以便于自己记得去处理。由于你的大脑仍处于记忆和制定所有选项的状态，你没有完全的自由去相信自己的直觉，不确定该划去什么行动计划。同样的，如果你的系统只是部分的完善好，你很有可能不会有动力即时的将该处理，该整理的事项完善好。
你如果知道什么时候你的提醒功能和分类完善好了？你什么时候才知道大脑中多少东西已经归入系统中了？即时你有99%的事项已经从大脑中清空，你仍不会觉得轻松，因为你还是会想着有些什么事没做完。
你的大脑可以是存放所有事情最好的地方，也可以不是。（你可以猜到我的答案）我不能想象有什么中合的方式。大多数的人们仍有超过他们半个人生的事项留在他们头脑中。这会促成持续不断的设置优先权而不是可信任的战略性选择。
只维护了一半的系统还不如没有。关于人生的承诺 - 99%等于糟糕，100%让一切轻而易举。
David's Food for Thought
Going the Distance to
Mind Like Water
There
is a light-year of difference between a system that has merely a lot of our
stuff objectified, and one that has 100%. Few people
have experienced what I’m talking about, because there are few people who have
ever gotten to a 100% empty head—absolutely every project, action item, and
potential commitment we have made with ourselves and others externalized in an
easily reviewable format.
If you don’t have everything in a system that the system ought to have, you
won’t have full trust in that system, and you'll have greatly reduced
motivation to keep it up and keep it current. If your system isn’t tracking
every computer-related action you need to take in discreet folders or lists, then
your mind still has the job of remembering what to do when you open your
laptop. You’ll probably leave emails sitting in the inbox or files on the
desktop, hoping you’ll remember you need to handle something. There is not full freedom to trust your intuition about which
action to take off the list, since your mind still has the job of remembering
and formulating all the options. Similarly, if your reference systems are
only partially complete, you probably won’t be motivated to get all your
reference processed and organized, as soon as it arrives in your life.
How will you know when your reminders and categories are complete? When will
you know how much you have out of your head and into your system? Even if you
have 99% out of your head, you still won’t know that it’s 99% because of what
may be lurking in the 1%. You will only know how much you have left, when there
is nothing left!
Either your head is the best place to hold all your agreements with yourself,
or it’s not. (You can guess which way I vote.) I can’t imagine any intellectual
justification for halfway in between. Yet most people still have over half
their life in their heads. They won’t totally trust the incomplete system, nor
will they totally trust their head. This fosters latest-and-loudest prioritizing,
instead of trusted strategic choices.
A partial system is almost worse than none. In regard to life commitments — 99%’s
a bitch, 100%’s a breeze.
