Please go through at least the top 20-40 answers (if not all) before answering the question. There have been numerous repeated answers which do not add to the quality of the information.
Also, please don't answer Quora.com回答问题之前请先浏览最高票的20-40个答案。已经有大量重复的答案，它们并没有增加有效信息。I think a lot of these answers miss the point of the question. The real issue isn't that there's a paucity of useful webpages on the internet, it's that taking advantage of those webpages is difficult. What does it say about human beings that we really can get an Ivy League education for free online but nearly nobody does it? The Coursera and Udacity and Khan Academy attrition rates are so phenomenal that it makes the completion rates look like round-off errors. We live in an attention-deficit culture, and the solution isn't better websites, it's better humans.我觉得很多答案没有抓到这个问题的要点。真正的问题并不是缺乏有用的网页，而是我们很难利用这些网页。我们实际上可以得到常春藤名校的免费在线教育，但却鲜有人去做，这说明了什么？Coursera和Udacity和可汗学院的学员流失率惊人，以至于它的完成率看起来像舍入误差。我们处在一个缺乏专注力的文化中，而解决问题的办法不是更好的网站，而是我们做得更好。In view of spending your time more effectively, I suggest the following tips:1. Completely cut Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, and any other social sites out of your life. If you are unable to do this, strictly regulate the total time spent on these sites to 30 minutes to an hour each day. You can download Chrome extensions to help you with this like StayFocusd. But, I cannot emphasize enough how much these sites will ruin your life. Everyone always comes to the defense of social media with excuses like, "well, I use Facebook to keep in touch with my high school friends and relatives overseas," or "Twitter is how I stay up-to-date with current events," or "you can learn lots of great things with specialized subreddits," and so on. Yet when you look at a distribution of how people actually allocate their time, nearly none of it is spent doing the very things that people point to when they justify their behavior. It's always just mindless scrolling, animated gifs, cat videos, the first twenty seconds of a really neat lecture, and so on.1、彻底摒弃Facebook，Reddit，Twitter和其他社交网站。如果无法做到这一点，严格把每一天花在这些网站的总时间为限制为30分钟到一个小时。你可以下载Chrome扩展程序帮助你做到这一点，比如StayFocusd。但是，我必须强调这些网站会毁了你的生活。每个人总是为自己使用社交媒体找借口辩护,“我使用Facebook与我高中的朋友和海外亲戚联系，”或者“Twitter使我紧跟时代的步伐”或者“你能从专门的subreddits中学到很多东西”等等。但看看实际上人们如何分配自己的时间，几乎没有花在他们提到的那些事上。人们永远只是无谓地在滚动页面，动画GIF，猫的视频，一个条理性强的演讲的前20秒，等等。What could be a more devastating rebuke of social media than the fact that nobody uses it for the reasons it was designed? This is, of course, auxiliary to the more important reality that research on Facebook consistently shows that it makes everyone more sad and less fulfilled with life on average.没有人是出于社交媒体最初被发明的原因使用它。什么是比这个事实更加致命的批判呢？那就是，关于Facebook的研究一再表明，社交媒体使人们普遍更加焦虑和缺乏成就感，更重要的是这已有现实佐证。2. Practice efficient procrastination. If you need time to recharge in between difficult activities, find outlets in which you can still develop yourself as a person. For me, that's chess. I'll play a couple games of Blitz in between projects to recharge, and, more importantly, I'm not watching cat videos. For other people it might be practicing an instrument, or reading a book, or drawing.2、让休憩时间变得有效率。如果你需要时间在耗费精力的事情之间来休憩，找一些仍能让你实现自我发展的办法。对于我来说，这是国际象棋。我会在工作之间打几场闪电战比赛来恢复精力，而且，更重要的是，我没有看猫猫视频。对于其他人来说可能是练习乐器，看书，或者画图。