工作要有明确的关机时刻

2020 年 9 月 8 日的笔记里，我把 shutdown 单独记了下来。白天保证几小时深度工作，日落前完成一套仪式，确认当天任务已经完成，或者停在一个随时可以继续的位置。晚上不再处理工作，让大脑进入恢复状态。

《Deep Work》要求关机前把每项未完成的任务过一遍。能继续的要有可信计划，暂时不做的要放进以后会重新看到的地方。固定说一句 “Shutdown complete” 听起来有点傻，作用却很具体。它告诉大脑，事情没有失踪，今晚不用反复提醒。

休息也不是从工作里偷走时间。规则清楚的问题需要意识继续计算，信息多、限制含糊的问题，有时在意识停下后仍会被后台整理。散步、做饭、听音乐和与人聊天还会恢复定向注意力。若晚上不断插入几段邮件和小事，人虽然没有工作很久，也很难进入真正的休息。做梦是在离得很远的念头之间连线 是这条线在睡眠里的另一种表现。

The implication of this line of research is that providing your conscious brain time to rest enables your unconscious mind to take a shift sorting through your most complex professional challenges. A shutdown habit, therefore, is not necessarily reducing the amount of time you’re engaged in productive work, but is instead diversifying the type of work you deploy. Another key commitment for succeeding with this strategy is to support your commitment to shutting down with a strict shutdown ritual that you use at the end of the workday to maximize the probability that you succeed. In more detail, this ritual should ensure that every incomplete task, goal, or project has been reviewed and that for each you have confirmed that either (1) you have a plan you trust for its completion, or (2) it’s captured in a place where it will be revisited when the time is right. The process should be an algorithm: a series of steps you always conduct, one after another. When you’re done, have a set phrase you say that indicates completion (to end my own ritual, I say, “Shutdown complete”). This final step sounds cheesy, but it provides a simple cue to your mind that it’s safe to release work-related thoughts for the rest of the day. Cal Newport, Deep Work

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