In this era of "slash youth", many people understand slash as a "masochistic plan" that actively pushes themselves into "996". The "great roads" developed in life are not only for the purpose of leading to Rome, which symbolizes success, but perhaps to play while walking. Although many times, bread and hobbies cannot coincide, you can actively choose to turn life over a noodle, leave A noodles to bread, and give B noodles to your likes.
Today, Fashion COSMO invited five young people who have lived their lives as "double-sided frying" to share with us the story of their two sides of AB.
Let's take a look at how the programmers who are criticized for being "old-fashioned" on weekdays have transformed into stand-up comedians who have become "atmosphere coffee" on the stage; Buddhist girls who work in the Internet office during the day, and how they have become the most sassy DJs in the audience at night; and strategic analysts who step on high heels and are fierce, amateurs can actually save time, insist on being KOLs, and accumulate a large number of fans; the school grass handsome guy in the vanity fair of the showbiz circle can also become a week without going out. A psychologist who studies research; a psychiatrist with a serious appearance and a white coat, can he become the "wife" of the COS world when he comes home?
Each of them strives to move forward on this "chai rice oil and salt" life road, but at the same time, they pour out a part of their enthusiasm to their true love; or rather, each of them has a special "life that can be turned over" in their hearts. And as long as you want, everyone's life can also be "turned over".
Rose Zhu
Age: 28 years old
Zodiac Sign: Pisces
Side A: Strategist in a suit
Side B: An all-round KOL focused on women's growth
Lifestyle KOL is the identity that most people are most familiar with Rose Zhu, and the first sight of her in the video is often caught by her long fluffy curly hair, plus the dress is 100% in line with the most in-demand "hot girl style", plus a very affinity smile, "confident" and "special". Her curls are naturally curly; but self-confidence is a state of mind that she has gradually learned over the years.
In adolescence, conformity seems to be an unspoken rule of the game, and it takes a lot of courage to be unique, and between a group of straight-haired children, even this special point of the self-roll has become "weird".
"At that time, I also tried to straighten my own self-roll. Until I went abroad to study, I met many friends with curly hair and dark skin like me, and after being exposed to a variety of aesthetics, including perhaps I gradually began to mature, I realized that my value is not determined by the outside world, so I gradually began to be confident. ”
If reconciling with her own appearance is Rose Zhu's outward way of becoming confident; then gradually finding a balance in the "drifting" state of life is her conviction of her own heart, which is an inward force.
From Shenzhen to the United States, to Beijing, and now to Shanghai, in a strange city to quickly adapt, integrate, and even find a sense of belonging, it seems that she was born with the attributes, to adventure and love adventure these two things, it seems that the original "first chicken or first have eggs" philosophy - love, will go; after going, will find more love.
"Exploration" is Rose Zhu's philosophy of life: can't be idle, and don't want to be idle. After graduating from college, she worked as an investment worker in a bar, taught English, and tried to be a one-on-one yoga teacher.
After returning to China, while working as an urban white-collar worker in the strategy department of a FMCG company, she developed her KOL career in her spare time, broadening from the earliest English direction to the content of women's growth, lifestyle, and sports. In addition to this, she occasionally acts as a translator and copywriter. Her life has never developed on a single line, and letting herself have more room for choice is the premise that she can live in peace of mind.
A strategist is an opportunity she gets after stumbling on a show and meeting the current company owner. The identity of the KOL is also because one day, before she went to the fitness class, she was released by the fitness coach, and suddenly recorded a video of "how to say the English of the pigeons" at home, and unexpectedly got a lot of attention.
It seems that her main business and side business are random rewards distributed to her by life, and there is no plan, and at first glance it seems that there are some "Versailles", but thinking carefully about these opportunities is not really a good thing to drop pie in the sky. However, when she was willing to try a little more than ordinary people, or was willing to do more things that seemed "not so fruitful", she had unexpected and chance encounters.
Strategic analyst and KOL seem to be two professions that are not very related, but Rose Zhu still seems to see complementary points in it, "Many of my colleagues will think of me when looking for KOLs to promote, or let me introduce, and when I was a blogger, the brand thinking I learned in strategic analysis greatly helped my blogger path." ”
While this isn't the first time Rose Zhu has kept life busy, there are occasional times when it's a hectic one.
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The biggest difficulty with slashes (youth) is that when two things are mixed together, you often think about B while doing A, and you will be very anxious and painful.
