This issue follows the article from last week to talk about how to find the most instructive key indicators at the moment. Before talking about this, let me make a small conclusion, which is also a social phenomenon.
From my own observations:
People with more than two hobbies are more fulfilled, happier, and happier than people with one or no hobbies.
People with side jobs will be more dedicated, dedicated and full of passion when doing full-time jobs than those with only one job.
Of course, these two phenomena are only my own observations, and there is no strong data support. If there is data to prove that the results are wrong, you are welcome to correct me.
But if you shoot your head, forget it, you may not be able to beat me. I believe that most people have only one hobby and one full-time job most of the time, which may be a little dangerous right now.
1. Cycles can destroy your single focus
A friend of mine, he is a very good architectural designer, with a higher design talent than ordinary people, especially in commercial architecture and residential design.
In recent years, under the country's tightening Latest Mailing Database real estate policy of destocking and deleveraging, their design business has also been affected, and they often can only help the government to help small developers do some butt-wiping projects.
He told me that he really likes to do design. He is almost the kind of person who is born with the conditions to become a designer, but slowly, his original intention for design gradually lost, and he played games all day long, Eat snacks, do not make plans for life, and do not want to be responsible for life.
Is it a pity? I think it's a pity, but what's the problem? It's definitely not because he's not working hard enough or not persistent enough, but because he's been ignoring one important thing: cycles.
If you go a little further, it is this: there is no combination of cycles to maintain focus.
When Buffett and Gates first met, they were asked to write down the single most valuable and helpful word for them, and they both wrote it down in unison: focus.
Focus is the minimum respect for any goal, and at the same time, you also need to maintain continuous focus and beat cycles. Because of the cycle, you will encounter industry decline, shrinking demand, smooth projects, and difficult cases. At the same time, you will also have happy moments and moments of emotional loss.
All these variables will definitely affect all your decisions, and will shake your original determination to focus.
The human brain is also accustomed to a periodic fatigue period, which we call the fatigue threshold. When you continue to do one thing and reach the fatigue threshold of doing it, you will have a feeling of resistance, and you will get tired after playing games for a long time. If you watch a movie for a long time, you will feel disgusted, and if you study for a long time, you will feel nauseous. These are normal physiological reactions of human beings.
When you have a side hustle outside of your regular job, you can transfer your passion to the side hustle when you are blocked from your regular job and feel tired. On the contrary, when you encounter difficulties or bottlenecks in your side hustle, you can The next passion shifts back to full-time work.
When both full-time jobs and side jobs point to your ultimate goal, this is a positive cycle, working with passion and focus all the time.
This actually stems from the idiom we learned in elementary school: the combination of work and rest.
Why say this? Because this is the daily reaction and behavior of an ordinary person, we have argued in the article "The product does not emphasize design, it should be a service ", I think the best business model at present is to serve a group of people, and Not a high-frequency scene serving a group of people.