The meanings of the words "lifting a heavy weight lightly" and "lifting a light one with a heavy weight" seem to be so different that it is hard to understand at first glance. What do these two words mean when they are written side by side?
In the IT industry, novices usually admire the ability of their predecessors to "lift a heavy weight lightly", including in design and development work, in tense and breathless projects, when dealing with customers and dealing with very difficult challenges, in the IT industry After training for a long time, you will often be able to face difficulties, be orderly and not at all chaotic, strip complicated things, sort out the context and clues, and turn difficulties and pressures into specific things that require time and manpower to do.
Everyone hopes that they can also have the ability to "lift weights lightly" and handle difficulties with ease. But this is not easy. It needs to go through the test of blood and fire, the double test of successful experience and failure, and it also needs the correct attitude and method to grow from experience. And the most important point is to be able to be "light as heavy" in the face of small things.
This sentence seems contradictory, but it is actually very simple and natural.
The ability to do things is all the same. To do development, do project management, do architecture, and even do customer work, all need some basic professional quality of people, and this professional quality needs to be in the usual work, one by one. Drip cultivated . Because I despise "little things", when dealing with small things, I am a big deal, perfunctory, and develop this habit, can I change it when dealing with big things? The ancients said, "If you don't sweep a house, how can you sweep the world?" This is also true. Only those who can pay attention to small things and deal with them clearly and in an orderly manner can face big things.
(As an aside, the more you work as an architect and a manager, the more basic professional literacy plays a greater role in your work than knowledge and skills. This is also an experience I have worked in these years)
On the other hand, in fact, the ability to lift weights for major events is basically the same as for small and trivial matters. It all requires a person to think carefully and comprehensively when thinking about problems, to judge problems clearly, and to assign work in an orderly and orderly manner (even if it is just for oneself to decompose the work).
Also, many software people who have been doing it for a long time will know that it is not easy to do small things well. Although the so-called sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs. Taking R&D engineers as an example, no matter how small things are, you need to consider the following issues:
(1) Do you have a clear understanding of what to do? Are you sure? What form of confirmation? How likely is it that the requirements will change later?
(2) To start, have you obtained the approval of all relevant parties? Can the input of resources and the cooperation of relevant parties keep up?
(3) Is it technically feasible?
(4) How much work is required (requirements, design, development, documentation, testing, maintenance, improvement)
(This is a hurdle. Considering the detail of the problem or not, the difference in handling this link will be very large)
(5) Design and code, considering the balance between the external and internal characteristics of the software
(6) Write documentation
(7) Self-test
(8) Test
(9) Consequential maintenance (including customer calls, to customer sites)
(11) Improvements that follow
Of course, the specific things are different, and there may be some items that can be omitted, but even if you omit some, there are many things!
Moreover, from past experience, because people take trivial matters lightly psychologically, but whenever they encounter trivial matters, they have to "walk on thin ice, like an abyss", and handle every link very carefully, just in case it happens. Deviation! Therefore, it is necessary to treat the small things as big things with this attitude and method, to "take the small things seriously", and to handle every small thing carefully, in order to cultivate the ability to do big things.
I have written such a point of view in a previous blog post: "demand often seems to be the tip of the iceberg", and it also means this. It seems to be a very small thing, but in fact it is because you only see the iceberg in the The part above the water surface, at this time, if you are careless when you are young, wait until the iceberg is in front of you, and then regret it, it will be very difficult to control.
There is a saying in "Cai Gen Tan", "If you do n't let it go in your leisure time, you will benefit when you are busy ; if you don't fail in stillness, you will benefit from your action. " It is useful to do business." Although the language is far inferior to the ancients' statement, I think it is still very beneficial to us.
To sum up in one sentence, if you want to be able to practice the ability to "lift a heavy weight lightly", you need to start from " lifting a light weight like a heavy weight ".