5. Triage ruthlessly.

5.分工明確

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.

你大可不必每門課程上面都花費同樣的時間和經歷。對于你重要的學科來說多多花費一些經歷，但是對于那些并不是很重要的學科來說就大可不必了。而對于我來說，這條定律就是我節省經歷的重要法則。我并不是每門課都是全勤，否則的話我肯定就會崩潰了，我只把我的經歷投資在那些對于我來說最重要的東西上面。

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.

我同樣會作出不同的針對性安排的。如果我認為一個任務是差勁的，沒有任何的意義，單調乏味的，而且并不會對于我的學分產生什么影響的話，我就不會去做他。有一次我們留了個作業，寫一篇極度乏味的論文，這篇論文會占我這門功課總成績的10%。我并不是很想做，但是如果不做的話，我的成績就會使A-了。所以我就很充滿敬意的告訴我的授課老師說我不想做這篇作業，而如果把節省下來的時間去做其他的事情的話是一個更加不錯的選擇。這個教授知道我的為人處世的方式，并且理解這其中的原因，因此他給了我一個A-，我對此感到十分的滿意。這確實是個不錯的交易。實施上，回憶一下，我當時是經常做這樣的事情的。