QA问答：如果你每天只有 15 分钟使你的头脑更敏锐，你应该做什么？_风闻

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Hector Quintanilla

I’m teaching my kids to analyze how the world works.

It’s easy. Opportunities are all around us. For example, I took my 12-year-old this morning to the doctor.

We were greeted by the receptionist.

“What’s her job?” I asked him.

My boy sat quietly observing the lady’s activities.

“She receives phone calls and in charge of customers who walk in.”

“Good,” I said, “Who’s her boss?”

He used his common sense, “The doctor?” He guessed.

“Well, yes,” I answered, “She works for the doctor, but her immediate boss is the lady sitting back there,” I said while pointing to the back, “She’s the doctor’s office manager.”

我正在教我的孩子们分析世界是如何运作的。

这很容易，这种教学的机会就在我们身边。例如，今天早上我带我 12 岁的孩子去看医生。

接待员向我们问候。

“她的工作是什么？” 我问他

我的孩子静静地坐着观察这位女士的活动。

“她接听电话并负责接待走进来的顾客。”

“很好，”我说，“她的老板是谁？”

他用他的常识，“医生？” 他猜测道。

“嗯，是的，”我回答说，“她为医生工作，但她的顶头上司是坐在后面的那位女士，”我指着后面说，“她是医生办公室的经理。”

A nurse opened a door and called out, “Quintanilla?”

We stood up and passed to a small room where the nurse checked my son’s vitals and his weight.

“The doctor will be with you any minute now,” she smiled as she walked out.

“What’s her job?” I asked my boy.

“She’s getting me ready for the doctor.”

“That’s right, but why does the doctor need her?”

“She’s a good helper?” he answered.

“What benefit does the doctor get with her help?

“She saves him time?” He said guessing.

“Exactly! The doctor saved 10 minutes of his valuable time by having her check all your vitals.”

一名护士打开一扇门，叫道：“金塔尼利亚？”

我们站起来，经过一个小房间，护士在那里检查了我儿子的生命体征和体重。

“医生马上就来。”她笑着走出去。

“她的工作是什么？” 我问我的孩子。

“她让我准备好去看医生。”

“没错，但医生为什么需要她？”

“她是个好帮手？”他回答。

“医生得到她的帮助有什么好处？

“她帮他节省时间？”他说猜测。

“确切地！医生让她检查了你所有的生命体征，节省了他 10 分钟的宝贵时间。”

The doctor walked in. He greeted us and started asking questions.

He read the nurse’s report.

A few minutes later, he said, “OK, you’re good to go now, everything looks good. Take care!”

And just like that, he was gone.

“What’s his job?” I asked my boy.

“Well, Dad, he’s the doctor. He’s the one who knows about all the medicines people need to stay healthy.”

The nurse returned. She walked us back to the main office. The office manager showed me the invoice and took my payment.

医生走了进来。他向我们打招呼并开始提问。

他读了护士的报告。

几分钟后，他说，“好的，你现在可以走了，一切看起来都很好。小心！”

就这样，他走了。

“他的工作是什么？” 我问我的孩子。

“嗯，爸爸，他是医生。他知道人们保持健康所需的所有药物。”

护士回来了。她带我们回到办公室。办公室经理给我看了发票并收了我的钱。

“What’s her job?” I asked my boy.

My son laughed, “You told me that, Dad! She’s the office manager.”

“Ohh, that’s true, I forgot that,” I joked as we walked out of the building.

Now, to answer your question, ‘If you only had 15 minutes to sharpen your mind everyday, what should you do?’

To sharpen your mind daily, be more curious, more analytical.

You will be surprised how much you can learn by asking yourself very simple questions every place you walk in.

In a restaurant? Ask questions!

Traveling? Ask questions!

In the supermarket? Ask questions!

Be analytical… Sharpen your mind!

“她的工作是什么？” 我问我的孩子。

我儿子笑了：“你告诉我的，爸爸！她是办公室主任。”

“哦，那是真的，我忘了，”我们走出大楼时我开玩笑说。

现在，回答你的问题，“如果你每天只有 15 分钟来磨练你的头脑，你应该做什么？”

每天磨练你的头脑，变得更加好奇，更加善于分析。

你会惊讶地发现，无论你走到哪里，只要问自己一些非常简单的问题，你就能学到很多东西。

在一家餐馆？问问题！

旅行？问问题！

在超市？问问题！

善于分析……磨练你的头脑！

Ahmed Eehab

Most of us encounter a lot of people every day.

