Never Consume Yourself With Work

When Rockefeller, the American oil king, was young, he worked for a company called Tuttle.

For the first two years of his job, he was just responsible for handling some of the company's business chores and paperwork.

Colleagues who joined the company with him sighed, disliking the low salary, no value, not a little spirit, muddling through the days.

But Rockefeller was different.
He went to work every day, will listen carefully to the seniors how to discuss the problem, make plans, make decisions.

Because the company's business often involves negotiation, so he did his best to learn some negotiation skills.

Rockefeller recalled that this period of his career had a significant impact on his career development.

American Yale University psychologist Amy Reisness has divided work attitude into three kinds:
Treating work as an errand, treating work as a career, and treating work as a mission.

Different work attitudes determine the different heights you will reach.
Work as an errand, as a kind of torture, will only continue to consume their own.

Consider work as a practice, as a sharpening stone, in order to cultivate yourself more and more powerful.

Recognize a point of view: the significance of our work is to serve life, not to add to life.

But many people still get it backwards.
Complaining is the norm at work, and groping is the main theme of going to work.

They are bitter and hateful on the opposite side of the work, and consume all their energy at work.
1,Consuming value
There was a tip circulating online for groping fish at work:
Buy a large thermos, set 8 more alarms, and excuse yourself to fetch water every 50 minutes;

Do 15 minutes of exercise in the pantry, consume the time and then return to the workstation;

Drinking more water leads to paid bathroom breaks, and more drinking equals longer breaks ......

But these people don't realize that they're not perfoming their work, they're perfoming themselves.

You riveted to the task of death, create benefits, their value will rise.
You every are paddling, can not give the company troubleshooting, will naturally become dispensable marginal people.

No company is willing to support the idle, when you mix the time, the distance is not far from being abandoned.

You think you are taking advantage of the company, but more than that, you are wearing down your own value.

2,Consumption of emotions
Writer James Allen said a "garden effect".
The human mind is like a garden, sowing harmful seeds, poisonous weeds will take root, the garden will be barren.

At work, many people have unintentionally planted bad emotions.
A harsh word from the leader sends you into a depression.
The thought of having to deal with a nasty customer, the mood all of a sudden slipped to the bottom.

By fighting your emotions, your work becomes the source of your misery.
Junichi Watanabe wrote a story in Blunt Force.

There was a professorial doctor at the hospital where he interned who was a highly skilled doctor, but had a short temper and scolded him relentlessly when he encountered the slightest problem.

Many of the interns sulked when they heard they were assigned to be his assistant.

Before the surgery, they are emotionally tense, afraid of being scolded again;
After the surgery, they were bursting with negative energy and in a very bad mood.

One of them, Dr. S, was different, he just concentrated on learning the professor's medical skills.

He just concentrated on learning his professor's medical skills, and forgot all about those scolding words, which went in his right ear and out his left ear.

In this way, Dr. S became one of the fastest progressing doctors in surgery among his peers.
Bitterness over difficult tasks, annoyance over insignificant chores, anger over annoying colleagues ......

If the mind is constantly occupied by these emotions, the workday becomes a day of suffering.

3, Consuming skills
Many programmers do not decide to ask Baidu for everything, so that the ability to knock the code is fading, the search for the answer to the kung fu stove fire.
If they are allowed to pick up the beam, to solve their own problems, they will only scratch their heads.

There are also many designers, mingling in a variety of design sites, collection of dozens of ready-made templates, the leadership of what is required to pick out a set of templates to cope with.

They take a PS to fight the world, several other design software, can not use to not go to use.
Work for many years, did not go to the next level, the skills honed to the extreme, but instead of self-defeating martial arts, more and more mediocre.

They end up becoming a screw, stuck over there, no ability to climb upward, outward, the dog is disgusted.

Daisuke Iwase, the founder of a famous Japanese insurance company, worked for a number of well-known consulting firms and venture capital organizations after graduation, and finally chose to start his own business.

Looking back on his career, he summarized a set of "three principles of work", one of which is:
There is never a boring job, and any position should strive to add its own added value.

The weak are exhausted by work, but the strong take work as a training ground.
1,Cultivating competence
This society follows a principle of conservation.
The higher your level of competence, the higher your value and income naturally rise.

In fact, the essence of work is the exchange of benefits: you want to make money, you have to make yourself worthwhile.

Envious of other people's promotions and pay rises, rather than dive into polishing their own expertise.

How big is your ability, how big is the cake you eat.
2,Cultivate your mind
In 1967, American psychologist Seligman did an experiment called learned helplessness.

He put a dog in a cage and as soon as the buzzer sounded, he gave the dog an electric shock.

After several experiments, Seligman changed his approach.
After he rang the buzzer, he opened the cage door.
To one's surprise, the dog did not run away, but simply fell to the ground moaning and trembling all over, giving up the chance to escape from the cage.

It's the same with people.
Once we fear problems and complain about failures, we draw a blank and fall into a state of learned helplessness.
"The world doesn't always treat you well, and your vulnerability can sometimes be a fatal flaw.

All we have to do is to strengthen ourselves and replace our glass hearts with steel as we go through life."

The workplace doesn't have that much smooth sailing; it's a lot of bad luck and trouble.

Want to become a copywriter, you have to rack your brain word by word to polish, jam is a common occurrence, the death of the manuscript is also a common thing, but these setbacks itself is part of the work and growth.

Want to become a gold medal sales, you lower your voice to sell, you may eat again and again closed door; you smile and welcome to please the customer, may be in exchange for verbal abuse......
Behind those high commission, is the eloquent mouth, more put down thick skin.

Every person possesses a fragile heart.

3,Cultivate cognition
Cognitive power, is a person's core competitiveness
Many people repeat the same work every day, exposed to the same information, over time, trapped in the thinking cocoon.

Trapped in cognition, will be self-imprisoned in the bottom of life, upgrading cognition, in order to make life a higher level.

A short-sighted workers, low head between the head up, focus on their own acres and thirds of the field.

He is obsessed with the minutiae of his work at the moment, and thinks about how to perfume his tasks.

But the visionaries will put their eyes on their own growth and on changes in the industry.

The cognitive bias of these two determines that their future stage must be different.

Some people divide the workplace into two types:
A kind of consuming type, only up the length of service, not up the ability.

A kind of charging type, with the climbing and rolling in the workplace, both the ability, or cognition, have been greatly improved.

If you are the former, you will find that all the laziness you have stolen and avoided will become the weight of life.
If you are the latter, you have to believe that the work of self-investment, self-improvement, is a lucrative return later.