Chapter 113: Marginal Thinking!

The loneliness of youth always carries some ideal colors, because this beautiful loneliness can only be enjoyed by a rich and strong heart. But Su Shixian found that he couldn't enjoy it, after all, he had always been accompanied by Shenghu. Especially after his sentence that he needed her to accompany him, Su Yes's heart was always panicked inexplicably. This kind of panic can't be concealed and solved by the deliberate arrival of Chengfeng, and it was only at dawn that she finally understood that this panic came from caring. Whether it is dependence or habit, she is really afraid that she likes Shenghu and likes his days. As soon as she thought of this, she had an impulse to run to Jiangcheng to accompany him, but before she could say the words to Xiao Su and ask her to help ask for leave, the words from her mouth changed again, "Good morning, Xiao Su, the meeting at nine o'clock in the morning remains the same." Please be on time. ”

"I thought that when recruiting, the competency model, the qualification system, the job analysis, and the job description were all necessary, and it was rare to find a formal job description after entering the company. Hiring? By feeling, looking at the edge of the eye; The head of the recruitment section took the lead in speaking.

"I thought that the training was strictly based on the different levels of employees for course grading, lecturer team screening, to the company only to find that the training is more of a chicken blood, the boss is self-congratulatory, and the employees are not scared is good. Hehe. "The trainer is not far behind.

"I thought you had learned well in terms of salary and welfare system construction and could make a difference, but the reality is that you can calculate wages and social security." Before the examiner finished speaking, Xiao Su had already begun to use his eyes to scare everyone into shutting up.

But Su still heard these "professional" complaints, but she still kept a smile and glanced at everyone, and then slowly sat down in the middle of the round table.

"What I want to share with you today are two words, one is "marginal thinking" and the other is "aggregate thinking". She didn't say much, she opened the topic directly, and even omitted good morning. However, colleagues in the department are also accustomed to immediately prioritizing their ears and opening their notebooks to accept them.

Some of my colleagues may have heard of what "marginal benefit" is, it is a concept unique to economics, and the difference between "marginal thinking" and "aggregate thinking" is an important reason for the lack of happiness in life. When we evaluate people we don't know well, we like to use "total thinking", but when we evaluate ourselves, we like to use "marginal thinking", which makes us live in the shadow of "the child next door" from an early age, and when we grow up, we fall into an inexplicable comparison with the "old king next door". ”

Everyone went from being a little nervous at the beginning to laughing, and after laughing, they found that this was indeed the case.

"The resource elements of each of us to achieve work achievements are divided into two categories: resource element A is professional knowledge, knowledge, thinking methods, character advantages, family social relations, etc.; Another example is resource element B, which is time, effort, and reinvested capital. A few years ago, or in the past, everyone used to advocate practice makes perfect, but now practice produces "boredom", as long as we have some ability in a certain field, it seems that we will experience "burnout". In fact, it is not difficult to understand that when the work is done well, it also means that we can make less and less progress in this field in the future. ”

Su Shi looked around at everyone and continued, "This is called "diminishing marginal returns" in economics, just like if you are hungry and eat three buns to eat, although these three buns are the same, but the meaning to you must be the first one is the most fragrant, and the second and third will appear "diminishing marginal returns". "Marginal benefit", the most basic concept of economics, can be used to explain such life phenomena as "why people who are better than you are more diligent than you", "why you would rather give 100 yuan to the rich than to the poor", and so on. The second part of this topic will be used to explain how "career bottlenecks" arise and how to solve the phenomenon of "burnout". Why is it that "no matter how hard you try, it will be so", etc. The word "marginal" is a bit academic, but it is almost the meaning of "incremental". If you earn 100 yuan yesterday and 120 yuan today, 20 yuan is "marginal benefit", if you earn 150 yuan tomorrow and 30 yuan more, it is "increasing marginal benefit", and if you earn 130 yuan tomorrow and only earn 10 yuan more, it is "diminishing marginal benefit". The opposite of "marginal" is "stock" or "aggregate". “

Looking at everyone's expressions that seemed to understand or not, Su slowly gave an example, "The poor envy the rich, because what they see is the "total" of the rich people, living in villas, playing on cruise ships, playing dogs and horses, and spending money, but the rich don't feel how happy they are, because they use their own "increment", that is, "marginal benefits" to judge - if last year was a one-week trip in China, unless they travel abroad this year, it is "diminishing marginal benefits". ”

Everyone nodded.

