Secret #6: They use a notebook.
秘诀6：携带笔记本
Richard Branson has said on more than one occasion that he wouldn't have been able to build Virgin without a simple notebook, which he takes with him wherever he goes. In one interview, Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis said, "Always carry a notebook. Write everything down…That is a million dollar lesson they don't teach you in business school!" Ultra-productive people free their mind by writing everything down.
理查德•布兰森曾不止一次说过,他和笔记本形影不离,没有他就没有维珍公司.在一次采访中,希腊航运巨头亚里士多德•奥纳西斯也说："随身带个笔记本,随时记下任何事……你在任何商学院都学不到！"高效率的人通过记录发生的所有事情,解放了自己的思想.
Secret #7: They process email only a few times a day.
秘诀7：少看邮件
Ultra-productive people don't "check" email throughout the day. They don't respond to each vibration or ding to see who has intruded their inbox. Instead, like everything else, they schedule time to process their email quickly and efficiently. For some that's only once a day, for me, it's morning, noon and night.
高效率的人不会一整天都在浏览邮件,也不会一接收到提示就去查看是谁发来邮件.相反,他们会安排特定时间迅速高效地处理这些邮件.对一些人来说可能是一天一次,我自己则会在早中晚各查看一次.
Secret #8: They avoid meetings at all costs.
秘诀8：推掉无意义的会议
When I asked Mark Cuban to give me his best productivity advice, he quickly responded, "Never take meetings unless someone is writing a check." Meetings are notorious time killers. They start late, have the wrong people in them, meander in their topics and run long. You should get out of meetings whenever you can, hold fewer of them yourself, and if you do run a meeting, keep it short.
当我向马克•库班寻求建议时,他很快告诉我："别去参加乱七八糟的会议,除非有人给钱."有些会议是时间杀手人尽皆知,它们开始得迟,参会人员也乱,讨论话题漫无目的,持续得倒是很久.只要你可以推掉就别去开什么会了,会议主持得越少越好.如果迫不得已必须上阵,无需赘言,点到即可.
Secret #9: They say "no" to almost everything.
秘诀9：几乎所有事情都可拒绝
Billionaire Warren Buffet once said, "The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say 'no' to almost everything." And James Altucher colorfully gave me this tip,"If something is not a "hell, YEAH! Then it's a "no!"
