The three-ring model was proposed by Collins, who wrote the global bestsellers "Built to Last" and "Good to Great". The three-ring model has three intersecting rings: passion, expertise, and opportunity.

These three rings are your current self. Where these three rings intersect is your life vision, which is your future self.

When choosing our future career development, we must be clear about our development direction, because if the direction is wrong, it is the biggest mistake.

1. Three questions in the three-ring model

Use three questions to let yourself know more about yourself and make your future direction clearer:

1. What am I good at?

2. What is my passion?

3. What are my opportunities?

Think carefully about these three questions and give your answers. If you pick up a pen now and draw three circles for yourself, good at, passionate and opportunity, fill in the contents.

2. Clinton’s Three-ring Model Practice

Former US President Clinton decided to enter politics when he was 16 years old. Of course he hadn't read anything about the three-ring theory. However, according to his memoirs, his decision-making process at that time seemed to have drawn three rings.

He first considered three career options, one was music, the other was medicine, and the third was politics. He loved music, was good at it, and thought he had a chance to become a successful musician. He loves medicine and is good at medicine, and thinks he can become a good doctor. However, he felt that he could not become the best in music and medicine. He believes that politics is what he loves most and what he is best at, and there are opportunities, so he finally chose politics. Politics is at the most obvious intersection of his three rings.

When Clinton was 16 years old, he established his life vision to be a politician. He moved forward toward this vision and finally reached the highest position an American politician can achieve - President of the United States.

3. Choose love and achieve great things

j If you pick up a pen now and draw three circles for yourself, good at, passionate and opportunity, fill in the contents. You find that you are not as lucky as Clinton and your three circles do not cross. What should you do?

If you are good at, love and have opportunities, you can only choose one of these three rings, which one should you choose? Maybe everyone's choice is different. Some people will think that opportunity is more important, some people will think that being good at it is the most important, and some people will think that love is the most important.

However, are any of these three really important? Those successful people, such as Drucker, Jobs, Buffett, Kazuo Inamori, etc., they all say - love first. Collins is the proposer of the three-ring model, and he also believes that love is the most important element.

Collins said that to achieve greatness, you must start with love, then be good at it, and finally opportunity. If you say, I don’t choose love, but I choose opportunity, is it okay? sure. In terms of knowledge, you should pay attention to what Collins said about "achieving greatness." If a person just wants to make a little money and live a well-off life, then it is possible to do it based on what you are good at and based on opportunities.

4. Discover your passion

Some people confuse passion with interest. In fact, love is not interest. What is love? There is a psychologist named Sternberg. He proposed a love triangle theory. Borrowing his three elements of perfect love, let's take a look at how to find a career you love.

When you find a career you love, you need to ask yourself three questions:

1. Do I like this thing very much and is it enjoyable to do it?

2. Am I very passionate about doing this and can’t wait to do it?

3. If I had to do this for the rest of my life, would I be willing?

If you answer yes to these three questions, then this career is the career you love. I think my happiness comes from the fact that I knew the love of my life as early as ten years ago, which is to help more people grow through training. Especially this year, I was able to combine my favorite things of dressing up and training, and I found the love of my life.