Whether it is your mom or friend or a colleague or a client, we converse with these people on some level.

The value in sharpening our minds, is to sharpen our decision making, to help us make good, rational, smart, wise decisions.

But how do you stay focused?

How do you keep your emotions controlled regardless of what emotions the other person shows? It is a lot simpler than what we think.

When talking to someone, whenever the other person talks, start asking in your head the question ‘why?’.

“Why is this person saying what s/he is saying? “

我们大多数人每天都会遇到很多人。

无论是您的妈妈、朋友、同事还是客户，我们都会在某种程度上与这些人交谈。

磨砺我们思想的价值在于磨砺我们的决策能力，帮助我们做出良好、理性、明智的决定。

但是你如何保持专注呢？

无论对方表现出什么情绪，你如何控制自己的情绪？这比我们想象的要简单得多。

与某人交谈时，每当对方讲话时，开始在脑海中问“为什么？”。

“为什么这个人说他/她所说的话？“

There is almost always a motive behind every sentence we speak when we are conversing with someone. A lot of the times these sentences are also layered with emotions. And believe me, most of us are very transparent in that sense. Look into the person’s eyes and ask your self the motive of or the reason for every sentence s/he says. Combine that reason in context to the emotion they display.

We all are sales people on some level.

We make sales every day. Did you convince your friend to fetch you a cup of coffee on the way to work? You made a sale. Did you convince your girlfriend to watch the horror movie with you instead of the comedy? You made a sale.

Did your mom make you eat the vegetables while you wanted the fries? Even mom made a sale.

So, at least for 15 minutes a day, do this exercise when you talk to someone. You will be a better listener, appealing to talk to, make winning sales, and most importantly, make better decisions.

当我们与某人交谈时，我们所说的每一句话背后几乎总是有动机。很多时候，这些句子也充满了情感。相信我，从这个意义上说，我们大多数人都非常透明。看着对方的眼睛，问问自己他/她说的每句话的动机或原因。将这种原因与他们表现出的情感结合起来。

在某种程度上，我们都是销售人员。

我们每天都在做销售。你有没有说服你的朋友在上班的路上给你拿杯咖啡？你做了一笔交易。你有没有说服你的女朋友和你一起看恐怖片而不是喜剧片？你做了一笔交易。

当你想吃薯条时，你妈妈有没有让你吃蔬菜？你妈妈也有了一比交易。

因此，每天至少花 15 分钟，在与某人交谈时进行此练习。您将成为一个更好的倾听者，更有吸引力地与之交谈，赢得销售，最重要的是，做出更好的决定。

Jeremy Hadfield

You don’t need to practice brain games. You don’t need to learn quantum mechanics. You don’t need to take freezing showers every morning or read a hundred books a year. You don’t need to wake up at 3 am to carry an overweight pig while doing sprints up and down Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Those things may help. Actually, upgrade that “may” to “probably will.”

But they’re not essential. And just one single practice is more impactful than all of them: deliberately setting your intention.

Why is this one behavior so high-impact? Because, by definition, it helps you achieve what you want. You can practice gazillions of ‘mind-sharpening hacks’ (from frigid showers to productivity courses), but if you aren’t deliberately aiming your mind toward your intentions and desires then they will never happen.

A key metaphor here is velocity vs speed. Speed is a scalar value (magnitude only), while velocity is a vector (magnitude and direction).

你不需要练习脑力游戏。你不需要学习量子力学。你不需要每天早上都洗个冰凉的澡，或者一年读一百本书。您无需在凌晨 3 点起床背着一头超重的猪在乞力马扎罗山上下冲刺。

这些东西可能会有所帮助。实际上，将“可能”升级为“可能会”。

但它们不是必需的。只有一种做法比所有这些做法都更有影响力：有意识地设定你的意图。

为什么这一行为影响如此之大？因为，根据定义，它可以帮助您实现您想要的。你可以练习无数的“思维敏锐技巧”（从冷水淋浴到生产力课程），但如果你不刻意将你的思想对准你的意图和愿望，那么它们永远不会发生。

这里的一个关键比喻是速率和速度。速度是标量值（仅大小），而速度是矢量（大小和方向）。

In life, speed does not matter; only velocity (speed + direction). Absolute speed is unimportant unless you are traveling in your intended direction.

