There are always a group of smart friends around. They are quick-thinking, have many ideas, accept new things quickly, and always put forward refreshing ideas, but they have not become the best in their circle of friends. Why? Similarly, I seem to understand a lot of truth, but I am very sad about this life. Does it also apply? It is easy to attribute success to strength and luck, but it is not clear how strength comes from and how luck is made.
In fact, many people misunderstand the rule of success. Our traditional education tells us that persistence is victory, and "persistence" seems to be the only way to success. On the other hand, the "grey man" theory put forward by Oxford University is just the opposite. They oppose the efforts made by the day after tomorrow to achieve a certain result, and praise personal talent, which makes people think: is success a natural determinism or a theory of diligent compensation? Or a comprehensive methodology?
If it is a static, simple, measurable and relatively fair success standard, talent is undoubtedly the first condition for success. It is a fact that clever children always learn faster than children with low intelligence. However, society is dynamic, complex, unpredictable and unfair, full of complicated relationships, and successfully transformed into a small probability event, which has become a complex and long process in which various factors actively arrange and combine or seize the main contradiction. At this time, the value of perseverance is highlighted.
This can explain the fact that smart students can improve their grades in a short time, but if they can't keep studying, their grades are still not ideal. The quality of academic performance can not judge future success, because such static, simple and fair standards as academic performance are effective, and it is not difficult for students to acquire additional skills and get good grades through personal efforts or external forces (extracurricular tutoring). Once in the society, no matter how complicated the division of labor is, it can cover up a single advantage and become a system combination successfully, not because of the cleverness or efforts of a single factor. The "barrel theory" can demonstrate this view.
Therefore, some students have achieved excellent results in school and gradually "disappeared from the public" in society. This is not a realistic version of Shang, but a foreseeable necessity. Society sometimes does not need too smart individuals, but practical doers, and intelligence is often excluded, as well as performance, qualifications, relationships and intrigue.
Every possible method has become an assessment element, each element corresponds to different abilities, and the road to success has been solved into multiple paths. At this time, the difficulty of success has increased several times, and only one ability has been difficult to cope with.
Let's observe the smart people in the circle of friends. Where is their cleverness? Memory? Understand? Expressiveness? Execution? Thinking ability? You can always find his good points, but it is difficult to find many excellent combinations of him as a complex, which can explain why many friends have many ideas, but it is difficult to succeed. Nowadays, college education teaches basic knowledge and basic theory, and rarely discusses practical methodology, that is, there is less practice, so ordinary Excellence is interpreted as thinking, understanding and expression, but execution is often ignored. Therefore, people think highly of leaders, but despise their executors.
However, you should be aware of the fact that regardless of the ancient "learning to be an excellent official" or the modern promotion route, you will find that people at each level need different abilities, and our knowledge and abilities change with the changes of levels. A remarkable reality is that most college students do not engage in this major after graduation, and they also admit that what they study in university is basically out of touch with society. They only agree that the ability to learn to learn, think and study by themselves is the greatest gain of the university. They learn methods, cultivate habits, and give back specific knowledge to the school long ago. This raises a question: excellent social skills+excellent habits.
Excellent ability is either formed by talent or cultivated; Habit is persistence and an effective behavior that conforms to the law. At this time, we are no longer entangled in the theory of talent or persistence, both of which can effectively lead to success. In the face of complex social success, we must cultivate a variety of abilities, adapt to different roles slowly, adhere to good habits, and make success come faster. This is the correct dialectical relationship between talent and persistence.
It should be noted that many smart people think that they are gifted and have their eyes above the top. Sometimes they will fall into a sense of superiority in thinking and mistake the end of thinking for the end of action. They often think that I have figured it out, and whether to do it or not is another matter. The social evaluation system only talks about heroes by results, and there is a natural barrier between thinking and practice. Only when it is really done can it be found that "the eyes are superior and the eyes are inferior" and we must face it squarely. Those friends who believe in persistence also need to face up to their talents and acquired excellent abilities, especially to have a big vision and a big pattern. They can't just bow their heads and work hard, but also see the distance. It should be noted that the longer they persist in the wrong direction, the farther away they are from success.
Success is a complex system. The era of all-rounder is over. Now the complex society needs a fine division of labor and the cooperation of various excellent elements. We should accept and face up to our own Excellence, give ourselves a proper position in the social division of labor, integrate various elements, relationships, abilities and resources, empower the team, and build confidence in personal success. I believe there are ways to succeed, and success requires hard work. Combining thinking with action, combining individuals with others (collectively) is not far from success.
Author: Cow dung teapot