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Learning to immerse yourself in one thing is Rose Zhu's biggest takeaway from falling into the "pit of entanglement" countless times on the slash path.
COSMO×Rose Zhu
COSMO: Can only self-disciplined people have different faces?
Rose Zhu: Actually, I understand that I am not a "self-disciplined person" in the traditional sense, so I usually set up some "external pressure" by myself, such as I sometimes don't want to get up early, then I will ask for morning fitness class, for example, I know that I occasionally eat gluttony, so I will not put snacks at home, and understanding my weaknesses is the first step to becoming self-disciplined.
Talk about AB noodles
"Whether you want to have a B side depends on the individual, if you can't be distracted from doing two things, it is better to do one thing well." People like me, if you only do one thing, it will be very uncomfortable, so even if I am usually busy with my own work, I will divide a part of the things to develop my own B side. Moreover, many people usually really do not have enough energy and time, such as requiring those who work in investment banks or at three o'clock in the morning every day to have a slash, which is too difficult for them. ”
Zhou Junwei
Age: 25 years old
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio
Side A: Emerging actors still exploring
Side B: A researcher with a passion for psychology
Zhou Junwei, who has just entered the show business circle for three years, has not yet crossed his 26th birthday, but he already has his own AB identity. By chance, he started his career as an actor, and has performed 7 film and television works such as "Liu Li", "To Our Warm Little Time", and "Twelve Tans", and is still constantly adapting to this narrow and special circle. But looking back, he never said goodbye to himself in the ivory tower laboratory.
Zhou Junwei, who graduated from McGill University with a double degree in psychology and sociology, debuted for three years and did not give up academic research: published academic papers with his friends at the Douglas Institute; Professor Bilsker's "Handbook of Depression Care" link on his Weibo top, which has remained to this day from 2018; at the same time, as a project consultant at the Alpha Care Psychology Laboratory at Jilin University, he worked together to interpret the new "Chinese style" that is more in line with China's local and national conditions. Psychological Handbook of Depression Care". Although high academic qualifications are not uncommon in the show business circle, it is rare to continue academic research after their debut.
For the matter of being an actor, Zhou Junwei is not empty. Although he did not come from a science class, he has always had a strong interest in the film and television industry, and has been studying directing since middle school, and he has also taken musical theater in college. Acting is not easy, how to "live as a role" is the key to playing a role well. Zhou Junwei spent two full months becoming a character before playing his first role, Lian Zhou in "The Long Farewell".
The research background in psychology and sociology also better helps Zhou Junwei to understand the heart of the role he plays, which he calls the inside-out understanding method, which is the help and convenience brought to him by his status as a researcher. The increasingly familiar identity of actors has also brought a new mode of thinking to Zhou Junwei. At the same time, he learned the way of some predecessors in the industry, and began to observe more the movements and micro-expressions of the characters in life, so as to interpret different roles from the outside and the mainland.
Characters are rooted in life, you can't get out of life, you can't leave your creative soil.
These two different modes of thinking, in Zhou Junwei's view, are full of commonality, "whether you are an actor or a researcher, you need to be a very delicate observer", and these two modes of thinking are helping Zhou Junwei to constantly enrich the characters in the play and enrich yourself at the same time.
Costume stills from the TV series "Glass"
For a long time, Zhou Junwei's life seemed to be divided into two parallel lines advancing at the same time. When he was in China, he was a diligent newcomer actor, running announcements, going back and forth between the set and the show scene, receiving the support and love of fans, and having a bright aura in the eyes of the public.
In Canada, he returned to his ordinary researcher status, saying goodbye to makeup and hair, putting up his glasses, plunging headlong into research, sometimes not even going out for a week. If as an actor, he creates an externalized story world, interprets life, and entertains the public; then as a researcher, he wanders in the internalized spiritual world, enriching himself and helping others.
On the one hand, the bright fireworks in the secular vision, on the other hand, the social pioneers in the public perception, these two seemingly far apart identities, but in Zhou Junwei's body, they have balanced into a harmonious and unified existence.
COSMO × Zhou Junwei
COSMO: Describe yourself in three words.
Zhou Junwei: Contradictions, chases, and one more I hope is kindness.
COSMO: These two identities are very different in the eyes of the public, how do you switch freely? How do you balance this AB-side life?
Zhou Junwei: Talking about switching, it is more like two completely different lives, these two lives have nothing to do with each other. Although I am very tired, I still like it, on the one hand, although it is hard but very light in the eyes of others, on the other side is a very calm and very quiet life, which is a very interesting feeling.
