How to position yourself as interested and capable of making good choices and making correct efforts?
I can't avoid "should I choose a career I am good at or a career I like?" This question.
Career choice is one of the important decisions that people must make in their lives. If they want to succeed, they need to make proper efforts and make the right choice. Correct career choice is closely related to people's future career achievements, their satisfaction with their careers and the happiness they experience from their lives.
These choices not only have personal significance, but also have social value. In the global competition, effective use of human resources can achieve positive national economic development. This means that in an ideal situation, talented people should be supported and encouraged to give full play to their personal strengths during their study, on-the-job training and later life, so that happiness will come more easily when their work content is consistent with their personal abilities and tendencies (personality and interests).
The end of the college entrance examination is another graduation season. When I arrived in July, my nephews and nieces who graduated from universities in other provinces took advantage of their holidays. To put it mildly, they asked me for help in career planning (in fact, they went to Kunming for the summer vacation) and talked to me about their dreams and things they were interested in.
Several friends who opened books to help Kunming Spring City steer also came to consult. "I changed seven jobs in five years. I don't like my present job under the epidemic situation. I don't think I'm interested in it. I have started "blue thin mushrooms". What should I do? " .
In fact, everyone's questions point to two core factors: ability and tendency. Ability corresponds to being good at it, and tendency corresponds to liking it. Faced with two seemingly abstract concepts, "Do what you are good at or what you like? It has been dismantled one by one, and its main points have been analyzed and sorted out one by one according to importance and priority.
Compared with other similar books, the content of this book is based on the author's research results for many years, and it has a solid and reliable theoretical foundation, self-evaluation questionnaires, action suggestions and other practical tools that can be used immediately, so as to comprehensively enhance learners' competitiveness in the workplace.
Adhering to the spirit of "opening books is beneficial", I called the first few people to my studio and opened books directly on the spot. Want to know each other? Come to the scene to open a book class to help split the rudder, so that you can turn the knowledge in the book into your own ability without reading!
There are graduates on the scene, facing the vacillation between the career suggested by their families and their own ideas; There are also people who have worked hard for several years, but gradually find that this job is more and more unsuitable for them; Some people also want to spend their energy outside work, hoping to find a sideline that suits them. To put it bluntly, it is to get out of the confusion period and avoid entering the wrong line, thus enhancing the competitiveness of the workplace.
On the positive side, we look at what the author said from these three aspects:
Therefore, based on the current research situation, we can temporarily make the following judgments on the relationship between cognitive talent and inclination (interest):
Relevance is usually weak, and it is only moderately relevant in rare cases: as people get older, many people are often not interested in what they are good at.
But there are exceptions, such as in (natural) scientific research and logic-arithmetic and spatial intelligence, the consistency of ability and tendency has shown an increasing trend among adults. But even in this respect, the correlation between the two is still weak among people under the age of 20, showing a crisis of mismatch between ability and inclination.
Because the initial decision about career path is often made when people are young. People in this period know less about their talents and abilities, and are often interested in areas that they are not very good at.
Seeing this passage, the friend of the graduate student said: This is unreasonable. I thought "interest is the best teacher", but what I am interested in is the most important. ...
My partner, who worked for several years, said, it's true. Just graduated before, I think I should find a counterpart and a good job, because I am interested in choosing a major. It turns out that school exams and internships are still not obvious. After working for 2 or 3 years, I was always told by my leaders and colleagues that I was slow to learn, but I was always unable to learn well. ...
Slash partner who wants to do sideline business said: I am very good at my present job. It's not my favorite, but it's still very comfortable to do. I just want to pursue my own interests. Is it possible? ...
Have you ever found that the boys above have different voices in the face of good and favorite choices because of their different age stages? The younger you are, the easier it is to follow your own interests first; With the increase of age and experience, most people are not interested in what they are good at because they have been doing it for a long time.
Think about it: is it better to achieve average success in your career than to make rapid progress in your career? As far as happiness is concerned, even moderate success is better than unhappiness.
It can be seen that the mathematical formula of early interest: $ \ne $ is good at it; The correlation between ability and inclination is often inconsistent. Of course, don't deny that you are interested = good at it, which will be discussed later. In this paper, talent refers to the ability we are good at, and tendency refers to our personality and interest.
That is to say:
Ability: refers to a person's talent;
Tendency: including personality characteristics and hobbies.
How to confirm your talents, abilities and tendencies? In the book, the author gives three scientific tests of talent, personality and interest. Partners interested in this article can buy a book to test it. The author also gives a personal website (aljoscha-neubauer.com) for self-test.
Through self-test, you can distinguish your own field, and then carry out corresponding and preliminary career choice exploration.
When "ability and inclination don't match", the career will be less successful and may even lead to a lack of happiness in the career; Only when our abilities and tendencies are consistent (at least not the opposite) with the career we are pursuing can we achieve better career success.
