Driven by this goal, I defected from law school and became a reporter. The reported fields are law, politics and economics, and investigation. Then it becomes culture, lifestyle, eating, drinking and having fun, and buy buy buys it.
Later, after work, I made a WeChat account alone to share all kinds of things to improve my happiness in life, which is what you are watching now: yakishare.
Now I am a freelancer. To a great extent, my job is my play and my life.
By giving lectures to "Younv", I combed my thoughts and wrote down my thoughts on this issue in the following article. It's a little long You can take your time.
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To realize "turning interest into work", you must first have an interest.
In my opinion, interest is something you can't help but want to do, and spend time, energy, money and thoughts on it, and enjoy it.
There is a sentence in the cartoon "Slam Dunk Master": "Playing basketball is fun, but winning can increase happiness by a hundredfold. 」
When paying attention to the latter sentence "victory increases happiness", don't forget to read the former sentence-back to the beginning, playing basketball itself can make you happy whether you win or lose.
The process of practicing interest is itself a reward.
If you don't know what your interests are, you can think about what you want to do in your spare time.
Many times, we say that we don't know what our interests are because we don't want to admit our interests. Because what we are interested in may not be recognized and encouraged by social culture.
But in fact, I like watching dramas, playing games, idolizing, gossiping, even chatting up, chasing girls/men, ... (omit countless things that you may not think sound "superior" here). If you like them enough, they are all interests and have the possibility of becoming jobs.
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But turning interest into work means that you can't stay in a small world with high self-esteem.
We should not just consume, create, share and spread.
You should share with your peers the experience and skills you have gained by investing time, energy and money in your interests, and provide them with value.
When you pass on the fun, emotion and encouragement you get from your interest through creative channels, the more people you influence, the more likely it is to turn into a job and bring you income.
For example, if you want to turn your interest in Korean dramas into work, you can't just stay at the level of enjoying watching Korean dramas.
I know a girl who is crazy about drama. In order to express her concern for drama, she began to write drama reviews, praise or criticism, and then tried to write plays. Now she has gone to a film and television company to shoot a TV series. She is no longer just sitting in front of the TV, crying and laughing with the plot, but a person who creates the plot and guides others' emotional ups and downs.
Like games can also be a job, but if you just play games alone in the house, no matter how high you play and how many games you win, it is worthless to others. But if you write a game guide, teach others how to play better and learn how to develop games, things will be different.
There are also many people who like to gossip with celebrities. If you just browse and forward, it's just a pastime. But if you start to open a gossip account, collect, sort out and share gossip information, keep up with hot spots and have accurate research, you will become a creator from a consumer, and creation is much more interesting than consumption.
In fact, even if you like chasing girls, you can become a job as long as you really have research and experience. A dating coach I interviewed before, graduated from psychology department of Peking University, loves chasing girls to the point of actively practicing, seriously thinking and summing up the rules. At first, he wrote posts online. After the fire, he published several books that taught people to chat up and date. Now he lives a good life by teaching others how to get along with girls.
But all this is based on the fact that he can accept his true self and accept that he is interested in "chasing girls".
If he doesn't realize this and confronts his true self, his interest will always be a secret interest and won't become his job.
I think his life is much cooler than those who deny their true selves and refuse to admit their preferences all their lives.
One of the keys to turning your interest into a job is that you must not be afraid to let others know who you are and what you really like.
I am different from others. Cherish your different preferences and interests, which define you.
By the way, your interest is small, unpopular, and not considered "superior" by others. Many times it is not a bad thing, but a good thing. Because it means that there are fewer competitors, and you can easily stand out.
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The advantage of turning interest into work is that you don't need to use self-control to force yourself to stick to it. Maybe others think you work a lot of hours, but you won't feel hard if you enjoy it. "Anyway, even if it's not my job, I want to do it." 」
The downside is that when an interest turns into a job, you have to bear the comments from customers and the test of the market.
You like writing. Just when you are interested, you can write casually. Whether others like it or not, you don't have to think about it. But when it becomes your job, what you try to write may be rubbish in the eyes of your customers.
