Improve your core competitiveness? See what the driver does!

01.

In the taxi parking space at Furen Airport, there is often a yellow taxi with "I can speak English" written on the back window.

This taxi driver is very interesting. Although he is nearly forty years old, he can communicate with foreign passengers in fluent English.

After communicating with the master, you will know:

He just started learning English just to get angry with his son. His son often complained to him: Why don't you memorize the words yourself but you keep forcing me to memorize them?

Because of this sentence, the driver memorized all of his son's English book in more than a month.

Later, the master felt that English was quite interesting, so he began to study it systematically.

From memorizing words, to memorizing texts, to practicing listening and speaking, after several years of accumulation and study, the driver has become very proficient in communicating with foreign friends, so the foreign friends in his car also Gradually, the income increased.

But as the number of foreign passengers increased, his communication with them gradually deepened. The driver noticed that foreign passengers would pay attention to some political topics when they come to Taiwan.

So the driver subscribed to magazines such as "Phoenix Weekly" and "Sanlian Weekly" and put them in the car, and would read and study them whenever he had free time.

02.

Xiao An is an ordinary employee of a certain company. As a clerk, Xiao An usually has a lot of free time.

Some people use their free time to browse Taobao, check Weibo, and chat on WeChat. But Xiao An has some ideas of his own.

Because she wanted to work in a human resources recruitment position, but suffered from lack of knowledge and experience and ended up doing a job she didn’t like.

Therefore, in Xiaoan’s free time after work, he visited major recruitment forums and learning forums, constantly learning knowledge about personnel recruitment. During this period, Xiao An also made friends with several industry giants, and often communicated with them to learn from each other's strengths.

After get off work, Xiao An also signed up for a training class.

By chance, Xiao An found a recruitment message on a forum: a company was recruiting assistant personnel managers.

Xiaoan submitted his resume and cover letter.

There is no such thing as pie in the sky. Good luck only belongs to those who are prepared.

After several rounds of interviews, Xiao An was successfully transferred.

In his ordinary job, the driver master strives for excellence, continuous learning, and continuous progress. He uses his own methods to improve his core competitiveness in the taxi industry and make his business better and better.

Because Xiaoan has goals in mind and has high execution ability, he accumulates experience in positions he doesn’t like, keeps learning and making progress, and uses online and offline resources to learn knowledge in new fields, so that he can Successfully transferred to another position.

As the saying goes, everything depends on man-made efforts.

Only by improving your core competitiveness can you stand out.

There is a sequence of learning, and there is a specialization in the art. Skill improvement in professional fields is the basis for a qualified social person to stand in society.

What is a professional field? It's your current position.

Many people complain that they are not interested in their current job. In fact, the biggest reason for not being interested is that you are not doing a good enough job.

When you do any job well, your interest will naturally come, and you will also have personal core competitiveness in this field.

As the saying goes, having too many skills is not too overwhelming.

It stands to reason that if the driver masters his driving skills and obeys the traffic, he can be a qualified taxi driver, just like thousands of other taxi drivers running on the cross streets.

However, his excellent English skills helped him increase his income.

Cai Kangyong once said: When you are 15 years old, you find swimming difficult. When you are 18 years old, when you meet someone you like and ask you to swim, you have to say no.

When you are 20 years old, you find it difficult to learn English. When you are 25 years old, you have to give up when you encounter a great job opportunity that requires English proficiency.

Therefore, even if the skills or knowledge you have mastered cannot bring you visible benefits or benefits at the moment, please believe that your efforts will definitely be used in some unexpected way in the future. way to surprise you back.

As a good friend of mine told me, everything you do now will become a circle in the future.

Don’t stop learning, let alone making progress.

The last habit in "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" tells us to "continuously update". The meaning of updating is to constantly inject new elements into ourselves and not be marginalized by society.

The key to improving core competitiveness is to learn to learn. Xiaoan's example also proves this point. Through his own efforts and effective learning methods, he has polished his experience into shining gold.

The management skills mentioned here include: time management, self-management, and even money management.

How can you talk about life without self-discipline?

Successful people are self-disciplined people. Today’s online platforms are full of articles and methods on time management, self-management, and financial management.

"Treat Time as a Friend" says that the best way to manage time is to manage yourself well. Make a task list or classify the urgency and importance of tasks. Everyone can do it, but the core of real effective management is But it is self-discipline.

Improve execution and dare to step out of the "comfort zone". Everyone knows that it is very comfortable to sleep until you wake up naturally, but there is a group of people who insist on getting up early. When everyone is shouting that there is not enough time, getting up early will make your day seem longer than others.