There is no doubt about the answer: the internet age, that is, the digital age.
With the rise of computer, mobile phone, big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies, more and more network platforms and artificial intelligence products have penetrated into our lives.
For example, contact WeChat, Taobao for shopping, Didi for traveling, Meituan for eating, drinking and having fun, siri for mobile phone intelligent assistant, food delivery robot and so on. Our life has become convenient and fast because of these digital products, thus leading a better life. This is the best time.
Everything in the world, prosperity means decline. Internet technology has made our life convenient and liberated more and more people's hands, but it also means that some grassroots who can only earn money by working with their hands are being eliminated.
From time to time, we can see the news that all kinds of robots replace workers, express sorting robots replace sorters, delivery robots replace waiters to deliver food, and the super-cosmic virtual human "Liu" who was on fire some time ago. We don't know what professional content will be replaced in the future.
Many studies predict that millions of jobs will disappear and be replaced by digital products in the future. Since the development of the times is rolling forward, we can't go against the current. As individuals under the trend of the Internet age, why don't we face changes actively and flexibly? Be a digital follower or digital pioneer, not a digital fringe.
German writer Bush hohlfeld catherine tells us in his book Lifelong Growth-Seven Core Competitiveness of the Future Workplace that our future orientation is chosen and decided by ourselves, and we can start thinking and acting from the following three points to realize the sustainable development of our life and career.
A sentence mentioned by the author in the book impressed me deeply. He said, "We must be eager to change, not refuse to change".
If we don't want to be left behind by others, replaced by artificial intelligence or abandoned by the development trend of the times in our future career, we must remain flexible, actively change our behavior and make ourselves more competitive.
When it comes to changing behavior, we have to mention three concepts: comfort zone, learning zone and fear zone. It can be said that our life is in a mixed environment of these three areas, and the height we can go depends on the length of time we choose to spend in these three areas.
I suggest that you must spend the longest time in the study area, because the study area is the growth area. If you spend there, you will grow there, and the comfort zone will be expanded through study.
For example, our company has a new director. He has his own set of methods and job requirements, which led to all our previous actions failing to achieve the expected success. We feel very depressed, which leads to the decline of our self-esteem and confidence and the narrowing of our scope of action. This means that our comfort zone is shrinking and our fear zone is expanding.
Being trapped in the fear zone is the chief culprit that prevents us from changing. Refusing to change means security. If you refuse to change, the biggest possibility is that you will be ruthlessly fired by the director and your ability will not increase.
What if we choose positive change? Actively try and implement the new director's way of doing things, and learn the essence of executable content from it. You will find that the difficulties become smaller in the continuous trial and execution, which means that our comfort zone in learning has widened and our ability to cope with uncertainty has also improved.
It can be seen that in the face of the rapidly changing future world, in order to achieve sustainable development, we must learn to actively embrace change, know how to hold change in our own hands and constantly shape it, so as to achieve lifelong growth.
"I know I have to do something, and I know what I need to learn, but I just have no motivation, so I have been habitually putting these things aside," said Yasmine, a student in the book.
Have you ever had a moment when you know exactly what you should do, but you always put off learning the content? Put them aside? Maybe it's been years?
Many people think that this is a problem of learning motivation. If you don't do it, it means you have no motivation. However, the author believes that what is more important than learning motivation is learning strategy. Lack of motivation may be the wrong learning strategy, and we have not found a suitable learning strategy.
Correct and appropriate learning strategies can stimulate any kind of learning enthusiasm. So, how to make a personal preference learning strategy and break through the action point?
The author tells us that we can start with the following three steps:
We can look back on our junior high school, senior high school, college life, and our learning experience in society, and reflect by asking ourselves questions, such as when do you think you really enjoyed learning in the past? What makes you happy? What forms of learning content impressed you? Do you learn more by reading books, watching videos or practicing? Everyone has different learning preferences. Ask yourself why. Your conclusion is your study preference, and what suits you is the best.
We can combine the ideal "brain goal" with the perceptual "intuitive goal" when making goals, and use your learning style preference to dig out the ultimate goal. For example, if you prefer pictures and images, you can draw an internal motivation diagram like Yasmine. By asking yourself what you should do and what you want to do, you can list the answers one by one. The overlapping part is our initial internal motivation, which makes our ultimate goal clear.
The most difficult thing in the process of learning new things is persistence, so it is necessary to design a foolproof action emergency network in advance. We should try our best to write down the obstacles we may encounter and give solutions; You can put your motivation map in a conspicuous place to remind yourself at all times; You can use public commitment or coaching practice to find friends or related coaches to supervise your behavior.
Through the above three steps, we will learn how to motivate ourselves on topics that we are not interested in at first, constantly break through the action card and realize lifelong learning.
In the Internet age, more and more people unconsciously suffer from "digital addiction" syndrome: mobile phones are online 24 hours a day, fearing to miss any information in the room; I can't stop brushing short videos, and one night passes unconsciously.
When our attention is distracted, we can't accurately distinguish important things from unimportant things, which leads to the imbalance between life and work. The secret of achieving a sustainable, happy and stable life is to control the "life-work" balance, avoid thinking about trivial things at work, and replace work when relaxing.
Therefore, the author suggests that in order to avoid the influence of digital addiction, we should learn to "cut off power", work hard and live a high quality life.
How to cut off the power? The author suggests that clear actions should be set up to distinguish nodes in work and life.
For example, choose the moment of getting off or opening the door as the last node action to end the day's work. After starting this action, put work in a secondary position and don't go to see the work phone frequently. Many people choose to have their first sip of coffee in the morning or make a task list as the beginning of their day's work.
After learning to divide work and life, you can work deeply by focusing on tasks.
I often hear colleagues complain in the office: "God, there are so many tasks that I can't finish them. Often, before this matter is over, other things and people will bother me and urge me to deal with it. As a result, it is too difficult to accomplish everything. " Have you ever thought about completing multiple tasks at the same time?
The author tells us that only by learning to focus on key tasks and let ourselves enter the workflow state can we have a chance to complete our tasks more efficiently and with better quality.
It is suggested that you can spend half a day or a day observing your behavior when performing tasks, find out bad habits and correct them; Or you can set a "concentration moment", turn off all the digital information receiving devices, and concentrate on one thing at hand. When the work is successfully completed, life will avoid chaos and the quality of life will go up.
Setting the cutting point of work and life, working deeply at work, living a high-quality life when relaxing and enjoying, and effectively cutting off the power supply will make your life happy.
Dickens wrote such a sentence in A Tale of Two Cities: "This is the best time, this is the worst time; This is the age of wisdom, this is the age of stupidity.
This famous saying describes a "chaotic" artistic conception, that is, different people see different worlds.
The rapid development of the Internet era has brought us both advantages and disadvantages. No matter what the future is, we can clearly know that we can choose and decide the future we want. When we can face challenges with a lifelong growth attitude and try to solve problems flexibly and actively, life will have more choices and opportunities to achieve counterattack.