A friend in an institution and I complained that life was boring and work was boring. As soon as we arrived at the unit every day, we would boil water, sweep the floor and read newspapers. The actual working time every day was only an hour or so. Taobao was picky every day, and then we entered the retirement period before the age of 50.
I asked her why she didn't spend her spare time reading? If reading extra-curricular books is too eye-catching in the unit, it's better to learn programming with computers, be familiar with software, or even read more relevant government documents, and figure out the writing ideas, which can also prepare for future improvement. She replied that the whole unit was idling away, and she had full time in her hands, but she could not raise any interest in learning.
I just realized that people need encouragement. No matter how loud the saying that learning changes fate is, we can't see the use of knowledge in the short term. It's still very difficult to stick to learning just by love.
I can't help thinking of many friends who work overtime at ordinary times. Even in the interval of returning home from the subway, they all want to set aside time to learn some knowledge outside the business. Just because, in the real business, there is no shadow of public institutions, upstream, not advance or retreat. This is the difference between a group of catfish and a group of captive goldfish.
However, sometimes the aquarium where these goldfish are located is too big, too heavy, and the water is too warm. They can't see the crisis, so that Ning Ke sinks to the bottom day by day, believing in the illusion in the aquarium.
In the Internet era, the rapid flow of information and the muddling of life have formed a huge contradiction. People are aware of the desire for change, but they often have a corner in the illusion of life. Many units in the system belong to such a fish tank, which is huge, heavy and attractive.
But this is also the place where young people are most likely to hallucinate. Just because most young people at the grass-roots level are facing a desk, an office director and a leadership report. On the contrary, the leaders at the top have the longest vision and the strongest sense of crisis. This is not only because they have been struggling for many years, but also because they can see the balance sheet of the enterprise, hear the competition pattern and smell the high-level wind direction. Their information sources are diverse and their horizons are broader. Interestingly, they have far more retreats and ways out than young people.
Therefore, under the huge information asymmetry, the screws at the grass-roots level are the least clear about the prospects and are prone to depression. The leaders at the top can be exquisite, and driven by the sense of crisis, they constantly embed themselves into a broader network, making themselves irreplaceable. At that time, if the boat sinks, it goes without saying who can escape faster.
Depression is often fatal. When people have nothing to do, they often fidget, feel anxious, and seek innovation and change. But in inefficient units, they will always hand over all kinds of piecemeal work from time to time, which is lauded as the exercise of small things and the cultivation of meticulous ability, and tied you with praise, affirmation and respect.
This is like a set of strange play upgrade system, which allows you to get the pleasure of completing tasks in a short time and gradually indulge. So that you will begin to be eager to complete those little things, to pursue perfection and praise every word. At this time, not everyone can look up, re-examine their work and life, and recognize the difference between big and small things.
If one day, if you start to question the meaning of what you have done, maybe this really declares the gloom of your job prospects. What value do you provide to society? Is your service to customers worthy of your return and resources? Compared with the most struggling peers, what you do is really competent?
After returning home, in order to help the company apply for qualification, I went to a government department for six times. Until I finally gave a box of gifts, the female director of the office began to make the process smoothly. If a person's value is reflected in the use of power in this way, and the realization depends on this, it is difficult to say that this system is healthy, and it is difficult to say that human value has not been misplaced.
If your return is much higher than or equal to the marginal value you generate, it may be because of monopoly, price stickiness or slow adjustment of social organizations. If it is the former, it is often the role of authority that brings monopoly, the benefits brought by huge assets, rather than based on personal values. Please be prepared to be discarded as a screw at any time.
If it is the latter, social changes have been accelerating, and collapse and reorganization occur at any time. More importantly, you should remember who you are competing with - an ambitious person, an envious person, and an actor who wants to take a share of the profit premium. No matter how big the monopoly is, whether it is the Empire of China Resources, the hegemony of hydropower or the basic industry of oil, countless people will stare at it, and the high-rise buildings can collapse at any time from an instant.
Those who are willing to dance with it should always ask, have they made contributions to the indestructibility of this system? In the past decades, it has brought indestructible power to your ship. Can it still play a role today? The former is about the individual and the latter is about the whole. If the two do not account for one, it is dangerous.