Disappear For 2-4 Hours A Day (The Millionaire Productivity Routine) - YouTube

Block out one hour a day, work on one meaningful project, aim for one vision for your future. Take it one day at a time. You don't need more motivation, you need more clarity, you don't need more time, you need more focus. This video will teach you how to unlock insane focus on demand. And the reason for making this is because most people think that they have to work like a millionaire in order to become a millionaire. But the first misunderstanding there is that most people don't know how millionaires work. And there are two examples of this, the first being Sam Altman from OpenAI. Quoting Sam, focus is a force multiplier on work. Almost everyone I've ever met would be well served by spending more time thinking about what to focus on.

每天预留一小时，专注于一个有意义的项目，朝着一个未来愿景前进。一天一天地来。你不需要更多的动力，而是需要更多的清晰；你不需要更多的时间，而是需要更多的专注。这个视频将教你如何在需要时激发惊人的专注力。制作这个视频的原因是，大多数人认为必须像百万富翁那样工作才能成为百万富翁。但首先的误解在于，大多数人不知道百万富翁是如何工作的。有两个例子，第一个是来自OpenAI的Sam Altman。引用Sam的话，专注是工作的力量倍增器。我认识的几乎所有人都可以通过花更多时间思考该专注什么而受益。

It is much more important to work on the right thing than it is to work many hours. Most people waste most of their time on stuff that doesn't matter. Once you have figured out what to do, be unstoppable about getting your small handful of priorities accomplished quickly. I have yet to meet a slow-moving person who is very successful. And a second example is Tej Dosa, who is a low key copywriter and just a cool guy to follow on Twitter. I know an entrepreneur who works 14 hours a day and is stuck living in the basement. I know an entrepreneur who works 5 hours a day and is built and sold 3 companies for 100 million plus each. The value isn't in how many hours you work, but where you focus your attention, awareness, consciousness.

比起长时间工作，做正确的事情更为重要。大多数人浪费了大部分时间在无关紧要的事情上。一旦你找到了要做的事，就要坚定不移地快速完成少数几项优先事项。我还没有遇到一个行动缓慢却非常成功的人。另一个例子是Tej Dosa，他是一个低调的文案写手，也是Twitter上一个很酷的人。我认识一个企业家，每天工作14个小时，却还困在地下室里生活。还有一个企业家，每天只工作5个小时，却已经建立并出售了3家公司，每家公司都超过1亿。价值不在于工作了多少小时，而在于你把注意力、意识、精力集中在哪里。

And third is myself. I would argue that 90% to 95% of my work days are 4 hours or less. Sometimes they go down to 2, sometimes they go up to 6. Sometimes when I'm building something, they go up to 12, but honestly never usually that much. Like I take breaks in between that. So the point here is that you don't need more time than you already have. That's the realization you need to make if your excuse is time to that is preventing you from actually starting building your dreams. Because it doesn't make sense. It's impossible to have more time than you have.

第三点是我自己。我认为我的工作日有 90% 到 95%的时间是 4 小时或更少。有时工作时间会降到 2 小时，有时会增加到 6 小时。当我在建造某些东西时，工作时间有时会增加到 12 小时，但实际上很少有这么长。我在中间会休息。所以重点是，你不需要比现在更多的时间。如果你因为时间问题而无法开始追逐梦想，那么你需要意识到这一点。因为这个理由不成立，你不可能拥有比现在更多的时间。

Everyone starts somewhere. People don't start with a fake millionaire routine. They start with what they have. So while I've mostly worked for 4 hours a day, up until now, it wasn't like that when I was just starting out. I didn't have 12 hours a day. I didn't have 4 hours a day. I worked a job. I had other responsibilities. I was building something on the side. During that time, I worked for 1-2 hours a day and that's what led to this. The entrepreneurs that decide to work more usually enjoy working more.

每个人都要从某个起点开始。人们不会一开始就假装自己是百万富翁，而是从手头现有的资源起步。所以虽然到目前为止我大多数时候每天只工作4个小时，但刚开始时并不是这样的。当时我没有每天12小时的时间，也没有每天4小时的时间。我有一份工作，还有其他的责任，我是在业余时间打造自己的事业。在那段时间里，我每天工作1-2个小时，而这正是我取得今天成就的原因。那些决定工作更多的创业者通常是因为他们享受长时间的工作。

And a lot of them, I mean, I preach the 4-hour workday as if it's a fit for everyone. Because that's how you get the point across. You'd be confident and somewhat polarizing so people actually, so your words don't get watered down and people actually get used from them. So I understand why entrepreneurs that work a lot of time tell people to work a lot of time. This is the birth of hustle culture. But oftentimes, the people that feel like they have to work a long time and try to force themselves to work a long time and they don't see that work as a play, it's often at their own psychological expense. They are lacking quality in their work because they are working too long.

很多时候，我宣扬每天工作4小时，好像这是适合所有人的方法。因为这样可以更清晰地传达观点。你需要自信且稍显极端，这样你的话才不会被淡化，人们也能真正从中受益。我能理解那些长时间工作的企业家为什么会告诉别人也要长时间工作，这就是“奋斗文化”的诞生。然而，很多人觉得自己必须长时间工作，强迫自己这样做，但他们并没有享受工作的过程，这往往会对他们的心理产生负面影响。由于工作时间过长，他们的工作质量实际上会下降。

And therefore, if their work were higher quality, they would see better results in less time with less work and their life would just be all around better. Productivity is like fitness and you wouldn't train 8 hours a day with no food or sleep and expect to make progress. There are two types of work. First is building. When you are building the foundation of something new, like a product, service, or brand, this requires a lot of upfront work. The second is maintenance. When you are feeling the foundation you've built with a streamlined productivity system, like writing content, marketing yourself, building an audience, or fulfilling on your product or service, this requires 1 to 4 hours a day depending on your skill level or choice of work.

