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You can't change the number of hours in a day, but you can fill them more efficiently, with less stress and mental effort. You've likely heard this before, and perhaps your past efforts at time management have been, well, a waste of time. But most people's attempts to increase productivity get derailed by two virtues of modern living: technology and options. 一天有多少个小时，你改变不了。可是，你可以更轻松有效地度过这段时间。很可能你之前听说过，也曾浪费时间在时间管理上的。但是，因为现代生活带来的科技和选择两大便利，大多数人想要提高效率的各种尝试都偏轨了。 Today's onslaught of tech -- smartphones, iPads, search engines, social media -- is fragmenting our attention spans, gumming our mental gears with useless facts, and turning us into surface-level thinkers. At the same time, all the communication choices we have today -- email, IM, text, Skype or Gmail chat -- are thwarting efficiency. 今日的科技冲击——智能手机，苹果平板，搜索引擎，社交媒体——正在分散我们的注意广度，用无用的事实影响我们的心理装备，与此同时将我们变成肤浅的思考者。同时，所有可用的交流方式——邮件，实时通讯，短信，网络电话或者谷歌聊天——都在阻碍效率。 But we don't have to give up technology to regain control. "You need to set expectations of yourself and other people," says Daniel Markovitz, a blogger on time management for the Harvard Business Review. "You need to say, 'Here's the Bat Phone number. Use it if there's an emergency. Otherwise, leave me alone to do my job.'" Here, eight ways to manage time. | 
