Nowadays, people have various identities, and many people have multiple identities. An excellent singer may be an excellent designer or writer, the CEO of a company may be an orator, or a visiting professor of a school. Cross-border has become a common practice, followed by slashes. He told us that everyone can make use of their own advantages to do something they like after work and get extra rewards. They can even become freelancers, get rid of the rigid life of nine to five, rely on different skills to earn income and achieve financial freedom.
What is slash youth? The word "slash youth" first appeared in The New York Times columnist Marcy Erbol's book "Multiple careers: a new model of double success in work and life" in 2007. Refers to a group of people who no longer meet the lifestyle of "single occupation" and choose a diversified life with multiple occupations and identities. It represents a new development strategy, namely "horizontal diversified development". According to their own interests and advantages, choose multiple directions to develop and get multiple benefits.
In the new era, China has chosen to pursue more and more young people. 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 word is a new word, in fact, famous figures in history, such as Leonardo da Vinci and Marx, are typical slash youths.
So why are we crossing the border? In my opinion, there are three main reasons.
First of all, it is easy to limit our horizons and confine our thinking to one field.
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A major breakthrough in one field often requires knowledge and skills in other fields, and only interdisciplinary talents have this advantage. For example, the emergence of electric vehicles in recent years can be said to be the most subversive technological revolution in the automotive field, breaking the original industrial structure. The pursuit of capital media has never stopped. How was the electric car first invented?
There is an electric car brand called Tesla. Many people think that the founder of Tesla is Iron Man Elon Musk, but it is not. Its founder is Martin eberhard. He founded Tesla because he was both a sports car fan and an environmentalist, so he had the idea of inventing an environmentally friendly electric car.
Another example is Li Wanqiang, the co-founder of Xiaomi, who went from a designer to a business elite, largely benefited from cross-border. There is also Jobs, which is also an artistic design combining technology and aesthetics. Have you found that people who usually have cross-border thinking are more likely to succeed in their products or business models?
Second, if you don't like your current job, diagonal lines across borders are also a good way to supplement it.
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Not everyone has a chance to find a job they like. Many people actually don't know where their interests and advantages are when they start working. After working for several years, when they finally know what they are suitable for, they are often unable to move because of the pressure of various lives. At this time, it is a good choice to make a cross-border slash. Earn money at work and do what you are good at and like after work. If you can develop your own two-dimensional curve, it will be yours.
The third is that having multiple skills is the protection mechanism for our career development in uncertain times.
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One of the most important features of today's era is its rapid development and unfathomable. The emergence of a wave of technologies, such as artificial intelligence, may make many people disappear completely from their posts, but it will also bring many opportunities and challenges, and opportunities are always full of favor. People who are prepared in advance to reserve new skills can not only avoid the professional crisis brought about by the technological revolution, but also have the opportunity to rise rapidly in the air. Let's observe those people who become slash youths around us, and we will find that some of them have strong self-control. After a long period of self-investment, they have some core competitiveness, so their ability to resist risks will naturally be stronger.
Since it is so important to have cross-border thinking, how can we successfully cross the border?
In my opinion, if you learn a new skill, crossing the border is not called crossing the border. If you can influence people who are better than you, it is called successful cross-border. You know, the sky is behind us and people are outside us. There are too many people in this world who are better than us. How do you influence them? In two words, if you want to cross the border successfully, you must know more than others, and some things others don't understand, but you not only know, but also know clearly, so that you can cross the border successfully.
So how can we truly cross the border through our own choices?
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In the first section, we talked about two-dimensional curves, which is actually a new field for you to cross the border. I wonder if you have ever thought about your own two-dimensional curve direction? I usually open my own two-dimensional and three-dimensional curves across borders, and I will judge them by these two factors: one is to see if they conform to the current trend, and the other is to see if they conform to my own blueprint for life.
First, let's talk about trends. Lei Jun has a famous saying that pigs can fly to the sky when standing on the tuyere. You might as well imagine that the people who earned the first bucket of gold are all people who keep up with the trend of the times and can seize the wind. For example, those people in the WeChat business, especially the big team leaders, are basically in 12? 13 years, wechat business just appeared, they saw the trend, so they engaged in this industry. And knowledge.
Grasping the opportunity of the times is only one aspect, and the second aspect should also conform to your own blueprint for life.
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This is another new word. What is the blueprint of life? Blueprints are blueprints for building houses. As we all know, when we build a house, we don't want to build it directly, but we have to spend a lot of time studying whether this drawing is feasible. Then it is easy for you to think that we actually need a drawing to guide us when building our own life building, and whether we can build ourselves in the right direction in the future can achieve the most satisfactory results.
So how should the blueprint of life be designed? Please remember three sentences. First, who am I for? Second, what problems have been solved, and third, what methods have been provided?
First of all, who am I for? Who do you support? You must support people like you. For example, I am a very hard worker. I will still work hard after the workplace. I'm sure I can influence those people. I think the same kind affects the same kind, so they are all people who can work hard every day in order to achieve a better self.
The second point is what problem has been solved? This is the social level you are aiming at. What's the problem? Why do people need you? What important pain points can you help the society solve? Here are two words, pain point, which I think is very important. What is the pain point? For example, if you can't get up early, this thing is the pain point, and the discount you repeatedly want to fail or continue to do is the pain point itself.
What method does the third point provide? This is the methodology that you personally put into learning and solving problems, so this method can be your own method or help others solve problems in other people's way.
These are the three steps to build our life blueprint. I hope you can redesign your life blueprint after class. So back to the topic of cross-border, I just said, in addition to judging whether it conforms to the trend of the times, we should also judge whether it conforms to our own blueprint for life, right?
