# <center><i class="fa fa-edit"></i> A1: Study Time Management Randy Pausch </center> ###### tags: `Assignment` `Wireless communication` :::info Study note about Time Management - Professor Randolph Frederick "Randy" Pausch **Resources:** [Time Management by Randy Pausch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKBFwR1HIFU) ::: # OUTPUT ## Introduction ### Summary of related content - Time management helps people to get more done - Skills and tools to manage time - Procrastination ## Body ### Problems to be solved - How to be able to get more things done in your finite time? => Example: How to set goal? how to stop wasting time? how to deal with your boss?... - How to pursue your dream? => Inspiration: If you refuse to allow yourself to dream it, you won't do it - How to avoid procrastination? => Procrastination is the thief of time. ### Ideas and Solutions - Time must be managed, like money - Set your goals, priorities, planning: to-do list => Planning: Plan each day, each week, each semester,... => To-do list: Break things down into small steps, don't spend a lot of time looking at the first, do the ugliest thing first - Set your deadline - Can accomplish a lot more when have help. - Change the way you are doing things. - Give objectives, not procedures. ### Actions - To-do list: ![](https://i.imgur.com/3ESx4fB.png) Priority: 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 - Use multi monitors on work - Telephone: Keep call short, plan what to do next, combine with other activities - Make "fake class": Look at your timetable and identify your "fake class" on the open blocks that you are going to waste time. - Make up a "fake deadline" and act like it's real - Meeting: lock the door, unplug the phone, take people's phone. - Only use technology that helps you. ### Benefits when applying the solutions - Increase your productivity - Avoid forgetting, procrastinating - Avoid wasting of time - Get back into your comfort zone ## Appendix ### About Professor Randy Pausch Randolph Frederick "Randy" Pausch (October 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) was an American educator, a professor of computer science, human–computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. **(Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RandyPausch))** Professor Randy Pausch is famous for 'The Last Lecture', given by him a few months before his death, contains profound content.