Today’s people’s identities are complex and diverse, and many people have multiple identities. An excellent singer may also be an excellent designer or writer, the CEO of a company may also be a speaker, or Visiting professor at the school. Cross-borders have become commonplace, and slashes follow. He tells us that everyone can use their own advantages to do something they like after work and get extra rewards. They can even become freelancers and get rid of the trend. The rigid nine-to-five life relies on different skills to earn income and achieve financial freedom. What is a slash youth? The term "slash youth" first appeared in the 2007 book "Multiple Careers: A New Model for Dual Success in Work and Life" by New York Times columnist Mahi Elbor. It refers to a group of people who are no longer satisfied with the lifestyle of "one occupation" and choose a diverse life with multiple occupations and identities. It represents a new development strategy, namely "horizontal diversified development". According to one's own interests and advantages, one can choose to develop in multiple directions and obtain multiple incomes. In the new era, more and more young people have choices to pursue in China. Especially with the rapid development of the Internet industry, more people can use the Internet platform to show their interests and talents. In my opinion, although this term is a new term, in fact famous figures in history, such as Leonardo da Vinci and Marx, are all typical slash youths. Speaking of Leonardo da Vinci, he was not only a painter, astronomer, architect, and inventor, he was also good at sculpting music, and he was also well versed in mathematics, physics, physiology, geology and other subjects. According to current parlance, he was a typical slash youth . Marx also had multiple careers and practices. In his youth, Marx was an ideological scholar, newspaper editor, and critical scholar. After he resigned from his job as editor of the Rheinische Zeitung in 1843, he seemed to be working as a freelancer. In fact, he used a large number of He spent his time studying and researching, and at the same time he also entered the palace of marriage. During their honeymoon, Marx and his wife had a baby. At the same time, he also gave birth to a great ideological achievement, which was historical materialism, which laid a solid foundation for him to later become a thinker, philosopher, politician, and revolutionary. Nowadays, "slash youth" are everywhere. Among public figures, for example, Xu Jinglei is an actor, a director, and a magazine editor. Now she makes handmade bags and has become a craftsman; in the Internet circle, Li Xiaolai is a typical slash Young man, famous GRE teacher, best-selling author, Internet player, the richest man in Bitcoin, and a master of group economics.

So why do we want to cross borders? In my opinion there are three main reasons. The first is that only focusing on one area can easily limit our vision and imprison our thinking. Major breakthroughs in one field often require knowledge and skills in other fields, and only interdisciplinary people can have this advantage. For example, the emergence of electric vehicles in recent years can be said to be the most disruptive technological revolution in the automotive field, breaking the original industrial structure. The capital media has never stopped pursuing how electric vehicles were originally invented. Here we must mention an electric car brand called Tesla. Many people think that the founder of Tesla is Iron Man Elon Musk. In fact, this is not the case. Its founder is Martin Eberhard. The reason why Tesla was founded was because he was both a sports car fan and an environmentalist, so he came up with the idea of ??inventing an environmentally friendly electric car. Another example is Li Wanqiang, co-founder of Xiaomi. His transition from designer to business elite was largely due to cross-border development. And Steve Jobs also combined technology with aesthetics and art design. Have you ever found that people who have cross-border thinking are more likely to succeed in their products or business models?

Secondly, if you don’t like your current job, becoming a slasher across borders is also a good way to supplement your work. Not everyone has the opportunity to find a job they like, and many people actually don’t know what their interests and strengths are when they first start working. After working for a few years, they finally know When you are suitable for what you do, you are often unable to move due to various pressures in life. At this time, becoming a slash across borders is a good choice. You can make money at work and do what you are good at and like after get off work. If you can develop yourself The two-dimensional curve can become your second career, and you may also get an extra income.

The third is that having multiple skills is a protective mechanism for our career development in uncertain times. One of the most important characteristics of today's era is rapid and unfathomable development. The emergence of a wave of technologies, such as artificial intelligence, may completely eliminate many people from their jobs. At the same time, it will also bring many opportunities and opportunities. Challenges and opportunities are always full of favor, and those who are prepared to stock up on new skills in advance can not only avoid career crises caused by the technological revolution, but also have the opportunity to rise quickly in the wind. You might as well observe those people around you who have become slash youth, and you will find that some of them have strong self-control. After a long period of self-investment, they have accumulated value and have some core competitiveness, so their ability to resist risks will naturally improve. More powerful. Since having cross-border thinking is so important, how can we successfully cross-border? In my opinion, cross-border is not called cross-border if you learn a new skill. You have to be able to influence people who are better than you. This is called successful cross-border. You have to know that there is a world outside the sky, and there are people outside the world. There are too many people in this world who are better than us. How do you influence them? Two words, cross-border. If you want to be successful, crossing boundaries depends on you knowing more than others. There are some things that others don't understand, but you not only understand them, but you also know them very well and are very good at them. Only in this way can you successfully cross boundaries.

