Usually, when you don't do well enough, the "ability problem" seems to be easier to forgive.
I admit time, opportunity, talent, personality, origin, early education and so on. These things that we can't fully control are of great significance and may delimit our personal "abilities" within a certain range.
For example, as an ordinary working mother, I don't think I can make a direct contribution to the human flight to Mars, and I can't participate in the Olympic Games. I'm not sure I can make a lot of money or change the world by starting a business now.
However, the power of personal choice is still too poor.
There is still a vast and uncertain space between our ability boundary at the moment and the limit that we can't break through at all.
I want to share some stories about my friends and explain why "ability" is determined by "attitude":
The past attitude determines the present ability;
The present attitude determines the future ability.
Because "attitude" is how far you want to push the boundaries of your "ability".
I do marketing. There is an internal training to share the insights of wealth management users. Let me ask you: if there are wealth management products, the bank promises a yield of 8%. Will you consider it? Most people in the audience will answer "consider" because the bank endorsement gives people the impression that the risk is extremely low and the yield is higher than that of ordinary products with the same risk level.
Then, I will ask: "There is also a wealth management company, which was opened by my cousin and his classmates. Commitment rate of return 10%. Think about it? " "Don't consider it." "What about 12%?" "Don't consider it." "What about 15%?" "I dare not think!" Because, who is your cousin's classmate? I can't believe it.
This is a simple question and answer, let participants substitute the user role and feel the balance between risk and benefit. This can make the training atmosphere more interactive.
Training and interaction are not so boring at all. Soon after, a little buddy of our team went to give training to others. I was busy and didn't participate in the preparation. During the training, I listened by phone.
Suddenly, I heard him ask, "If there is a wealth management company run by my cousin and his classmates, which promises interest of 10%, will you consider investing?" To be honest, this interaction I designed is really nothing.
I admire this young colleague very much, because when he sees a method that may have some effect, he will pay attention to it and then try it when he has the chance.
People with strong ability in the workplace have a characteristic, that is, they pay special attention to "what others do and what methods can help me do better".
Their radar is always on-paying attention to the frontier dynamics, pondering the previous experience and applying better methods.
Just like those top teenagers, they always care about what reference books and question banks other top students use.
Skills in the workplace are all-encompassing and dynamic, and no "tool encyclopedia" can be read once and for all.
How to write a clear email, how to hold an effective meeting, how to manage time, how to enliven the atmosphere ... Look around, many people demonstrate to you in daily life.
This open book depends on whether we are willing to read, ponder and practice. It is in dribs and drabs that we slowly arm ourselves and become more efficient.
People with attitudes are good at teaching each child's mother by themselves. I have probably discussed children's eating habits, and some children need adults to chase them all over the world.
When we are adults, there are also adults who are "waiting to feed" and "eating by themselves" in the workplace. The former needs a little push, while the latter buys food, orders food, searches recipes and learns to cook.
There is a girl in our marketing team who is "content operation", commonly known as "I". She writes fluently and has beautiful typesetting, but she never uses office software much.
Until one day, a project stayed up late to get PPT and asked her to help. I heard the project manager say to her, "Can these drawings be drawn by PPT?" And she replied: "You are busy, go quickly, Baidu myself. I don't know to ask you again. " The final PPT is very professional (of course related to her writing and design background). There was only one picture that she couldn't draw with PPT, so she made it with Photoshop first. Is this ok?
Capable people hold a "I can" attitude towards the unknown world.
Thanks to the Internet, the whole world is also an open book. We can Baidu Zhihu by ourselves, ask people for advice, buy books for classes, read help files, and learn while trying ... There are definitely things in this world that challenge the limit of IQ and the height of EQ, but what stands in front of us is often a state of "boring, difficult, I can't do it, I'll talk about it later".
Whether we can do it ourselves and explore new knowledge largely determines how far we can go, how strong we become and how well we live. People with attitude do their best. More than two years ago, in my previous startup, the CEO proposed to put an advertisement in Lujiazui. We chose an advertising space in the lobby of the subway station and signed a speed contract.
Flying to Shanghai, the supplier accompanied him to the scene, and a post-90 s in the team looked ugly on the spot. I asked him calmly, "Do you think this is not good?" It is an earlier subway line, and the station hall is old and dim, and the effect is much worse than that of remote viewing.
Passengers in the station hall are in a hurry, and the visual impact of the selected area is not enough. At the same time, different shapes of light boxes and columns are placed, which increases the creative difficulty and production cost. However, as a CMO person, I am naturally hesitant. Considering that the timetable has been set, I don't know whether it is feasible this time.
After 90, he said categorically: "Be sure to change! I'll tell you! We can discuss it! Timely! " Fortunately, the suppliers are very cooperative and help us make adjustments.
Later, I wrote this into my recommendation letter to the post-90s generation, and he got offer from Kellogg, Berkeley, LBS and other famous schools. To tell the truth, it was the CEO's idea to buy advertisements in Lujiazui area, and it was the decision of this post-90 s generation to sign this area; No one can judge that it must be bad in its original position afterwards; He has said before that he will apply for going abroad after two years, and he does not intend to share life and death with this company.
In other words, to change his position, he is just "making trouble" for himself.
However, excellent people have the strongest desire to do things well.
To this end, they think independently, reflect on their own judgments, make suggestions and actively promote them. On the long road to the workplace, only with the spirit of "if you have done it, you must do it well" will you have the opportunity to take on greater responsibilities and win more victories.