According to my observation, many friends have not reached the level of "making good use of the network" for network tools, and they can't manipulate various social media tools at will to serve their personal study, skill development, career development and career expansion. When discussing with friends, I often say recently: "Social media is not just marketing, but a brand-new way of doing things." After reading The Power of Pulling, we can say that this new way of doing things is pulling.
The book "The Power of Pull" is about how to use the "bottom-up" power to activate one's potential and how to mobilize social resources to achieve one's social goals. This book compares the two different ways of doing things: push and pull. Tony Yet's evaluation: a masterpiece about how to work and study better in the era of drastic changes.
"Imagine that you live in a fifth-tier city in China, where there are no universities, no good bookstores and libraries, but there are Internet cafes (or broadband or 3G at home). Does this mean that you must only have the thinking of a countryman and engage in some occupations that your parents may have been engaged in for decades and hundreds of years? " Tony also commented that John Healy Brown, the author of this book, would definitely say, no-if you know the skills of using tension.
"The pull in the title of the book is actually relative to the push, because I still can't find a good Chinese translation, so I use English directly for the time being. Simply put, push is a top-down command, which can be an assignment from the teacher or a task from the boss. Pull refers to a more bottom-up attitude towards work and study and a more positive attitude from the heart. "
The author of "The Power of Pull" believes that we are in an era of drastic changes, and the world is changing from a push model to a pull-dominated world. At the beginning, this book discusses how this trend happened, and then puts forward how we can adapt to this change.
The author's research shows that the era of drastic changes we are in is driven by three waves of great changes:
Technology-driven transformation first acts on hardware equipment and infrastructure built by it. From traditional personal computers to the Internet, from open source hardware to 3D printing, from smart phones to wearable devices, from cloud services to mobile computing, from global satellite positioning to ubiquitous sensors. The appearance of these new devices has changed the infrastructure of our work and life, and brought great influence to the business world, social economy and personal life.
The transformation of infrastructure has lowered the threshold for people to contact and participate in the outside world, and new equipment has improved personal ability.
The change of knowledge flow is reflected in the change from knowledge stock to knowledge flow. One of the authors' PPT elaborated this view in more detail. This change is reflected in the faster flow of capital, skills and knowledge between different regions and industries, and the smaller geographical boundaries and industry boundaries.
With the development of time, institutions and organizations operating in the pull mode, as well as individuals, will win the competition and build a brand-new world. So as to embody institutional innovation as a whole.
The pull mode can act on the individual level, the institutional level and the larger world level. Let's look at six key words of personal development:
Combining these six keywords, we can compare the traditional push mode with the new pull mode.
People can't find their own passion, just wait for others to arrange it. Parents, family and friends gave advice on their studies, so they did as they said. Whether studying or getting a job, we live step by step according to the existing environment, unable to perceive our own advantages and potential, and not trying some new opportunities, let alone actively obtaining some resources to achieve our goals.
It is a positive attitude to master the initiative in life, turn one's enthusiasm for a certain field/thing into a long-term commitment, and then stimulate the personal potential of live high. Through repeated attempts, he can acquire more skills and knowledge, find more opportunities on his own initiative, build a better social network, gradually improve his ability to mobilize social resources, realize the phased goals step by step, and bring impact effects within a certain social radius.
If people can find their passion, they can use the method mentioned in The Power of Pull: expand their career map step by step. This book divides the power of pulling into three levels:
-Access: Free access.
-Attraction: Attraction magnetic field.
-Realization: Unleashing the potential.
Here are some questions in Tony's translated book that can help us think about how to use these strategies.
1. Can you name 50 people who have the same pursuit as you and are the smartest or most accomplished? (No matter where they live)
2. Which of these people are currently in your professional/personal network?
3. How many of them do you work closely together to do one thing, which happens to be a common hobby that both of you are committed to? Or does it reflect your common interests?
4. Are you not ashamed to get in touch with these people and let them do a new action with you, which only reflects your pursuit or interest? How many of them will you try to cooperate with?
5. For these 50 people, have you used social media to enhance mutual understanding and let each other know each other's actions?
1. Is the place where you live now the best place for you to meet people with the same pursuit or interest by chance? (# 1)
2. What are five places in the world where you are most likely to meet people who have the same pursuit or interest as you? Did you often go to these places last year?
Did you have any unexpected experiences on social networks last year? What actions will you take to improve the frequency and quality of these experiences?