COSMO: How do you see slash youth groups with AB faces?
Zhou Junwei: It is a group of young people who strive to live out their own lives under a certain degree of freedom in society, so that hobbies and interests become part of life and even occupation, and become an identity label.
"In fact, whether you are a slash or have an AB surface, you must learn time management to do more with less." Stay away from the stuff that chops your time into pieces, and then organize the chunks of your time and use the whole chunk of time to learn. ”
Zi Yin
Age: 34 years old
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
Side A: Rationalist big-factory programmer
Side B: A talk show actor with frequent golden sentences
The initial enlightenment of the programmer Ziyin's profession comes from China's ancient idol drama "White-collar Apartment", in which the male protagonist is portrayed as a Jack Su who wears a tie every day, pays attention to dress, and is separated from the programmer masses. After going deep into the workplace, we will find that this is not in line with the real situation in the industry.
Zi Yin is the kind of programmer who wears a plaid shirt to work, and on the stage of the seventh season of "Strange Story", he conquered thousands of social animals with a sentence of "has not been paid back". Considering that from his first job to the present, Ziyin has been in the factory for 11 years, practice makes perfect, and he knows the way, we have reason to believe that this "demand" may have a sense of truth.
Ziyin emphasizes rationality. In an ideal state, his day will unfold like this: ten o'clock to the company, with an hour to cover today's tasks, and then an hour to correct yesterday's bugs, check the gaps and fill in the gaps after you can have lunch, in the afternoon, first concentrate on writing three hours of code, conscientiously implement the work arranged for himself in the morning, without touching other needs, and then afternoon tea, deal with all new affairs, and finish work at eight or nine o'clock in the evening.
The assigned task cycle ranges from two months to two weeks, and Ziyin mentioned that the difference between the experience of a large factory employee depends on how fine he can split his work. Zi Yin would split all the tasks at hand to the extent that they needed to be completed every hour or two, which was the experience he had accumulated after about five years of work. He said that the finer the demolition, the better the execution, and the more positive feedback.
This method was also used in his talk show creation, so that this procrastinator never delayed a single deadline. Once the task is established, Ziyin will be like a perfect executor, taking the initiative to find an interface for himself, and then taking the result as the guide, forcing himself to achieve a self-determined KPI.
The talk show field will measure the quantity and quality of a person's paragraphs by the standard of "whether you can open a special show", after leaving "Strange Story", Zi Yin was briefly lost for a while, at this time there were two weeks before his birthday, Zi Yin immediately set a new goal for himself: to open a special session on his birthday. He pushed himself as before, split the task, and used 14 days to supplement his own paragraph to 60 minutes, holding up the length of a special session.
Regarding the opportunity for Ziyin to perform a talk show offline, the online version is: when watching the first offline open wheat in a tavern in Beijing's Dongcheng, Ziyin felt that he could also say good, so he signed up for the show, and became famous in a battle, and was excavated.
But Ziyin said that the main plot of this version is not complete enough, in fact, the performance is not his temporary intention, two weeks in advance, he learned that the tavern near the family opened the wheat to start the news, the name is not counted, Ziyin set the theme, wrote a verbatim draft, and memorized the manuscript several times. "Nothing is sudden," he said, "and I don't like to fight unprepared battles. ”
In this way, in September 2019, Ziyin opened the wheat for the first time, in December, he performed his first commercial performance, and in May and June of the following year, he participated in the audition of "Strange Story"... Ziyin thus moved towards a bigger and bigger stage.
In the past 11 years, Ziyin has changed 6 jobs, and among his professional identities, he has the longest career design. ZiYin feels that in the end, talk shows and games are studied by flow.
It's all flow, a good game designer and a good talk show actor need to do is to adjust the rhythm, how to reasonably combine each peak and trough, so that everyone is happier.
Overall, Zi Yin is a unified person, he freely switches between the two modes of seriousness and funny, and is also very happy to find the interaction between his dual identities.
He said that the experience of game research and development allowed him to quickly understand its theoretical logic during the talk show start-up period; and the experience of speaking about talk shows offline allowed him to feel people's emotional changes more clearly, help him construct those imaginary pictures more reasonably, feed his game creation, and let him better grasp the problem of how a gold coin should bounce on the ground a few times and at what speed to enter your pocket.
