What is a career bottleneck? The so-called career bottleneck is actually a period of development stagnation in which one's own conditions and external environment cannot be changed in one's career. It is called a bottleneck, just like a bottle. When you walk from the bottom of the bottle to the mouth of the bottle, you meet a place that suddenly narrows. Although it has suddenly narrowed, it seems that the choice has suddenly decreased, but it is not without choice. At the same time, as long as we keep moving forward, sooner or later we will break the bottleneck and seek a breakthrough. So how to deal with it specifically?

First of all, we must accept the status quo and find the right direction. When we unconsciously go to a strange place, all negative emotions such as fear and anxiety can't actually bring us to the familiar road. Faced with this situation, many people's strategy is to be an ostrich, pretend that they are still in a familiar place, and do things step by step, which will not help them break through the bottleneck. What we need is to accept the reality that we have entered the "bottleneck period" and "confusion period" and seriously think about our future development direction.

Secondly, we should explore for ourselves and make an inventory. People who "only pull the car with their heads down and don't look up at the road" don't know what they are good at. At this time, they need to deepen their understanding of themselves. Find an undisturbed time and quiet place, and make a detailed inventory of your professional and general abilities. Know yourself clearly, what advantages and disadvantages you have, how to further develop your advantages and form your core competitiveness; How to make up or avoid disadvantages, so as not to become your own "short board".

The second is to raise interest and challenge. For people who have been in the workplace for ten years, one thing to be wary of is that you think you have ten years of work experience, but in fact you have spent ten years with one year of experience ... When all your work becomes step by step and everything is absent-minded, what to be wary of is-is the work I am doing ok or hard? Do I meet the highest standards in this industry and this position? Is my "familiarity with business and step by step" caused by my low goal? At this time, you need to find a "benchmark", a leader in this field or industry as your role model, and let yourself try whether you can meet or exceed his standards.

Finally, broaden your horizons and make a breakthrough: if a person "lowers his head to pull a rickshaw" for ten years, his horizons will certainly be affected, and his development opportunities will also be affected to a certain extent, at least with limitations. In this case, what you need is to broaden your horizons and spend a little time and resources to find the answers to these questions:

Where have all the people who were comparable to you ten years ago gone now? If they get promoted or start a business, what is the reason for their promotion?

Apart from "rich experience", what other factors give you advantages in your current job? If so, how to further develop it? What resources have you accumulated over the years? Under what circumstances can these resources directly help your development?

It doesn't matter if you can't think of the answers to these questions at the moment. Going out and finding more people to understand cross-professional, cross-industry, cross-enterprise and cross-border communication will make you more aware of your strengths and find out where your current problems are, thus breaking your career bottleneck and entering the next stage of career development.