We live in the digital age, where the rhythm is as fast as an electric flint, seemingly uninterrupted, and time is shattered into bits and bytes.
Our love of breadth outweighs our focus on depth, and we focus on speed of response but are reluctant to think deeply.
We linger on the surface of things, satisfying a moment of pleasure that stops, but almost never long.
We scramble on the road of life, but we are stingy to think about the goal or direction for a moment.
We are caught up in business, but we are always exhausted.
Most people just want to do what they can, and when life's demands are beyond our capabilities, we will look at the status quo and propose expedient measures, which may work well in the short term, while the negative effects tend to emerge slowly in the long term.
We skimp on sleep, fill our stomachs with take-away fast food, refresh with coffee, and relax with alcohol and sleeping pills.
Faced with the endless demand for work, we become irritable and irritable, and it is difficult to concentrate.
At the end of a long day, we drag our tired bodies back home, and often find that the family is no longer a source of joy and strength, but only another burden on the overloaded life.
We carry our calendars and to-do lists with us, carry handhelds and BlackBerry phones, and instant messaging and reminder windows fill computer screens.
These are great inventions originally designed to help humanity better manage time.
We pride ourselves on our ability to multitask and consider long hours of desk work as a badge of honor. "All-weather" can describe this world of continuous rotation. "Obsessed", "crazy", "collapsed" is no longer a psychological term, and has now become a label word for daily life.
Time is never enough, and our only recourse is to squeeze as hard as possible every day.
However, new problems arise, and even efficient time management cannot ensure that we have enough energy to deal with everything.
All of our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors have a positive or negative effect on energy. The ultimate quality of life is not measured by lifespan, but by how we invest our energy in the time we have.
Source: Jim Lore, Tony Schwartz, Energy Management, Chapter 1