Some people lack a sense of mission and are not interested in the things around them. Their life is like a teenager herding cattle in the countryside, herding cattle to make money, making money to build a house and marry a wife, and having children is to let his son follow in his father's footsteps and continue herding cattle; In the end, children and grandchildren are endless. Some people have only a vague sense of mission, are interested in everything in life, have been to many places, met many people and tried many jobs, but they have not settled down in the end. Author Carl Newport believes that these situations are normal. There are three main reasons for these situations. Let's explain it separately.
The first reason is that people's ideas are backward. In fact, mission, like technology, sometimes comes from people's innovation. There is a theory of "adjacent possibility" in scientific and technological circles, which means that in any field, a great idea will often be born in the adjacent area of the development frontier, which combines the existing new ideas. For example, electric vehicles were born in the adjacent area between traditional oil vehicles and new energy sources; Mobile phone was born at the edge of traditional telephone and electronic communication. Today, these inventions have profoundly changed people's way of life, and also produced a lot of innovative value, from which many exciting missions will be born. On the other hand, if a person's ideas are out of date, he doesn't understand the frontier of the industry and doesn't care about the social development trend, how can he realize the innovation from ideas to missions? This is actually very difficult.
In many people's minds, innovation and mission should be innate and shocking things. Those who carry out their mission always seem to be changing the way people look at things, and their cognitive level should far exceed that of others. But this is not the case.
Because the mission is actually the product of "step by step", not overnight, but step by step. It is a process of expanding outward bit by bit along one's own cognition, finding more problems in adjacent possibilities, and then putting forward a mission and solving problems; The new mission will raise people's awareness, and at the same time, it will be repeated. Therefore, if you want to find your mission, you must ensure that you reach the forefront of a certain field. Then, this adjacency may be revealed by the mission it contains. Without this curiosity to explore the frontier, it is difficult for us to establish a mission.
Sima Qian, the Taishi Duke, wrote in Historical Records: All the bustling places in the world are for profit, and all the bustling places in the world are for profit. Guided by the profit-seeking direction of human nature, this paper points out the motives of many people's lives. However, can people live only by profit? Obviously not. Mission lets people know that life can be happier and more meaningful. But for many people, finding a job is not an easy task.
Some people lack a sense of mission and are not interested in the things around them. Their life is like a teenager herding cattle in the countryside, herding cattle to make money, making money to build a house and marry a wife, and having children is to let his son follow in his father's footsteps and continue herding cattle; In the end, children and grandchildren are endless. Some people have only a vague sense of mission, are interested in everything in life, have been to many places, met many people and tried many jobs, but they have not settled down in the end. Author Carl Newport believes that these situations are normal. There are three main reasons for these situations. Let's explain it separately.
The first reason is that people's ideas are backward. In fact, mission, like technology, sometimes comes from people's innovation. There is a theory of "adjacent possibility" in scientific and technological circles, which means that in any field, a great idea will often be born in the adjacent area of the development frontier, which combines the existing new ideas. For example, electric vehicles were born in the adjacent area between traditional oil vehicles and new energy sources; Mobile phone was born at the edge of traditional telephone and electronic communication. Today, these inventions have profoundly changed people's way of life, and also produced a lot of innovative value, from which many exciting missions will be born. On the other hand, if a person's ideas are out of date, he doesn't understand the frontier of the industry and doesn't care about the social development trend, how can he realize the innovation from ideas to missions? This is actually very difficult.
In many people's minds, innovation and mission should be innate and shocking things. Those who carry out their mission always seem to be changing the way people look at things, and their cognitive level should far exceed that of others. But this is not the case.
Because the mission is actually the product of "step by step", not overnight, but step by step. It is a process of expanding outward bit by bit along one's own cognition, finding more problems in adjacent possibilities, and then putting forward a mission and solving problems; The new mission will raise people's awareness, and at the same time, it will be repeated. Therefore, if you want to find your mission, you must ensure that you reach the forefront of a certain field. Then, this adjacency may be revealed by the mission it contains. Without this curiosity to explore the frontier, it is difficult for us to establish a mission.
The second reason why people find it difficult to find a job is that they don't have enough capital. To find a mission, we must first reach the "frontier" in a certain field. In fact, it is very difficult to meet the "frontier" requirements. On the one hand, we should have enough workplace capital, that is, as mentioned in the previous course, to accumulate valuable and scarce skills in a certain field. For example, an excellent teacher needs to learn many teaching skills, knowledge skills, communication skills with students and so on before finding his mission.
On the other hand, people need to pay a lot of money and resources if they want to reach the "frontier". For example, people spend time and energy on education and continuous learning; Workplace training, skills refining costs and so on. If the capital in these two aspects is insufficient, it will be difficult for people to have craftsman thinking, and it will be difficult to "master", let alone reach the forefront.
For example, Jane, a female college student mentioned earlier, achieved excellent results and accomplished such incredible achievements as "riding across the United States". But these capitals still can't support her to do freelance work, because she still has a big shortage of skills. Therefore, we have repeatedly stressed that craftsman thinking is more important than work passion. After all, many times, it is the objective results and gaps that determine the development of our lives, not the subjective desires and desires. The progress of subjective cognition can't make up for the gap of objective standards.
Finally, let's talk about the third reason why people find it difficult to find their mission, that is: being too impatient. This has always been a problem for many people. When people were young, they expected their rapid growth. As young people, we want to show our ambitions ... We often feel that as long as we are ready and "everything is ready", we can find and complete our mission, but this is not the case.
This impulse is understandable, after all, everyone has the need for self-realization. But in reality, not everyone is psychologically prepared for the task, especially the time required for the task. You know, the mission is to be able to cover multiple professional fields and apply to the career direction of different positions. This means that finding a task is a long and difficult process. In order to accomplish our mission, we need to devote ourselves wholeheartedly. Some tasks may take several years to complete, such as solving technical problems in a certain professional field; Some even last for decades, covering a person's life, or even the life of several generations, before they can blossom and bear fruit, such as major scientific and technological inventions such as the space shuttle.
Therefore, we should be patient until we find our mission. If our usual job is to cultivate a cause, then the mission can be regarded as a flower that "grows" in the cause. We should not only find this wonderful flower in the bushes, but also cheer up, wait patiently, care carefully and wait for it to bloom.
Today's topic is mainly about why many people can't find their mission. There are conceptual problems, as well as problems such as lack of capital and patience. More importantly, in this era where everything is short-cut and fast-paced, the mission needs a lot of time and energy to find, and if you really want to achieve the mission, you need people's persistence and persistence.