The big factory programmer is a profession with age anxiety, but he gradually stops panicking, because his other identity is just the opposite — the material for great stand-up comedians comes from his rich life. He talked about his favorite player, Steven Gerrard, who staged earth-shattering reversals in the final moments several times, giving people the inspiration of desperate circumstances. He was guided by Gerald, hoping to overcome everything and go deeper.
COSMO × Ziyin
COSMO: Is Dachang a place where emotional expression is allowed? Will this promote or hinder your stand-up comedy text creation?
Zi Yin: In fact, the big factory for the emotional output is not encouraging or not encouraging, because everyone is actually quite bad at expressing emotions, but if you ask my point of view, I am inclined to everyone to use affection to a certain extent, if you use it well, you can better express your meaning, can drive everyone to complete a thing faster, such as you cry I know that your revision opinion is really urgent, right? And most of the time, we really overestimate our intellectual ability to express ourselves.
"A lot of times a lot of people feel that to take care of both sides of AB, time management is the most important. But I think as long as you want to do it, there will always be time. And how to face the doubts that colleagues have about your A side because of your B side, or even unfair, is more important, especially in some highly competitive companies. Then my advice is simple, guarantee the mentality, do not argue. ”
Lynn
Age: 27 years old
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius
Side A: Immersive European and American Coser
Side B: Psychiatric interns who are about to study for a Ph.D
Lynn officially became a coser in her sophomore year, and her roles are mostly from European and American film and television works.
In 2011, "Thor" was released, and Jeremy Rayner's Hawkeye made a small face, which rippled in Lynn's heart. The following year, Avengers 1 was released, and Lynn became fascinated by the "hero closest to the average person." This year, Guangzhou held an exhibition that is still being held, but it was not very large at that time, Lynn saw the news on Weibo, thought for a while and bought a ticket, and participated in the exhibition in a female eagle eye costume after a sexual transformation.
This is Lynn's first cosplay experience, and the role is completed entirely on her own: first to determine the character, then to design the costumes, to make props, then to repeatedly try on makeup and finalize makeup, and to communicate around the scene as Hawkeye on the day of the show. This is also almost the cosplay methodology that Lynn continues to the present.
As a coser, many of Lynn's practices are not mainstream: she does not have a separate C name (coser name, coser's self-designation when communicating with partners, is the unwritten signature rule of the cosplay circle), LK is the name she uses in three dimensions; she is keen on cold circles, summarizing the three ways to engage in cold circle cos; she does not record the process of cosplay by photos, but remembers it with her physical experience.
From the summer of 2012 to today, 9 years later, Lynn has only played 8 sets of roles in its entirety, because she read a major that was too busy and too busy in the three-dimensional dimension - psychiatry. Medical students have a long training line. Lynn has completed 5 years of undergraduate and 3 years of graduate studies, and in September this year, she will continue to return to school for her PhD.
Lynn is not the kind of outpatient doctor, her work is mainly in the research room, the topic is the performance of executive function in children with neurodevelopmental disorders, which belongs to the research category of cognitive neuropsychology. Specifically, it is to do clinical trials with children and parents who are scheduled to do clinical trials every day, collect information, and study disease laws and treatment methods.
She's very different as a coser than she is as a doctor," and it's okay to say it's two people. Lynn says that cos are a little more casual, and work requires complete calm and patience.
In Lynn's case, ACG is not an escape from reality, she has a high sense of identification with her profession, but also admits that even her favorite profession must have something tiring and draining.
Specific to Lynn, the medical experiment cycle is very long, unlike clinical doctors, every day you can see the children getting better little by little, you can know what school the children go to, what hobbies, scientific research doctors have less of this direct intimacy; and, the results of a medical research need many years to promote to the clinic, plus psychiatry is also a domestic medical circle of unpopular subjects, even if fully prepared, there will still be some moments of powerlessness. It was also at this point that Lynn felt that it was good to have another world.
Lynn likes to wear gothic clothes every day, but because of the work often have to deal with children, Lynn strictly guards the boundaries of the two worlds, her WeChat circle of friends only sends work content, her C suit, props are hung in the family closet, because she has never taken the initiative to mention, her parents and colleagues have not yet found her coser identity. Lynn is still playing her favorite character at a slow pace, and she's obsessed with moments like changing outfits and then handing over half of her soul to the person in the mirror.
COSMO×Lynn
COSMO: Your two- and three-dimensional identities are not interconnected, not only the children involved in the research, but also the parents and friends, how did you do this?
