Author: Insight Yangtuo
No thinking, no breakthrough.
01
Let's start with a question, how much do you think a hairstylist in a second-tier city can make a month?
I post novels, and he can earn 20,000 yuan.
When I first heard it, I didn't believe it from the bottom of my heart, in a second-tier city, even if it was all month long, it couldn't be so much.
He told me that many people, even if they work all month long, are only seven or eight thousand.
The salary is composed of a basic salary and a commission, the basic salary is very low, in addition to the haircut and perm commission, but also to go out to solicit customers and sell membership cards.
But Fa Xiao is not like this, he has a very small workload, only accepts a limited number of customers a day, and only does three things the rest of the time.
One is to delve into haircutting techniques;
the second is to spend money to learn Xi body, makeup, and dressing knowledge;
The third is to shoot videos, do self-media, share hairstyle knowledge, compare photos of customers before and after, and accumulate fans.
Over time, he developed his own way of working.
Although the customer list is small, the quality is high, and his reservation is often queued for a month later.
He said that the salary of a barber seems to be a basic salary plus commission, but there are several factors that really affect income: technology, customer source and popularity.
But most people generally have a mentality: if there is an order, take it, pull it if there is no order, and there will be no income if you stop.
So I can only take more orders, sell more cards, and attract more customers......
On the other hand, if you have small hair, you don't have to work overtime, you don't need to hand out flyers, and compared with other barbers who are tired and paralyzed all day, it is easy and you can make more money.
But in fact, at the beginning, Fa Xiao was also like other barbers, selling cards every day to grab customers.
It's just that when he was tired all day and couldn't make any money, he chose to stop thinking and seek change.
But many people would rather die of exhaustion than change the way of working.
This also makes me more and more convinced that in today's environment of involution, the people who can stand out from their work are always those who are willing to change.
02
Leung Ka-fai was poor when he was young, and it wasn't until he became an actor that he had a stable income.
At that time, he thought that as long as he acted in one more play, he would be able to make more money and his life would be better.
With this in mind, he often made 3 or 4 films at the same time.
Sometimes I am so busy that I don't have time to study the script, so I simply put the performance mode of the previous work in the new work.
This did make him some money, but more came questions and criticisms of his acting skills.
The crew that invited him is decreasing, and there are occasional film appointments, and the salary is pitifully low.
In order to ensure his daily expenses, he can only take more low-return film appointments.
As a result, in less than two years, I was so tired that I didn't say anything, and my life returned to the overstretched state before acting.
Only then did he realize that something was wrong, and began to stop and think:
Is it to take more film appointments with lower returns, or to focus on polishing a drama?
In the end, he chose the latter.
He began to study the script, figure out the characters, and spend a lot of time looking for prototypes in life, imitating and learning Xi.
Slowly, his acting skills became more and more exquisite, he could play the emperor at the top, and he could play the gangster at the bottom, and he could easily grasp the essence of each role.
Appointments flocked to the film, and the salary rose, so he was also known as the "Thousand-faced Actor".
Nadal, the "Godfather of Silicon Valley Investment", said a thought-provoking point:
In the modern workplace, effort is a regular factor, not a determining factor.
Those who seem to be busy and hard at work often perform mediocre and gain little.
On the contrary, those who are willing to stop and think, concentrate on changing themselves and changing the way they work, can break through and climb to a higher level in one fell swoop.
03
Thinking Mentor Ye Xiu said:
"Ordinary people like weeds, it's hard to get ahead. For us, there is only one ticket left for the competition in life, and that is the ability to think. ”
Your ability to think deeply is the confidence you can get up against.
When writer Li Xiao came to work at New Oriental, his pronunciation was not as good as others, his education was not as good as others, and he belonged to the most inconspicuous kind of teacher in New Oriental.
But he is such a person, not only does he maintain the first place in student evaluations all year round, but he also easily earns more money than other teachers.
Why? Because he knows how to change.
In Li Xiao's view, there are many factors that affect students' final grades.
In addition to the professional ability of the teacher, there are also students' own efforts, learning Xi efficiency, etc.
He is not as professional as other teachers, but if you start from the student side.
So he made two adjustments according to his own situation:
Use various psychological research results to overcome the psychological barriers of learning Xi for students;
Use overall planning and probability knowledge to clarify the focus of learning Xi and improve the efficiency of learning Xi.
And it was these two small changes that allowed him to jump out of the trap of inter-roll with other teachers, and finally easily improved students' grades and increased income.
Kahneman said: "Repetitive and long-term endless busyness can be done by most people as long as the conditions are right. The hard part is thinking. Without deep thinking, diligence is meaningless.
You must know that the most indispensable thing in the work is those who are immersed in hard work, no matter what industry, there are a large number of people who are squeezing up with all their strength.
It is undoubtedly whimsical to want to surpass everyone else based on diligence alone.
No thinking, no breakthrough.
Only by standing taller, seeing farther, and thinking deeper than them, can you continue to improve and be ahead of the vast majority of people.
04
Writer Liu Run said: Evolution means suffering, and not evolving means death.
One of the most important is the evolution of the ability to think.
At work, most people are reluctant to do anything in order to avoid thinking.
But the cruelty of this world lies in the fact that a person who does not think will always achieve success.
A person's greatest ability at work is to develop a high-level thinking pattern.
1. Effective diligence.
Classical teachers say that diligence also has a realm: low-level diligence depends on hard work, and high-level diligence depends on methodology.
Ineffective efforts, even if you spend 200% of your energy, it is difficult to achieve.
In any kind of work, don't use tactical diligence to cover up strategic laziness.
Those jobs that serve tea, deliver water, and run errands, try to do little or no work.
Those tasks that take time and do not grow can be completed in two hours, and do not drag it out to four hours.
Lie flat on trivial matters, and involute on growth.
Only by focusing time and energy on improving value and improving skills can you do more with less in your work.
2. Think systematically.
In "Leap", it is said that the master is not stronger than us, higher IQ, and better concentration than us. It's just because they think deeper and know more than we do, that they see a bigger system.
In the same job, some people only see the troubles in front of them, but some people can see the rise and fall of the entire industry.
For the same problem, some people only see the details, but some people can analyze the entire system thoroughly.
These two kinds of people are destined to be completely different lives.
Just like Fat Little and other barbers.
The former focuses on the essence of the industry and systematically plans its work from the three dimensions of technology, customers and popularity;
The latter only saw the basic salary and commission, so he attracted more customers, sold more cards, and fell into a cycle of getting busier and poorer.
But the future, after all, is the era of "brain power is king".
Only by standing on a high ground and looking at the overall situation can we better improve ourselves in our work.
05
Finally, I would like to share a story with you.
When the oil magnate Rockefeller first came to work in the factory, he was just a small wire loader, responsible for nailing rivets.
Like most people, on his first day on the job, his hand was smashed with a hammer.
But the difference is that only he, pacing back and forth in the factory, thinking all night, made a wooden knot.
This kind of wooden knots can fix the rivets to avoid hand injuries, and also increase the efficiency by 1 times.
Subsequently, he tried to help the female workers in the workshop adjust the height of the work table, so that they could work more smoothly, and help everyone solve problems in any possible link.
In this way, with this ability to constantly think and solve problems, in just 3 months, he was promoted from a small line installer to an assistant to the department manager, and his salary increased several times.
The Chanel CEO wrote in Deep Thinking:
The reason why people stand out is first of all because of their outstanding thinking.
The essence of work is to solve problems.
Only with the support of thinking can the work be made easy.
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