1. What is the most noteworthy creative space in your pursuit or interest?
2. Are you active in these creative spaces?
3. Can you be a little more active? Are you just a spectator? Or a person who does things? At what level do you do things? Why are you doing this? Or why not?
If you find that there is no such creative space in your field of interest (really? Are you sure? What methods/approaches/tools can create such a space?
5. If you could choose, which fields would you devote most of your time to? Of all these areas, which is the peak performance you can achieve and which is the most important to you? Will you sacrifice some time in other fields to achieve such a best result?
6. Is this field your current job? If not, what actions can you take to make it your career?
7. In the city where you live, are there many people who are as passionate about something as you?
So TED brings people TEDx, a ready-made global open brand and an open platform, which allows you to play as much as you want. You can visit the global TEDx community and even have the opportunity to attend the conference organized by TED headquarters. This year, many TEDx organizers from Chinese mainland attended the TEDxSummit held in Doha, and gathered with TEDx from all over the world. It can also attract local positive energy, attract speakers, attract volunteers and attract sponsors. The charm magnetic field created by TEDx will make you build a local community with a lower threshold; Organizing TEDx's curatorial experience and cross-border communication atmosphere is a very good creative space.
TEDx provides an open experimental platform, just like a quasi-business incubator, to cultivate the pull ability of aspiring young people.
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#TEDx 100 Questions # At the beginning of organizing activities, we always want everything to be perfect, but we will always encounter many difficulties and changes in the actual process. When every activity is a small entrepreneurial experiment, let's see how far your creativity can go, not just a responsibility and obligation, so that you can experience the fun of curating and enjoy it again and again [making faces] @clementia @TonyYet @ Chinese and Korean Alan @ Lawrence Zhijun @ September verb (65438+1October 65438+.
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Spent a day reading books on lean entrepreneurship. I am very touched. Just say the part that feels slapped after reading it: I think, first, it is most important to make a perfect product; The second is to wait until the product is perfect before throwing it out. Third, with the idea of good products, there will naturally be a good team, and products are more important than teams. All wrong. I was slapped three times and woke up a little. (10 June 13 June 17:50)
20 12 I'm running a new four-year graduate program to help young friends [junior, senior, one year after graduation, two years after graduation] master the initiative in life. This project operates in the form of public welfare, and the volunteers involved in the collaboration come from all over the world.
20 12 1 1 A Mr. Xinsi who joined the new four-year project team sent me an email. She is studying in Europe. In the email, she said in some confusion:
I replied to her and told her not to be in such a hurry and not to position herself in this direction.
I hope everyone can participate in public welfare projects in combination with their own interests, rather than simply doing public welfare. You can imagine the new four years as a mixture of schools and enterprises, where you can do anything you are interested in.
First: decide what to do by yourself.
I'll temporarily put you in the European liaison office for the next four years. I just saw your geographical features, so I sorted them out first. However, if you are interested in a topic and want to study it in depth, then you should do research on a topic. It's entirely up to you whether you want to do European contact or not. When you decide, or change your decision after a while, just remember to tell everyone.
Second: Create your own branch.
Even if the new four-year graduate school has no topics you are interested in now, you can create your own branch. I suggest you set up an agenda. For example, you think museums in Europe are very developed, and you are interested in how museums can be combined with young people's social learning. You can initiate such a topic, discuss the museum operation in Europe and introduce it to mainland friends.
It is very important to find your passion in which field and direction. Not necessarily your major or specific position. It's something you're curious about, want to know, think about every day, and are fascinated by. You can't help spending a lot of time there.
It's not easy to find your passion, you need to keep trying.
Third: use the power of pulling to expand your own branch.
When you find your passion in the new four years and establish your branch here, you can use the power of pulling to expand your branch. After the English version is established in the new four years, you can contact some local institutions in Europe in the name of the new four years. Continue to give the example of the above museum: suppose you want to discuss such a big topic as museums and youth development, you can contact some museums in Europe in this name.
Domestic friends are organizing TEDx activities, Chen Lu is doing CAPE, Berlin is promoting MakeSense in China, and Kenny is making a documentary about global social innovation. These are all examples of pulling. The new four years also hope to develop into an open creative space, where everyone can practice how to make good use of the power of tension.
