办公桌前不做四件事
办公桌前不做四件事
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我们需要把我们的办公桌当成是一个工作台。
但在现实中，我们把所有的事情都在办公桌前完成，其中有很多并不属于工作(或在办公桌前不能产生最好的工作效率)。
下面是一些我尽量避免在办公桌前做的事情：
思考：
没有人能在办公桌前让他的大脑达到最佳的思考状态。如果你回忆一下你的那些最神奇的“啊哈！”时刻，能有几次是发生在你盯着电脑屏幕时刻的？如果你跟我一样，你的最佳思考状态应该出现在你远离办公桌的时候：散步的时候，去请教别人的时候，喝咖啡的时候，淋浴的时候。办公桌是让你去执行的，而思考请在别处进行。
社交：
坐在办公桌前的时候，我希望能进入一种工作的状态。我选出最重要、需要先处理的工作，希望能以最快的速度完成它们。在办公桌前社交玷污了工作台的纯洁。所以，我发现饮水休息间是一个社交的绝佳去处：如果你想活动活动，你可以起身离开工作台，到那里去闲聊什么的，那里是社交间——一个你可以和同事散步、闲聊的地方。
拖拉犯懒：
上QQ，看微博，浏览优酷，检查邮件，漫无目的地逛论坛。我认为这些休息、消遣是一天工作的重要组成部分。但是，我认为，保持办公桌做为工作的地方的纯洁性同等的重要。如果你想做一些“消遣”的事，我认为你最好离开办公桌，找个合适的地点在合适的时间，做什么都行。同样，当我们想犯懒时，抓住自己，问自己一个“为什么”，这样同等重要。是我们累了吗？饿了？厌倦了？遇到问题卡住了？犯困了？需要起身四处走走？找到你拖拉懒散的原因，解决它们。
坐下来休息：
一年多来我一直使用一个可以站着工作的桌子。我已经认识到，站立式的桌子的最大好处并不是让我整天站着；而是避免了我整天坐着。工作的时候我可以站，做，躺，金鸡独立。更大的好处是，当我遇到问题，需要做一些思考时(或累了需要休息时)，我可以随时走开。 很多作家都有一个私有的写作空间。这些地方提供一个目的：想写作时来这里。他们不在这里做其它事情。一旦他们写不下去了，他们会去其它地方做其它事情。我认为对待我们的办公桌也应该像这样：这是我们完成工作的地方。
你对此有什么见解？
原文在这里
We need to think of our desks as workstations.
In reality, we do all sorts of things at our desks that aren’t real work (or affect our ability to produce our best work).
Here are things I’m trying to quit doing at my desk:
Thinking:
Nobody does their best thinking sitting at their desk. When you reflect on your biggest “Ah-Ha!” moments, how many of them occurred while you were staring at a screen? If you’re like me, your best thinking happens when you’re not at your desk: taking a walk, going and asking another person for help, drinking a coffee, in the shower. Your desk is for executing; do your thinking elsewhere.
Socializing:
When I sit down at my desk, I want to be in work mode. I want to prioritize my most important tasks, and then complete them with the fastest velocity possible. Socializing while I’m at my desk sullies the purity of the workstation. This is why the water cooler is actually a brilliant social construct: when you want to hang out, you can get up from your workstation and go to the socialstation. I think every office should have a socialstation, a place (or time in the morning) where team members can hang out, and talk informally.
Procrastinating:
Check Facebook, check Twitter, go on YouTube, check email, mindlessly read blog posts. I think that breaks, and downtime, are important in a work day. But again: I think maintaing the purity of my desk as a place where I work is important. If I need some “mindless” time, I think it’s better to walk away from my desk and have a place and time limit where I do that. It’s also important that we catch ourselves when procrastinating and ask ourselves: “Why?” Are we procrastinating because we’re tired? Hungry? Bored? Are we stuck on a problem? Are we just feeling lethargic and need to get up and move around? Figure out what’s at the source of your mindless net browsing, and deal with the problem.
Sitting:
for the past 18 months I’ve been using a standing desk. I’ve realized that the best part isn’t that I’m standing all day; it’s that I’m not sitting. A standing desk allows you to stand, sit, lean, and put one leg up while you’re at your workstation. Even better, I’ve felt more freedom to just walk away when I’m faced with a problem and need to do some thinking (or when I’m tired and need a break). Many writers maintain a private writing hut. The hut has one purpose: it’s the place they go to write. They don’t do anything else there. Once they can’t write any more, they go do something else. I think we need to think of our desks in the same way: these are places where we get work done.
What do you think?