There is only one way to succeed – to live life on your own terms. - "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty".
When I was a child, I often heard the saying: hard work can make you rich. Do you still think so today?
Rey Dalio, who was once ranked 55th on the Forbes rich list, once said: "I am 60 years old this year, and I have read countless people, but no successful person is talented."
I didn't believe it at first, until I happened to see Zhang Yiming's Weibo, he said: "There are many people who go out early and return late all year round, and the difference is very great. But the difference doesn't seem to be effort. ”
At the time, I thought I understood, and I thought that choice was greater than effort, but it wasn't until later that I realized that I didn't understand the true meaning of this sentence at all.
In my early years, I worked at Tencent and had a sense of pride. I work 9-10 hours a day, and I occasionally work overtime on weekends, and I have encountered various problems, and finally solved them successfully.
Colleagues often joke that I "live well and are not sticky", and the company has also won a lot of various large and small awards, earning tens of thousands of yuan every month, and at the end of the year, there is a year-end bonus that makes people blush, and life is not bad.
But later I found that more people in large factories are in such a state of work: busy work, frequent overtime, seem to work very hard and diligently, but there is no substantial progress, standing still, and even not getting the reward that matches the effort.
This wave of people, we can call them "inferior and hard-working people" for the time being, these people generally lack rational and systematic thinking, lack of overall judgment of the whole life, so even if they work hard, they do not achieve much.
At present, many people in the workplace are becoming or are more or less such people. "I don't expect great success, but I hope that I don't regret through hard work", which seems to be very reasonable, but it is actually a "sick psychology in the workplace".
Low-quality diligence is actually laziness disguised.
It has been three months since my new colleague Xiao Wang came, and he worked hard, always coming first and leaving last every day, but his life has not improved at all.
Every time the task assigned by the supervisor is always unfinished during normal work, often the whole weekend is put into it, and it is always procrastinated to cooperate with colleagues, and finally slows down the progress of the entire group.
In fact, this problem has plagued Xiao Wang when he was in school, and in every class when he was in school, as long as the teacher wrote something on the blackboard, he would inevitably write it down in his notebook. His notebooks were always used quickly, one by one stacked very high, much taller than his classmates. He was very proud of it and felt that it was a medal of his own.
However, the truth is that his results have not been very good. And among those classmates with thin notebooks, there are many people who have always been better than him. Yes, that's the same situation he's in now.
When he went to work, he never thought about what his role was for. As a result, he never weighs his time and available capacity, but just takes on all the requirements, but often fails to meet the time limit.
As a result, he didn't help the team solve many problems, and he kept himself busy, leaving him with no time to rest or improve himself. Eventually, the harder he tried, the more mediocre he seemed to become.
This is just as sad as Nokia CEO Yomar Ollilah said. Nokia also worked hard, and when Nokia was in trouble, CEO Yoma Ollilah once said with emotion: We didn't do anything wrong, but for some reason, we lost.
This is not an isolated case, but it shows us that the poor are not poor because they don't work hard enough.
It's that the more low-quality effort you have, the easier it is to fall into a vicious circle, and the more your life falls in the direction of the trough.
Think carefully about the people around you or whether you have fallen into the predicament of "being busy":
Work is always busy, but busy with meaningless things, irrelevant to goals and results, and unable to accumulate any ability and experience.
The time spent thinking and improving is spent spinning in a gyro-like loop, and the longer you spin, the more rickety your work and life become.
It is said in "Zengguang Xianwen": The rich think about the coming year, and the poor think about the present.
Lack of long-term planning and continuous self-consumption are the root causes of a person's busier and poorer he becomes.
The economist Abhijit calls this state of life a "cycle of poverty."
When a person's income declines, they will subconsciously do more work and spend less time thinking about it.
This, in turn, led to a further decline in revenue.
Income, work, and thinking form a closed loop, like drawing the ground into a prison, trapping people in a narrow circle and watching the sky.
How long has it been since you've been quietly immersed in thinking about whether you're stuck in trivial things every day, or you're addicted to short videos and games.
So, how do you break the cycle and achieve self-growth and development?
A few tips to suggest that you may not be in poverty, but are still valuable in your life:
Sustained diligence throughout the day does not determine success, and rhythmic efforts can lead to success.
Focusing your efforts in the morning and afternoon is far more effective than Xi studying throughout the day, because you need time to rest and relax and allow your brain to function normally, while exhaustion and anxiety are the enemies of success.
Therefore, you must not only avoid meaningless busyness, but also avoid the fatigue of consuming energy, and stop when you are busy, in order to better improve the efficiency of your efforts, otherwise the day will be wasted.
A life that pushes too hard can be a disaster.
Do less low-value work and do more things that have no short-term benefits but are conducive to long-term development. Especially for creative work, it is a terrible thing to become a working machine, and the machine will always usher in the end of its service life.
If you don't work hard with problems, you are busy.
People seem to be toiling, but they don't know why they're doing it. Many people's poor ability is not bad in the input ability and knowledge reserve, but because the output ability is too weak. The solution is to strengthen the output and form a virtuous closed loop of "input-output-result", the key is to use it to learn, not to apply what it has learned.
Success requires learning Xi based on projects, tasks, and problems, rather than learning Xi based on capacity improvement and knowledge reserves.
Sustained diligence throughout the day does not determine success, and rhythmic efforts can lead to growth.
Growth is more about learning Xi based on projects, tasks, and problems, which can be applied in work and life, and then can expand one's horizons and cognition.
All effective efforts can make you get the rewards you deserve, and if you don't be an inferior diligent person in the workplace, the road ahead will be easier.