On the weekend before the holiday, teachers, students, entrepreneurs and social welfare people sat together to watch videos.
Playing the video is coach Yan, who has just participated in a social innovation competition and served as a judge, and was deeply stimulated.
In order to stimulate all of us, he found a video of last year's national semi-final to show us.
After watching it for 3 minutes, someone began to exclaim.
After watching the video for more than 20 minutes, everyone couldn't help applauding.
Although, as we all know, the object of applause is inaudible.
There are two students in the audience who have the urge to drop out of school.
They are keenly aware of the crisis-the contestants are the same age as themselves, and they compete for the same job opportunities when they graduate, and there is no chance of winning.
Of course, their impulse was immediately stopped by me (responsible).
I know the fact that in the 985 (now renamed double-class) colleges and universities, this ability was not taught by school education.
Teachers and entrepreneurs joined me in encouraging them to set up their first team in our school.
The entries shown in the video are actually not complicated.
Simply put, it is a story about helping farmers in poor areas get rich with special agricultural products.
Such a story doesn't seem unusual.
It is normal for students to be impulsive when they are young.
But why can this thing surprise many experienced entrepreneurs?
This made me lost in thought.
The same is the age of sophomore and junior. This group of college students in the video fully embodies the vitality that young people should have.
Vitality comes from thought. They can identify social problems with keen insight, conduct in-depth research, and immediately realize the crux of the problem. The crux of the problem includes the lack of differentiation of goods, narrow sales channels and insufficient visibility.
Vitality comes from action. In view of the reasons obtained from the investigation, they played a combination boxing in marketing-building a brand with the village as the unit; Docking with large e-commerce companies such as JD.COM and global sales; Make use of media advantages to engage in experiential marketing and in-depth food tourism.
Vitality comes from creation. They cleverly hitched a ride on rural Taobao, returned empty, negotiated and cooperated with * * * to win; Determine the cooperative as the basic unit, use the mechanism to design and construct the value network, and ensure the stability of business cooperation.
In the fields, governments at all levels and social organizations fully communicate with all kinds of people and complete one cause after another to reorganize resources.
On the field, they answered questions from Chinese and foreign judges and experts in fluent Chinese and English.
Before graduation, they have created their own excellent works and gained valuable experience in the real world.
Will HR be impressed if it is displayed on your resume?
On the other hand, our students often say "at a loss", and what they do most is to play mobile games. When they graduate, the so-called job hunting is actually just trying their luck everywhere, hoping to save enough RP value and pick the "drooping fruit".
Can you see the same youthful vigor in them?
What is the reason for this contrast?
How is the energy of racing drivers inspired?
I've been thinking about it these days during the holiday. But I am very upset and can't fully explain this problem.
Until today, I came across the contents of the following book.
Geoff Colvin, a senior editor and columnist of Fortune magazine and the author of "Man is Underrated", has written many bestsellers.
In this book, he talked about how human beings are irreplaceable in the era of continuous development of science and technology.
The word "machine substitution" is often used to educate students.
I showed them what the machine can do, and then I helped them delete some from their future career choices and do subtraction.
But what students want to know more is how to plan their career so as to avoid being replaced by machines.
What they want to know is what else to do.
Honestly, I wasn't sure before.
Because in the existing industries, even the industries with high intelligence threshold generally recognized by people, artificial intelligence is pervasive and has come in.
Fortunately, this book gives a seemingly reliable answer.
Colvin put forward three important abilities that can help human beings stand out from the competition with machines.
They are:
After listening to it, I suddenly realized.
Combined with the case of this social innovation competition, I want to know where the vitality of the participating students comes from.
Let me try to disassemble them one by one for you.
Wikipedia defines empathy as:
To put it bluntly, it is what we often call "empathy."
But it's easier said than done.
Many times, the demand will not run out by itself and needs to be tapped.
Without empathy, when you see someone without food, you may ask, "Why don't you eat minced meat?" This seems to be a problem of insufficient IQ balance.
With empathy, students can deeply understand what the real problem of fruit farmers is.
Project your thoughts on fruit farmers and try to appreciate what they see, hear, think, say and do, where are the pain points and itching points. ...
Only in this way, the demand you dig will be the real demand.
It is really meaningful to propose solutions to real needs and solve the pain points of users.
On the other hand, many of our students make a mess of their graduation projects.
The year before last was the warehousing system, last year was the attendance system, and this year is the payroll system. Around an enterprise, I repeatedly "invented" the wheels made by others more than ten years ago, and I enjoyed it.
Nothing else, because there are so many "reference materials" that it is difficult to complete.
You clearly know that what you do will not be used by anyone in the world. Can you be motivated to do it well? Can you try to improve iteratively?
Without empathy and real needs, where is the energy?
Not only students, but also teams.
People who work together for the same goal are actually a team in a broad sense.
However, everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses.
For example, some people are good at English, some are good at marketing, some are good at technology, and some are good at spoken English.
Some people are good at chatting with villagers, while others are good at dealing with the government. ...
In different dimensions, it is difficult for a person to have everything, and individual differences are undeniable.
