For example, the unit meeting. In fact, an example has hinted that the effectiveness and timeliness of such meetings will be questioned. Sometimes it's unnecessary, just because it's planned. It's time to go for a walk. Regular meetings are rarely used to deal with problems and emergencies, usually to arrange theoretical study or convey the spirit of superior documents.
There is nothing innovative in form. Chief or deputy leaders read a newspaper review, a chapter in a theoretical work, and a document from their superiors. There is no cadence in tone, and the enthusiasm is not high, just like several cups of tea. No wonder Liu Zhenyun's novel "Unit" wrote a communication document, and the office staff took turns reading a paragraph. If you want to use your hometown dialect, you can find a new interest from boredom.
The meeting was fruitless. After reading it, I put forward more than three big unresolved opinions. As for how to implement and check, the participants got the message. A few communicators even get the communication materials directly when they arrive at the venue, and even sentences are sometimes broken, which is extremely smooth. What is the use of such a meeting?
For example, writing report materials. Wear boots and hats, and inject water. Carefully consider the form of materials and pay attention to the neatness of each subtitle; Every place pays attention to the use of rhetoric, quoting allusions and vivid metaphors, and the words read like a beautiful fu instead of practical writing. But this material is soulless, and it is meaningful. The way to talk about problems is disguised praise and self-praise. I only know what I am doing for a distant and vague goal, but I don't know what I have done, how I have done it, what I have done and what I should do.
For example, writing a work review. Not for the purpose of academic research, but to meet the paper index of professional title evaluation, I pieced together something I couldn't bear to read, and paid a lot of publishing fees, just to print my name in some profit-seeking journals. Sometimes quality is required, and "gunmen" will be hired. Once you get the title, these so-called "papers" will be shelved and ashamed to meet people.
However, people are creatures that need meaning. Always doing something meaningless, my heart must be full of suffering. First, the conflict of values. I worked hard to research, read literature, learn theory, write articles, revise manuscripts, typeset and publish articles, and did every link. As a result, after submitting the manuscript, I either fell into the sea or received a letter from the editor asking for the page fee. What should I do? Can you tolerate that some business and scientific research abilities are far less than those of colleagues, and send out several "papers" through various channels to evaluate professional titles, so as to show off in front of you? Second, I was emotionally devastated. For example, summing up materials, obviously do not want to write empty words, but add a lot of high-sounding words. How can you be ashamed of neat words? Then there is a conflict in time. What do you do when you have to take part in some boring activities that conflict with the established tasks? How do you feel when you have to give up the task of the first quadrant and do something unimportant and not urgent?
Of course, when encountering problems, we should always keep a positive attitude and try to solve them, instead of passively adapting to them, which becomes a habit. Philosophically speaking, there is a universal connection between things, which will be interrelated, interdependent, interactive, interactive and mutually transformed. In other words, a seemingly meaningful thing may eventually become meaningless. Similarly, a seemingly meaningless thing can be done in a meaningful direction and become meaningful. "Do what you know you can't do" is what it means.
To put it simply, judging whether something is meaningful mainly depends on whether it will bring about changes after doing it. Change makes sense, but no change makes no sense. This requires that if we only have a fruitless process, giving up halfway is like an unfinished building, which is meaningless after all, but it is not as suitable for correct planning and development as an open space; At the same time, what we do must be related to the core task, always circling around the periphery, without in-depth problems, just like writing an article without thinking about the theme and framework, but focusing on writing tools. What's the point besides increasing the time cost? In a word, we can't do nothing.
There are two kinds of meaningless things. First, the matter itself is meaningless, such as making false materials for inspection; First, the thing itself is meaningful, but if something goes wrong in a key link, it will lose its meaning, such as writing a summary, theoretical study, volunteer activities (here refers to all kinds of purely show activities) and so on.
We do meaningless things in two States: one is active, on the one hand, we don't know what is most important to us, so we are busy and mediocre; On the other hand, he knows what is important, but he is afraid of delay, making an illusion with meaningless trifles, and he is unwilling to eat the frog anyway. Second, passive behavior. On the one hand, individual behavior has to be subordinate to some meaningless collective activities. On the other hand, the priority of personal work is subordinate to the priority of some people, and you dare not speak, even if some people's things are not important, you still have to do them.
The above situations should be treated separately. First, judge what you are doing. If the matter itself is meaningless, then decompose the whole process of the matter, find out an important link in the process and make it meaningful. Because contradictions are universal, there must be intentional parts in unintentional meaning. For example, it is meaningless to create false information, but it is meaningful to make this work more efficient and sustainable. Limit the completion time, formulate the task standard, list the workflow, decompose the specific tasks, arrange the time nodes, put forward the material catalogue, and do a good job of filing and backup in time. Use it to exercise your overall planning ability. The worst can also be used to sharpen your temper, at least stop complaining and complaining. If something is meaningful and meaningless, then find out the link where the problem happened, let it return to its proper position and "restore the original state." For example, when writing summary materials, the flashy key is to save the catering psychology and get rid of it. It is mainly exercised in facts and data, conclusions and discourses, structure and language. A dry, novel and concise summary makes readers feel refreshed.
Secondly, analyze why. If you take the initiative, go and see if you are busy with trifles because you don't know or want to delay. Before you make up your mind to do something, you must find out what you really want. Purpose gives us the meaning of doing things. Before you do something, ask your initial heart. What benefits will it bring to me and others after doing it? What's the harm of not doing it? If you do it passively, then find a small goal that can be achieved in meaningless collective activities. For example, you can set the goal of listening to the main points clearly during the regular meeting. No matter whether the communicator is careless or not, I will listen to the viewpoints, reasons, facts and structural levels of the content, connect with myself, find out the connection with me, expand the situation I can use and make things happen. So, it makes sense. Those who succumb to the arrangement of their superiors should try to find out the greatest common denominator between their superiors and themselves, and at the same time make some preparations for completing a task of their own.
It is said that people are in the rivers and lakes, and they can't help themselves. We can't avoid all meaningless things, but we can minimize doing meaningless things. Do subtraction first, and ask yourself: What things I don't do today are not the end of the world? You can also do a multiple-choice question and ask yourself: If I could only do one thing today, which one would I do?