Let’s talk about a cross-border rule called axb. So what is a? a Your original industry, for example, you are a teacher, then a means that you have rich knowledge in the field of teachers. What does x mean? x means cross-border. The b in axb is the new industry you are entering, such as the Internet industry. For example, how do you influence people like Teacher Guo Degang who have higher potential than you? You can use axb to influence him. Although Mr. Guo is number one in the cross talk field, he may not be very familiar with the Internet. You can use your professional knowledge in the Internet field to guide him on how to move offline cross talk online. Through online amplification of his personal influence, and how to maximize the value of his offline paying users. You see, as a small teacher, it would be difficult for you to influence a big figure like Mr. Guo Degang, but if you can use a cross-border approach to re-empower him in a field that he does not understand, you may be able to If it affects him, this is called a successful crossover.

? So how can we truly achieve cross-border fields through our own choices? Two-dimensional curves are actually a new field of crossover. I wonder if you have thought about the direction of your own two-dimensional curves? First let’s talk about trends. Lei Jun has a famous saying, "If you stand on the wind, a pig can fly into the sky." You might as well imagine that those who made the first pot of gold are those who keep up with the trends of the times and can seize the opportunity? For example, those who work in micro-business, especially the leaders of large teams, basically saw the trend in 2012 or 2013 when micro-business just appeared, so they got involved in this industry. There was also payment for knowledge. It was really easy to do popular courses at that time, and you could make a small fortune. Follow the general trend of the times, and you will be the next one to make money. Let me mention a word here, window of opportunity? It means that the time difference from when you know it to when others know it is the window of opportunity, so when you grasp this window of opportunity, you can be one step ahead of others and ten thousand steps ahead of others. Therefore, when you choose a cross-border field, you must learn to judge whether your field is in line with the current trends of the times, so that there will be more opportunities. Secondly, seizing the opportunities of the times is only one aspect. The second aspect must also be in line with your own life blueprint. What is a life blueprint? A blueprint is the blueprint for building a house. Everyone knows that when we build a house, we don't just build it directly if we want to. Instead, we have to spend a lot of time studying whether the drawing is feasible. It is easy for you to think that when we build the building of our own lives, we actually also need a drawing to guide us. In the future, we must build ourselves in the right direction in order to achieve the most satisfactory results. Effect. The so-called life blueprint is that when you determine how to live this life well, the premise is to create a life blueprint for yourself, because you don’t know what pitfalls you are about to encounter in life, and what kind of pitfalls you may encounter in the future. Problems, where are your ceilings, where are your bottlenecks, where are your opportunities, and you may encounter many difficult paths in the future.

Therefore, this drawing is very critical. At the same time, the blueprint will continue to change with its development, so it is not a once-and-for-all move. It requires us to remain sensitive at all times and iterate step by step.

? So how should the life blueprint be designed specifically? Please remember three sentences. First, who am I? Second, what problem was solved, and third, what method was provided? First of all, who am I? Who are you for? You have to do it for those who are similar to you. For example, I am a very hard-working person. I will still work hard after I enter the workplace. I will definitely be able to influence that group of people. I think similar people influence similar people. Then they are all people who can work hard every day to achieve a better version of themselves. The second point is called What problem is solved? This is what is the problem you are solving at what social level? Why are you needed by others? What important pain points can you help society solve? There are two words mentioned here, pain points. I think it is very important. What are pain points? For example, if you can't get up in the morning, this is your pain point. Repeatedly thinking about things you can't do or that you can do at a discount is the pain point itself. What method does point 3 provide? This is your investment in learning and your personal methodology for solving problems. Then this method can be your own method, or it can be using other people's methods to help others solve problems. The above are the three steps for building our life blueprint. I hope that everyone will redesign a life blueprint for themselves after listening to the class. So back to our topic of cross-border, in addition to judging whether it conforms to the trend of the times, we also need to judge whether it conforms to our own life blueprint.

So how do we enter a new field and become a top expert? , successfully became a slash youth? There are four steps here. The first is to establish an overall cognitive framework for the new field. What should we do? The first method is to learn to learn from others. If you say what method is used to grow the fastest, I will tell you without hesitation that learning from others is the fastest. When you cross over into a new field, you must first learn from the best experts in this field. Here The experts are not those with doctorates or professorships, but professionals and veterans in the industry. You need to consult them. Their framework understanding of the entire field has accumulated many years of valuable practical experience. Experience is much more efficient than spending time alone to explore.