因此，如果他们的工作质量更高，他们将能在更少的时间内取得更好的结果，同时付出更少的努力，他们的生活也会变得更加美好。生产力就像健身，你不会期望每天训练8小时而不进食或不睡觉还能取得进展。工作分为两种类型。第一种是建设。当你在建立新事物的基础，如产品、服务或品牌时，这需要大量的前期工作。第二种是维护。当你通过精简的生产力系统维护你已建立的基础时，比如写内容、进行自我营销、建立观众群或履行你的产品或服务，这通常需要每天1到4个小时，具体取决于你的技能水平或工作选择。

People trying to change their life or quit their job often get discouraged at the amount of work it takes to build, not maintain. And people don't understand that building isn't a permanent thing. It may be 6 weeks of working extra or working more on the weekends and maintaining things along the way. But it's not permanent. That's not your permanent state. That's something you do maybe once or twice a year to reverse entropy of your business and keep yourself alive and relevant and to keep new revenue generating. So I'll actually be writing about this in a future newsletter and therefore a future video. But I will be talking about Co's Law, my name law, which is a spinoff of Parkinson's Law, which is work expands to fill the time allotted for completion. Co's Law is the next level of that. It's the evolution, it's transcendence of your work.

人们在尝试改变生活或辞职时，往往在面对大量的工作量时感到灰心，因为这些工作是为了建立而不是维持。而人们常常不了解，建立并不是一个永久的状态。这可能意味着需要花费六周的时间在工作日外加班或在周末多工作，同时还要维持现有的事物。但这并不是一种永久状态。这只是一年中你可能会做一两次的事情，用来逆转企业的熵增，保持自我生机和相关性，并确保新的收入来源。因此，我会在未来的时事通讯中写到这个话题，也会在未来的视频中讨论它。不过，我还会谈到“Co’s Law”，这是我的命名法则，是对“帕金森定律”的演绎。帕金森定律指出，工作会扩展以占满完成它所需的时间。而“Co’s Law”是这个定律的进化版，是你的工作在超越中的体现。

So Co's Law is work evolves to earn more in the same amount of time allotted for it so that you can maintain your 4 hours and make more money because your work has to evolve to account for that as your skill set increases. And with that, you need to understand that with the building and maintenance work that focus compounds and you get better at what you're doing with time. When you build one thing, it takes two weeks. When you build the second thing, it takes two days. When you build the third thing, it takes two hours. Nobody starts building the first thing that takes two weeks so they never give themselves the chance to build the third thing that takes two hours. Focused work is only one part of changing your life.

So Co's法则表示，工作会不断发展以在相同的时间内赚取更多的钱，从而使你可以保持每天4小时的工作时间并赚取更多的收入。随着你的技能提升，你的工作也需要不断进化来适应这个变化。而且你需要明白，在建设和维护工作中，专注是会有复利效应的，随着时间推移，你会越来越擅长自己的工作。当你建造第一件东西时，可能需要两周；当你建造第二件东西时，可能只需要两天；当你建造第三件东西时，可能只需两个小时。很多人没有从需要两周的第一件东西开始，所以他们永远没有机会建造需要两个小时的第三件东西。专注的工作只是改变你生活的一部分。

Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation. You see, after losing a few hairs and my already high genetic hairline receding a bit further, I had an existential crisis even though I probably didn't actually lose anything. My hairline was just that bad. After worrying for weeks on end because I was overly identified with my glorious hair and researching the buzz cut with hopes to look like Joe Delaney, I decided to cut off the piece of myself that lived on my head to see if my worries would hold their weight. And I just wanted to know what I look like.

是的，那是我。你可能在想，我怎么会陷入这种境地。你看，在掉了几根头发之后，我本来就高的发际线又往后退了一点，尽管我可能实际上没丢什么。但我的发际线实在是糟糕透了。由于我过于在意自己那曾经辉煌的头发，加上连续好几个星期的担忧，我决定去研究一下剃光头，希望能像乔·德莱尼那样好看。于是，我决定割舍掉头上的这一部分自己，看看我的担忧是否有道理。而且，我也只是想知道自己看起来会是什么样子。

Your mind is a supercomputer and your attention is the RAM. Thoughts, regrets, and tasks are the programs slowing your performance. Writing, mindfulness, and focus are the reboot you can access at any time. RAM, R-A-M, or Random Access Memory is one of the most important parts of the computer because it determines performance. The more RAM you use up with different programs running, open browser tabs, and the performance requirements of what you have running, the slower your performance will be. This is no different from your focus or what you hold in your conscious attention. Humans can process 50 bits of information per second, which adds up to around this is approximate 125 billion bits in their lifetime. I talk about all of this in my book The Art of Focus, which is a philosophy for working less, earning more, and enjoying life. Focus is only one part of it and focus is so much more than just deep work. There's one chapter on deep work in the book. The rest is the holistic philosophy for living a better life, doing what you want, creating your own career, not being a signed one, and just doing the things you've always wanted to do and how to navigate that mentally, and become, build that mental strength and emotional resilience.