20 14 On February 9th, a spectacular Cape Meetup was held in Moore Book Bar, Guigang, Guangxi. The theme of this activity is "Push and Pull-Be a Better Self". The organizer explained why this theme was chosen:
After some thinking, we finally decided on the theme of "Push and Pull". "Pushing around" comes from the book "The Power of Pulling" by John Healy Brown, which mainly introduces two different ways of doing things. Push, namely "push/top-down/passive"-is a traditional way of doing things; Pull, namely "pull/bottom-up/initiative"-is a new way of doing things.
As we know, most young people in small towns choose the push lifestyle according to their parents' arrangement, and seldom think about what they like. At the same time, some people who explore on the road can't improve themselves because they can't find resources and information channels. Based on everyone's situation, we hope that through the discussion of push and pull, more young people who have been exploring on the road of push and those who have been following the road of push and want to change can exchange their experiences of self-growth, inject more motivation into themselves, and find ways to solve their own confusion, so as to realize the transformation of push and pull.
Miss @ Wenwen, one of the organizers of the event, recalled:
"Overall, there are many challenges in launching Meetup in Guigang, a fourth-tier city in my hometown. The city of Guigang lacks youth culture and atmosphere, and everyone is worried about whether the first youth activity in such a small town can meet our expectations. Can young people in Guigang accept such activities that are relatively new to them? Fortunately, the result did not disappoint everyone. Even in a small four-tier city, young people have a desire to broaden their horizons, share experiences and get together for warmth, which also shows us the infinite possibilities of this small city. "
In Chinese mainland, a relatively closed society, even if you understand the power of pulling and your passion, it is really not so easy to use the power of pulling flexibly and independently.
At this time, we need to understand a new concept put forward by this book from the perspective of system: creating space for all. The author actually uses this new term to describe a new environment that empowers individuals. The space here is not limited to a certain space in the physical world, but also includes an organization, an institution, a community, websites, societies and so on in the virtual world.
In short, Creation Spaces, as a pull-type platform environment, allows each participant to give full play to his intelligence, change from a simple consumer or employee to a creator, create something, and gain personal growth in the process of creation.
For the youth community, we need to look at the value of the youth community from two aspects: a is the value created by the specific projects and actions of the youth community, whether it is effective, lasting and exquisite; B side is to participate in and practice youth clubs. For young friends, this is a process of learning and growing up. We need to be tolerant of the lively youth club activities and allow young people to make some small impacts on society and bring some big changes to themselves.
For the designers and promoters of youth communities, it is necessary to consider the open mechanism in community development and let community members participate creatively as much as possible. The youth community must become a creative space for everyone to exert their pulling energy.
The Cape of China is an active youth community and a successful creative space. CAPE Meetup is an open action mechanism provided by it, which allows young friends from all over the world to quickly convene theme parties in the local area. @ YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA20011In the summary of the activities of "Visual Sharing Link", we can see their meticulous work in the pre-activity, pre-heating, registration confirmation, extension and labeling. Participating in organizing offline activities can focus on improving the project organization ability of the new four gentlemen.
@ WenWenWen girl said:
"It's really rewarding. Activities are sometimes like products, and participants are like users. At present, the functions and attributes of similar products are actually similar, but good products often shine in details. Paying attention to details in different degrees will also affect users' experience and judgment of products, so I think details are very important. The whole framework can be completed through details, so that participants can see the warmth from a small place. "
We expect more youth communities to design more kinds of activities and projects, so that more new four gentlemen can throw their fists.
Personal development is a long journey. When you understand the power of pulling, you can pursue your personal mission step by step. In the process of action, you will gradually turn your enthusiasm into skills, knowledge and interpersonal capital, which will further enhance your pulling ability and guide you to gradually release your potential.
Imagine yourself as a personal startup, and apply some operating concepts and skills of the startup to personal development.
Act quickly, get used to failure, adjust frequently and persevere.
Hermia Hibala, Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior of Yale University, once put forward the concept of "job identity". She said:
When all kinds of' possible selves' change aimlessly, the only way to change careers is to turn our possible identities into reality, and then constantly forge them until our accumulated practical experience is rich enough to guide us to take more decisive actions. According to this idea, the key way to successfully change a person's career is to create experimental opportunities, change the network of relationships and explain the changes we are experiencing.
It is useless to plan an idealized road for everything, because in many cases, that idealized road does not exist. As the saying goes, haste makes waste. Even better, after you have a general vision and blueprint, you should start to act immediately and try it bit by bit. It doesn't matter if you fail temporarily. Adjust a direction and continue to try and act. If you persist in this way for a long time, you will eventually gain something.