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Passive "marginalization" needs to be avoided with all efforts.
"Marginal people" were first proposed by the German psychologist K. Lewin, who pointed out that people can be divided into two categories: "central people" and "marginal people". One of the characteristics of marginalized people is a certain degree of deep separation from mainstream society, with one side not willing to condescend and the other dismissive.
In the unit, marginal people often refer to those who are "marginalized", the leader does not pay attention, colleagues do not want to see, work is ignored, achievements are not seen, whether excellent or mediocre, can be dispensed with.
Generally speaking, no one wants to be a "marginalized" person, and people will avoid keeping a distance from the "marginalized person" who has become a conclusive. Because the next step of the "marginal people", the biggest possibility is to be expelled from the game.
This "marginalization" is everywhere. For example, for errands such as registering for attendance, distributing office supplies, sending and receiving documents, etc., time-consuming and laborious but with little technical content, no matter how well you do, you will be taken for granted, and over time you will be marginalized.
Therefore, unless you are about to retire or your health does not allow it, do not do chores as your "main business". Miscellaneous work must also be in important departments, important positions, major projects, in order to show their own value.
Once you find yourself "hung up", you must learn to "find things" for yourself, and rely on work performance, return to the vision of leadership again, even if you are still not promoted and important, you can also remove yourself from the list of "waiting for layoffs".
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Taking the initiative to be a "marginal person" requires enough confidence.
The unit does not raise "idle people". Those who are hanging and doing nothing are relaxed on the surface, but in fact they are worried.
After all, after receiving a salary, "eating white rice" is not only annoying, but also becomes a "negative model", and there is a danger of being attacked by the group at any time.
Their lives are not much better than those who work hard and diligently.
For the "marginal people" with backgrounds and backers, people often dare to be angry, and for those who constantly "marginalize" themselves by lying on the ground, people hate them even more.
But from another point of view, if you don't have any connections and no connections, you can choose to make yourself a "marginal person", you really need more confidence.
Just like reading a book, if you work hard, you can get a hundred points; but only by working very hard can you get a zero score after answering the whole test paper word for word.
In a sense, the person who can really get zero points is no worse than the person who scores a hundred points.
A former colleague of mine, that's it. He was the leader's written secretary and wrote materials for more than ten years, until the leader was retiring, and did not help him solve any treatment.
Later, he chose to be a "marginal person", in addition to writing a few large materials every year, he only had to be a "free person" on weekdays, commuting to work at will, no one arranged not to move him, and then do a little other work.
The first officer in the unit who later took office also chose to acquiesce and support this, and repeatedly instructed him not to give him other work, because he must have enough mental strength to complete the comprehensive material writing task that no one else can complete.
A person with his own aura, as soon as he appears, makes everyone eclipsed, and no longer needs the blessing and affirmation of the outside world, he only needs to be himself, which is enough.
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In the unit, being a "marginal person" is also a way of living.
In the Cai Gen Tan, it is written: "People who are well-known are happy, and they do not know that the happiness of no place is the most true; people know that hunger and cold are worried, and they do not know that they are not hungry or cold. ”
This means that the world only knows that having honor and office is a happy thing, but not knowing that not having honor and office is really happiness. The world knows only that starvation and freezing are painful, but they do not know that those who are not worried about food and clothing and who are mentally empty are even more miserable.
In the unit, in the face of a fierce, complex and delicate struggle for fame and fortune, people are really laborious and exhausted.
After experiencing a series of open and secret struggles, some people have fallen deeper and deeper, and since then, they have become a person who is completely chasing fame and profit. Some people feel that "no official is light", abandoning the reputation, title, and status that outsiders envy incomparably, and only seek to be the most ordinary employee and return to the basics.
Treat being a "marginal person" as a way to live, just like a person who has traveled a long distance, unloaded his full bag, and suddenly it is much easier:
Commute to work on time every day, complete the work step by step, do not seek the approval of others, only seek to be unashamed, and come and go freely.
No longer struggle with how to please the leader, mingle with colleagues, have more alone time, read books and newspapers, delve into business, and be down-to-earth and quiet.
Do not envy others to evaluate the best, there are various opportunities for learning and communication, do not care how others view themselves, as long as there is a major mistake, others can not find a reason to expel themselves, everything around them can have nothing to do with themselves.
In this way, work becomes pure, interpersonal communication is very simple, and personal emotions and work emotions can finally be clearly separated, and life presents another kind of wonderful and perfect.
To be a "marginal person", you need enough confidence to conclude:
Probably, everyone who has just entered the workplace will be the soldier who "wants to be a general".
However, the competition in the workplace is fierce, and not everyone has enough wisdom, heart and will to persevere until the day when they stand out.
Therefore, choosing to be a "marginal person", in the quiet work, discovering more meaning of life, is not a gift of fate?
Author: Like a breeze.
Your happiness, my blessings.
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