你的大脑是一台超级计算机，而你的注意力就是它的内存（RAM）。各种想法、遗憾和任务就像在拖慢你运行速度的程序。写作、正念和专注就如同能随时访问的重启按钮。RAM，全称随机存取存储器，是计算机中最重要的部分之一，因为它决定了计算机的性能。使用过多RAM来运行不同的程序和浏览器标签，会导致性能变慢。这和你的注意力或意识中的内容没有什么不同。人类每秒钟可以处理大约50位的信息，这一生大约可以处理1250亿位的信息。 这些内容都可以在我的书《专注的艺术》中找到，这是一本关于如何减少工作时间、增加收入和享受生活的哲学书籍。专注只是其中的一部分，专注不仅仅是深入工作。书中有一章讲深入工作，其余内容是关于如何通过整体的生活哲学过上更好的生活，做你想做的事，创造属于自己的事业，而不是被动接受，如何去实现你一直梦想做的事情，如何在心理上导航这些挑战，建立心理韧性和情感弹性。

Most people live with multiple high demand programs running that are draining the limited creative energy they have. Thoughts about regretful past mistakes, thoughts about stressful future happenings, desires for hunger and entertainment to escape those thoughts, an internal cry to break out of their conditioned way of living, a list of mixed priority tasks that need to be finished, and open loops of tasks they were supposed to complete but forgot about. The list goes on and on. The modern mind has its attention split in infinite directions by default. We go about our lives stressed out and near sickness rather than living with singular focus.

大多数人生活在多重高需求程序的折磨下，它们消耗了我们有限的创造力。比如后悔过去的失误，担心未来的压力，渴望用食物和娱乐来逃避这些想法，内心渴望摆脱被惯性支配的生活方式，一堆要完成的杂乱任务，还有那些应该完成却忘记了的待办事项。这种情况层出不穷。现代人的注意力天生就被分散到无数方向。我们在生活中感到压力重重，几近崩溃，而不是专注地生活。

And what I mean by singular focus is it's like a funnel, it's like a cone where your mind is open to your vision for your ideal future, and it is focused on the present steps that you were taking to get there. And along the way, the clarity that you have to create and maintain to prevent your mind from declining into chaos are the goals, the skills, the education, the awareness that you gain along that path, and you can't expect to know everything along that path. That's why it's open to the future, having faith and trust in your ability and taking action on a daily basis to get there. If you understand entropy, you understand that by doing nothing with your life, you choose to slowly drown in chaos. You don't stay the same, you dig yourself deeper into a hole without trying.

我的意思是单一的专注就像一个漏斗或圆锥，你的心态既开放于理想未来的愿景，同时也专注于达成未来目标的当前步骤。在这个过程中，你需要创造和保持清晰的头脑，以防止自己陷入混乱。而这种清晰主要包括目标、技能、教育和沿途你所获得的认知。你不能期望在这条路上知道一切，这也是为什么要对未来保持开放心态，信任自己的能力并每天采取行动去实现目标。如果你理解熵的概念，你就会明白在生活中过于闲散将导致你慢慢陷入混乱。你不会停留在原地，而会在不努力中越陷越深。

The good life demands consistent effort toward your own goals. Entropy is the supreme law of the universe and without getting too complicated, entropy is that everything tends toward disorder or chaos or everything falls apart with time. Everything around you, the building you're in, your skin, your hair, the food in your fridge, the cleanliness of your bed, the cleanliness of your room, it's all going to tend toward chaos unless you put focus and effort into solving the problems that lead to it being better or it being maintained. Now, entropy is the driving force of evolution, since everything tends toward, let's say death, we are aware of that. And out of fear, we are pushing towards something related to immortality or youth extension and problem solving is the way we do that, right? If things didn't tend toward disorder, we would not be in the situation we are today. We wouldn't have any motivation to do anything. We wouldn't have a reason to be here. We wouldn't have a purpose. Our purpose is to solve the problems that lead to the dissolution of barriers in our own minds so that we can pass those lessons down and solve problems in other people's lives to remove the limits from their minds. That's what a problem is. It is a limit on your mind and potential. And once it is solved, you increase your level of mind or level of consciousness so that you can navigate the world better and lead to a better humanity. And if this is done on an individual level across the globe by, let's say one vessel to do this is a personal brand, the creator economy, writing, putting your word out there to help other people selling a product so you earn a meaningful income like I always talk about by solving your own problems and selling the solution, which we'll talk about in the next video. That's what I mean. Entropy is important.

好的生活需要持续不断地朝着自己的目标努力。熵是宇宙的最高法则，简单来说，熵意味着一切都倾向于无序或混乱，或者说随着时间的推移，一切都会崩溃。你周围的一切，无论是你所在的建筑、你的皮肤、你的头发、冰箱里的食物、床的整洁程度、房间的清洁程度，都会倾向于混乱，除非你投入精力和努力去解决这些问题，使一切变得更好或保持良好状态。 熵是进化的驱动力，因为一切都趋向于死亡，我们对此有清楚的认知。出于对死亡的恐惧，我们努力追求某种形式的不朽或延长青春，而解决问题是实现这一目标的方法。如果事物不倾向于混乱，我们今天就不会处于当前的境地。我们不会有任何动机去做任何事情，也不会有任何存在的理由或目的。 我们的目的是解决那些导致精神障碍的问题，使我们能够传授这些教训，并解决他人生活中的问题，从而消除他们心中的限制。这就是问题的本质：它是对你的心智和潜力的限制。一旦问题解决，你的心智或意识水平就会提升，让你更好地驾驭世界，从而带来更美好的未来。 如果这种努力能够在全球个体层面上实现，比如通过一个个人品牌、创作者经济、写作、发表观点帮助他人，或者通过售卖产品获得有意义的收入，像我常说的那样，通过解决自己的问题并销售解决方案，那么我们将在下一个视频中讨论这些内容。这就是我的意思：熵很重要。

Now, if you don't put effort into cleaning something like your room, eventually with time, it's just naturally going to turn into a disgusting nest of filth. So related to the mind and psychic entropy, most people's minds are a disgusting nest of filth because they don't take the care to solve their own problems. They focus on them. It multiplies and it ruins their life because they can't zoom out and practice what I talk about in my book to learn how to navigate their mind. You aren't productive because you don't have clarity. You aren't productive because you focus on one distraction. Don't correct yourself and slowly become overwhelmed by the chaos in your mind. Distractions are problems in your productivity system that must be solved if you want to unlock laser focus. There are two ways to identify distractions and correct yourself. These are boredom and anxiety. So here is a graphic that I've shown multiple times before.