Lynn: The children don't know that it should be because I have deliberately cut, my parents and friends don't know because I have never taken the initiative to speak, and my social media accounts are not mixed, WeChat only sends work, Weibo almost does not send three-dimensional content because of the identity of the doctor, but if there are friends who are very, very familiar with the trend culture, they may be able to judge it.
"I think everyone just follows the four words of 'do what you can'." People have so much energy and time, give up some too harsh 'perfectionism', after all, not every side must be the best. Besides, sometimes you have to give up some things, you have to give up to get, and you also give yourself some room to improve. ”
SUNK
Age: You guessed it
Zodiac Sign: Aries
Side A: Buddhist Marketing Department "Female Worker"
Side B: The Talented Musician/DJ of the Dark Faction
SUNK lives in an efficient way. She is both a market expert for an Internet powerhouse and an independent electronic music producer and DJ.
In 2009, SUNK became acquainted with one of the earliest electronic music fans in Beijing, and they were active in music festivals and clubs together. It wasn't until 2017 that she actually became a DJ.
One of the often misunderstood things is that DJs are not improvised jobs, and not only do they require performers to learn DJ mixing techniques first, but they also need to rehearse in the field rather than in the head. From presetting the atmosphere of the venue, to finding the right music, to completing the choreography, to rehearsing at the venue, and sometimes planning B, SUNK usually takes one to two weeks or more to prepare an offline performance.
Performing like this for about a year, SUNK, like many DJs, came up with the idea of making original music. At this time, the gene of "market people" also made her keenly judge that the next outlet was in electronic music. SUNK invests in more systematic learning, from software and music theory knowledge.
I'm not going to have a place in it, it doesn't matter to me, but I want to do it myself first, and don't wait for the wind to come and find out that it has nothing to do with me.
After a year of self-study, SUNK released her first single, and then released a total of 15 songs in a short period of time, including an album, an EP, and her new album will be released in September 2021.
The thinking of the people in the big factory market makes SUNK pay attention to the "overall sense" of packaging - SUNK said that the content of the east hammer and the west stick will not be remembered. She developed explicit slogans and subtitles (album titles and song titles) for each album, which often carry clear mood or content pointing. SUNK hopes to offer products that are as perfect as possible within budget and express themselves as much as possible.
She currently works in a large factory that advocates "happy work, serious life", and can have about a day's rest time a week. During this day, SUNK stores energy, breaks and kneads, and basically divides the dj and the original music creation into two things. For all the friends who feel that they are running out of time, her method is summed up in 4 words: increase efficiency.
SUNK has a very high degree of execution, at the beginning of each year, she will be like making a work plan in a big factory, customizing the KPI of her own music: what kind of album to produce this year, what kind of cities to go to, what different things to perform... When she reviewed it at the end of the year, she would find that these goals were often exceeded. She said: "Sometimes when I am performing, I also do user insights for young people and specific groups of people, and regular performances will make me burst more inspiration in my work." ”
Because the circle of friends does not block colleagues, and also performed at the company's annual meeting, SUNK was once a singer at the previous company, "the kind that can meet fans in the elevator." Ask SUNK, what are the benefits of being a well-known star in a big company? A: "Of course it is simple to mention the needs of thieves, and I said after I went over, 'This is what I asked'. ”
Well, the privilege of "female star" is also good in the big factory.
COSMO×SUNK
COSMO: Do you feel the same sense of accomplishment in your job, djing, and music creation?
SUNK: The main embodiment of the work is that when you don't know how to start a topic with the first person, you can throw out this professional identity, because the project you are responsible for and your work is your business card; the DJ is to see everyone in the audience attracted, mixed, listening and dancing with your music; music creation is completely exploring my favorite topic and expressing myself.
"I would like to give you a few tips for maintaining a work life balance: 1. Do what you want to do at the moment, don't try to be ready to do it again, because there is no need, don't delay; 2. Allocate work and life reasonably, and have interests, do the most important things according to priorities, and give up unwanted branches; 3. Believe in yourself, don't need to compare with others. Hope that helps. ”
Editor: He Zhiyang
Photography: Hitomi Pei
Author: Han Haha, Ying Zhou, He Zhiyang
Shape: Ou Yanqi
Makeup and hair: Yang Kaichun, Xiao Hao
Vision: Yuqing
The original article was published in the September issue of Fashion COSMO
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