超有用的时间管理技巧：看板法

Multitasking is probably the single most overrated skill in modern life. Only 3% of the population are “supertaskers,” according to a study from Ohio University. The rest of us just pretend to be.多任务处理能力也许是现代生活中被过高评估的一项能力。俄亥俄州立大学的一项研究显示，只有3%的人是“超级工作者”，而其他人只是自称有多任务处理能力罢了。

A number of systems have been developed to save us from our endless to-do lists. One such system is “Personal Kanban,” a just-in-time manufacturing process developed at Toyota in the late 1940s.为了使我们免于无止境的代办事项，人们发展了许多方法体系。其中一种体系就是“个人看板”，这是20世纪40年代晚期日本丰田汽车公司推出的一种准时化生产工序（又称无库存生产方式）。

James Benson, a former urban planner based in Seattle who authored Personal Kanban: Mapping Work — Navigating Life, says that industrial Kanban was a way for Toyota to avoid overproducing. He has adapted the system to help us reduce the “too many tasks on my mind” feeling.西雅图前城市规划师詹姆斯·本森撰写了《个人看板：制定工作计划——为人生导航》这本书，他表示工业看板是丰田避免过度生产的一种方法。他改写了这一体系，来帮助我们减轻“脑海中有太多任务”的感觉。

Personal Kanban works on two principles: Visualize your work, and limit your total number of “works in progress.” Setting up a system is simple:个人看板致力于两项原则：使你的工作形象化，限定“进行中的工作”总数。创建一个体系很简单：

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