The epidemic has accelerated the development of network economy. I found that "writing and speaking" is becoming more and more important, and it will become an indispensable basic skill for everyone, because speaking and writing directly reflects people's thinking ability, and is a means and tool to enhance trust and build influence. All tangible and intangible products need to be sold through them. Now, you hear another person say, "I'm good at work, not at talking or writing, and I don't express myself." How do you feel? Will anyone doubt that "he can really do this job well?"
Especially in this new media era, short videos need scripts, live broadcasts need copywriting, and official WeChat accounts need continuous content ... toffler mentioned in his book Megatrends: "The most basic ability and quality in the information economy era is the ability to read and write", so I decided to start with writing and improve my thinking level. By chance, I read "Writing Lesson 7" by Uncle Akiba, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was a book.
He has been writing for nearly 20 years, stepping on enough pits and accumulating deep enough;
He switches between several communities and training camps every day, has to brush tens of thousands of WeChat, and can also watch the official WeChat account day;
In addition to taking students, he also leads a full-time and part-time team of 100 people, and still insists on publishing at least one book every year.
Uncle Akiba thinks that writing makes him a more professional, professional and rational person. In my opinion, Uncle Akiba is the one who has mastered some bottom thinking.
Writing Lesson 7 has a rigorous structure and a clear context. The author is not limited to the technical level, and constructs a PDCA closed loop of writing from seven dimensions: frame writing, composite writing, fragmented writing, online writing, structured writing, list writing and repeated writing, which can answer almost all soul questions about writing:
1, no direction, no topic? Write in a frame
2. An article can't bring much value. Writing with compound interest
3. No time to write? Write in pieces
4. Can't find the material? Writing online?
5. There are materials without inspiration, only one or two writing methods? Write in a structured way
6. I don't know if the quality is good after writing. Write with a list
7. How does writing ability evolve rapidly? Write in duplicate
Personally, I use PDCA management tools to disassemble these seven writing methods into the following seven ways of thinking. Why should we include all aspects of PDCA? Because PDCA is the most important working method that people in the workplace should master, planning-execution-inspection-improvement is always the basic law that management should follow and is indispensable in life. Getting into the habit of PDCA is easier to succeed.
Uncle Akiba said: "The helmsman can only control the wind direction if he has a clear direction." Writing, like other jobs, should have a goal. Do you want to build a personal brand, earn money to write, or cure yourself? Each direction has its evaluation requirements and arrival paths; At the same time, writing should also have the idea of eating three ducks, so that one writing can produce diversified returns and become a high-quality knowledge asset with long-term compound interest effect.
I think frame writing and compound writing are the process of overall layout and planning, and it is necessary to establish overall thinking and compound thinking.
Let's look at two portraits first. One is a person with global thinking:
* Look down at the sky like an eagle, see all the possibilities first, and then make a decision or plan.
* You can see the whole work chain, so you know more about support and tolerance.
* When working, don't forget to "fly to the sky" often to see the road.
* Grasp the key and give up when it is time to give up.
The other is a person who has no overall thinking:
* See the trees but not the forest, blindly confident or inferior.
* Blind people touch an elephant and mistakenly think that part is the whole, which is meaningless.
* Always do something that your ass decides your head.
* Eyebrows and beard.
Many problems in work are caused by the lack of overall thinking. Charles Munger once said, "For a man who only has a hammer, any problem looks like a nail." From the pre-war sand table deduction to the floor layout in the shopping mall, it is the application of global thinking. When many people go to Disney, they don't study the guide map in advance, and unfortunately they miss the most wanted projects. Without the overall view, it is difficult to have the right direction and the wrong direction, and no matter how strong the individual ability is, it will not produce good performance.
What is compound interest thinking? Sounds like a new word. Because I can't find a more suitable professional word to describe it, I guess I will copy the author's "compound interest writing", which is called compound interest thinking. I think compound interest thinking is another embodiment of global thinking. If the overall thinking is to consider the problem from the spatial dimension, the compound interest thinking is to consider the problem from the time dimension.
Let me start with a phenomenon. There is a hot list on Zhihu. "Which job should I choose with more money and less work?" Respondents have different opinions. There is no standard answer, because each choice embodies different values. People who are willing to live a better life by their own efforts believe that they don't want to be frogs in warm water. At this time, the importance of compound interest thinking appears.
Some jobs seem to have little short-term returns and even require a lot of time and energy, but in the medium and long term, they are very helpful to improve their abilities, establish their personal image and develop their careers. Do you want to do it? For example, the following work can bring compound interest effect:
* Participate in innovative projects.
* Inter-departmental rotation
* Part-time job in the department
* Acting as a meeting host/internal lecturer.
:: Participation in brainstorming sessions
:: Develop high-quality and efficient analysis reports.
* Contribute to the official WeChat account of the company.
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In particular, the opportunity to participate in innovative projects or cross-departmental rotation must of course be won, because "slash youth" will live longer than others and have more opportunities. Wise people should learn from Buffett, invest in themselves for a long time, try to find a compound interest method for career development, and take precautions to avoid the crisis of middle age.
