Don’t stand out from the flock, stay away from the flock.
I came across a set of comics recently and was deeply touched by them.
A large number of lower-level employees are doing repetitive paperwork in the office.
If you want to be outstanding, you have to spend more time on more files.
But every time I process a stack of documents, the color on my body will fade a bit.
In this endless competition, everyone ends up becoming a colorless, mediocre person.
it said: “The more a person is at the bottom, the more wary he is of involution. Because the involution at the bottom is endless, but your energy is limited.”
In the end, most people do not get all their hardships but are forced to endure more hardships after consuming their own resources.
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Have you ever met someone like this:
Continuously lowering one’s job application conditions for a position that is not suitable for him;
To highlight yourself, make a dozen pages of PPT on issues that can be explained clearly in a few sentences;
To please the leader, he not only took the initiative to take work, but also forced his colleagues to work overtime with him;
These people lack the knowledge and ability to break through, so they can only compete on things with very small returns.
And when you participate in their involution, you will find that your energy is being drained unconsciously.
After Netizen graduated, he went to a public institution in his hometown town.
His original plan was to find a less stressful job and use his free time to do some e-commerce side business.
Unexpectedly, my seemingly peaceful hometown was no less involved than a big city.
A relative at home is getting married.
Within two weeks of returning home, he was being urged to meet various blind dates.
His father also compared him with his neighbor’s son, “People who are younger than you already have children, where do you want me to put my face?”
Colleagues in the workplace compete in relationships and connections and even compare the quality of cigarettes when they pass them cigarettes.
Under the influence of these people, he was forced to carry a 70-yuan pack of cigarettes with him despite not knowing how to smoke, for fear of embarrassing his family.
After a year, there was no progress in my career, no progress in my side business, but I was so anxious that I lost a lot of hair.
Even though I didn’t do anything every day, I always felt inexplicably tired.
Finally, under the persuasion of his friends, he decided to return to the city and work hard despite his parents’ objections.
Li Shanglong once said: “The lower the level of involution, the more meaningless it is. After involution, the world remains the same as before, and poverty remains the same as before.”
A person is a collection of things he has done.
Once the involution at the bottom makes you unable to do truly meaningful things, the odds and ends in front of you will kidnap your life.
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Economist Amartya once mentioned a “double pyramid model” in “Economic Inequality”.
People at higher levels not only have more resources at their disposal but also have fewer competitors at the same level.
The lower one is at the bottom of society and the larger the number of people, the smaller the total amount of resources available for distribution.
once said: What is crowded is not the road to a better life, but the level you are at now.
Thousands of troops are crossing the single-plank bridge, and everyone is constantly involved in the limited resources. The result is that life is plunged into endless consumption.
I met my friend two days ago and was really frightened by his feeble appearance.
Due to the industrial downturn, his company continued to lose money, and all departments were assigned layoff targets.
To keep their jobs, grassroots employees like Xiao Yang compete fiercely in everything from overtime hours to pleasing their leaders.
Sometimes he would finish the day’s tasks at 4 p.m., but Xiao Yang would stay in the office until 10 p.m. to compile a work summary of more than 3,000 words.
As long as the department leaders need it, whether it is writing speeches or handing in materials, he will put aside his work and circle around the leaders.
Thinking that if you beat everyone, you will be able to keep your job.
Unexpectedly, after a transfer order, the entire department was abolished, and the leader continued to be the leader of another department, but he could only pack up and leave.
I want to find another job, but without the accumulation of practical skills, all of Haitou’s resumes has been lost.
“Truth in the Workplace”: Everything in this era can be rolled up, except for growth.
When you are used to creating the illusion of a hard-working life through involution, you will end up falling into a vicious cycle of more involution and greater consumption.
An increasingly anxious personality, declining energy, and deteriorating health…all shackle you to the world in front of you.
What improves work standards is ability and efficiency, and what changes life situations is cognition and vision.
Only by not consuming yourself in the underlying involution can you force yourself to grow through breakthroughs.
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“It is not wrong to be born at the bottom, nor is it wrong to be introverted. What is wrong is that a person from the bottom regards involution as the whole life.”
The greatest self-discipline for adults is to work hard to cultivate themselves at the bottom.
Use the time spent internally to improve your abilities, and use the energy consumed internally to broaden your horizons.
Before writer Yang Xiwen became famous, he worked in a restaurant.
One employee thought she would run against him for the position of restaurant director, so he competed with her everywhere.
Not only did he compete with her every day on the number of sales packages, but he also always found fault with her work and humiliated her in public.
he commutes to get off work as usual and spends his spare time getting in touch with the local writing circle.
Aside from the unnecessary comparisons in restaurants, she made friends with outstanding writers in different fields, and her writing skills also improved through in-depth exchanges.
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She later quit her hotel job and soon became a best-selling author.
On the other hand, the employee thought he had tricked her away. Not long after he was complacent, he started to compete with another colleague.
“Don’t be trapped by trivial things, let your abilities match your continuous upward goals, and life will be a history of evolution.”
People at the bottom can easily encounter countless bad people.
We work hard not to beat them.
It’s about having the ability to get out of the bottom circle and not allowing them to come into contact with themselves.
Amazon founder Bezos once said:
“When a person looks at a problem within a year, he will fight with everyone around him.
But when he looks at the problem to ten years, he will find that there are very few people who can compete with him. “
A fool looks at the present, but a wise man thinks about the coming year.
The best way to avoid being consumed in the inner roll is to look far enough to help you screen out all the underlying opponents.
Zhang Lei, the founder of Asahi Vipshop, was once a low-level milk operator.
Because the market is occupied by leading companies, she can only keep lowering her prices in order to seize the remaining share.
I get up early every day and work late at night to run the business, and my income can only sustain the most basic life.
Until one day, she suddenly stopped selling milk and started studying soil instead.
After being ridiculed by her peers for more than ten years, Zhang Lei did not sell a single can of milk.
However, in 2021, she launched a product with a unique taste and quickly captured the high-end market.
Colleagues wanted to follow up, but found that dairy cows of the same quality need corresponding pasture to feed; the same pasture needs corresponding soil to cultivate.
The nearly 20-year soil cultivation cycle makes them daunted.
When measured in days, what we see is involution; when measured in years, we see patterns.
If you open your eyes and look at things from afar, many seemingly unsolvable disputes will become insignificant.
As Tsai Kangyong said, give up the indifferent victory or defeat to those who don’t care. What you have to do is focus on the future.
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I like this passage
“The essence of winning and losing at the bottom level is to use infinite involution to consume limited energy.
So there are no winners at the bottom and those who want to win lose from the beginning. “
So for a person at the bottom, what is the most important?
The answer is very simple: don’t think about standing out from the flock, but try to stay away from the flock.
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