It is under such circumstances that an unexpected news made Warren Buffett, an 88-year-old "stock god", make the headlines of hot search.
At a shareholders' meeting during the epidemic, Buffett actually emphasized to people that he had learned a new skill-making PPT. You know, Buffett's office doesn't have a computer at all, and he doesn't even have a smart phone. So an old man who can't even use a computer actually learned office survival skills at the age of 88.
Besides, as one of the most successful and richest people in the world, what's the point of learning PPT when you should rest for a lifetime?
Just when people were wondering, Buffett said the reason. He studied PPT to adapt to the way of working under the epidemic.
In fact, a documentary on 20 17 has let people know the story behind Buffett's success. In this documentary entitled being Warren Buffett, Buffett said: "If a person wants to achieve extraordinary achievements in his life, he is doomed to be inseparable from reading and lifelong learning."
Buffett, who has been studying and studying all his life, is still in charge of the world's largest investment company, even at the age of 88, and maintains a keen brain and thinking, as well as a love for work and life.
Buffett's learning style is like the book Lifelong Growth:
The author of Lifelong Growth is hohlfeld catherine, a German keynote speaker, writer and career consultant. Over the years, she has been committed to helping individuals and enterprises solve the challenges in the professional field, and has provided international project management, strategic procurement and human resource management business consulting services for more than 20 years for Fortune 500 companies such as Bosch, Lufthansa, Siemens and Ericsson.
The author observes the direction of future career development from the perspective of the times, warns people that there will be many uncertainties in the future due to the development of science and technology, and puts forward that people should master the ability of lifelong learning to meet the needs of the times.
In the book, the author is guided by the "sustainability" of his career, focusing on three directions: internal growth, external learning and balanced development, and proposes to build the core competitiveness of professionals based on the future workplace through the empowerment of cognition and knowledge.
First, pay attention to the growth of inner thinking and build the ability of lifelong learning.
In the long history, human beings are always exploring and innovating.
The industrial revolution has broken the way of human labor for thousands of years, machine power has replaced biological power, and professional production and creation methods have also changed with the times.
At present, digitalization has promoted the rapid development of the world. The emergence and development of IT industry has formed a brand-new professional field, and many old-time occupations have withdrawn from the historical stage.
With the rapid development of trains in the times, only those who board the trains have the opportunity to find and get opportunities in the process of digitalization. People who can't keep up with the times will only feel risks and crises. If they do not know how to plan ahead, they will be eliminated by the times.
At the beginning of the 20th century, people began to study mechanical intelligence, with the idea of helping people undertake tasks and work in some fields with complex environment. With the development of digitalization, machine learning has found a relatively reasonable method, and artificial intelligence technology has also made great progress.
Now artificial intelligence has been applied in many industries. It is foreseeable that many occupations will be replaced by artificial intelligence in the future, and those who were originally engaged in these occupations will have to face the dilemma of unemployment.
Facing the development of the times, people must realize the career development trend brought by digitalization in time and strive to maintain the sustainable development of life and career.
In view of the trend of future career development, the author puts forward three internal core competitiveness that professional people must possess:
The meaning of growing up is to understand and dare to explore ways to make the cause sustainable.
People are always used to living and working in the "comfort zone" because it won't meet challenges, but when the crisis comes, the "comfort zone" can't provide you with any protection.
As a professional, you should have the thinking of "being prepared for danger in times of peace". When you don't feel the crisis, you should actively step into the "learning area" and bravely explore the "fear area" of life. Don't be afraid of failure, because failure is the empirical basis of success, as Li Ka-shing once said: "Learning from successful people may not necessarily make you successful, and only learning from unsuccessful people can avoid failure".
To achieve personal growth, it is particularly important to cultivate the ability of lifelong learning. When the workplace changes more and more, in order to get a job continuously, it is bound to be lifelong learning.
In order to survive, enterprises in the market must change their business strategies in time, and people in enterprises must learn new knowledge and abilities to adapt to this change, otherwise they will be replaced by others.
The hardest part of lifelong learning is persistence, and finding a goal that meets our enthusiasm is the key to creating motivation and improving motivation.
Second, keep up with the cognitive learning of the times and cultivate flexible and agile external abilities.
With the growth of mentality and the internal strength of lifelong learning, we also need to cultivate external ability, so as to stand on the professional river's lake.