You could ‘get your brain jacked’ with all these mind-sharpening techniques. But why care, if you’re not using that newfound brain muscle to further your intentions? Sharpening your brain without setting intention is like spinning your wheels in a Ferrari: it doesn’t matter how powerful your engine is if you aren’t applying the wheels to a surface with traction.

In the same way spinning out is a waste of the engine’s power, most of us waste our mental resources. Of course, the “you only use 10% of your brain” concept is a misguided myth. We use 100% of our brain. But we don’t use it for the purposes with the most impact on our lives.

In other words, we don’t set our intentions. We run on autopilot.

Enough of the vague self-help writing. How can you use your brain to its full potential for the purpose you want? What actionable steps can anyone practice to sharpen their intentions?

在生活中，速率并不重要；只有速度（速度+方向）是重要的。绝对速度并不重要，除非您正朝着预定的方向行驶。

你可以用所有这些头脑敏锐的技巧来“让你的大脑被劫持”。但是，如果您没有使用新发现的大脑肌肉来推进您的意图，那么为什么还要关心这些呢？在没有设定意图的情况下磨砺你的大脑就像在法拉利中转动你的轮子：如果你不将轮子施加到具有牵引力的表面上，那么你的引擎有多强大都没用。

以同样的方式旋转出去是对引擎动力的浪费，我们大多数人都在浪费我们的脑力资源。当然，“你只使用了大脑的 10%”的概念是一个被误导的神话。我们使用了 100% 的大脑。但我们不会将其用于对我们的生活影响最大的目的上。

换句话说，我们没有设定我们的意图。我们依靠自动驾驶仪运行。

这些模糊的自助写作已经够多了。你怎样才能充分发挥大脑的潜能达到你想要达到的目的呢？人们可以采取哪些可行的步骤来强化他们的意图？

Every week, have a “week in review.” In writing, reflect on the last week. Are you making progress towards you real purposes? In what ways are you wasting your time & mental effort on things that won’t bring you towards that purpose? Are you further along in your long-term life plans than you were last week? Then set your intention and focus for the next week.

Be ruthless in cutting out things that don’t drive you towards your intentions. Focus is the art of saying no to almost everything. For a few moments before each activity in your day, have an honest uation. Is this activity helping you toward a specific goal or purpose? If not, consider it something you’re doing on autopilot, not out of intention. Then cut it out.

每周进行“一周回顾”。以书面形式反思上周。你在朝着真正的目标前进吗？你在哪些方面浪费时间和精力在不会让你达到那个目的的事情上？与上周相比，你的长期人生计划是否更进一步？然后设定下周的意图和重点。

毫不留情地剔除那些不会驱使你朝着你的意图前进的事情。专注是对几乎所有事情说不的生活艺术。在一天中的每项活动之前的几分钟内，进行诚实的评估。这项活动是否有助于您实现特定目标或目的？如果不是，请考虑这是你在自动驾驶仪上做的事情，而不是出于故意。然后把它去除掉。

Each morning for a few minutes, decide on a single focus. One of the most difficult actions to do in the morning is limit your daily goals to a single item. It forces you to be fully responsible for that goal. You can’t justify failing to complete it by saying to yourself “I had other things to focus on.” You’ll notice that this adds powerful focus to your day. Triaging your priorities will help you get more done. And it reduces stress by preventing the overwhelming creep of more and more goals and to-do list items.

Number 1 takes about 30 minutes a week. Number 2 takes about 5 minutes a day. Number 3 takes about 5 minutes a day. That’s an average of 15 minutes a day for radical improvements.

A habit of intention and reflection may not make you “faster” in terms of absolute speed. But it will increase velocity in your intended direction.

每天早上花几分钟时间，确定一个焦点。早上最难做的事情之一就是将你的每日目标限制在一个项目上。这样会迫使你对那个目标负全部责任。你不能通过对自己说“我还有其他事情要关注”来为未能完成这个项目进行辩护。您会注意到这为您的一天增添了强大的注意力。对您的优先事项进行分类将帮助您完成更多工作。它通过防止越来越多的目标和待办事项列表项目的压倒性蔓延来减轻压力。

第一种方法是每周花30分钟。第二种方法每天花5分钟。第三种方法每天花5分钟。也就是说，平均每天15分钟就能彻底改善。

意图和反思的习惯可能不会让你在绝对速度方面“更快”，但它会增加你预期方向的速度。