I think you've thought of this quote from Mr. Joe whenever you've been looking for a job, or planning to quit your current boring and mediocre job.

Did it ever occur to you that this quote, which has inspired so many, may have harmed so many?

Yes, there have been a lot of people who have made a lot of bad decisions on this path of work because of this quote. Because of the illusory poetry and faraway places, because of the hobbies and interests that have not been down-to-earth.

In fact, this sentence itself is correct, the wrong is, we understand the direction of the opposite.

It's easy to romanticize a person who imagines what he doesn't know. --Wang Xiaobo

Find a job that interests you, do you know what interests you?

Lijiang, coffee, freedom and leisure ------

According to the public information of China Coffee Network, in the coffee entrepreneurship, how is everyone's survival status? "6 lose, 3 draw and 1 earn." This sentence is enough to summarize.In 2017, the number of domestic coffee shops closed reached 60,000, showing negative growth. In people outside the industry, coffee is the white moonlight, romantic, elegant and high-end, while for people in the industry, operating a coffee shop is a very challenging thing.

The dream of opening a coffee shop may come from sentiment, hobby, interest. But to support the operation of a coffee shop but you need to understand the origin of coffee, flavor, production craft, from the store site decoration to napkin folding shape, milk sugar supply need to be carefully calculated. In addition to this, do you know how to pay labor wages, how much to pay to motivate employees? Do you know how to pay social insurance? Do you know the laws and regulations of the restaurant industry?

How many months can your feelings, passions and interests support your continuous losses?

"I opened a guest house in Lijiang and lost 110,000 in the first year" introduces us to what kind of results those high-paying people with dreams of freedom face when they give up their white-collar jobs and head to Lijiang.

It's the struggles of the inns, the decline in Lijiang's reputation, and the severely saturated market. Ctrip's 3898 search results for "Lijiang Inn" show the fierce competition and struggle for survival.

Initially, you may be looking forward to the starry sky, sunset, and flowing water, but in reality, you are faced with renovation, rent, salary, customized customer service, and difficult to improve the occupancy rate of the inn.

Taking a passing interest as a job is akin to setting your favorite song as your alarm in the morning, which eventually wears out the passion you once had and gives you back nothing more than sunk costs you can't undo.

Steve Jobs also had a quote that went something like this. --

Many people ask: "I want to start a company, what should I do?" And the first question I ask is, "What are you passionate about? What do you want to do with the company you're starting?"

Most of them laughed and said, "I don't know." My advice to them is to go get a job and keep yourself busy until you find the answer. You have to be passionate about your idea and feel strongly about being willing to take a chance on it.

Not everyone is fortunate enough to find a job they love.

Different city sizes have their own limitations on what they can offer, and beyond that, limitations in population, education, age, connections, and specialization can all prevent a person from doing what they're passionate about. Only 1% of the world's population is lucky enough to find a career they love from the start.

What about the rest? What do the rest of us do? Settle for a job we don't like?

Then you'll feel like you've been suffering your whole life.

The work you are not interested in gives you a reason to be passive, and as a result, you get an unsatisfactory income, which in turn leads to a bad mood, and you feel that your efforts are not proportional to the gains, which in turn makes you more disgusted with your work environment. From then on, you will step into a vicious circle. The slow growth of income, coupled with the actual ability not to improve, you will find that jumping ship will not meet a good opportunity, a waste of their talent, youth and opportunity.

People have at least nearly 30 years of their lives to work, and if the work is just to survive, to make money, to be a drudgery, it is indeed torment.

What if work is another, more noble behavior? What if it is possible to take control of your life through work, even if you don't like it at first?

Kazuo Inamori, the "Sage of Japanese Management", believed that the fundamental meaning of work is to refine the soul, improve the mind, and take control of life.

Kazuo Inamori, started from scratch, founded Kyocera and KDDI, two of the world's top 500 companies, 78 years old, but also appointed to serve as the leader of Japan Airlines, under his leadership, Japan Airlines in the declaration of bankruptcy and reconstruction of the second year, to achieve a turnaround. In the third year, Japan Airlines re-listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, announcing: I'm back! Only nine of the 138 companies that have gone bankrupt in Japan in the last 50 years have gone public again, and the shortest time it took was seven years.

What made Kazuo Inamori so passionate about his work and his accomplishments was not that he found something that interested him at the beginning.

Like China's Ren Zhengfei and Dong Mingzhu, he didn't start out with a job that interested him at all, just to survive and support his family. He stayed in a small company with no future because he was cornered by his brother and had to stay.

With no way back, he had no choice but to change his mindset, stop complaining, and go all out with a positive attitude.

In the beginning, he worked hard only because he was angry, but later, as he continued to overcome the difficulties and achieve research results, he gradually fell in love with this job because of the positive feedback results.

The subsequent achievements, the opening of his own company, the IPO, a series of seemingly unbelievable reversals, he attributed it to luck

- the luck of the draw through the extreme seriousness of the work.

Interest is what drives people to know things and explore the truth, but it is not necessarily conducive to improving the quality and effectiveness of work.

Instead of relying on fleeting interest to keep the work going, it's better to commit to the existing work, try to hustle, produce results, and get good reviews to create a positive feedback.

"A vocation is not stumbled upon by chance, but made by oneself" - Kazuo Inamori

Since we can't be lucky enough to stumble upon our own vocation in the first place, and since we aren't all that interested in our existing jobs, then Why don't we follow Kazuo Inamori's example and manufacture what we love?

How to manufacture, Kazuo Inamori gives his own answer in "Dry Method"

I. In the spirit

1, through the efforts of a positive change in mindset, automatically and spontaneously to complete the work, to become a spontaneous combustion type of employees;

2, in the height, deep reading, hotness Strong desire for success. Only by reaching this intensity of goals and aspirations can we penetrate into our subconscious mind and then stimulate our potential powerful force.

Second, in action

1, give more effort than anyone else. Kazuo Inamori believes that in the face of difficulties, when you think you have made every effort, think of all the ways, really out of ideas, there is nothing to do to have to give up, this is not the end of the matter, but the beginning of the beginning again.

2, and strive to achieve perfection;

To this, you should find, "you need to find loved" what this sentence really means, is to find a job, to keep yourself busy, in the work of making their own "loved".

It seems a bit abstract, but in my opinion, it's about working hard, working positively, and working hard to achieve a result that satisfies you, a result that not only gives you a new definition of yourself, but also gives you external recognition. Being "praised" and "recognized" is a positive feedback that motivates you to go to the next level. The more time you spend and the more results you get, the more convinced you are that you are the right person for the job, and the more you will enjoy the job, and ultimately the more results you will get.