First of all, the classical teacher’s point of view is to understand the rules of the game in your environment.

Games have become an indispensable thing in our era, and people’s prejudices against games have begun to be eliminated. So in the game, we all know that we must first be familiar with the rules of the game. There are rules for playing mahjong, and there are rules for LOL. If you don't understand the rules, no matter how hard you practice, it will be in vain.

The same is true in the workplace. Only by understanding the rules of the game can you use your efforts in the workplace where you can grow fastest and bring benefits the fastest.

For example, you are competing for a leadership position and you are digging into the technical details. This may run counter to your goal. Often the deeper you study technology, the farther away it is from your goal.

Secondly, understand at what level you currently need to compete.

Competition is divided into four levels. The first is competition at the level of physical strength, the second is competition at the level of knowledge and skills, the third is competition at the level of resources, and the fourth is competition at the level of talent and opportunities.

The competition in terms of physical strength is very easy to understand. If two people move bricks together, one person can move three bricks at a time, while the other person can only move one brick at a time. Then the person who moves one brick at a time may only be able to move one brick at a time. Get a lower salary or face being fired. In the same workplace, if someone is in poor health and asks for leave every three days to go to the hospital; while someone is in high spirits and goes all out to improve their work, over time, healthy people will definitely be more competitive. So for today's society, the difference in physical strength is not very obvious. Competition at this level is more about energy management. Where you use your energy determines your competitiveness.

Therefore, if you compete at this level, you need to do a good job in health and energy management.

Competition at the level of knowledge and skills. The knowledge you possess and the core skills you master determine your competitiveness. This level is recognized by everyone, but there are often still many people who have mastered many skills but cannot live a good life. It's because they ignore the word core. Remember, it is a core skill. If you only have skills but no core, it will not become your competitiveness.

If you feel inspired today, you can write an article, and if you are in a good mood tomorrow, you can cook a good dish. Then neither writing nor cooking can become your core competitiveness.

So how to find your core skills, the key point is: find something that can continuously output and have unique value. Pay attention to continuous output.

If you can have stable writing output every day like He Caitou, Li Xiaolai, and Peng Xiaoliu, and many people are willing to read it (because it is valuable), then writing can become your dream core skills; if you, as a cooking enthusiast, are good at sharing and researching methods and experiences of various cuisines, and can continue to output your works and methods, then cooking can also become your core skill.

Core skills need to be continuously output, and at the same time, the output will force the input, thus comprehensively promoting the improvement of your core competitiveness. Deliberate practice is an effective way to build core competitive skills.

Competition at the resource level. This is the key to determining how successful you can be. The aforementioned competitiveness in terms of physical strength and knowledge and skills can allow you to achieve results to a certain extent, but it is still not a necessary and sufficient condition to ensure that you achieve major achievements. Classical teachers say, "Don't try to use a skill to lever a lever." The resources you have are the lever that levers your achievements. For example, if you are very good at programming skills, then don’t try to become the next Lei Jun through this skill. The most important thing for Lei Jun's success is the integration of resources. When it was founded in the early days, the teams Lei Jun recruited were all top international and domestic Internet teams. Early investments and countless fan resources. When Lei Jun was working on Xiaomi, he actually already had A "Lei Jun type", this is his resource. I think Lei Jun’s success comes more from the integration of resources.

Competition at the level of talent and opportunity (potential energy). Regarding talent, I saw this popular saying on Zhihu a long time ago: With the low level of effort of most people, it is simply not their turn to compete for talent. It wasn't until I listened to this lecture that I truly understood the meaning of this sentence. Without competition in terms of physical strength, knowledge, skills, or even resources, talent alone is worthless. We once read the story of Fang Zhongyong, who was extremely talented since he was a child, but ended up being "lost to everyone". The core lies in the fact that he did not practice deliberately to build his core competitiveness. Opportunity is also called potential energy in the lecture. There is also a famous saying, "Opportunities always favor the prepared mind." Without the support of the previous competitiveness, opportunities will just pass by. As for the importance of opportunities, let’s take Lei Jun as an example. Xiaomi's success is really due to the right time, place and people. Lei Jun himself admitted that it was because he caught up with the opportunity and the mobile Internet was just emerging. Therefore, he also put forward the famous flying pig theory: standing on the wind, pigs can fly. Leverage potential energy and go with the flow.

Finally, which is my core competitiveness, and how can I improve my core competitiveness at this level?

1. Physical competition.

In this era, it can be transformed into personal high-efficiency, fragmented time management skills.

The era of highly fragmented time and information overload requires us to manage efficiency and time well in order to win in the physical competition.

2. Competition of knowledge and skills.

In the information age, the era of one-size-fits-all skills has passed. We must master the routines of learning knowledge and skills and update our skills at any time.

Make good use of the promotion opportunities in the workplace. The workplace is the most important skill training ground in life.

An effective method: output forces input. For example, if you are stipulated to write an article every day, if you have nothing to write, you will be forced to get in touch with new things or read books.

3. Competition at the resource level.

An effective way to create competition at the resource level is to build a personal brand.

Personal brand is the external expression of a person's intrinsic business value.

What unique value should be stably produced to make this value unique, consistent, and relevant.

Personal brand must be related to skills.

4. Talent and opportunity.

Talent is not important, use it if you have it.

Create opportunities and seize opportunities.

Most of the most important choices that change your life are accidental events.

This is the compilation of the classical teacher’s speech and his own expansion. In terms of building core competitiveness, we must first identify our own level of competition, and then adopt effective methods to deliberately practice and continuously output to form competitiveness. Of course, according to the level of competition, when we reach one level of competitiveness, we may need to enter the next level of competition.