Life Hacks and the Practice of Tanka: 7 Tips for Clearly Communicating What You Want to Say in Writing
In daily life, when you are conscious of tasks or what you need to do right now, you use your brain's resources.
However, those resources have limits, and when you exceed those limits, your work performance declines.
The capacity of those resources is called cognitive resources.
In daily life, it seems that we are overusing these cognitive resources, leading to increased stress.
To avoid wasting cognitive resources, it is important to reduce the number of things you have to do (^^)
To that end, it is said that it is good to categorize the huge list you have written down into the following three categories.
■ "Do Now" Task List
■ "Do Soon" Task List
■ "Someday" Task List
It would be great if you could make it a habit, but to save cognitive resources and reduce mental distress, it is important to establish the following three things, so please try to be conscious of them.
1. Reduce the things you have to do as much as possible
2. Reduce the things you need to remember (prospective memory) as much as possible
3. Ensure you complete only your routine work
However, since it is important to use life hacks that suit you, I think you should choose the methods that are easiest for you rather than forcing yourself to fit into what is presented (^^)
Now, for those who want to think about what life hacks are,
"You who read me, are you sure you understand my language?" (from J.L. Borges' "The Library of Babel")
I will introduce concrete examples of hacks combined with the practice of tanka, which I think could be called the repetition of presenting a way of life in the first person (self-making). Will you be driven into a daily world where such a way of life (hacks) is considered desirable?
Please check it out (^^)
1. The beginning is easy to understand
2. Can you see the end?
3. If you look closely, even long texts can be turned into bullet points
4. Clearly state what you want the other person to do in the end
5. You need both what you want to say and your own information
6. Images are overwhelmingly easier to convey than text
7. Accept that there are some people you will never be able to reach, no matter how long you try
"Inhaling, lungs expanding, exhaling and crying, that is the beginning of living alone"
(From Takako Shimamoto's "Sleeping Infant" / "Tanka Orai," April 2019 issue)
"After the trunk flowers, branches grow; the hard part is how to end it"
(From Keiko Nakamura's "Kowai-bito")
"The heart that speaks in bullet points; the first line of the writing is thin, like the first snow"
(From Reiko Oguchi's "Tohoku")
"Well, the man is great, 300 meters tall and glowing red"
(From Naoko Hiraoka's "Short Hair and Long Hair are Flames")
"There is no way to know the pleasures of the dead; the inverted sky at the bottom of the Nogawa River"
(From Koichiro Tozawa's "Mokusho")
"If you search for 'goat stupid,' many images of goats on cliffs will appear"
(From Yu Nagai's "A Wide World and 2 and 8 and 7")
"I intended to do this, but in the end, it turned out like this; to summarize a long life"
(From Chojiro Hamada's "I Disappear")
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