It can be seen that knowing your own abilities and tendencies is more conducive to developing your satisfactory career.
Hearing this, the small partners of the on-site graduates have a more calm thinking about their initial rhetoric; Partners who have worked for several years have also re-examined their careers; The partners who work hard have also found the key to know themselves.
The partner raised an interesting question: What if you have worked for several years or find that you are not good at what you like or are good at?
Take a look at this passage in the book:
Hans mentioned in chapter 1 and astrid mentioned in the previous chapter made the wrong career and major choices at first, which are related to two aspects. First of all, neither of them is good at evaluating their talents and potentials. Hans didn't realize his lack of spatial imagination or his high language talent. Astrid, on the other hand, is in the opposite situation: she mistakenly thinks that she has a talent for languages, but she doesn't know that she is outstanding in logic, arithmetic and space. In both cases, they didn't get feedback about their advantages from their teachers or people around them.
The case of astrid and Hans is not unique, because we and others often make mistakes when judging what we are good at. In the worst case, this will lead us to be interested in training and careers that we may not be good at.
In life, most people really know that they are "Hans and astrid" in the article. Why do we know so little about ourselves? This is because we all have our own "blind spots". The so-called "blind spot" refers to our own characteristics, talents and personality characteristics that we are not aware of, while others (such as friends and even strangers) can know ourselves better than us.
When I opened a book to help Kunming Spring City steer, many of my disciples would say one thing when they met me for the first time: Sister Fan, how do you know me so well? We just had a chat ...
In fact, this is a "blind spot" that everyone will encounter. If you don't know your abilities and tendencies, it's hard to know your "blind spots".
How to narrow your "blind spot" and avoid self-awareness leading to career and participation in ineffective learning (all kinds of training that makes you look hard)?
1. Assess talent and potential
You can use this book to test yourself, ask professionals for help, or open it to help us grow together. Narrow the "blind area" and enhance self-awareness through learning and feedback from others.
2. Objective comprehensive selection
The premise of adult learning is to solve the problems faced. Only by multi-party verification and scientific and objective evaluation of one's abilities and tendencies can one choose a growth model that is more suitable for one's own. Considering the input-output ratio will make your choice more rational. For example, teaching others what you have learned before making the next choice, and thinking about who to teach before choosing will make your choice more orderly.
3. Practical suggestions for action
"After listening to a lot of truth, it's still not good" because it hasn't been put into practice. When I found a professional and gave 360-degree feedback to the people around me, but I didn't move, the advice given by others =0. You don't know if you can really do it without trying, so professional advice must be practiced to know whether it is true or not.
Finally, I will give you "Do what you are good at, or what you like?" ? "10 tips, these ten suggestions must be collected and practiced:
Suggestion 1: You don't have to like it first, you can practice it several times, and if you have the conditions, you can attend several university courses for reference;
Recommendation 2: Deliberately practice and set the practice cycle, and the power of time cannot be ignored;
Recommendation 3: think backwards, exclude completely intolerable industries and occupations, and try the rest;
Recommendation 4: rationally analyze the objections and social concepts of people around you and make good use of resource advantages;
Recommendation 5: repeat hypothetical analysis: give up some wishes and hobbies, will you regret it for a lifetime?
Suggestion 6: Pay attention to "agency bias" to avoid overestimating yourself and leading to blindness;
Suggestion 7: put yourself in the position of "magic mirror", evaluate other people's opinions and narrow the blind spot;
Recommendation 8: summarize in time, turn the attempt into experience and strive for perfection;
Recommendation 9: Expand information sources, solicit opinions from people from five different dimensions, and compare them with their chosen occupations;
Suggestion 10: check the target objectively, keep a correct attitude and adhere to mindfulness.
Don't underestimate your talent. In the Internet age, the battle for outstanding talents has not stopped, but has changed from "talent war" to "talent war". It is said that some recruitment companies have been able to track the traces left by a person on the Internet and draw conclusions about this person's intelligence, emotional ability, personality and a series of other personality characteristics based on basic scientific knowledge. Obviously, a person's language and vocabulary habits can accurately judge his personality characteristics. Behind social media analysis is a broader effort, the most fashionable big data analysis method, looking for signs of specific talents from short interview videos: like language and voice, facial expressions will be carefully examined in this process.
It can be seen that nothing is more exciting than knowing what you are suitable for, or finding that you should choose a completely different path from what you thought before. Strengthen your thinking about yourself and pay attention to your natural abilities and tendencies. We should not only protect biological species, but also protect the diversity of human personality.
Do what you are good at or what you like? It provides a scientific theoretical basis for graduates, confused people and sideline entrepreneurs to understand their natural abilities and personal interests, and at the same time teaches us to position ourselves with interests and abilities, so as to make good choices and correct efforts. Welcome to write down your experience in the comment area to jointly improve the competitiveness of the workplace.