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Well, we have finished the research in the cross-border field, so how can we enter a new field, become a top player and successfully become a slash youth?
There are four steps. The first is to establish an overall cognitive framework for new fields. What should we do?
One way is to learn to take people as teachers. If you ask me what is the fastest way to grow, I will not hesitate to tell you that learning from others is the fastest. When you cross into a new field, you should first learn from the best experts in this field. The experts here are not those with doctorates or professorships, but professionals and veterans in the industry. You should consult them. They have accumulated many years of valuable practical experience in understanding the framework in the whole field, which is more efficient than spending time alone.
The second way is to learn to read. If you can't find the corresponding experts, you can also solve it by reading books. However, I have two suggestions for reading: first, choose books with simple content but wide coverage, because we need to build an overall cognitive framework instead of in-depth study and research, so we don't need to read too profound books. If you want to think about a new field you want to know, you can 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 very important to suggest that you read at least three books. Then don't look at the same author, so that we can complement each other through different data, different perspectives and different comparisons, and build your corresponding complete framework.
Method 3: Attend some training meetings or industry meetings. In addition to consulting experts and reading books with themselves, you can also participate in some training, and many training resources can be applied from online to offline. Choose the content of training according to the actual situation, you can choose the systematic one, which can help you understand the whole picture. In addition, you can feel the thinking collision between different experts at industry meetings.
Method four, walking is powerful, which is a supplement to the first three methods. I like to use cultural experience to increase our knowledge. We talk to local people by walking, listen to others and find out our own shortcomings, so as to constantly improve our own strength.
When we learn a lot of knowledge and can sum up the rules, we will have rules to follow. Therefore, if you want to make a difference in a certain field, especially in a strange field, the first thing you have to do is to know all the relevant fields that you can understand, so that you can get in touch with "sufficient quantity".
The second is the comparative migration and reuse of previous knowledge and experience.
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When you enter a new field, it is easy to make a mistake, that is, either mechanically copy past experience or learn from scratch. We should have the right methods, sort out our overall framework, and see what we don't know, what we have mastered and what we have fully mastered, so as to determine what we don't need to learn, save time, what you want to learn and which have a clear learning direction.
The third is to practice a lot and apply what you have learned to the maximum extent. What exactly should we do?
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The first method is to organize writing. You should turn what you have learned into your own opinions, and you can teach and guide others by writing and outputting your own opinions. In fact, many of my theories are not only my own, but also obtained through practical experience in a large number of people.
The second method is knowledge sharing. When you can successfully guide others to stand on the master's point of view and height, then you can use this skill to reach a familiar level. If you still have a little knowledge about a certain knowledge point, you can't explain it clearly to others at all. Similarly, when you don't master this skill at all, you can't answer other people's doubts. How can you teach this skill to others?
Method 3: Give a speech and communicate with others. During the speech, we convey our ideas and practical effects to others through language, words and gestures. For example, when preparing a speech, we will clearly write down the outline of the speech, and the outline will clearly list the specific content we want to output, the ideas we want to convey and the ways and means to deal with the problems. Oral English is also one of the effective ways to test our learning achievements.
Many successful people will make a speech outline and practice it repeatedly before giving a speech. Their speeches are based on their own practice and conclusions. In the process of speaking, they will repeatedly pass on those theoretical achievements to the audience, so that they can accept this knowledge and methodology.
Through the above three steps, we will collect and sort out our knowledge, digest and absorb it ourselves, and then further process and output it. After constantly supplementing the shortcomings of knowledge, we will continue to explore the basic skills of this industry. But even this would not be enough You have to consciously do one thing over and over again, and discover the tricks that others don't know in the process of diligent study and hard practice, and finally you can be handy and become a master in this field.
So if you want to be a novice in a certain field, then the last step you have to do is called deliberate practice. This is the law of life and economy that I learned from the best-selling book "Deliberately Practice How to Learn from Novice Masters".
What is deliberate practice? This concept was first put forward by an American psychologist. Many people can't imagine what the psychologist has studied. For decades, he has been devoted to analyzing experts in different fields, such as chess masters, top violinists, sports stars, memory masters, outstanding doctors and so on. Later, he found that no matter what kind of industry, all effective methods to improve skills follow a series of universal laws. He called this method deliberate practice, which is very useful for everyone who wants to improve themselves in the industry.
Well, that's all for today.
To sum up, I first talked about why we should cross the border. Secondly, I talked about how to cross successfully. Sister Meng teaches you a rule called axb cross-border rule, through which you can influence people with higher potential than you. Then I talked about how to choose the cross-border field by yourself, and I need to judge whether the first is in line with the trend of the times and the second is in line with my own life blueprint. Finally, when we determine the cross-border field and enter a new field, there are four steps for a novice to become an expert. First of all, we establish our own framework of cognitive theory; Secondly, compare and transfer, and repeatedly compare and reuse previous knowledge and experience; Third, practice a lot and apply what you have learned to the maximum extent; Fourth, deliberately practice to build a mature industry, so that you can master a new skill and become a qualified slash youth.
Old knowledge: it is best to engage in only one occupation or career in your life.
New knowledge: people who no longer meet the lifestyle of "single occupation" and choose a diversified life with multiple occupations and identities. It represents a new development strategy, namely "horizontal diversified development". According to their own interests and advantages, choose multiple directions to develop and get multiple benefits.
Action goal: From the collection and arrangement of knowledge, through our own digestion and absorption, and then further processing and output, we will continue to explore the basic skills of this industry by constantly supplementing the shortcomings of knowledge. But even this would not be enough You have to consciously do one thing over and over again, and discover the tricks that others don't know in the process of diligent study and hard practice, and finally you can be handy and become a master in this field.