Why can't your ability keep up with your age?

Some time ago, I watched such a job-seeking program:

The job seeker is 40 years old, an engineer, with a bachelor's degree of 2 1 1, in a traditional industry. He is looking for a job in the direction of the Internet.

Through communication, we can know that this engineer is very professional. But he knows almost nothing about his target career-the Internet industry.

After several rounds of interviews, no boss was willing to accept him and left in a daze.

The workplace is like a battlefield. I still remember two sensational events last year:

Huawei began to retire employees over the age of 35;

Zhongxing, a middle-aged programmer, jumped to his death because of persuasion.

These two things sound indignant, but it is not difficult to understand the depression of the communication industry in recent years. When the wave of layoffs comes, the first to bear the brunt is the "double high" people with high salaries and a sense of security.

Age will bring you work experience, but you need more than experience.

Blethen, author of A Brief History of Everything, said:

There is only one way to resist natural selection, and that is: continuous evolution.

There is no industry that will rise forever, and there is no job that will be worry-free for a lifetime. No role is static ―― if you want to survive, you must constantly evolve.

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My friend's former leader worked in a TOP4 company for more than eight years.

In recent years, with the promotion of posts and the growth of age, the working state has gradually changed from striving for the upper reaches to muddling along.

Go to the company every day 1 1 and push the work to subordinates. I sneak to exercise at 4 pm. It was not until one day that I found that the company was quietly recruiting its own successor that I suddenly felt like an enemy.

The comfort zone is really attractive. But the truth is, there is no eternal comfort zone in this world.

In this rapidly changing era, the most real status quo is:

The founders of some small companies sit in the workplace and struggle with employees;

Leading enterprises in popular industries such as BAT constantly toss new products to ensure their competitive safety in every field;

The post-1995 new company is eager to learn and willing to work, and can often put forward amazing creative points.

Comfort zone is a false proposition. The first step to having age-appropriate abilities is to stay away from the comfort zone.

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A senior who used to be our role model has been depressed recently.

When he was young, he was the best among his peers. He got the qualification certificate of his industry early, and then got some important foreign certificates non-stop.

As soon as I graduated, I got many job opportunities and successfully worked for a big company with good treatment and benefits.

He thought that he could always enjoy the bonus with his qualification certificate full of gold.

However, five years later, I found that those certificates were all decorations, and others were asking questions in the professional field, but he couldn't insert a word. Occasionally, a few opinions would be refuted as outdated.

The most terrible thing about the growth of years is not that you have more wrinkles, but that after you gradually lose the passion of continuous learning and exploration, your ability can't keep up with your age.

Nokia and Kodak, shattered by the times because they stopped learning and making progress, are constantly proving this to us.

Just a few years ago, we chased every Nokia just like we are chasing Apple's new machine now.

That was a few years ago. We all remember to buy Kodak film to take pictures.

Nowadays, Wang Keda, once a film, has long since faded out of people's sight, and it is difficult for Nokia to stir up waves after being acquired.

No matter individuals or enterprises, there is never a shortcut once and for all. If you stop and refuse to evolve, you will only be replaced and eliminated soon.

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One last thing.

Sister Wang is the old administrator of the unit. She was named by the leader to innovate at the department meeting the other day. Even the newcomers in their twenties in the department have never received such praise.

The reason is that when making the invitation letter of the company's annual meeting, Sister Wang proposed to use H5 to make the invitation letter of the annual meeting celebration, which is different from the simple poster invitation letter of other departments. Not only did colleagues in various departments forward it interestingly, but the CEO even shared it with friends after receiving it.

In fact, the secret of success is never a big deal, but in this long life/career journey, no matter big or small, you can keep improving, learning and never stopping.

The world is changing forever. It is not only your strength but also your evolutionary ability that determines how far you can go.

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Kai-fu Lee once declared in a speech last year:

In the future, less than five seconds of work will be completely replaced by artificial intelligence.

It may sound exaggerated or even alarmist, but when we use Kodak film, don't we expect SLR, micro-single and polaroid?

In this era, everyone is running. If you are not careful, you will be left behind.

Only by constantly learning, constantly jumping out of the comfort zone and cultivating evolutionary power can we achieve leap-forward growth.

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