现在，如果你不努力去打扫房间，随着时间的推移，它自然会变成一个肮脏的巢穴。与此类似，在心智和心理熵方面，大多数人的心灵就像一个肮脏的巢穴，因为他们没有花心思去解决自己的问题。他们总是专注在问题上，结果问题越来越多，最终毁掉了他们的生活，因为他们无法抽身出来，去实践我在书中提到的如何导航自己心智的方法。你之所以没有效率，是因为你没有清晰的思路。你没有效率，是因为你总是被一个个干扰所困扰。你不去纠正自己，慢慢地被心中的混乱所淹没。干扰是你生产力系统中的问题，如果你想要获得极致的专注，就必须解决这些问题。有两种方法可以识别干扰并纠正自己，即无聊和焦虑。所以这里有一个我多次展示的图表。

This is adapted from me high to accept me high from his book flow. On the y-axis up and down, there's the challenge level on the x-axis left and right. There's the skill level. If the challenge is too high, but your skill is too low, you are going to get anxious or self-conscious. And if your skill is too high, but the challenge is too low, you're going to get bored or your focus is going to be self-centered. But when you live at your edge, when you live at the edge of your abilities and you pursue a challenge or a problem that you want to solve, and your skill is up to par with that. This is when you feel good. This is when all of this life stuff makes sense because the flow state, arguably AP experience, a spiritual experience, once you tap into that state, I believe that's nature signal that you are doing something right. And so if this aligns with entropy and problem solving and by continuously solving more complex problems that increase the complexity of your mind and therefore ripple out to the minds around you when you interact with people because ideas replicate. We reproduce on a spiritual level as well.

这是我从他的书《心流》中提取和改编过来的内容。纵轴（上下方向）表示挑战水平，横轴（左右方向）表示技能水平。当挑战过高而技能不足时，你会变得焦虑或自我意识过强。当技能过高而挑战不足时，你会感到无聊或注意力变得自我中心化。但当你处于能力的极限，追求一个你想解决的挑战或问题，并且你的技能足以应对时，这时候你会感觉非常好。这是所有生活事情都有意义的时候，因为处于“心流”状态，可能是一种高级体验，甚至是一种精神体验。一旦进入这种状态，我相信这是大自然在告诉你，你做对了事情。如果这与熵（混乱度）和问题解决相一致，通过不断解决更复杂的问题，可以增加你心灵的复杂性，并在你与他人互动时影响他们的心灵，因为想法会传播。在精神层面上，我们也会繁衍。

Every single word that I'm saying to you right now is forming your identity, which is your mental body, not your physical body. I'm not giving birth to a child. I am shaping the identities of people with the content that I'm creating. And then you are going to go and tell people these ideas, or you're going to just shape your words and actions because of them and you're going to move in a different life direction. And that is going to ripple out to hundreds of thousands, if not millions, if not billions of people in your lifetime, simply because of the network effect, whether you're online or not. If you are online and you're able to reach more people, then that number multiplies even more. So your actions matter and being in the flow state to lead evolution, it matters. So the balance between boredom and anxiety, let's make sense of boredom, how to notice if you're in the state, the boredom stems from self centeredness, your focus breaks, a new desire pops into your head and related thoughts start to fill your attention. If you are bored of the task, you will start thinking of better things you could be doing. That's what you're trying to notice.

我现在对你说的每一个字都在塑造你的身份，这是你的精神体，而不是你的物理身体。我不是在孕育一个孩子，而是通过我创造的内容在塑造人们的身份。然后，你会把这些想法告诉别人，或者你会因为这些想法而改变你的言辞和行动，从而走上一条不同的人生道路。这种影响将通过网络效应传播到成千上万，甚至数百万，甚至数十亿人，无论你是否在线。如果你在线，并能接触到更多人，那么这个数字会更大。因此，你的行为很重要，进入流状态以引领进化也很重要。那么，无聊和焦虑之间的平衡，我们来理解一下无聊的意义，如何注意到你是否处于这种状态。无聊源于以自我为中心，你的注意力会被打断，一个新的欲望会出现在你的脑海中，相关的想法开始占据你的注意力。如果你对任务感到无聊，你会开始想着你可以做的更好的事情。这就是你要试着注意的。

The anxiety stems from self consciousness, your focus turns inward and negative thoughts flood your mind about how you aren't good enough. If you look in the mirror and spot a pimple or hair that is going to be on your mind for the rest of the day, it will impact every other area of your life. The ram of your mental supercomputer will be consumed by rogue programs until your performance suffers as a whole. The chaos induced by boredom and anxiety can only be cured by clarity. When you have the skill and knowledge that matches the challenge of the task, life becomes a video game of quests that you love to play. Now, let's create your own productivity system under the philosophy of the four hour workday, which we will expand on in a few videos from now. And we have already talked about in multiple videos, humans find meaning in stories, humans love playing games. Why? Because they present a clear hierarchy of goals that our mind can adopt as an indestructible frame. They follow the curiosity, intensity, consistency, cycle of the universe. First, you're lost, then you're curious, then you're obsessed, then it's a consistent part of your life with little extra effort.