This also leads to a large difference between a person's objective performance in career development and subjective self-evaluation. If last year's performance was 1 million, exceeding the task by 500,000, and this year's target is 2 million, then, if you don't do 3 million, it will be difficult to get the same sense of achievement as last year, and there will be "diminishing marginal benefits". And what about next year? It's useless to do 4 million, because the increment may be just a numbers game for you, and if you want to "increase the marginal benefit", you must use fresh things, such as the size of the sales area and the increase in the number of people in charge. Since people's self-evaluation comes from the "margin", not the "total amount", once the inflection point of "diminishing marginal returns" occurs in the ability to work, it is often the starting point of "burnout".

"Diminishing marginal benefits" is actually a normal state of life, and "increasing marginal benefits" belongs to going against the current, and it is even more difficult to always maintain "increasing", so negative energy appears and complaints appear. ”

"In fact, it is very simple to solve these problems, one is to start a business, the second is to change the job to improve the ability, and the third is to strengthen the profession in one's own position."

Su is only then opened his red notebook, "It's been a few minutes to delay everyone, and I used it to answer your "complaints" before the meeting." Okay, now to start our weekly meeting, or two main points, talk about last week's work summary and this week's work plan. ”

When she came out of the conference room and walked back to her office, she habitually glanced at her phone and found a familiar call. That was Ouyang Key's number. He hasn't been in touch for half a year.

Sue was the first conjecture that he might have come to ride the wind, as expected. After a simple greeting, Ouyang Jian talked about riding the wind. The reason is also very simple, I hope that Chengfeng can return to the company to work, and at the same time, I specially explained and welcomed Su is to return to the old company. This surprised her a lot. Although she didn't have much conflict with the leader when she left at that time, at least she felt that Ouyang Key would not let her stay by her side anymore, at least she couldn't be trained to become his henchman, so naturally she would get rid of it quickly. Is there something else going on?

"Su is, no matter what misunderstanding you had about me or the company before, I believe that as long as you come back, everything will be revealed, you are trained by me, and I am also the leader you recognize, I believe in your vision, you should also trust me as a person, right?" Ouyang Jian moved Su is in just a few words. But she always replied to him under the pretext of thinking about it.

Riding the wind uninvited, after he failed the interview in the morning. The reason was that he was going on a business trip.

"You're a marketing executive who doesn't travel? Does the company let you sit in an office and work as a clerk? Su sneered.

"I have my own reasons, not to mention that the only people who have been traveling on business and running errands are only market development personnel, is it necessary for me as a marketing director to travel? I'll just sit in command at the company headquarters. Chengfeng soaked himself in water, sat down on the soft sofa opposite Su Shi's office, held tea in one hand, and patted the sofa with the other, "This sofa is too soft, you have to change to a hard one." ”

"I'm not so particular about it, I'm here to work, and I'm not enjoying it, what do you think the sofa is soft and hard?"

"I found that after you left me, your whole person's taste has deteriorated a lot, what does it mean to be not exquisite? You call it casualness, negativity, and irresponsibility for yourself. Whether it is work or life, we must live with a sense of quality. ”

"Talk about your interview well, don't talk about it."

"Or, you've recruited me, right? I don't believe there's no job in your company that suits me? As soon as Chengfeng finished speaking, he walked over, ready to look through the documents on Su Shi's desk, "Let me see what positions you are recruiting?" I'll be wronged. ”

"Don't move, you're always doing this, and the company also has company secrets, which you can't just read." Su is hand squeezed the document in front of the desk.

"Am I someone else? Am I an outsider? Really, you can't even look at it. Well, knowing that you are selfless, I don't ask you to open this back door. I also made an appointment for a few interviews in the afternoon, don't worry, someone will take me in, but can you not stay in a hotel tonight. Reluctantly squeezing with you into the dormitory? ”

"Riding the wind, your skin is getting thicker and thicker, and you have to have a degree of joking, by the way, I really have something to tell you."

"Wait, don't talk about it yet, it's almost noon, or, let's go out to eat, talk while eating."

"Okay."

When Su was turning off the computer, Chengfeng had already helped her pick up the bag, and Su was also up to him, as if he was also used to it, and walked out of the office.

"Su is always good."

"Beauty." Chengfeng didn't forget to greet Xiao Su warmly, and he was still holding Su Yes's shoulder bag, and the relationship between them could be seen from the eyes of his colleagues.

"No, I'm an unemployed vagrant, I can't afford to eat a big meal, I feel safe to pay for your bag, you take the bag back, I'm afraid you will run away."