Even the best goal plan needs to be put into action. If you want to stand out in the workplace, you must prove to everyone that your execution efficiency is higher, that you can solve problems quickly in the most correct way, and that you can make better use of your time, fully grasp the information and be more familiar with the way to solve problems.
Uncle Akiba has a saying in Writing Lesson 7, "Most professional problems in the world have special methods to solve, but you just don't know it." What an inspiring sentence! By deliberately practicing fragmented writing, online writing and structured writing, I can barely write 1000 words a day in just10 day, but I can easily write 3,000 words, and unlike in the past, I have a routine in my heart and a method in my hand.
How did I do it?
I used to spend a lot of time writing articles, but procrastination was serious; Now it takes 1-5 minutes to finish an article by breaking it into title, introduction, main points, materials, golden sentences, etc. And it's easy to do it at night.
-In the past, I only used "Du Niang" to find materials, but now my mind is wide open and I have found n channels to collect and accumulate materials.
-I used to use evernote, but now I use notes, tomato clocks and article editors.
-I didn't know there were as many as ten genres of articles such as diary, question and answer, and interactive. Now a topic can be expressed in several different ways.
Therefore, I think that training matrix thinking, divergent thinking and structured thinking can not only achieve efficient writing, but also improve work execution.
What is matrix thinking? Matrix thinking makes it easy for you to control time, not be controlled by time. People with matrix thinking can quickly cut plans or problems into "small squares" and then complete and solve them through fragmentation time.
What is divergent thinking? Divergent thinking makes you an "online learner" (I like the word coined by the author). Online learners are good at absorbing information independently and building knowledge frame trees, so they often have creative ideas and are good at thinking about things together.
What is structured thinking? Structured thinking makes you an expert in solving problems. Problem-solving experts are full of frameworks and models, which can quickly start "online functions" and search for the most suitable tools to diagnose and deal with problems.
Those who are experienced but "have goods in their bellies" can hardly become managers, because the higher the position, the stronger the ability to create a framework. Structured thinking can be improved through deliberate practice. Have you mastered the following common patterns?
* 5W2H model making plan and scheme
* Golden Pagoda Principle Model-Analysis and Report
* logical tree model-mining the root cause of the problem
* Six Thinking Hat Model-Team Brainstorming
Sharp tools can do a good job. The framework of time, information and problems is tools and weapons. They are there to see who can control them for their own use. A master or a white will know who is good at it.
To be an irreplaceable employee, you must be a reliable person. Reliable people must finish their work. Reliable people will take the initiative to find the problem, instead of waiting for others to find it before telling you. Reliable people know how to reflect and avoid making the same mistake again in the future. Reliable people are good at turning experience into replicable accumulation.
For example, in "Writing Lesson 7", Uncle Akiba summarized the list of all kinds of articles before they were pushed. This quality inspection process from the user's point of view can not only improve the reading rate of articles, but also avoid procedural errors. This is the contribution of list writing. It is the value of multi-disc writing that we often disassemble and learn the internal structure of excellent explosive articles, form our own knowledge base and constantly upgrade the frame thinking of iterative writing.
So I think reliable people must have critical thinking and closed-loop thinking.
People with critical thinking will be goal-oriented, grasp the key success factors, check regularly, find problems in time, and stifle mistakes in the cradle.
People with closed-loop thinking not only reflect on themselves, but also compare horizontally to find the gap between themselves and Excellence, and will not be complacent; Know how to precipitate, copy and popularize excellent experience, and then make the shortcomings and gaps into new target plans and continue to improve.
Only by doing this can we complete the first cycle of PDCA. On the contrary, what are people who lack critical thinking and closed-loop thinking?
* doing it, the direction is off.
* Progress is always reminded and urged by others.
* Hold on to the problem until it finally gets out of control.
* Repeat similar mistakes.
* People leave no knowledge and experience behind.
There is a story about "soldiers who don't pull horses" circulating in management:
After taking office, a British artillery officer visited the army and found that several troops had a phenomenon: during the training of the artillery, a soldier stood under the barrel from beginning to end. Upon inquiry, it was learned that this was required by the artillery exercise regulations. After consulting the military literature deeply, the officer found the reason. It turns out that in the era of horse-mounted guns, soldiers standing under the gun barrel were responsible for pulling the reins to adjust the distance deviation caused by recoil after the gun was launched and shorten the time for re-aiming. At present, the artillery is highly automated and mechanized, and there is no need for such a role at all, but the exercise regulations have not been revised and adjusted, resulting in the emergence of "soldiers who do not pull horses."
The officer's discovery won him a commendation from the British Ministry of Defence.
Therefore, it is very important to find problems in time and make continuous improvement according to environmental changes, otherwise excellent accumulation may become outdated experience.
Finally, I want to quote a sentence from Uncle Akiba's Writing Lesson 7. "Writing is a skill. You can write instead of listening." Similarly, the training of thinking is not practiced in a day, and it needs long-term deliberate practice. To become an irreplaceable person in the workplace, we must find the right direction, use the right method and persevere in training. Fortunately, there is a book like "Writing 7 Lessons", which can make you achieve your outstanding self earlier!