Prime Choice：最佳选择
Let’s look at this from a different angle: creativity. Think for a moment about your workday and about your peak time to be creative.Where does it fall in the day? Are you creatively at your best at seven o’clock in the morning, before the coffee has kicked in? No no, you say. That’s too early for you; you haven’t quite gotten into your groove yet. Well, how about a little later, right before lunch: is that the best time to be creative? No no, you say.
让我们从另一个角度来看待这个问题：创造力。想一想您的工作日和您的创造力的高峰时间。在咖啡开始之前，您是在早上七点处于最佳状态吗？不，不，你说。对您来说还为时过早；您还没有完全陷入困境。好吧，再过一会儿，就在午餐之前：那是进行创意的最佳时间吗？不，不，你说。
At that point you’re too distracted by the things you need to get done before lunch, and by the thought of lunch itself. OK then, how about right after lunch? No. Lunch lethargy has kicked in. You need some time to get back in the groove. So how about toward the end of the day, right before you head for home?Absolutely not, you say. By that point your mind is probably already one hemisphere out the door.
那时，您对午餐前需要做的事情以及午餐本身的想法太分心了。好吧，午饭后呢？不。午餐嗜睡开始了。您需要一些时间才能恢复正常。那么在一天结束之前，就在回家之前怎么样？到那时，您的大脑可能已经是一个半球了。
To review then, if you scan an average day looking for the peak times to be creative in the workplace—early morning, late morning, early afternoon, late afternoon—the conclusion might be that in fact there is no good time.
回顾一下，如果您扫描一天的平均时间，以寻找在工作场所发挥创造力的高峰时间-清晨，清晨，午后，午后-结论可能是实际上没有好时机。
The truth is, there is also no bad time. My advice is to turn the dynamic around. The day itself is not going to consistently offer up the perfect time to be creative, or productive, or effective. You have to create that time for yourself by making a choice about your own energy and attitude.
事实是，也没有不好的时光。我的建议是扭转局势。一天本身不会持续提供创造力，生产力或效率的最佳时间。您必须通过选择自己的精力和态度为自己创造时间。
You can make the choice to have a productive meeting,whether it’s just before lunch or just after. You can make the choice that the 5:30 p.m. phone call is going to be the most effective of the day. Again, you may not always get the outcome you’re after, but you will put yourself in a position, by choice, from which that outcome is achievable. You can choose to be as creative, productive, communicative, and motivated as you wish to be at any given time.
无论是在午餐之前还是之后，您都可以选择召开富有成效的会议。您可以选择下午5:30的电话将是当天最有效的电话。同样，您可能不会总是得到想要的结果，但是您会选择将自己置于可以实现该结果的位置。您可以选择在任何给定的时间保持自己的创造力，生产性，沟通性和积极性。
From the outside perspective of a fan, we have no way of knowing whether LeBron James plays his best games on the days when he has no outside worries. We can’t know, because he usually performs at an incredibly high caliber. Chances are, though, that there is always something other than basketball that he could be worried about at game time.
从球迷的外部角度来看，我们无法知道勒布朗·詹姆斯在没有外部担忧的日子里是否发挥出自己的最佳表现。我们不知道，因为他通常表现出很高的才能。不过，很有可能他在比赛时总是担心篮球以外的事情。
In fact we know that he has had some phenomenal games when he was sick or injured or was going through events in his personal life that could have easily given him reason to be unfocused. Yet he prepared mentally, before the game, and stayed in the zone.
实际上，我们知道他在生病，受伤或经历个人生活中的某些事件时会经历一些惊人的比赛，而这些事件很容易使他有理由失去注意力。然而，他在比赛前已经做好了心理准备，并留在了禁区内。
You can make the same choice. Don’t stare at the computer screen with your mind on the annoyance of estimated taxes right up until the moment you need to join a conference call. Step away from the things not relevant to the job, and when needed look at your notes to get back on point. Check your energy.
您可以做出相同的选择。直到您需要参加电话会议之前，不要专心凝视计算机屏幕上估计的税款。远离与工作无关的事物，并在需要时查看笔记以重新找准重点。检查你的精力。
Check your attitude. Get yourself focused. Stand up and shake your limbs. Give yourself a goal—tell yourself you are going to say one thing that has a positive impact on the next meeting you attend. We’re not all going to end up being the LeBrons of our chosen fields, but we can all learn from him and other elite performers and make the choice to apply the right level of energy and the right attitude to our work when we need to—which just might be every day we show up.
检查你的态度。集中精力。站起来，摇动你的四肢。给自己定一个目标，告诉自己要说的一件事对您下次参加的会议有积极影响。我们并不会最终成为我们所选领域的勒布朗，但我们所有人都可以向他和其他精英表演者学习，并在需要时选择对工作应用正确的精力和正确的态度。 -也许每天都会出现。
Now hold your energy at a steady 8 out of 10 and we’ll move ahead to take a more in-depth look at the dynamics of teams.
现在，将您的精力稳定在10的8中，我们将继续深入研究团队的动力。
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