You are all confused because you are lazy

I often receive such questions in the background:

1. I don't know what I can do in the future, what should I do?

2. I don't like the job I am doing now, but I don't know what I can do?

3. I am confused about my life, I don't know where the future is, I want to give pointers.

Let me talk about my own opinion.

I am studying marketing in the university. People who have attended this course in China know what is going on. Basically, the school teaches outdated theories and is seriously out of touch with the outside world. So I can say that I didn’t study anything at the university. To. My first job was to go to a brand consulting company. At that time, the job was called "brand strategy analysis". Simply put, I found data and information online all day long, and then filled in the PPT.

This work is boring.

I sit in front of the computer every day. In order to find a news material, I usually open 10-20 web pages, and then search for the key information needed word by word in front of the screen. Repeat the various actions of CtrlC and CtrlV, then align, typeset, and sentence. Looking for a picture... For a long time, my eyes hurt my arms.

I asked myself more than once during that time. Is this what I want to do? What can I do after this work? What can I do without doing this?

Like all those who have just joined the work, I am confused and confused about my future. What I am doing is a job that I don't know I like or dislike. I don't know how it will develop after this job. I don't know if I can do anything if I don't do this.

At that time, I also hope that there is a workplace instructor around me who can tell me what to do, how to plan my future career, how to do this job that looks "boring" until one afternoon I See this video when looking for information:

I watched this video several times that afternoon, and suddenly I changed the angle of thinking about the problem.

I realized that the work you like to do starts with things you don't like or don't care about at all.

Few people find a job they like very much when they first start working. Especially in China, the professional courses taught at the university may not have a relationship with your future work, but this does not mean that past experiences are worthless in your life.

The causality of things is always very wonderful. Take my own example, my first job is boring, looking for information on the computer every day, but it is such a day-to-day "find information" that allows me to inadvertently develop the ability to quickly gather information. At that time, I mainly studied the development status of some B2B companies and industrial economic policies. Many times online information is small and updates are slow. At the beginning, I also started searching from Baidu. In many cases, I had to turn over 20 pages to find what I wanted. Later, I changed my search ideas and tried to start from the vertical website of the industry. I first collected the well-known portal vertical websites in the industry, and then searched for the information according to the keywords I needed on these websites. At the same time, I would pay special attention to the source of the information and The author compares the information of the same source and the author, excludes the duplicated information, refines the new information, and proves that a certain problem that I am uncertain will search for relevant information on different vertical websites to eliminate interference and so on. ..... These are the methods I have gradually explored in this "boring" work.

In the process of searching for information for a long time, I gradually learned which websites have detailed information, which channels have reliable sources of information, and which articles are reprinted when I read the title, and the contents of which articles are known to be plagiarism. I am going to go to the government website to find out what information is to be searched from the financial network... At that time I did not realize that this job brought me such an "extra" skill, but only every day was "all" Torture" I just want to finish work early and get off work early. But these experiences have been subtly deep into my heart, so that later, let me study what industry or a phenomenon I can immediately find out all kinds of relevant information and information, and to ensure complete and reliable. This later indirectly led me to the logic and method of thinking about the problem that began to become clear and organized, which had an important impact on my future life.

At the same time, during this year's working hours, I know what I am good at and what I am not good at. For example, although my ability to search for data is soaring, I still don't like this kind of repetitive work. For example, every time I write a strategy plan, I like to discuss the next creative plan with my colleagues in the creative department. I really like to watch those advertisements that are unconstrained, and I like to brainstorm with all kinds of fun ideas. Gradually I began to realize that I should do a more creative job instead of repeating the same thing every day sitting at the computer. So after a year and three months, I resolutely resigned and went to an advertising company to open a completely different life.

This brief experience of my graduation, I will often think back later. At that time, I was as confused as all the new people who had just entered the work and entered the society. But I didn't think so much, just do what I should do with my heart.

Because you think more, it is just "thinking." Going away, changing, and far from success.

None of us are Zhuge Kongming, who is in the middle of the middle of the literary martial arts. Sitting in the mountains, I know the world outside, and I can control the victory and defeat of a battle. More often, we need to practice, experience, reflect, accept the choices that life gives you, and re-select when you are impeccable. Instead of sitting at home every day and thinking hard about "where is my future?", it is not a confused, it is lazy.

You are too lazy to practice, even if you don't know what you really do, you will find out what is wrong with you;

You are too lazy to study, because you are more convinced of the hearsay of the people around you;

You are too lazy to reflect, because you feel that everyone is doing this, and it is certainly no problem to take pictures of the gourd.

Because you are lazy, you have never understood yourself. You have never known what you are good at doing for so many years.

Because you are lazy, you always expect to get your own answers from others;

Because you are lazy, if you have a job for two or three days, you feel that you are not interested in doing it, and you never think about the law, value, and embarrassment of studying the work in the past.

Isn't there a place for you to inspire and help you in every job you don't like? Do you not find things that you don't like to do, even if you can't find anything that makes you feel interesting? You feel that you can't learn anything, then you dare to pat your chest and say that you can complete it successfully?

I don't want to fill the chicken soup, because I have said that there are more ways to do it, and it is not as good as the fact that you have fallen on your own. People who don't know what they can do, first figure out what they can't do. People who don't know what they are good at, first figure out what they are not good at. This is my only suggestion. And these, only when you really "do", you will have a deep feeling, will suddenly open up, will know what is the career you want to pursue in your life. The truth about talking on paper is illusory.

If we all just step into the society, it is a blank piece of paper. So it doesn't matter if you start with a watercolor brush on this white paper, use a brush, an oil brush or a pencil. Maybe when you paint with a pencil for a while and find that there is no color that makes you feel not good enough, maybe you have painted with a brush for a while and found that you prefer the finely crafted details. Maybe you paint the color for a while and then you start to think about the color level. Feeling is more important, there is no problem with this. When you find the pen you want, it’s fine to paint again. But the problem is, when you face the blank paper for the first time, dare you dare to paint?

Finally, ending with a passage from the speech in the video,

Your past experiences are like pearls in your life. When you find the line one day in the future, you will connect them all together and become a beautiful necklace.