Once upon a time, there was a little tiger who was adopted by a flock of sheep since he was a child. So he developed the habit of a sheep. He ate grass every day and bleated until one day a big tiger came. Tiger, the big tiger dispersed the sheep in order to catch the sheep. After the sheep dispersed, the big tiger found that there was a little tiger living in the sheep group, so he took the little tiger home, but when he came back I found that the little tiger still barked like a sheep every day and ate grass. The little tiger even told the big tiger, "I am a sheep, not a tiger."

Big Tiger said, you are talking nonsense. So I took the little tiger to the river to look in the mirror. When we got to the river, there were two tiger heads in the water, but the little tiger still didn't believe it, so the big tiger slapped the little tiger and stuffed it into the little tiger's mouth. He ate a piece of meat, and when the piece of meat reached the little tiger's throat, it finally aroused the blood in the little tiger's body, and it made a tiger cry. Only then did it realize that it was a tiger.

Here, the tiger is compared to the true nature of a person, and the sheep is compared to your current appearance. It is said that each of us obviously has the true nature of a tiger, but many people live like sheep every day without knowing it. As a professional, have you found your true identity now? Do you live like a sheep or a tiger every day? Is your current job a career you like? Are you doing your job well?

Before you give your answer, let me tell you a set of data:

Gallup, the world’s largest survey consulting company, has been conducting surveys since the 1990s. The working status of professionals around the world. They spent more than two decades interviewing 25 million employees in 189 countries. The overall result is that only 13% of employees are actively working and motivated to continuously promote the company's development; 63% are not very committed to their work and are lazy; and the remaining 24% are even more terrifying, being completely passive and slacking off. There is nothing more than aversion to work. So you can see that as many as 87% of current professionals have lost their passion for work.

Why do so many people lose their passion for work? Because most of them are doing jobs that they are not good at or do not like. You are obviously a tiger, but you can only live like a sheep. How can you have passion?

But what’s strange is why so many people are dissatisfied with their existing jobs and still choose to stay in their original jobs and are unwilling to change jobs? If someone pays attention to their surroundings, they will find that at least half of the colleagues in the company are complaining and even declare that they want to leave immediately. However, those who actually leave immediately are always a minority, probably less than 1%. Why is this happening? so? Are the unhappiness they complain about every day and the unbearable complaints they complain about all fake? Not really.

In ancient Greek mythology, there was a man named Sisyphus. Sisyphus offended the gods, so in order to punish Sisyphus, the gods asked him to push a huge boulder to the top of the mountain. However, because the boulder was too heavy, it would roll down the mountain again before reaching the top of the mountain, and all the previous efforts were wasted, so he Doing this over and over again, endlessly - the gods thought there could be no more severe punishment than engaging in such futile and hopeless labor.

Sisyphus’s life was slowly consumed in such an ineffective and hopeless work. The story of Sisyphus pushing the stone is a famous tragedy in Greek mythology. Compared with the tragedies of other heroes, Sisyphus does not have the ups and downs of sorrow and hatred, nor is there a soul-stirring epic story. His tragedy is actually a The tragedy of ordinary people.

Some people may say, why didn’t Sisyphus just give up his job? Giving up and changing this kind of ineffective and hopeless labor is the right choice. The answer is no, because this is his destiny, the will of the gods.

Speaking of giving up and changing, you can ask yourself, if you encountered Sisyphus' dilemma, have you ever thought about giving up and changing?

Just like some people who are obviously introverted and afraid of interacting with others, they still work in a job that requires frequent contact with strangers and a lot of negotiation, coordination and communication. In this way, every day's work , not only failed to bring him positive energy, but also overdrawn his inner energy every minute and every second. He convinced himself that "if you are a man, you should be cruel to yourself" while enduring the torture painfully. If you persist in this way for a long time, you will not be able to do your job well, but you will also suffer mentally.

Or there are some people who obviously have the temperament of creatives, with unconstrained ideas and endless ideas, but they are engaged in a clerk's job every day, either doing documents, typing reports, or sorting out information. Year after year, day after day, passion and creativity were exhausted in countless paper works. In the end, from the "cousin" and "cousin" at the beginning to the "cousin" and "cousin" now, my heart has been consumed. The heart is like still water, without any waves.