? The second method is to learn to read. If you can't find the corresponding expert, you can also solve the problem by reading books. However, I have two suggestions for reading books: First, choose books with simple content but broad coverage, because what we want to establish is an overall cognitive framework, not in-depth study, so you don’t need to read books that are too profound. Think about your To learn about a new field, choose some introductory books. The second is to read at least three books. If you read one book, it will often be very limited, so it is recommended that you read at least three books. This is very important. Then don’t look at the same author, so that we can complement each other’s content through different data, different perspectives, and different comparisons to build a corresponding and complete framework for you.

? Method three, attend some training meetings or industry meetings. In addition to consulting experts and reading books on your own, you can also participate in some training. You can apply many training resources from online to offline. Choose the content of the training based on the actual situation. You can choose a systematic one to help you gain a complete understanding. In addition, at industry conferences you can experience the collision of ideas between different experts.

? Method four, walking with strength, is a supplement to the first three methods. We walk, talk with local people, listen to others' sharing, find our own shortcomings, and continuously improve our own strength. When we learn a large amount of knowledge and can summarize the rules, we can have rules to follow. Therefore, if you want to make a difference in a certain field, especially in an unfamiliar field, the first thing you have to do is to understand all the relevant fields that you can understand, and expose yourself to a "enough amount". The second is comparison and migration, comparing and reusing previous knowledge and experience.

When you enter a new field, an easy mistake to make is to either copy your past experience mechanically, or to learn from scratch for a complete novice. We should have the correct method and sort out our own experience. The overall framework is to see what content you are unknown about, what content you have already mastered, and what content you have fully mastered. Only in this way can you determine what you don’t need to learn to save time, what you want to learn, and what content you have a clear learning direction. Which ones need you to relearn. The third is to practice a lot and apply what you have learned to the maximum extent. How to do this? The first way is to organize your writing. You need to transform what you have learned into your own opinions, and you can export your opinions through writing so as to teach them to others and guide them. ?Method two is knowledge sharing. When you can successfully guide others to stand from the perspective and height of a master, you will be familiar with this skill. If you still have a partial understanding of a knowledge point, you simply cannot explain your knowledge point clearly to others. In the same way, when you have not mastered this skill at all and you cannot answer other people's questions, how can you teach this skill to others? In the classroom, students represent the input of learning. Compared to the teacher, the teacher represents the output. If the teacher is unclear in his field, then naturally any student in the classroom will If you ask him a question, he may not be able to answer it. Without solid input, there is no way to adjust the output clearly. In the same way, some students are called academic masters, while some people deride themselves as academic scumbags. When we ask the academic masters questions, they can always answer your questions quickly, or even more The author immediately gave different solutions and finally chose the fastest one. At the same time, for top academics, this means a solid output after input, and at the same time, this output once again consolidates what one has learned. Method 3: Speech and communicate with others. During the speech process, we convey our thoughts, opinions and practical results to others through language, words and gestures. For example, when we are preparing a speech, we will clearly write down the outline of the speech, which will clearly list the specific content we want to output, the ideas we want to convey, and the ways to deal with problems. Through the speech, It is also one of the effective ways to test our learning results. Buffett once said that he is very grateful to those large-scale speeches he gave in his 20s and 30s. His ability to communicate with others and his speech skills were the greatest treasures he gained in life during this period. Not only did his theoretical achievements With the system, he can pass it on to more people, and he can improve his speaking skills. Many successful people will outline and practice their speeches before giving speeches. Their speeches are the conclusions drawn from their own practice. During the speech process, they will repeatedly pass on those theoretical results to others. audience, allowing them to accept the knowledge and methodologies in this field.

? Through the above three steps, our learning will start from the collection and organization of knowledge, through our own digestion and absorption, and then further processing and output. By constantly supplementing the shortcomings of knowledge, in this Continue to explore basic skills in the industry. But that's not enough. You have to consciously do one thing over and over again, and find out the tricks that others don't know through diligent study and practice. Only then can you become proficient in it and become a master in this field. We all know the story of the oil seller. When the oil seller was selling oil, he could make the oil pass through the money eye and put it into the oil tank without leaking. Some people even didn't even get a drop around the money eye in the end. Oil. The oil seller can achieve this level, there are only 4 words: practice makes perfect. So if you want to become a novice in a certain field, the last step you have to do is to practice deliberately.

? What is deliberate practice? This concept was first proposed by an American psychologist. Many people cannot imagine what this psychologist actually studied. He has been dedicated to analyzing experts in different industries for decades, such as chess. Masters, top violinists, as well as sports stars, memory experts, outstanding doctors and so on.

Later, he discovered that no matter what industry he was in, effective ways to improve skills all followed a series of universal rules. He called this method deliberate practice. Deliberate practice is very important to everyone who hopes to improve themselves in the industry. It works.