But in reality, those smart and high-paid people who break through barriers often have unknown hardships, which include the hardships you have experienced, the sweat you have shed, and the certificates you have obtained.
Cai Huajun's college classmate is Jin Ling, who works in an investment bank in Beijing with an annual salary of one million. Because they are all in Beijing after graduation, they have always been in contact.
In college, he often skipped classes and went to the library to read ACCA/CMA textbooks for preparation, leaving early and returning late every day. Even in the winter and summer vacations every year, he can always be seen in the library, and he has won the top certificate twice in four years.
Later, I not only went to graduate school, but also got the certificate of certified public accountant and passed the judicial examination during my graduate study. After graduation, the tutor introduced him to an investment bank in Beijing, with a starting salary of 8000 yuan. The intensity of investment banking is well known. When he first arrived at the company, he was working besides eating, without complaint, and he was serious, which also made him particularly appreciate.
It only takes two years from the investment bank Xiaobai to the independent team. He said: "The key to working in an investment bank is to learn the most in the fastest time."
So in two years, he worked more than 12 hours a day, no weekends, no holidays, no entertainment, and was always on standby.
Once, I did a big project for two months, and finally something went wrong. His team held three emergency meetings all night in a row, and the next day they had to work clearly with customers during normal working hours. When the project was successfully completed, he got a handsome bonus.
When he grew rapidly and was promoted to manager independently, his salary also made a gradient leap. At this point, he has left his peers far behind.
In the workplace, the so-called high salary, in fact, there is no shortcut, nothing more than hard work, hard research, and hard study of their own majors.
Everyone has heard of the 10,000-hour law: No matter what field you want to succeed in, you must pay at least 10000 hours of training. As a young man who can't spell out his qualifications, you can only accumulate experience and win a beautiful leap by investing time when quantitative change has not caused qualitative change.
Harvard has a famous theory: the difference between people lies in their spare time, and a person's fate is determined between 8 pm and 10. In fact, we also have such people around us:
They spend their spare time to the extreme and are always the last to leave the company.
The desktop is always a few ACCA and CMA exam textbooks.
When eating and going to the toilet, you should brush your questions with your mobile phone and watch online classes.
Such people are usually the fastest-growing and best-developed talents that companies are willing to train.
Lei Jun said: "Any success, diligence and hard work are necessary conditions. If you don't have at least 6 12 hours of diligence and effort, why will you succeed? " If you want to succeed in 58 hours, others will work 50% more than you, and they will work twice as hard as you. This should be an old saying of China: Heaven rewards diligence. "
At school, everyone started from the same place, but some people used their spare time to polish themselves better, with more certificates, no games, no laziness and no complaints. Your amateur life directly determines the height of your life. This is probably the biggest difference between losers and winners.
We also go to work for eight hours, but some people use their off-duty time to plump their wings instead of going to play a drama, eat supper and go to nightclubs. They are always improving themselves, and they are also on the way to improve themselves. It is these desperate people who have created their wonderful lives.
Then how should we make effective use of our spare time?
1, learn common skills in a job.
For young people, what is more important than industry and rank is your skills, find the skills you often need in a job, and spend time systematically exercising and learning. Only by learning skills that others don't have can we highlight our value and professionalism.
2, take an examination of the relevant post certificate.
Now, voucher eating has become very common. Competing accountants are the best witness to the study of life. It is very important to stand out among the 20 million accountants, not to be eliminated in the wave of AI economy, to improve their professional ability and obtain an international top certificate. Don't neglect your major, but also complement each other, improve your major, and combine theory with practice.
3. Replace the mentality of work with that of entrepreneurs.
In Ali's office, not only employees, but also business leaders and even company founders are still working after work. When defining "starting a business", Ma Yun said: "The word" starting a business "abroad not only refers to resignation and starting a business, but also refers to" entrepreneurship "-taking the company's affairs as your own business and realizing self-worth within the company, which is also an entrepreneurial spirit."
Under the leadership of Ma Yun, most employees of Alibaba regard the company's career as their own. Treating work with an "entrepreneur mentality" is the most effective self-investment, which encourages you to constantly upgrade your value after work and gain the ability to grow continuously.
Yu Zeng laughed and said that he was "in no hurry" in a speech. He said, "I spent 10 years on what you did in five years and 20 years on what you did in 10 years. If this doesn't work, I will stay healthy and happy, and I will do it after sending you away one by one at the age of 80. "
Behind all the awesome things in the world, there are unknown hardships. There is always a distance between effort and success. The only difference between success and mediocrity is whether you can devote more time and energy than others and stick to this inestimable distance. And this distance includes the road you have traveled, the sweat you have flowed, and the certificate you have passed.