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In the information age, when almost everyone in every office is a knowledge worker, we're paid to process information. And since there's an infinite amount of information, there's an infinite amount of work. For everyone. So your boss is probably giving you enough work every week to fill three weeks -- if you let it. If you work a certain way, it could also fill only three days. My point is that people who feel overworked in some respects choose to be overworked. Here are five choices to make instead: 1. Force your boss to prioritize. 要老板优先化 Because processing information is not an objective task, you can do a good job or a bad job or any kind of job in between. Which is to say that you don't have to do a great job with everything. You can't, right? Because your boss is giving you too much work. So you have some choices. First, you can try to force your boss to prioritize. Say to him or her, "If you want me to do project z perfectly, then you need to get projects w, x, and y off my plate." Maybe your boss will think project z is so important that he or she will clear your plate. But most likely, your boss will say, "Forget it. You need to do everything." This is an open invitation to start experimenting with cutting corners. 2. If your boss won't prioritize, do it yourself. 如果老板不肯优先化，你自己来优先化 Please don't tell me you don't believe in cutting corners. It's the layman's term for prioritizing, and you probably perfected it as a way of life in college. In fact, cutting corners is what college teaches best. | 
