Feelings need “actual combat” and initial intention needs “realization”

Ma Guangzhi: you studied in the Business School of Cambridge University. Instead of developing in the business community, you chose to engage in public welfare. Moreover, within the system, this span seems a little large. What was your consideration at that time?

Guo Li: at first, I found that some students and neighbors were disabled and inconvenient, but they had studies, careers and life. This is contrary to the stereotype in China before, and it is rare to get them around. But in terms of population, there are 85 million disabled people in China. Where have they all gone? What help and services do you need? This is a very complex and meaningful topic.

If a person’s most valuable thing is time, then choosing to spend time on meaningful things is the most important, then the role, angle, unit, income and so on are relatively less important. Listen to such a reason since childhood. When you are confused, just try it like this. So I entered the door from helping the disabled and slowly learned to broaden it.

Moreover, the British public welfare practitioners I see are decent, professional, confident and full of sense of achievement. The full-time helpers can even get a good salary. It’s perfect. Considering the rapid development of domestic economy, public welfare charity will one day reach a level commensurate with the rise of great powers.

This will be a good opportunity for personal career planning, a very new “track”. And it’s lucky enough to do what you like and grow up with an industry, so it doesn’t matter inside and outside the system, business and science, and business and public welfare are not opposed. As long as there is a general direction, they all go the same way, and the process is to accumulate “experience value”.

Ma Guangzhi: what did you do in the first five years?

Guo Li: I’ve organized a brick, moved where it needs to be, worked as a secretary, worked as a personnel, drafted policy documents, trained and tested public servants, and evaluated and supported social institutions. I also went to Tianjin Binhai New Area for two years to coordinate the management of communities, identify and issue disability certificates, etc. designing and implementing some projects from the perspective of education, employment and poverty reduction assistance is a relatively penetrating content.

Ma Guangzhi: exercise is quite comprehensive, focusing on cultivating the feeling, but you still smashed your iron rice bowl.

Guo Li: in terms of system and mechanism, there is still a slight lack of vitality. It is not in line with career planning, so change decisively.

Ma Guangzhi: many public welfare people like to talk about feelings and initial intentions. Why do you always talk about career planning?

Guo Li: no contradiction. I don’t have any so-called feelings at all. Maybe I can’t stick to it. But I don’t think the feelings are still the existing conditions and discourse system of professional public welfare practitioners, so I didn’t mention it. Some may be better, but you also need to be careful not to be “kidnapped” by others or yourself.

In addition, if you always talk about it, you may delay your work. It’s better to talk about it and talk about it. In particular, our industry is still in the primary stage with Chinese characteristics, and the practical level may be more suitable for extra pragmatism.

After all, feelings need “actual combat”, and the initial intention needs to be “realized”. I’m afraid it’s not enough to think about it, and it’s over. In our daily work, we are first engineers, accountants, planners, managers and so on. We should finish the work first, do the work well, and turn our feelings into KPIs. Maybe it can also be regarded as not forgetting our original intention.

Then from the perspective of working, it is worth taking career planning seriously. If you grow more and make progress in your career, you may do more and help more people.

Diversified ecology will make the industry more dynamic

Ma Guangzhi: it has been nearly ten years since you returned home. What changes have you noticed in the domestic public welfare industry?

Guo Li: for example, in the past ten years, private institutions have been growing savagely, and individuals can settle down after coming. The three religions and nine streams have converged from all directions and have a momentum of great achievements.

In the past two years, more and more people are talking about scale, innovation, capital and social enterprises. The dimension of imagination is expanding, new models are working, various ideas collide fiercely, black cats and white cats quarrel a lot, and diversified industry ecology will attract different people and resources, increase vitality, promote industry mainstreaming and improve the so-called subjectivity.

Ma Guangzhi: however, public welfare is still a small industry after all. Some public welfare people tend to think highly and important of themselves and like to think and act self-centered. What do you think of this phenomenon?

Guo Li: common but abnormal. It’s really easy for us to fall into egoism. I took it for granted at first. If we are helping the world become a little better, then we need resources to support us, and everyone will understand and even praise us? But when you think about it, it seems that there is something wrong, because it is unrealistic and not necessarily.

If similar logic is pushed to the extreme, it is easy to reverse the cause and result, purpose and means, and be in a trance. Are we providing assistance and services, or are we just asking for others’ giving? Even do it blindly for the sake of doing it, and kidnap others to pay the bill.

To go a little further, in fact, you can remind yourself that once you look at the larger scale of time and space, many things are no longer the original thing, and some problems are no longer major problems. Moreover, human civilization itself is very short-lived and fragile, and public charity has never become the core of human civilization. So we are a way, an attempt and a force to solve some problems, that’s all.

In short, only when you realize how small you are can you know how important it is. Maybe some things are really important, maybe not at all.

Having this emotional tone is to explore where our coordinates and boundaries are, where our abilities and limitations are, and then try our best to do the simple things that we can grasp in front of us. Of course, admitting smallness doesn’t prevent someone from wanting to be proud. For example, we can be proud of our sensitivity or kindness, courage or stubbornness. It’s not so special or noble.

Ma Guangzhi: so what are the development trends of China’s public welfare that you value and expect most?

Guo Li: for example, the process of professionalization, specialization and marketization of employees. The division of labor and cooperation of many institutions are becoming more and more clear and orderly, and people’s initiative and mobility are also improving.

Of course, this trend needs to be further promoted. People who need to enter the industry earlier continue to explore the way, pave more environment for newcomers, have reasonable treatment as far as possible, have room for inclusive personal planning and catch up