How can I gain the ability to complete tasks at a faster pace?

Question

All my life I have gotten things done at a slower pace than the people around me and always needed to take my time so I dont know if asking this question would provide me with a solution but I'm giving it a try anyway just to hear other people's opinions.
So what do you think? :)

Answer 1

My career has been in information technology (computers). That industry has been one of the few in which there was little gender discrimination in part because in the beginning it was really tough to find enough people who could program a computer so anyone who came along was almost guaranteed a job.

This tendency rather intrigued a variety of groups who were fighting gender discrimination. Their question was to better understand why there was virtually no discrimination in that industry while there was a lot in others. A study was undertaken to see if there were any differences between men and women in terms of programming computers. The results were interesting.

Generally then men programmed a lot faster, they could write new systems incredibly fast while the women tended to design and write theirs a lot slower. At the same time though, the men created a lot more bugs demanding a considerable amount of time to clean them up and get them working properly. The systems developed by the women had far fewer problems and went into production a lot faster. The bottom line was that while each gender seemed to approach the problem of the day differently, the end result was that both produced at an equal pace and with an equal effectiveness.

Gender aside, there are of course some men who program a lot slower just as there are also some women who program a lot faster. The real lesson that comes from that study is not so much that the genders are equal, but rather that different approaches to a problem can be equally effective in terms of producing a positive end result.

Perhaps there are some who can do a thing faster than you, but I would ask if they completed the task as effectively as you did. Odds are that sometimes your slower approach may result in fewer mistakes and a better outcome. If that is the case, I’d not worry too much about your pace at all, it’s probably just right for you and as effective as any other.

But that said, no matter what it is that you take on, in time you’ll find a way to do it faster if you concentrate on the steps involved. I do an annual Christmas project in my workshop. Basically I will design something and then make about thirty five of them to give away as a present. The first one takes me forever, I can spend a week to finally turn it out. That first try was more to refine the design than it was to find a way to make it faster so the time is well spent. That done, I make another but this time I pay close attention to the steps I have to go through to get it done. Inevitably I discover that if I do some things in a different order, or plan ahead a little, I can shave time off the task. The second try usually takes about two hours to complete and from that exercise I understand the best way to make it. That done, I go into production and the average time I spend on each project is about thirty minutes in total.

Once you pay attention to the steps you go through to do a thing, you will find ways to take shortcuts that can save you time and effort and then the more you do the same thing the faster you become.

I hope this helps a little.

Answer 2

You have to examine ways to do a task more efficiently. You see how you can arrange things so that there is less distance and motion involved in completing the task and you see how you can do repetitive steps better.

Find someone who has done the particular task that you want to do for a long time and learn from them the "tricks of the trade".

Answer 3

Practice practice, and more practice, then take a break for a while, and practice some more, and depending on what you want to get faster at, if it involves technique, start out slow going through the motions and doing it right, then as you get better at it, you will eventually notice yourself getting faster and faster at it, great talents are made, not a born ability, whatever you put you mind into,you can get good at it.

Answer 4

Practice. If you time yourself at daily tasks, set the time at a low pace , (60 secs, 40secs, 20 secs etc.) then you will start to do things at a faster pace before you know it.

Answer 5

Before executing any task, prepare a short breakdown of the task

Execute the breakdown points simply and efficiently. No complications, avoid them!

When the task is done, review it and make necessary correction, if possible.

This way you will save lots of unnecessary thinking and corrections.

A job well understood is half done

Answer 6

well, simply time management and priority.
you should know what to prioritize and use time wisely, you can do it.

let me know ok?
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