Turn work into interest, and your professionalism will be graded by others. If this score is lower than expected, your self-esteem may be hurt.
If you can accept this blow, it is actually one of the benefits of "working with interest". Instinctive love and devotion, coupled with real feedback from the outside world, will encourage you to constantly polish your skills.
You will have the opportunity to become more and more proficient in your field of interest. This sense of accomplishment will be wonderful.
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People often say, "I don't know what my interests are." 」
In my opinion, interest actually needs to be felt and discovered in doing things. Because at first, the direction of "interest" is often vague. You don't know the whole picture of what you are interested in. It's not so much interest as curiosity.
For example, when I was in college, my major was law, but I thought I was interested in news. I didn't know what "news" was at that time.
I worked as an intern in newspapers and magazines. After graduation, he became a famous political and economic reporter for 2 1 century economic report. In order to write political and economic news, I will pay attention to the dynamics of national ministries and commissions, such as the recent new policies of the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Environmental Protection, and to what extent the reform of the income distribution system has been promoted.
When I did this, I gradually realized that I prefer to write something close to life than national affairs, so I turned to Vista to be a reporter of culture and lifestyle.
The initial interest, for us, is like an unknown sea before us. When you walk in the sea, you will find that the temperature, color and marine life in different sea areas are different, and you will find some of them more attractive than others.
And to know where the sea area is particularly attractive to you, the first thing you have to do is to run from the shore to the sea.
When I was considering whether I should give up studying law for four years to do journalism, a friend sent me a very simple sentence: "Yajun, do it, that's right." Then I did it and never regretted it.
Most of the time, we are struggling. Instead of sitting in the same place worrying, we might as well spend this time doing things.
Action will naturally bring feedback. This is the fastest test method.
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In the background, readers often ask, "My major is A, but my interest is B. I want to transfer to B, but I am afraid that others will say that my work is not in place." . 」
But there is really no need to be afraid of being called "doing nothing". Life is your own, and no one knows better than you what your "suitable job" is. Your career is not determined by your current career, but by your inner passion and interest.
Usually the other person will ask, "then I'll do it according to my interest." What if I fail? " ? 」
It doesn't matter if you fail. Just because we are interested in something doesn't mean we have to be talented and capable of doing it. Failure is normal.
And when you work hard and find it useless, you will have a lot less regrets than giving up without working hard, and you will not feel indebted to yourself.
Japanese writer Matsuura Yataro once said, I like it very much, "The opposite of success is not failure, but doing nothing. 」
In the process of taking your interests seriously, creating and sharing, even if you fail, you will still accumulate experience and skills. These skills are usually rewarded in later pursuits.
Taiwan Province has a best-selling writer named Giddens Ko, but when he was in the third grade of primary school, his dream was actually to become a cartoonist. He kept reading books and drawing cartoons every day until the third grade of primary school. He realized that he had no talent for painting, so he gave up sadly.
But later, when he was interested in writing novels, he found that because he liked comics before, he read a lot of cartoons and drew a lot of cartoons, which led him to inadvertently cultivate his ability and sense of rhythm in writing stories by means of "comics splitting the mirror". When he is writing a novel, he just translates what he sees when he closes his eyes, so that readers can see what he sees in his mind.
Without any literary training, he became a popular writer in Taiwan Province Province.
Later, he recalled that the reason why he likes comics is actually that he likes telling stories. He once recalled it in a speech and said, "The first gift God gave me was a cartoonist. But I opened it and found it was empty. I thought God was joking with me. But in fact, he wants to tell me that you like telling stories so much, but you use the wrong wings. You may not have the talent to tell stories with pictures, but you may have the talent to tell stories with words. 」
If Giddens Ko had not taken seriously the dream of "cartoonist", there would have been no later "writer Giddens Ko".
On the way to pursue your own interests, you should believe that "contributions are not made." As Jobs said, "One day, when you look back, you will find that the previous points are all connected in a line. 」
Finally, I forwarded the sentence that inspired me to you: "Do it, that's right. 」