焦虑源于自我意识，你的注意力转向内在，负面想法充斥脑海，感觉自己不够好。如果你照镜子发现了一颗痘痘或一根乱发，那件事会萦绕你一整天，影响生活的方方面面。你的心理超级计算机的内存会被这些杂乱无章的程序占据，直到整体表现受到影响。只有通过清晰的目标，才能治愈焦虑和无聊带来的混乱。当你的技能和知识与任务的挑战相匹配时，生活仿佛变成了一个你热爱玩的任务类电子游戏。 现在，让我们在四小时工作日的理念下，创建你自己的生产力系统，我们将在后续的视频中详细探讨这一点。我们已经在多个视频中提到过，人类在故事中找到意义，人类喜欢玩游戏。为什么？因为游戏提供了一清晰的目标层次结构，我们的心智可以将其作为一个坚不可摧的框架。它们遵循宇宙的好奇、强度和一致性循环。首先，你迷失方向，然后你产生好奇，接着你变得痴迷，最后这成为你生活中的一部分，几乎不需要额外的努力。

Most people get lost, focus on distractions, and never put effort into a goal, even if they don't see the meaning in it yet to reverse the whole they're digging themselves into. Understand that nothing is perfect. There are bad lyrics of a good song. There are ugly pixels of a beautiful image. There are low stocks and a high mutual fund. It's like a story. Life is story. Life is song. Life is game. Uni verse one song. The universe is one song playing and it's harmonious. There are highs there are lows, but it is perfect. It is absolutely perfect. When you single something out, that is not going to be perfect. You having the perspective of reality or life or the universe is what makes life perfect. But when you focus in on something that's just a figment of consciousness or just an idea that we have labeled in our minds, then that's when imperfection starts to come into play. Because in a story, there are lows. There are lows, there are climaxes, there are there's death, there's decay, there's growth. We find most interest in the lows. We find most interest in the drama, but when it happens in our own lives, we hate it. Why?

大多数人迷失方向，专注于分心的事情，从未真正为一个目标努力，即使他们还未看到那个目标的意义来扭转他们所挖的深坑。你要明白，没有什么是完美的。好的歌曲也有坏的歌词，美丽的画面也有难看的像素，高回报的共同基金也有低价股票。这就像一个故事。生活是故事，生活是歌曲，生活是游戏。宇宙是一首歌，完美和谐。它有高潮，也有低谷，但它是完美的，绝对的完美。当你单独挑出某个事物时，它不可能是完美的。你对现实、生活或宇宙的视角是使生活完美的原因。但当你专注于意识的一个片段，或仅是我们头脑中标记的一个观念时，不完美就开始出现了。因为在一个故事里，有低谷，有高潮，有死亡，有衰败，也有成长。我们对低谷最感兴趣，对戏剧性最感兴趣，但当这些发生在我们自己的生活中时，我们却厌恶它。为什么？

Like a video game, you will have to progress from beginner to advanced by completing a series of quests to level up. It will take time. If you want maximum enjoyment in your focus and your work, here are the guidelines that you must have to create your productivity system. The first is identity or solving productive problems. Ever since I can remember, I've always had the goal of working four hours a day. A nine to five job was the bane of my existence. I observed society and realized the life I didn't want. I observed the successful and realized the life I did want. Over time, that perspective shaped my identity. I was attached to that desire of not working a job. And most people tell you desire is bad, but not if the outcome is positive, because the goals are the axis of your suffering. And you get to choose which goal you want to pursue.

就像玩电子游戏一样，你需要通过完成一系列任务，从初学者逐渐升到高级。这需要时间。如果你想在集中精力和工作中获得最大乐趣，这里有一些你必须遵循的指导原则来创建你的效率系统。首先是身份认同或解决生产力问题。自记事以来，我一直有每天工作四小时的目标。朝九晚五的工作让我痛苦不堪。我观察社会，发现了我不想要的生活。我观察成功人士，发现了我想要的生活。随着时间的推移，这种视角塑造了我的身份。我执着于不工作的愿望。很多人会告诉你愿望是不好的，但如果结果是积极的，愿望并没有那么糟糕，因为目标是你痛苦的轴心，而你可以选择追求哪个目标。

Most people have goals that are assigned to them. And that's why they suffer and they can't escape it. But when you choose the problem you want to solve that leads to meaningful living and challenge and purpose in life, there's going to be suffering along with that. But it's worth suffering through. That's a good sign that you're on the right path is that you're willing to take the suffering that comes from pursuing the goal that you chose. Perspective is everything. It allows you to identify problems and opportunities that when solved, result in achieving the goal of that perspective. It was nearly an automatic decision to be where I am today, because anything that threatened the idea of me working for us a day was seen as a problem. Most people don't do this. They work their expect. They expect to work eight hours a day.