If you want to maintain the sustainability of your career, you must understand the future development direction. Understanding digitalization means understanding the future.
Every change of the times will produce a lot of new social knowledge. Only people with sufficient cognitive ability have the opportunity to participate in the new knowledge society. They master the key elements of the times through learning, thus becoming the promoters and leaders of the times.
Just like Steve Jobs of Apple, it is precisely because he keenly discovered the market trend of smart phones that he decisively invested in R&D and design. After overcoming many difficulties, he finally realized the listing of Apple smartphones.
Since then, the era of smart phones has been fully opened, and Apple has thus become the greatest technology company in the era of intelligent interaction.
As the strongest communication technology enterprise before the era of smart phones, Nokia not only missed the opportunity to lead the times change, but also suffered a fiasco in the subsequent competition because of its slow response and lack of judgment and cognition of the trend of the times.
Faced with the influence of digitalization, enterprises are like this, and so are individuals. We should actively look forward to the future and think about the impact of digitalization.
In the past few decades, digitalization has promoted the development of many emerging industries, such as cloud computing, big data, intelligent robots and the recently booming "meta-universe", which have gradually become the key industries of the country in the future.
Among them, artificial intelligence has a great influence on human career development. In the future, the jobs that human beings used to do will be replaced by artificial intelligence, such as education, transportation, business services, leisure and entertainment.
At present, intelligent robots have largely replaced manual labor in manufacturing plants, marking the arrival of the manufacturing industry 4.0 era.
In the entertainment field, digital people with intelligent characteristics have stepped onto the stage, from the Japanese virtual idol "Hatsune Miku" to the digital idol "Tianyi Luo" of the Beijing Winter Olympics, all of which are future displays of artificial intelligence.
At the same time, the transformation of digitalization on enterprise management has been in full swing in various industries, and digitalization has brought flexible and agile organizational forms and operational capabilities to enterprises.
Professionals in enterprises must also learn digital knowledge and skills to adapt to the changes of enterprises and maintain their professional competitiveness.
Third, do a good job of addition and subtraction, so that their internal and external balanced development.
The author thinks that having the motivation and enthusiasm for learning is the foundation of self-growth, and balanced development is the real sustainable development.
So how to achieve balanced development?
First of all, you should be able to add, that is, give full play to your creativity.
In the digital age, information is no longer limited to books and individuals. With the development of Internet, each of us can get the information we want anytime and anywhere, and at the same time, we can share our personal thoughts constantly.
In a sense, this era has given mankind the best creative environment and is conducive to the creation of creativity.
Creativity is the most effective ability for human beings to accelerate their integration into the future and maintain sustainable development.
Creativity is important, but sometimes excessive enthusiasm and passion will bring negative consequences. In the process of continuous learning and improvement, we must understand where the limits of body and spirit are, and make rational use of our body and spirit to achieve a balance, so as to ensure the continuous stability of professional ability.
At present, people's time is dominated by smart phones. Every day, except for going to work and sleeping, almost all the time is occupied by various applications in smart phones. Repeatedly brush friends circle, watch Weibo, watch videos and watch live broadcasts every day. You have become a victim of digital addiction.
Because of the influence of digitalization, most people can't concentrate for a long time. They are always influenced by various factors around them, especially the Internet. Smartphone applications, such as Tik Tok, WeChat, Weibo and games, can always consume your time silently.
In the face of the disorder of people brought by digitalization, the occasional use of "power off" may solve this problem. The so-called "power failure" means that you can re-establish an orderly state by clearing your mind.
Creativity and "blackout" are better and orderly self-regulation ways for lifelong learning and sustainable growth.
In the final analysis, the biggest sustainable guarantee factor is to return to the healthy and true self, because only the "career" that conforms to the meaning of one's life is the future for which people are willing to fight all their lives.
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I believe that the book Lifelong Growth will bring a new understanding to those who want to seek the meaning of life. Reading this book can help people form the growth thinking of self-reflection, self-conscious appreciation of themselves and others, and active attention to upcoming events, which is conducive to the formation of an open and flexible new attitude towards life.
Although it may not be smooth sailing for our future career, it can at least help us to cope with changes in the situation more easily, because these abilities can help us improve the sustainability of our career and face the future calmly and easily.