3. To-do lists. There may be nothing more insanely effective than a to-do list. Write down what you have to do, prioritize the list by difficulty, and be excruciatingly detailed when you write down your objectives. Don't get fancy, don't use Evernote or a Chrome Extension, or some app, just use paper and pen. Don't write "Finish research paper on ethics." Write "Write one page on Chapter 3 of Peter Singer's 'Practical Ethics." The smaller, more discrete the tasks, the more superable they become. Also plan how you are going to efficiently procrastinate in between the tasks. Write "play chess", "watch a Noam Chomsky lecture", "do one lesson of DuoLingo," and so forth in between big tasks. Take a power nap if you're too exhausted to be efficient with your procrastination.3、To-do lists。可能没有什么比一个待办事项列表更疯狂有效了。写下你所要做的，按困难的程度分出优先项，详细地写下你的目标。不要花哨，不要使用Evernote和Chrome扩展程序，或者一些应用程序，只用纸和笔。不要列成“完成伦理学研究论文。”而应该写成“写一页关于彼得·辛格的实用伦理学第三章的论文。“把任务分割得越小，越细碎，它们就越容易完成。还可以计划出你将如何有效地处理任务之间的零碎时间。写出“下棋”，“看Noam Chomsky的演讲”，“在DuoLingo上一课，”这样你就能游刃在大任务之间。如果你过于疲惫，导致不能够有效利用休息时间，那就小睡一觉。Remember: when you don't plan your time, you fail to take advantage of opportunities that avail themselves, and you go for the path of least resistance -- which usually happens to be AngryBirds and YouTube videos.牢记：若你不规划你的时间，你就不会充分利用好机会，你会走上那条阻力最小的路——这通常恰好是愤怒的小鸟和YouTube视频。4. Who cares? This is perhaps the most important point. Next time you are about to post something to Facebook, or watch a funny video, or read a blog post, or get involved in an internet argument, ask yourself: Who cares? If something isn't helping you to become a better you, don't waste your time.4、谁在乎？这也许是最重要的一点。下一次你要在Facebook上发东西，观看搞笑视频，浏览博客，或参与到一场网络争论的时候，问问自己：谁在乎呢？如果这些没有帮助你成为一个更好的自己，不要浪费你的时间。Today I read a BuzzFeed article on "Epic Twitter Comebacks." I was baited into reading the article by the outrageous title, and subsequently became angry at myself for finishing it. The article just didn't matter. Nothing productive could possibly come from reading or writing it. The most popular articles shared anywhere -- Facebook, Buzzfeed, and the countless copycat sites-- are the journalistic equivalent of McDonald's. Consuming them makes everybody worse off.今天，我在BuzzFeed上读了一篇文章《艰苦卓绝的微博反击战》。我被浮夸的标题吸引去阅读文章，随后又为自己读完了而懊恼。文章本身丝毫不重要。阅读和写作这种文章并不能够产生任何东西。在Facebook，Buzzfeed，以及无数的山寨站点上被分享的那些最流行的文章 ---是像麦当劳一样的快餐新闻。消费这种文章使每个人都更糟。I have found myself knee-deep in an hour long compilation of Vines, and twenty minutes in, I have to do a reality check: This shit literally does not matter. The world would be a better place if all of it just disappeared. What possible value could there be spending all your time mindlessly consuming 7 second videos for hours at a time? It doesn't make you happier, it doesn't leave a lasting feeling of satisfaction; it is just raw, unproductive consumption.我发现自己深陷长达一小时繁杂的编译中，二十分钟后，我必须实际地反思：这些字面上的shit一点也不重要。如果这一切消失，这个世界将会变得更美好。花所有的时间一次看几个小时7秒的短视频有什么价值呢？它不会让你更幸福，也不会留下持久的满足感；它仅仅是原??始的，徒然的消费。Now step back, and think of all the countless hours spent in front of screens, convincing yourself that it's just one more video, or just one more picture, just one more.. and then remember that this is your life. How we spend our days is how we spend our lives. This is it, this is all we have; you are the aggregate of your experiences. Do you want the average of those experiences to be summarized by a few URLs, a couple videos, and some half-hearted commitments to better yourself?现在退回去，想想你说服自己，就再看一个视频，或一幅图，就一个...然后在屏幕前度过了无数小时。记住，这是你的生活。我们如何度过每一天就是我们如何度过我们的生命。这是你全部拥有的生活；你是你所有经历的集合体。你想要你的经历被一些网址，一些视频，以及一些半心半意的提升自己承诺草草总结吗？So be vigilant! When you find yourself immersed in mindless consumption, ask yourself: "Who cares?" If what you're doing right isn't helping you become a better you, do something else.所以，要警惕！当你发现自己沉浸在无谓消费中，问自己：“谁在乎呢？”如果你正在做的事情没有在帮助你成为一个更好的自己，做别的去吧。
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