大多数人的目标是由别人分配的，因此他们感到痛苦，并且无法逃避这种痛苦。但是，当你选择自己想要解决的问题时，这会引导你过上有意义的生活，带来挑战和人生目标，尽管这条路上仍会有痛苦，但这种痛苦是值得忍受的。这也是一个好迹象，表明你走在正确的道路上：你愿意为追求自己选择的目标而承受痛苦。视角决定一切。它能让你识别出问题和机遇，一旦解决这些问题，就能实现相应视角下的目标。对我来说，决定我今天所处位置几乎是一个自动的选择，因为任何威胁到我为自己而工作想法的事情都被视为问题。大多数人并不会这样做，他们工作的期望是每天工作八小时而已。

So anything outside of that is perceived as a problem. Like, oh, after work 30 minutes extra today, that sucks. I'm anxious. I'm bored. Like, I don't want to do this right now. I'm overwhelmed. For me, that happens at four hours. But the thing is, is that I'm allowed to create that lifestyle because I chose a vessel that you go with time. I worked a job as well, but you choose a vessel that allows you to control and create your own lifestyle over time. So if you don't have that, that's step one. That becomes your identity is one, the job is the problem, and you're going to have to work at it until you can get out of it. So by me wanting to work four hours a day, that's what led to me doing freelance work, me understanding the power of social media. People don't realize it's power now because they don't have the identity that isn't an employee mindset. So identity is the first thing to keep in mind.

所以，任何超出那范围的事情都会被视为问题。比如说，今天下班后多工作了30分钟，这让人觉得很糟糕。我感到焦虑、无聊，不想现在做这个。对我来说，超过四小时我就会感到不堪重负。但关键在于，我能够创造这样的生活方式，因为我选择了一种可以控制时间的方式。我以前也做过工作，但你要选择一种能让你随时间调整和创造自己生活方式的途径。如果你还没有做到这点，那是第一步。那时候你会把工作视为问题，你得努力直到可以脱离这种境况。所以我想每天只工作四小时，这促使我做自由职业，理解社交媒体的力量。现在很多人不明白它的力量，因为他们还没有摆脱“雇员心态”的身份认同。所以，首先要记住的是身份认同。

But the second thing you need is a project, which we talked about in the last video on how to learn any high value skill fast so you can finally change your life. Your identity is shaped by your vision for the future. Your vision is the all encompassing goal that you're pursuing in your life. It is at the top of your hierarchy. Everything falls under it. So now you need a project, a tangible project. I keep repeating this because you need a fucking project to work on in the first one to two hours of your day, create a project, please for the love of God, because you need something to build that will result in your ideal future. If you aren't building your future, then that future isn't going to be built. Does that make sense? And you also need something that exposes you to problems to solve, because if you aren't building something, then the only problems that you're encountering are the ones that your mind fabricates.

但是你还需要第二样东西，那就是一个项目。我们在上个视频中谈到如何快速学习高价值技能，这样你才能最终改变你的生活。你的身份是由你对未来的愿景塑造的。愿景是你在生活中追求的终极目标，它位于你的目标层级的顶端，一切都围绕它展开。所以现在你需要一个具体的项目。我反复强调这一点，是因为你需要在每天的前一个到两个小时里专注于一个项目，请务必建立一个项目，因为你需要一件可以去构建的东西，这将帮助你实现理想的未来。如果你不去构建你的未来，那么那个未来就不会实现。明白了吗？你还需要一些让你面对问题去解决的事情，因为如果你没有在构建什么，那么你遇到的问题就只是脑海中编造的琐事。

And lastly, you need clarity for your work. So you have a place to anchor your attention. So it doesn't go to the negative thoughts and fabricate problems. And if you watch the last video, you understand that building a project and teaching as you build is the best way to learn something. Studying and getting trapped in tutorial hell is not learning something. Learning comes from struggle, not memorization. It's a principle in my book. Step one is to create an outline, brain dump everything you know that should be built in the project, you will add to this outline as you build. Number two is to create milestones. So break the project down into manageable goals you can achieve in one to four hour work sessions, depending on your current responsibilities.

最后，你需要为你的工作寻求清晰的方向。这样你就有一个集中注意力的地方，不会让注意力被负面想法分散而引发问题。如果你看过最后的视频，你会明白在创建项目的同时进行教学是学习某件事情的最佳方式。单纯的学习和陷入教程地狱并不是真正的学习。学习来自于挣扎，而不是死记硬背。这是我书中的一个原则。第一步是创建一个大纲，把你认为应该在项目中做的一切都列出来，随着项目的进行你可以不断补充这个大纲。第二步是设立里程碑，把项目分解成可以在一到四小时的工作时间内完成的可管理目标，这取决于你目前的责任情况。

Now understand this, your vision or your project as well, your project falls under your vision and you continue building projects until you reach that vision, your project isn't going to be perfect. You need a minimum viable product in business, you need a minimum viable vision in life, you need a minimum viable project in everything, you just get something out on paper, it doesn't have to be ready for you to start building it, you build it so you can identify what's not in it. We're building cortex right now, the second brain software, and we've changed it completely from what it was originally planned to be. How do you think we figured out how it's going to be better by building the bad version first so you can improve it, you can't improve something that doesn't exist. So what should your project be?

理解这一点，你的愿景决定了你的项目，而你的项目是为了实现这个愿景不断进行的，即使你的项目不会是完美的。在商业中，你需要一个最小可行产品；在生活中，你需要一个最小可行愿景；在任何事情中，你都需要一个最小可行的项目。你需要先把想法写在纸上，不必等项目完美再开始，你需要通过实践来找出项目的不足。我们正在构建 Cortex 这款第二大脑软件，目前它已经完全不同于最初的计划。你知道我们是怎么让它变得更好的吗？就是先构建一个糟糕的版本，然后逐步改进。你无法改进一个不存在的东西。那么，你的项目应该是什么呢？

I have no fucking clue, I can't tell you that. Stop outsourcing your critical thinking and just life to someone on the internet. But what I can tell you is that it should probably be a business as that's the vessel for your purpose. It is the catalyst for the good life that breaks you out of robotic living. Entrepreneurship is modern survival and your psyche is wired to hunt. You aren't meant to be a monkey and a cubicle. Along with that and just the other domains of your life or the projects in your life, your health, your relationships. Now the third guideline for focused work or the four hour work date is deadlines, which are the procrastinators edge. You aren't productive because you aren't public, which is another point for building an internet business on social media.

