Five Golden Rules for Making Work Comfortable

Column:Selected beautiful articles Time:2024-09-06
360 founder Zhou Hongyi said about her experience: She has worked for Founder and Yahoo...

Rule 1:  Working is spending the boss's money and developing one's own abilities.


360 founder Zhou Hongyi said about her experience that she had worked for Founder and Yahoo, but it wasn't really considered part-time work. Instead, she used her boss's money to pay for her tuition.


Thinking about working tirelessly for the boss and the company, one naturally experiences pain and bitterness in their heart.


If you can change your mindset: the boss pays the tuition fees and you practice your own skills. This way, you will become stronger and stronger.


Wang Laichun started working at Foxconn at the age of 21. Working for more than ten hours a day, sometimes requiring overtime, many female workers complain incessantly. Wang Laichun never complains and fulfills his duties diligently in his position. She rotated through various positions and summarized her experience and methods.


For factory training, the main themes are generally about managing employees and improving work quality, which most people may find boring and tedious. However, Wang Laichun listened attentively to the hidden management logic. She has been working for over 10 years and has been promoted three levels in a row.


Later, Wang Laichun resigned from Foxconn and founded Lite On Precision, which made it onto the Chinese billionaire list.


There is an easily overlooked truth in the workplace: what you learn first belongs to yourself, and then to the company.

People who cannot understand this principle complain all day long, and when they encounter any problems, they curse their leaders and blame their units.


People who can see through, they use all the resources of the company to empower themselves. They are well aware that work is not only for earning a salary, but also for enhancing themselves.


In fact, the latter is often more important.


Looking at your work from a different perspective, you can study the company's management structure and learn professional knowledge from colleagues in the workplace... These are all hidden treasures.


Rule 2: Refuse merchants high.


Harvard University once conducted a research analysis, listing nine root causes of a person's lack of success, including the fear of rejection.


There are too many kind-hearted people in the workplace. Whenever someone is in trouble, he goes to help, and whenever someone asks for something, he gives it to them.

Their thin skin and soft heart make them live a difficult and tiring life. After working for so many years, I have encountered such "kind-hearted" colleagues in any organization.


There is a girl who writes copywriting. She had already made plans with friends to go out to watch movies and have a big meal over the weekend. But a colleague came and begged her to help revise the work report, but she felt embarrassed to refuse. On the great weekend, she had to stay up late at home and work overtime to revise the report.


Finally, on the one hand, it was because of breaking the appointment that made my friend feel bad, and on the other hand, it was criticized by the colleague for making several problematic changes.


If you ask them to refuse, they will say: colleagues can't be ruthless.


The most tiring people in the workplace are those who don't know how to refuse.


In the variety show 'Heartwarming Offer', there is an interesting term mentioned: 'Refuse business'. Simply put, knowing how to appropriately reject others is an essential skill in the workplace and even in daily life.


Rule three: Always have rough skin and thick flesh, because the bird that cannot be burned is the phoenix.


I previously read a story about the famous American entrepreneur Charles Hanell.


He once recruited a highly talented student named Sophia from Harvard University with a high salary, who was highly regarded for his outstanding abilities. During an important event, Sofia urgently drafted a speech. To her surprise, Hanell's subsequent speech was vastly different from the content of her written manuscript. Just as she was puzzled by this, Hanel, who had finished her speech, threw the script in front of her and said seriously, "Please write your words cleaner next time." Sofia's face turned red and she felt aggrieved, after all, this was an urgent speech, and it was already quite good to write it to this extent in a short period of time. In a fit of anger, she turned around and walked away without even saying hello. The next morning, she received a notice from the company that you had been dismissed.


If you were Sofia, what would you do? I will definitely apologize to the leader first and then promise not to make the same mistake again next time.


The workplace is cold, and no one provides you with emotional value. No matter how many grievances you have, you can only swallow them alone. If you keep sinking into the mud of negative energy, you will only lose the motivation to move forward.


Truly powerful people never pay attention to how much they have suffered, but only value how much value they have produced.


Rule four: The core should be stable and not pay too much attention to others' evaluations.


Recently, I watched the Japanese drama 'Wonderful Stories of the World' again, and there was an episode that left a deep impression on me. The male protagonist working in a bank discovered one day that as long as others evaluate him, corresponding labels will appear on him. When the department was in a meeting, he had just rejected his colleague's opinion, and the next second, a label with the words' cold-blooded scumbag 'was attached to him. Negative labels also follow for others: 'narcissistic person', 'self righteous'


Because he cared about others' evaluations of him, he made a series of changes:


In order to gain the favor of his subordinates, he personally does everything and even covers up and protects employees by falsifying accounts;


Afraid of being perceived as cold-blooded by his colleagues, he approved financing for a company on the brink of bankruptcy.


What was the result?


The male lead was ultimately judged by the bank's senior management for mismanagement and was brutally dismissed. All the labels on him have turned into 'incompetent colleague', 'gullible fool', 'accomplished nothing'


In the workplace, this is what many people look like: you treat others warmly, and a few words can make the leader happy, but some colleagues gossip and say that you don't do practical things and only flatter others. From then on, you become timid and dare not speak up.

You messed up the project due to some uncontrollable factors, and your colleagues made sarcastic remarks, mocking you for relying on luck to get to this position. You dare not shoulder heavy responsibilities anymore.


No matter which unit you go to, there will inevitably be a group of troublemakers around you, who treat teasing colleagues as fun and gossip as entertainment.


If you pay more attention to their words, you will have less energy to improve your abilities.


There is a saying in Game of Thrones: Lions never care about sheep's opinions. Rather than being driven crazy by a group of bad people, it's better to underestimate and underestimate them. This is the mentality of the strong.


Rule 5: Change your mindset: Transform 'I don't know' into 'I want to learn'.


Let me ask you a question: How would you react if your leader were to give you a task now?


You keep complaining and sighing, why did you give me this hot potato again. Still full of enthusiasm to complete it beautifully.


These two modes of thinking are defined in psychology as "victim thinking" and "controller thinking". The former retreats in distress and only complains; The latter rises to the challenge and stubbornly tackles the problem.


Wang Qiang, the creative director of a certain company, talked about his growth experience.


After graduation, he joined a film and television company, which mainly produces promotional videos for government agencies. The style of the film is stable and there are tricks to follow. He and several other newly hired colleagues quickly became proficient.


One day, the company received an order to help a company design a creative film. This has stumped several copywriters. Because the conventional three board axe routine cannot be used anymore, this type of film requires creativity and novelty, and the requirements are very high. Most employees are complaining and complaining about the business taking on business without proper coordination.


Wang Qiang's mind was only focused on how to come up with a good script. He did two things:


1、 He gathered past films from this company to study which style they prefer.


2、 He browsed various creative films online, observing frame by frame, both borrowing ideas and learning. It took him five days to write three versions of the creative plan, and both the leaders and clients were quite satisfied.


Six months later, he was directly promoted to team leader. He later said at an employee training meeting, 'How can we widen the gap with others?'? When encountering problems, if others want to step back and you want to step in, you can naturally leave others behind.

Don't cry when encountering mountains, don't complain about how high they are, and when encountering rivers, don't complain about how deep the water is. Just go to the mountains and pave the way, and when encountering water, build bridges.


Transform 'I can't' into 'I'll do my best', transform 'I can't' into 'I can learn', one can figure out difficult things and catch big things, and you will grow.