5. Triage ruthlessly.

5.分工明确

You don’t need to put an equal amount of effort into every class. Inject extra effort when it’s important to you, but feel free to back off a little from classes that are a low priority based on your specific goals. For me this was an important way to conserve energy. I couldn’t play full out in every class, or I’d burn out, so I invested my energy where it mattered most.

你大可不必每门课程上面都花费同样的时间和经历。对于你重要的学科来说多多花费一些经历，但是对于那些并不是很重要的学科来说就大可不必了。而对于我来说，这条定律就是我节省经历的重要法则。我并不是每门课都是全勤，否则的话我肯定就会崩溃了，我只把我的经历投资在那些对于我来说最重要的东西上面。

I would also triage individual assignments. If I felt an assignment was lame, pointless, or unnecessarily tedious, and if it wouldn’t have too negative an impact on my grade, I would actually decline to do it. One time I was assigned a tedious paper that represented 10% of my grade. I really didn’t want to do it, and it required a lot more hours than I felt it was worth. I was headed for an A in the class, and if I didn’t do this assignment, I’d drop to an A-. So I respectfully told the professor I was declining the assignment and that I thought it was a fair trade to receive an A- in order to reinvest those hours elsewhere. He already knew me and understood my reasons. He gave me an A-, and I was fine with that. It was indeed a fair trade. In fact, looking back I wish I’d done this sort of thing more often.

我同样会作出不同的针对性安排的。如果我认为一个任务是差劲的，没有任何的意义，单调乏味的，而且并不会对于我的学分产生什么影响的话，我就不会去做他。有一次我们留了个作业，写一篇极度乏味的论文，这篇论文会占我这门功课总成绩的10%。我并不是很想做，但是如果不做的话，我的成绩就会使A-了。所以我就很充满敬意的告诉我的授课老师说我不想做这篇作业，而如果把节省下来的时间去做其他的事情的话是一个更加不错的选择。这个教授知道我的为人处世的方式，并且理解这其中的原因，因此他给了我一个A-，我对此感到十分的满意。这确实是个不错的交易。实施上，回忆一下，我当时是经常做这样的事情的。