The essence of occupation is the exchange relationship between people and society. Choosing a career is equivalent to choosing a way to communicate with the world. For example, couriers and hourly workers rely on "physical strength"; most migrant workers rely on "physical strength + intelligence"; internet celebrities rely on "resources and platforms"; great gods, scientists, and artists in various fields rely on "talent".
Personal development in this era needs to think about what you exchange with others: physical strength-intelligence-resources-platform-talent, one is more efficient than the other, which way are you exchanging with others?
Changing patterns of career development
1. Take the train
In both the agricultural and early industrial ages, career progression was steady and clear. Farmers' spring plowing and autumn harvest, literati's promotion in the imperial examination, craftsmen's professional skills... Even in the 1990s in China, people's occupations were mostly assigned, and there were few opportunities for individuals to choose. For example, for some jobs within the system, when to grade, when to take an exam...the path is clear and clear. The only question is whether to get in the car.
This way of planning is like taking a train - if you want to go to a certain city, you need to find a brochure for railway train information, and then find the corresponding station to buy a ticket and get on the train. As long as you sit on time and on time, you will definitely arrive. The only problem is how do you get a train ticket.
2. Drive a car
Before GPS, getting to a place by car was a constant chore of looking at maps, looking at signs and asking people. For example, if you want to eat stinky tofu in the Fire Palace in Furong District of Changsha, what you have to do is to drive to Changsha first, then drive to Hexi after entering the city, and find the street after you find the district. When you drive until there are no street signs, you may have to get out of the car and ask someone. Sometimes the map is relatively old and the old store has been relocated, so you need to ask where the new address is.
This is also the idea of career development 2.0. At this stage, when people design their lives, they are like driving a car—first frame a large area, and then slowly move forward, knowing more and more what they want.
3. Playground
In the past 10 years, the workplace has undergone unprecedented changes. Not only that, with the upgrading of cognition, our vision and values are changing every few years. At this time, the life design strategy is more like a playground.
After entering the arena, choose a game to play well. After you finish playing this game, look at other games. Maybe the number of people in the queue has changed, and your ideas and courage have become stronger, so enter the arena to play the next one. In a "playground" life, it is the best strategy to re-observe the trend every few years, position yourself once, and find the next opportunity.
This is the 3.0 idea of career development, welcome to the playground of the times!
ABZ's Life Design
Plan A refers to the work we are doing, with the purpose of bringing out our competitive advantages and maximizing value.
Plan B is often the next best thing, or the one that just can't get started. If plan A doesn't work, then plan B. Or the opportunity for Plan B pops up suddenly, so just adopt it. Once we shift our focus to Plan B and stick to it, that plan becomes the new Plan A. We need to prepare a new plan B.
Plan Z refers to our escape route, which is also a lifeboat. In our career, we always hope for smooth sailing, but if our career encounters a serious setback and our life encounters a major change, is there any feasible solution? This is Plan Z.
Career VS Hobbies
The difference between a profession and a hobby, the difference between a productive hobby and a consumer hobby, and the cultivation of a productive hobby
career vs career
Occupation and career, career is the accumulation of several professional experiences
The essence of occupation is a kind of social exchange. We need to think about our relationship with the organization. What should we exchange? How to exchange?
Longboard principle
1 The success of an individual depends on the long board, and the success of the organization depends on the short board. The success of an organization is due to putting together the longboards of different people. 2 The more you have a long board, the more you need to invest enough time, and even develop it to the point where you can tolerate your short board. 3 Your own long board is your own blue-chip stocks, which are your own long-term strengths. Only investing more money in blue-chip stocks can bring you higher returns. Persevering in making up for shortcomings will only get twice the result with half the effort.
Career Strengths Assessment
Tomorrow we will start to talk about strength discovery - assessment is a very important kind, you might as well try to do a test first.
Among the existing assessments, there are two internationally authoritative advantage assessments:
1. The "Gallup Strengths Assessment", developed by Gallup, focuses on which talent themes (Talent Themes) will promote performance.
The Gallup assessment is charged, you can enter the website: https://www.gallupstrengthscenter.com , or Baidu: "Gallup Strengths Club", the first link is the purchase link. The $15 version is adequate. Gallup is big enough that I no longer need to advertise. The price of a meal is a bit expensive, but I think it's worth it.
In fact, there are free Gallup assessments on the Internet, but there is no report, so it is recommended to charge. There is also an easier way-buy a copy of the "Gallup Strengths Finder 2.0" book, which will also have an evaluation.
2. VIA (Values in Action Inventory of Strengths) "24 Character Strengths Assessment" developed by Peterson, the founder of positive psychology, mainly focuses on your character strengths, which can further improve your sense of happiness and accomplishment.
The VIA test is free: http://www.viacharacter.org (with Chinese translation).
Character strengths (Character Strengths), or character strengths, are two completely different concepts from dominant character. The former is a strictly psychological term, while the latter is a general term for a certain kind of personality with certain advantages. According to Peterson et al., character strengths are a group of positive qualities expressed through individual thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and are the main content of the study of positive personality traits. Different character strengths can form a higher level of strengths or virtues (Virtue), and strengths are the core elements for human beings to obtain happiness and health (from Baidu Encyclopedia).
The content is extracted from the "Super Individual" course obtained from the APP classical teacher