Or there are some people who have been good children since childhood and followed their parents’ orders to work in the system. They are simple, kind, and have no scheming, and treat everyone with the attitude of "I will always turn my heart to the bright moon." However, the complexity of interpersonal relationships within the system is higher than the mountains and deeper than the sea. A young literary and artistic young man who does not like to play tricks and is not good at managing relationships will not only "shine on the ditch", but also be subjected to all kinds of things. Open spears and hidden arrows left wounds all over his body. Finally, I looked up to the sky and sighed: Once I enter the system, it is as deep as the sea. When can I swim out?

Why not give up and change? What is it that is preventing you from giving up and changing? What is it that makes you tortured by a job that you are not good at, that is meaningless, and that you don't like.

In fact, most of us have some unrealized professional dreams, such as wanting to be a writer, painter, musician, becoming an entrepreneur, etc. We have all kinds of beautiful expectations and Imagine it, but when it comes to actual implementation in real life, you have more than you can manage. Credit cards, rent, and shopping every month are like making money like water and spending money like a bursting dam. Moreover, you have to face the pressure of high housing prices. If you give up a job you don't like willfully, you will face more complicated and huge pressure after two days of happiness.

Just like when many people want to give up a job, the first thing they think of is definitely not the relief after giving up, but what else can they do if they give up their current job? What if I don’t get my new job? What about next month’s mortgage and girlfriend’s gift? What to do with so many places that require spending money? In this way, amid the endless fantasies and fear of the future, I naturally extinguished the idea of ??giving up and changing, gritted my teeth and persisted in pushing the stone again, even if I didn't like my current job, I still settled for the status quo and continued to do so. .

What binds Sisyphus is the will of the gods, but what binds mortals is the mentality of being content with the status quo, because people would rather face a certain present that they don’t like than Try a future you like but are unsure of.

But it is precisely these certainties now that get us into trouble. When the ancient Indians caught monkeys, they would first dig a small hole in the coconut and stuff rice into the coconut. The monkey can reach in and catch the rice, but once it has caught the rice, it cannot take it out. The monkey always refused to give up the rice in his hand, so he was caught by the Indians.

Just as Sisyphus could not give up his stone easily, and the monkey could not give up the rice, we mere mortals cannot easily give up our current jobs. So we get deeper and deeper into the dilemma of the workplace, until we develop an endless dislike of work.

So in the workplace, which one of the above do you belong to? Are you unsure? Or has your passion for your current job faded? Or maybe you are already deeply distressed in the workplace and unable to extricate yourself?

Maybe after reading this, you who are struggling in the workplace will feel sad and pity for yourself and Sisyphus’ fate. At the same time, deep down in your heart, you hope that you can get out of the current predicament. , so you look forward to a savior-like person to take you out of the sea of ??suffering.

Stallone starred in a movie called "The Dragon Is Born" in 1996. The movie tells the story of an accidental explosion that occurred in a certain American city, and many people were trapped in an undersea tunnel. In the end, they went through hardships and experienced life and death.

There is a fragment in it that is very enlightening.

Several prisoners under escort were locked in prison cars and could not get out after accidents. Then the heroine appeared. But she just shouted in panic: "I'm going to find the savior" and wanted to turn around and leave. Among them, a prisoner shouted: "Aren't you the savior?"

The heroine did not go to anyone else, but started the rescue operation herself.

Sure enough, the heroine successfully rescued all the prisoners in the car.

This was a very smart prisoner. His cleverness reminded the heroine and saved himself.

Many times we are like the heroine, always thinking that some unparalleled hero will be the savior. One day he will step on the colorful clouds and lead us to escape from death.

But why can't we be heroes?

Why can’t we stand up ourselves at critical moments?

It’s you, there is no one else, you are that person, the unparalleled hero who changes your own destiny.

What you have to do now is to stop and re-examine yourself to find the piece of meat that activates your authenticity.

Okay, that’s it for this time. Next time we will talk about what career planning is. Now let me do a little exercise:

What is your current status at work? What about your colleagues around you? You are welcome to write your story below and share it with us.