To the newcomers in the workplace: If you don't throw away these three kinds of student thinking, your career path will become narrower and narrower
Are you still a student in the workplace?
"Why does the leader always assign me a lot of work? Does he hate me?"
"I graduated from a prestigious university, why didn't the leaders hand over important work to me? Is he blind?"
"This problem has never been seen before. I should find enough information first, and then do it. It must be solved perfectly!"
You might think this is a normal complaint, but I'm telling you, it's all childish student thinking.
In the workplace, many newcomers and fresh graduates are still doing things with student thinking, but they don't know it yet.
Today, we will talk about the three most common student thinking in the workplace. You should throw it away early, otherwise, you will destroy yourself.
To the newcomers in the workplace: If you don't throw away these three kinds of student thinking, your career path will become narrower and narrower
- Top student thinking
In the workplace, unlike schools, there is no such thing as an "excellent student".
At least for newcomers, there is no such thing as a "top student".
In school, teachers prefer top students; but in the workplace, a leader doesn't favor someone, he arranges work because he needs you to do it - don't complain, just do it, no matter the big or the small.
In school, top students will be praised, not blamed, and have "privilege"; but in the workplace, everyone has to abide by the rules - unless you are absolutely irreplaceable, otherwise, don't worry .
In school, top students can rely on themselves to achieve good grades; but in the workplace, no matter how good you are, you have to rely on others—you still have to make connections with people you should make, don’t be self-righteous, let alone think too much of yourself .
In school, top students can ask the teacher to be a class leader; but in the workplace, you can't just do important work willfully and ignore the simple work - as a newcomer, you have to do everything, this is the rule.
Quit the top student mentality and do things in a low-key manner, otherwise, you will only be superficial and will never improve.
To the newcomers in the workplace: If you don't throw away these three kinds of student thinking, your career path will become narrower and narrower
- Exam thinking
Exam-oriented thinking means that in school, we all work hard to review and do the questions before the exam, and try to do all the question types again, so that we can be sure of the exam and feel at ease.
As a result, many newcomers in the workplace have brought this kind of test-taking thinking to the workplace. When solving problems, they always strive to collect all relevant information and ensure that there are no omissions before they do it.
They call this practice perfectionism.
However, in the workplace, perfectionism does not exist at all:
You can't collect all the information.
This is a time-consuming project, you may miss the best time to solve the problem, and you may even delay the work of the entire team.
In the book "Executive Elements", the author proposes a "47 rule", which means that when we collect 40 to 70% of the information, we can start to solve the problem.
Exam-taking thinking is not desirable, you should do it when you need to, try and make mistakes, revise, and perfect, so that you can grow.
To the newcomers in the workplace: If you don't throw away these three kinds of student thinking, your career path will become narrower and narrower
- Thinking of making wheels
Obviously you have a round wheel, but if you have to make other shapes, it is doomed to be futile. This is making a wheel.
The performance in the workplace is that a certain problem has clearly been encountered by a colleague and has already been solved, but some newcomers insist on being brave and feel that they can do better, so they re-analyze and deal with it from the beginning to the end, and finally The result is very likely to be the same as the solution of a colleague, or even inferior to others.
This kind of behavior is obvious student thinking. If you want to win, you don't believe in evil.
In the workplace, the experience of predecessors is the greatest wealth. As a newcomer, we must learn from it.
When a problem arises, the first thing you need to do is to see which colleague has solved a similar problem, and then borrow the method, fine-tune it on this basis, and solve the problem as soon as possible.
After doing this, the experience of your colleagues becomes your experience - that's how people in the workplace grow!
Remember, you are here to work, not to create, don't "build wheels" when you have nothing to do.
Write at the end:
In fact, not only the newcomers, but some "old people" who have worked for 3 or 4 years still retain the student's thinking, and are unknowingly surpassed by the newcomers without knowing what the problem is. This is the saddest thing.