Even on specific issues, everyone will have different interests.
Students will take part in the competition and win prizes.
Villagers should get rid of poverty and become rich.
The mayor wants political achievements.
Agricultural experts want data.
The media should spread the amount.
Consumers want ...
These differences, if we want to learn from each other's strengths, be inclusive and form a joint force, we must require people to have the ability to communicate and cooperate.
The team did it, enviable.
But we have to admit that most of our students can't do this level of communication and cooperation.
Don't say that there is a lack of efficient communication between so many strangers, even among classmates.
For example, when I was in class, I played a video many times, which was the "sixth sense" device that was a smash hit in 2009.
Every year when this video is played, the students are shouting!
From the speaker's point of view, it is good to bring new cognitive impact to the audience.
From the teacher's point of view, I am very sad.
This means that students in different classes, even students in different classes in the same class, have never effectively communicated and disseminated interesting and wonderful information.
As for messages that are not so interesting, it is even more conceivable.
Can our school education cultivate the ability of cooperation?
College entrance examination should be completed independently, term homework should be completed independently, and graduation thesis should be completed independently.
Because it looks fairer and easier to manage.
But as we all know, this evaluation method is very similar to the small-scale peasant economy, the main mode of production in ancient times.
Men plow and women weave, stable, independent and self-sufficient.
But can its efficiency be compared with agricultural mechanization production?
In an era when innovation is encouraged and new technologies will give birth to "unicorns" at any time, can we expect the birth of genius by cultivating students in the way of small-scale peasant economy?
When reading the book strategy beyond hockey stick, Mr. Wan Weigang said:
Everyone, build their own expertise, so that they have a place.
But in this way, the short board will be obvious. What should I do?
Communicate through teamwork.
Everyone's longboard, put together, is a longboard team, which can go out and exert its fists.
Otherwise, everyone is "all-round and balanced development" with average qualifications. How do they win by surprise and stand out from the fierce competition?
No ability to cooperate, only on your own. Where did you get the energy?
In A Brief History of Mankind, it is said that human society is an imaginary * * * identical body.
What keeps * * * running in the same body is a story.
Therefore, the ability to tell stories should not only make you popular at dinner, but also be called "the king of jokes".
That's too big, it's useless!
If there is no common value cognition, how can people cooperate and work together?
Fruit farmers may think that this is how they grow and sell fruits for generations. Why do they want to make changes?
The government may think that children who have not graduated from several universities can have what ability, and why should they support and cooperate?
The media will hesitate, can such a story really bring communication power? Why do you want to help them publicize?
Consumers, in particular, faced with the same goods, the unit price rose from 5 yuan to 7 yuan. Why should they pay the bill? Just because there is another brand?
If there is no story that everyone agrees with from the heart, cooperation will collapse in an instant.
Therefore, you need to learn how to tell a good story so that all stakeholders can agree.
How deep-rooted the story is, how much intellectual value your career has.
Looking back at our students, many of them don't take the opportunity to speak at all.
Whether it is homework presentation or opening defense, they have a rare 10 minute, and have the opportunity to gain the attention of the audience, tell stories and enhance the sense of value of their products (homework, papers, etc.). ).
What are they doing?
They read the manuscript.
They read the manuscript with their heads down.
While reading the manuscript with their heads down, they secretly hoped that this difficult time would end soon.
This is still true for his graduation thesis, the last important product of his university. Do you think he is capable of telling a good story?
You can't tell stories and you can't establish the value of knowledge. Where did you get the energy?
Thanks to Geoff Colvin's book "Humans are Understandable", I have a framework to interpret the secrets contained in this social innovation competition video.
Looking back, even if it is only to prevent machine replacement, human beings should focus on building the following core competencies:
These abilities have been deeply reflected in the social innovation competition.
It is precisely because of the stimulation of the above-mentioned abilities that the racers have shown remarkably different vitality from their peers, which is amazing.
However, browsing the introduction page of the contest, we found that the purpose of this contest is far more than just to keep people from being replaced by machines.
It strives to establish a leading position in the new era.
It suddenly occurred to me that the ideas in another book of Herari, A Brief History of the Future, suddenly became clear.
All mankind will be divided into three kinds of people by the trend of scientific and technological progress. These three kinds of people cannot be equal. ...
Looking back at most of our students, my heart is shaking.
I hope the time you spend reading this article is valuable.
Lack of these core competencies will not delay your life, study or even find a stable job in the short term. It's just that you are not energetic enough compared with excellent peers.
However, looking forward to the not-too-distant future, the lack of these core competencies will make you lose to your peers first and then to the machine in your career development.
What should you do?
I wish you an early supplement or even promotion of these three core competencies, stand out from the crowd and stay away from the troubles and troubles of being eliminated by artificial intelligence.
I put the link of the game video here. If you are interested, watch and comment from beginning to end.
Please note that not only the entries fully reflect the three core competencies we mentioned, but also the schedule setting. These competencies of the contestants are still being exercised and compared repeatedly.
After watching the video, can you sit in the right place and list which link in the agenda and which core competence is reflected?
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