我完全不知道，我无法告诉你答案。别再把你的独立思考能力和生活外包给网络上的人了。但是我可以告诉你的是，你应该考虑搞点生意，因为那是你实现人生目标的载体。这是让你摆脱机械化生活、追求美好生活的催化剂。创业是现代的生存方式，而你的心理天性就像猎人。你不是生来为了在办公室格子间里当一只猴子。此外，生活的其他领域也是如此，比如你的健康、你的关系。至于专注工作的第三个指导原则或四小时工作制中的第三条，那就是设定截止日期，这是对抗拖延的利器。你之所以不高效，是因为没有公开化工作进展，这也说明在社交媒体上打造互联网生意的必要性。

The flow state requirement of challenges and deadlines is baked in. When I set a launch date for a lead magnet or a product or something that I'm going to do, I better finish it before that date because people are expecting it and people probably pay for a pre-order. One important thing here, procrastination isn't bad, it's human nature. Most successful entrepreneurs are lazy, they wait until the last minute to get work done. But during that last minute, they enter the most enjoyable season of their lives. Their mind becomes a magnet for ideas. Their best work happens in these periods of obsession and intensity.

挑战和最后期限的要求是融入在“心流状态”中的。当我为引流工具、产品或任何我准备推出的东西设定一个发布日期时，我必须在那个日期前完成，因为人们对此有所期待，而且可能有人已经为预购付了钱。这里有一点很重要，拖延并不是坏事，这是人性。大多数成功的企业家其实也有点懒，他们会等到最后一刻才开始动工。但正是在最后一刻，他们进入了人生中最享受的阶段。此时，他们的大脑变成了一个创意的磁铁。他们最杰出的作品往往就诞生在这种痴迷和专注的时期。

They don't have a choice but to get it done because their survival is at stake. Now onto time blocks and breaks. Focus is a muscle and success is reserved for those who train it. Identity, vision, projects and deadlines all narrow your attention on the present moment from the big picture to microscopic action. Time blocks take that a step further, narrowing your attention and making it easy to get into flow. So what I would recommend you do is just set a timer on your phone for 45 to 90 minutes. You can start with 45, you can start with five, you can start with 10, start with whatever, start with something because like building a muscle in the gym, it's going to take time for your focus to actually grow.

他们别无选择，只能完成这个任务，因为这关系到他们的生存。现在我们来谈谈时间块和休息。专注如同肌肉，而成功属于那些训练它的人。身份、愿景、项目和截止日期都能把你的注意力从大局集中到当下的微小行动上。时间块更进一步，集中你的注意力，让你更容易进入专注状态。所以，我建议你在手机上设定一个45到90分钟的计时器。你可以从45分钟开始，也可以5分钟、10分钟开始，随便从什么时长开始都行，因为就像在健身房锻炼肌肉一样，你的专注力也需要时间来成长。

After that timer goes off, take a break, go on a walk, engage an active rest, rest of your mind. Don't think about work or set an intention for your next work block and allow your subconscious mind to munch on potential ideas as you're on your walk, as you're cooking food, as you're doing something, just get up, get out of your chair, stop burning your eyes with blue light, just enjoy yourself. It's like a rest between sets at the gym. You're not going to, you can't keep benching until like once you hit failure, you can't go past failure. Like if you actually hit failure because most people train like little bitches.

在计时器响起之后，休息一下，出去走走，进行一些积极的休息，让你的大脑放松。不去想工作，或者为下一个工作阶段设定一个目标，让你的潜意识在你散步、做饭或做其他事情时思考一些潜在的创意。站起来，离开你的椅子，不要再盯着蓝光看，尽情享受一下。这就像在健身房做组间休息一样。你不能一直做卧推，一旦你达到了极限就不能再继续了。如果你真的达到了极限，因为大多数人训练得像菜鸟一样。

Now the next after time blocks is leverage. So doing the right things. I'm going to save you a lot of pain. Choose a career that allows for a four hour workday, start a one person business, become a value creator, use the internet to do what you love. Learn the skills that allow for this. Evolution is the process of solving problems that reverse entropy. Labor work and long workdays are a massive problem. People hate it. So social media, the internet and artificial intelligence were born. AI will solve the problem of overwork, potentially in this lifetime, especially if we solve the problem of aging.

现在，在时间管理之后要谈的是杠杆效应，也就是做正确的事。我将帮你避免很多痛苦。选择一份每天只需工作四小时的职业，创办一个人的企业，成为价值创造者，利用互联网做你热爱的事情。学习能够实现这些目标的技能。进化是一种解决逆势问题的过程。长时间的体力劳动是个大问题，人们厌倦它。因此，社交媒体、互联网和人工智能应运而生。人工智能将解决过度工作的问题，尤其是在我们解决了衰老问题的情况下，这在我们有生之年是有可能实现的。

What I'm saying here is that you are better off banking on the creative ability of your mind than you are going into a labor work job. If you want quick cash, then yes, that is actually a very good option right now. The future and to earn unlimited because your intelligence is scalable infinitely, then you need to choose a work that allows for four or four hour workday and you need to contribute your time, energy and focus into the aspects of reality that you want to see flourish. Now your work should consist of two to three, if not more, if you can handle more, but start with two to three lever moving tasks that move the needle towards your project and the project moving the needle towards your vision for the future. Some people can handle more tasks. Some people can handle less.

