"Diary of the Vesta Cocoon": Reading is beneficial

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July 22, 2021

Good day! I don’t know how you spend your free time during this period of epidemic prevention? Have you developed the habit of reading? Have you ever read some books that impressed you?

As a book lover, for me, the easiest entertainment and consumption that can make me happy is visiting bookstores and buying books! However, since the epidemic in Taiwan became severe in mid-May, I have rarely had the opportunity to visit bookstores, let alone buy books!

Although I am cocooned at home, fortunately we are in a society with advanced information technology. Various digital tools are very convenient. Even without leaving home, I can still hold meetings with clients through Zoom or Google Meet, and even record online courses. So, what about reading? Similarly, in addition to taking the time to find and re-read the many books in my home, I have also recently begun to like to listen to books using apps on my mobile phone or tablet.

In fact, using mobile apps to listen to books is nothing new. In the past, I often used the Himalaya app to listen to various interesting sound contents, but recently I discovered the international version of Himalaya, which is the Himalaya app, which opened another window for me.

If you imagine the relationship between Douyin and TikTok, you can know that Himalaya specializes in serving a large number of users outside the mainland. Not only does it have a huge amount of books, but because Himalaya is headquartered in the United States and operates independently, there is less need to worry about privacy issues.

Recently, there is a popular topic in the stratosphere of many book lovers, and that is: Should I buy paper books or e-books? Well, if you ask me, I think paper books and e-books are both good at each other and have different advantages and characteristics.

For me, there are too many books at home, and storage and management alone will be a big problem! Therefore, it is very stressful to buy books now, so naturally I am more inclined to buy e-books or listen to audio books.

I just mentioned the Himalaya app that I have been using recently. If you are not familiar with audiobooks, now is the chance to give it a try! Just click here to enter the exclusive redemption link. The original monthly fee is 240 yuan. Now register an account and enter Vista’s reader-specific redemption code [Vista30], and you can get an additional 30-day free trial!

Of course, if you still feel uncomfortable with this way of absorbing knowledge after listening, you can cancel at any time within 30 days without any deductions!

Next, I would like to recommend to you an audiobook that I have recently listened to and found very good. It is “Five Times: Rebuilding the Order of Life” (https://www.books.c om.tw/exep/assp.php/vista/products/CN11718989?utm_source=vista&utm_medium=ap-books&utm_content=recommend&utm_campaign=ap-202107)》.

Wang Xiao is the founder of Zaozao Company. He graduated from Communication University of China in 2001, received a master’s degree from Renmin University of China in 2007, and later obtained an Executive Master of Business Administration from Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in 2019. She has won many awards, such as the 10th Writers List Gold Award “Entrepreneurial Writer of the Year”, the 2017 Ernst & Young Asia Pacific Successful Female Entrepreneur, and the 2017 China Communication Person of the Year.

This book starts from Wang Xiao’s original concept of five time classifications, tells how people can re-perceive and apply time in multiple scenarios in the intelligent era, and helps people obtain a unique “five times” methodology.

The main theme of this book talks about [time management] (https://www.vistacheng.com/2021/07/time-management.html). In fact, everyone is definitely no stranger to time management. They may even be like me and try to There are thousands of time management methods, such as: GTD (get it done) method, Lyubishev time management method, timeline method, four-quadrant time method, Pomodoro method, Gantt chart method, vertical analysis method, eat the frog first method, get up at four o’clock method, concentration meditation method, visual simulation timer method… and so on.

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These methods are all great, and each has its own scientific basis, but the question is, why do most of my friends still fail after following them? Well, I wonder if you have ever heard of this? Someone once said: “Time cannot be managed, but we ourselves can (be managed).”

I also agree with this point of view. If we don’t find the crux of the problem first (for example, why does procrastination occur?), naturally we will not be able to prescribe the right medicine, and it will be difficult to develop the habit of using time effectively! As a result, no matter how many tools or methods are used, it will be difficult to continue.

The late success guru Stephen R. Covey mentioned in the book “Appointment with Time” that people face the challenge of making good use of time every day. He believes that a major lesson in life is to “make the most important things your top priority.”

He pointed out that there are two important elements that affect the use of time, namely urgency and importance, but people often confuse these two things. Therefore, the first lesson in time management is to practice distinguishing urgency from importance. Many people are deceived of their time by “urgent but unimportant” trivial matters, but I would like to remind everyone here: Be extremely cautious about those things that seem “important and urgent”! If you usually have the habit of making to-do lists, maybe you are like me before, and you can’t wait to “annihilate” the work items on top, right? Do you feel an inexplicable sense of pleasure when you see a full to-do list ticked?

Well, seeing this, I believe many friends may smile knowingly, right? In this case, it is very likely that you will fall into the path of “urgency”.

This is because we have been taught since childhood that urgent matters should be dealt with first, but we do not know that only truly important matters are worthy of our full attention! Think about it again, do people really act according to their own ideas every time? Don’t let your subconscious fool you!

Everyone’s time is limited, how should we use it to do important things?

The author of this book recommends that everything within a limited time can be classified according to the “five times”. In this way, the allocation of the “five times” in a day has four pursuit directions:

First, maximizing the available time means striving to minimize the survival time.

Second, optimize the experience per unit time, which is reflected in maximizing the flow time.

Third, to maximize efficiency per unit of time, which is reflected in survival time and money-making time, is to actively prepare for competitions and fight tough battles targeting core competitiveness. Keep an eye on the athlete’s password during the time of survival, and insist on advancing the ultimate equation during the time of making money.

Fourth, let the available time be clearly directed towards life. How you want to live and who you want to be depends on how you arrange the proportion and priority of your time for watching, having fun and making money.

The author points out: Whenever we are faced with a choice, we can open this book, compare our own classifications, review the forms and answer sheets filled in the book, and rebuild the order of life again.

In order to facilitate everyone’s understanding of the principles and characteristics of the “Five Times”, I created a [Knowledge Graphic Card] (https://www.vistacheng.com/2020/12/knowledge-graphic-card.html) to share with you. Well, this is indeed a good and interesting book, and I am happy to recommend it to all little readers.

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As the author of this book said: “In the face of time, each of us always has a choice.” I hope we can all make good use of the “five kinds of time” and write a wonderful chapter in life!

Knowing how to make good use of digital tools and grasping time is the only way to success. The best thing about using mobile phones to listen to books is that we can learn the way of thinking of world-class masters anytime, anywhere, and at will. It is recommended that you try Himalaya app, let us enjoy the fragrance of books together!

Oh, right! In addition to Wang Xiao’s “[Five Times: Rebuilding the Order of Life]” (https://www.books.com.tw/exep/assp.php/vista/products/CN11718989?utm_source=vista&utm_medium=ap-books&utm_content=recommend&utm_campaign=ap-202107 )”, recently Himalaya has also introduced the famous financial writer [Wu Xiaobo](https://zh.wikipe dia.org/wiki/%E5%90%B3%E6%9B%89%E6%B3%A2)‘s best-selling audio version, which includes “The Great Defeat”, “Thirty Years of Stirring” and “Tencent Biography” and other good books, which are also worth looking forward to!

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Further reading

• Vesta Cocoon Diary: Nine Steps to Working for Yourself
• “Vista Cocoon Diary”: Advanced Reading and Thinking
• “Vista Cocoon Diary”: First-class people know how to make choices

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