Have you ever bothered:
"In this era of rapid technological evolution, where is my competitiveness?"
"I don't like my current job, but what should I do next?"
"The colleague next door has a promotion and a raise, and I am still standing still, how can I continue to climb the workplace ladder like him?"
Peter Drucker, the father of modern management, once said, "Knowledge must be constantly improved, or it will disappear." "In the era of information explosion, the total amount of human knowledge is getting bigger and bigger, and anxious workplace people are "learning" all the time.
In a competitive and brutal career, your only sustainable competitiveness, and the competitiveness you can control, is the ability to learn yourself.
Knowledge is like milk, which has a shelf life, and if it cannot be constantly updated, it will decline rapidly in the workplace. Everything in the enterprise is related to learning, so the first meaning of survival is to learn and understand, and people who are lazy to learn are actually choosing to fall behind.
Zhang Sihong, former Sales Director of Dell Asia Pacific, said:
Many people reach middle age, in the middle of the enterprise in an ordinary management position, the situation will be more embarrassing. They have been unable to adapt to the rapid development of the company, but they are the most expensive personnel assets in the company. So when the industry sinks, the company's business shrinks, or when there is a major change, it is easy to be thrown out as a burden.
The workplace is no longer the era of experience supremacy, but more emphasis on people who go faster and farther. The old concept that people can only achieve fame in middle age is becoming obsolete, and the gaps in financial resources, resources, vision, and experience that were once brought about by "age" have been rapidly eliminated in the face of opportunities everywhere in the Internet age.
In his book "You Always Believe in Effort Too Much", Ah Ho once mentioned such a heartfelt sentence:
There are many things in life, we are already ahead, so we began to walk slowly, the original backward others hit a car to catch up with the overtaking, if not willing to fall behind, we need to overtake a car.
Yes, in addition to rich experience in work, we must continue to make progress, improve efficiency, and continue to learn, so that the unit is willing to keep you.
In the workplace, settling down is not a position at all, but your irreplaceability.
Continuous learning is one of the most important learning abilities in this era, and the two important points of continuous learning are one goal and the other is the ability to learn.
In the workplace position, it is necessary to find the main task of the stage of the post and improve their ability in a targeted manner. For example, in the miscellaneous period, they will improve their skills, execution ability and communication skills in a down-to-earth manner, accumulate experience in specific transaction processing, and then understand the tasks and work content of the next stage, and prepare in advance. In the ascendancy period, focus on the upgrading of three skills, technical (professional skills), interpersonal relationships (getting along with people) and conceptual skills (macro-level thinking strategy and planning ability).
There is no permanent stable job, passive elimination, always lazy and mediocre. Only by continuing to learn, making continuous progress, and creating an irreplaceable self in advance will it not be eliminated.
Jack Welch said: "You can refuse to learn, but your competitors won't!" ”。
The speed of a person's growth is closely related to his mode of thinking. Passive-thinking people are accustomed to suffering: I accept what the world gives me. Active thinking people, on the other hand, will seek a breakthrough on their own: as long as I need it, I will fight for it.
Passive thinking people are waiting for opportunities at the same time, active thinking people have begun to create opportunities for themselves, they are good at creating conditions for their own growth, so that their talents can be maximized.
Those who take the initiative to learn will be the winners of this era.
Well-known best-selling author Michael Simmons says that many successful people spend at least 5 hours a week sinking into their studies, keeping an hour a day for themselves from Monday to Friday.
Michael Simmons said that after he observed, studied and interviewed celebrities, he found that the 5-hour rule of these successful people is divided into three levels, namely reading, reflection and practice.
Read
Successful people tend to be people who keep reading every day, and they have publicly stated that they can achieve the results they have and continue to develop in good shape, thanks in large part to books.
Buffett spends his time every day reading newspapers and company reports
Bill Gates reads 50 books a year
Mark Zuckerberg reads at least one book every half a month
Elon Musk reads every day since he was a child
Reading helps us think hard about what we want to learn. We should set goals not only for what we want to accomplish, but also for what we want to learn.