我在这里说的是，你更应该依靠你的创造力，而不是去做体力劳动。如果你想要快速赚到钱，那么体力劳动确实是个不错的选择。但是如果你想在未来获得无限的可能性，因为人的智慧是可以无限扩展的，那么你就需要选择一种每天只工作四个小时左右的工作，并且将你的时间、精力和注意力投入到你希望能够繁荣发展的领域。 你的工作应该包含两到三项关键任务，当然如果你能应付更多任务也可以，但一开始建议从两到三项开始。这些关键任务应该推动你的项目进展，而你的项目能够推动你对未来愿景的实现。一些人能够处理更多任务，而另一些人则能处理较少任务，这取决于个人能力。

There are actually nine priority tasks spots in my planner, the foci planner, which I wrote in this morning. I just wrote out my tasks and I write my notes for the day at the top as I'm sitting here at work. Now the next thing is routine or becoming efficient. You have a routine, even if your routine is no routine. And I discussed this in depth in my video, the daily routine that changed my life for habits that most people ignore. Routines are how you condition your mind to run on new systems. If you want to solidify a new identity, you must start stick to and refine a specific routine that encourages the growth of that identity. For the first month, building your project will feel uncomfortable. You're supposed to feel overwhelmed with this. It means your mind is expanding into a new identity slowly, then all at once everything flows with ease. You begin making exponential progress. You move from intensity to consistency and let the results compound.

实际上，我今天早上在我的计划本（Foci Planner）里写下了九个优先任务。我把当天的任务列出来，并在工作的地方上方写下我的日记。接下来要讲的是关于日常习惯或提高效率的问题。即使你没有固定的习惯，这也是一种习惯。我在我的视频《改变我生活的每日习惯》中深入探讨了这个问题。习惯是你训练自己接受新系统的方式。如果你想巩固新的身份，你必须开始并坚持一个特定的习惯，并不断优化它，以促进该身份的成长。 在第一个月里，建立你的项目可能会感到不舒服。你应该感到不知所措，因为这意味着你的思维正在缓慢地扩展成一个新的身份，然后突然之间，一切都会变得顺畅。你开始取得指数级的进步，从强度走向持久性，让结果逐渐积累。

Last, we have to wrap this up with rest, which is the secret of the greats. The clever man may work smarter, not harder, they say, but the creative man doesn't work at all. That's a quote from Alex Sujung Kim Pong from the book rest. Now I've always had some form of aversion towards Western work culture, which is just filled with 80 hour work weeks, high pressure environments, and little time for rest and recovery. It just never seemed right to me. Why would I want to waste my entire day knowing that 2-3 hours in my work quality would suffer because focus is finite.

最后，我们不得不以休息来收尾，这可是成功人士的秘密。人们常说，聪明的人工作要更聪明，而不是更辛苦，但有创意的人根本不工作。这是亚历克斯·苏仲·金·庞在《休息》一书中的一句话。我一直对西方的工作文化有些反感，那种文化充斥着每周工作80小时的工时、高压环境，以及很少的休息和恢复时间。对我来说，这从来都不合适。为什么我要浪费整天的时间去工作，而明知道我的工作质量在2-3小时后就会下降，因为注意力是有限的。

And this has been a talking point for a long time now for not only me, but other people like Alex and the book, and people like Sam Altman who are open about how long they work and how they use that work. It's starting to become well known in the creator economy remote work and just the new economy in general. Ancient Romans, Ancient Greeks, Steve Jobs, Charles Darwin, and an infinite list of visionaries, strategists, and innovators attributed their success to surprisingly low work times. Writers from multiple domains like Hemingway and Tarantino would spend the majority of their days lounging by the pool, spitting game with girls, and doing everything aside from what they deemed work. Work for 1-4 hours. Then stop.

这一点已经成为讨论焦点很久了，不仅是我，像Alex和书中的其他人，还有像Sam Altman这样公开谈论他们工作时间和工作方式的人都在讨论这一点。在创作者经济、远程工作以及整个新经济中，这已开始变得众所周知。古罗马人、古希腊人、史蒂夫·乔布斯、查尔斯·达尔文和无数的先见者、战略家和创新者都把他们的成功归功于出人意料的低工时。来自多个领域的作家，如海明威和昆汀·塔伦蒂诺，大部分时间都在泳池边放松，与女孩子调情，做他们认定为工作之外的一切事情。工作1到4小时，然后停止。

This is arguably the most difficult part of your day. At the end of my work sessions, I go to the gym. That is my hard transition from work to rest. And when I get back to my morning focused work, my mind is just refreshed and the writing flows so much more seamless and the rest of my work feels manageable and I can get it done on a consistent basis that leads to exponential results over time when the focus does compound. I hope you enjoyed this video. This one, these are always my favorite topics to make. Let me know what you think of a hair probably growing it back. We'll see. Unless I go bald.

这可以说是你一天中最艰难的部分。工作结束后，我会去健身房。这是我从工作到休息的过渡。而当我回到早晨专注的工作时，我的思绪焕然一新，写作也变得更加流畅，其他工作也显得可以轻松应对，我可以持续完成这些工作，随着时间的推移，专注力的累积会带来巨大的成果。我希望你喜欢这个视频。这次的主题是我最喜欢制作的内容之一。告诉我你对头发的看法，也许我会把头发留回来，除非我光头了。

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