Most of the time in this era is fair, and there is a saying in the Lotus Sutra: Merit is not a donation. Your efforts will not be wasted, and will certainly be returned to you in one other way.
You only need to read 1 hour a day, no more, no less, but in the long run, it will be the best investment of your life.
rethink
In addition to reading, thinking is also an important act.
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong leads his senior team to think four hours a week, just just thinking; renowned entrepreneur Ray Dalio records problems in the public system of employees when he finds fundamental mistakes in the company's operations or strategy, and then finds time to work with the executives to find solutions; and the well-known female entrepreneur Sara Blakely) has accumulated more than 20 thick notebooks around her, which are the result of recording her thoughts and decisions or life experiences.
Michael Simmons said that when thinking, you can plan what you learn, think about what you want, how to achieve your goals through planning, which can help us grow regularly and gradually, and things that develop slowly may also have innovative breakthroughs.
practice
In our life, you are bound to encounter many difficulties, you should come up with a few suitable solutions, and then think about whether it is feasible. Michael Simmons suggests that whether things work or not, the practical process is an opportunity to learn and grow. The knowledge learned is applied in practice, feedback is obtained from practice, and a suitable feedback method is found in the case of a large number of inputs and outputs, forming a learning closure.
The busiest and most successful people in the world find at least 1 hour a day to study, which means you can too.
In the workplace, as long as you want to improve, the whole world will make way for you. The development process of people is like climbing a mountain, and every time you climb a height, you can see a farther and more beautiful scenery.
Shakespeare, a famous British dramatist, said: "What is hopeless, bold attempts, can often succeed." "Only when the goal is constantly moving forward and the vision is constantly changing, can the stages be constantly updated."
There is nothing that can be done at all, only whether you want to or not.
Learning is the best way for all people to achieve self-transformation. The longer you fight in the workplace, the more you will find that those who insist on learning are the ones who laugh to the end.
Learning is not only an attitude, but also an action, but also a habit. Whether it is knowledge-based learning or practical learning, you must be clear about why you learn, what you learn, and how to learn. Of course, clarifying the scientific mechanism behind behavior and mastering some methods and techniques is beneficial to cultivating the habit of continuous learning and improving the efficiency of learning.
John Coleman mentioned five steps to developing a habit of continuous learning in the Harvard Business Review.
The first step is to imagine the effect you expect to achieve. Coleman's goal in reading is to both dive into the areas of education, foreign policy, and leadership. He believes that by choosing one or two, the expected effect helps to set achievable goals and stick to habits.
The second step, based on your choices, is to set realistic goals. Coleman sets a series of goals every year. They are then divided into several tasks to be completed within a year. Let's say I read twenty-four books a year. Daily habits and routines that need to be developed. For example, read at least twenty minutes a day, five days a week. For long-term goals, he will use a schedule to track. He would use an app to record his daily habits and routines, and these goals helped him turn vague expectations of wanting to learn into a series of real actions.
The third step, after having a certain goal, join a learning community, which can increase your level of engagement and enthusiasm and make learning fun.
The fourth step is to eliminate distractions when learning and go all out. Coleman suggests that when studying, it is necessary to exclude material interference and psychological interference such as scientific and technological products, and choose to study at a specific time period.
Finally, appropriate use of technology to aid learning. Making good use of technology products to help you improve your learning efficiency, such as listening to audio reading materials during commuting or running, can make your reading volume increase exponentially.
Once the habit of continuous learning is formed, it will become the wealth of your life.
Experience is not that you repeat what you have already done a hundred times, but that in the process of repetition you find the secret of regularity and progress.
Therefore, do not underestimate these workplace habits, seemingly simple actions repeated countless times, will produce qualitative changes, this is the essence of learning, but also the law of progress. The more repetition, the meaning is self-evident, and time is visible.
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