Cognitive closure is the root cause of a person’s stagnation.
Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account “Liu language beauty” (ID :crystal_words), author Zhao Xiaoli.
Writing in the front:
Do you have such a person around you?
The mind can’t say that it’s not smart. It’s just that cleverness seems to use the wrong place. It can’t correctly understand the feedback of others. Do you think you are targeting TA?
There is a serious lack of self-awareness. If you have problems, you can’t find reasons from yourself. Instead, you blame the environment or other people’s problems. You can never find a real power point.
You give your advice and advice from the heart. Because the other party’s cognition is insufficient, you always think that you are giving the TA a “chicken soup”. Do you think you are in a talented position but you are hitting the wall?
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The starting point of this kind of people is not bad, but because of cognitive closure, it is difficult to establish an objective and correct understanding of the workplace. The perception of the problem is more paranoid. The incident always feels the problem of the environment or others, so this People’s workplace adaptability is weak, and career development often has a sharp-opened cliff-like decline, which is commonly known as “smashing a good hand.”
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Not long ago, at the invitation of a friend who was engaged in HR, Jenny (a pseudonym), I went to their company to give some employees a training seminar on career planning. After the course, I talked about the cognitive part of career planning, Jenny I am filled with emotions and tell me a real story.
This story is what Jenny heard from her friend Gary (pseudonym).
In the original, Gary worked in a Fortune 500 company. In the first half of the year, the company hired a 985 college graduate, Alan (a pseudonym), through the school recruitment. It is said that Alan’s school performance is quite good, every year. It is the winner of the scholarship, and the ranking is also in the top five. Originally, Alan’s department head, Mary (a pseudonym), has high hopes for this Alan. He feels that with Alan’s learning ability and outstanding intellectual level, he will have much to do in the future.
At that time, it was just that the department launched a new business at the time, for forgingRefining Alan, Mary asked Alan to be an assistant in the project, assisting the project manager Wendy, and Wendy was more concerned about Alan. At the time, everyone agreed that Alan was a plastic talent.
But the facts are surprising.
When at the beginning, Wendy asked Alan to take charge of some transactional work. Although these transactional work seems trivial, because this is just a project, many specifications and processes are not perfect. Wendy also handed it to Alan. Let him use his mind to figure out how to standardize the process. If you don’t understand, you can communicate at any time, and Alan readily agrees.
But more than half a year later, Wendy needed to retrieve some information and found that Alan was still very slow and very hard. She could not help but wonder if Alan had numbered and filed the information according to her requirements.
After the investigation, Alan did not standardize these tasks, resulting in a lot of work still messy. Other colleagues in the department also complained about Alan. I felt that I can simplify the process through perfecting the process. I don’t know why Alan is not. Putting into action, every day is a busy and unbearable look, and Alan docking work, the efficiency is low, the quality of work will be greatly reduced.
Wendy talked to Alan and wanted to know why, but the strange thing is that Alan didn’t know what to do.
Other employees and Wendy have responded to some important situations, making Wendy extremely disappointed with Alan.
It turns out that Alan is not willing to standardize work according to the requirements of the supervisor, because in these fuss, Alan is profitable: for example, we know that when many specifications are not perfect, many things are evaluated. Subjective, and in these subjective judgments, there will naturally be some oil and water, and according to employees, Alan has had similar hints with them.
This made Wendy so violent. Gradually, through one piece, Wendy found helplessly that Alan was smart, but unfortunately, cleverness was not used on the right track.
When Wendy talked to Alan twice, but obviously, Alan’s mood was even worse after the conversation. It seems that the supervisor is interested in targeting himself, and even in the end, Alan’s work is very efficient.After the low level, the degree of cooperation was also very poor, so after consultation, the company decided to dissuade Alan.
It is said that Alan, who had been persuaded, still didn’t realize her problem. Later, she went on a private company with her family’s introduction, but it didn’t seem to last long… Now Alan is working in an outsourcing company. Unhappy all day.
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From the case of the career counseling I have handled, there are quite a few scholars like Alan who have been in the workplace, but they are often in the workplace, and the reasons are inseparable from the level of personal cognition.
1, career development is not smooth, blindly complaining that the past is useful but not effective;
Why do you have a good academic record and have not adapted to the society?
Does our school education be so unbearable?
I have seen a lot of comments on the Internet criticizing my past education and even the original family. It seems to cause a lot of people to resonate, but in fact, it is a bit like a person can’t make a job at work, and in turn blame the childhood dad. The diaper that Mom used for herself is not the same.
Whether it’s slamming the education that you’ve received, or slamming your own native family, it’s nothing more than a reason to be able to find a good-looking reason for your ability to work. This kind of attribution will undoubtedly make you feel comfortable and relieve your mentality. Stress and guilt are undoubtedly useful, but they are ineffective from the results.
School education itself is a single dimension of competition, just like a person playing a game, always have to play some mobs, in order to gradually upgrade to play Boss – therefore, school competition is the initial stage of social competition, and social competition is the school The continuation and enhanced version of the competition.
If social competition is likened to full competition, then school competition is a single dimension of competition; any one needs to start from a single dimension of competition in order to start full competition, and it cannot be done overnight.
2. The lack of understanding of the rules of social competition is the reason why many people adapt to maladjustment;
UndoubtedlyXueba is a group of people who have adapted to the competition of the school. Many years of learning experience tell them that as long as they do well within the rules, the odds are high. Therefore, they like clear goals and tasks, and rules that are easy to grasp.
But when it comes to the workplace, these are not suitable.
For example, most companies have fixed positions, and individuals must set goals and tasks themselves.
In today’s workplace environment, only a few large companies have their own talent training programs and promotion channels. Most companies do not do enough at this point, but this is also related to the company’s development stage.
Generally speaking, the first priority of an entrepreneurial company is to survive. For it, how to expand business is the first priority, and some things in the company must be done, but as to whether it can be Promotion and promotion depends on the size of the company and whether the business can grow and develop.
From this perspective, the survival environment of such an organization is market-oriented. Before it reaches a certain stage and scale, it is still precarious, but it is not able to take care of the personal development of employees, and employees lack. The awareness of career planning, on such a “ship”, can only let the market storm, and do not know where their future is going.
3, the degree of openness of a person’s cognition is not absolutely related to academic qualifications and achievement;
Among the visitors I contacted, although many people have lower academic qualifications and performance than Alan in the previous section, they are at least cognitively more open than Alan and more inclusive.
At least the partners who come to consult or participate in the training camp are very interested in the cognitive self. They want to gain a more objective understanding and adjust their behavior. When they have such knowledge, they can consult. Or training to find the crux of the problem and the solution, will naturally grow faster.
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And a group of people represented by Alan in the past, I feel that they are more like “smart stupidity.”
Overall, people’s cognition is relatively closed. When they encounter problems, they often don’t know their own problems. They simply look for reasons and then habitually use “negative thinking” to feel the world. The people are doing the right thing against themselves, and have a little similarity with the persecution paranoia. Then, in order to prevent others from plotting themselves, they are preoccupied with personal interests. The performance in the workplace is that there is no way to do things. Conceived from the perspective of thingsThe problem is to think about the problem from the private heart.
So, how can you get a good career development?
Like the previous Alan, from the perspective of organizational efficiency and work development, standardizing the basic work can undoubtedly improve work efficiency, but also facilitate the quantifiable and controllable process.
And Alan is reluctant to do this thing, and he is very busy with himself. The most important thing is to be selfish. If there is no analysis wrong, he will probably think that once these things are standardized, they will have no oil and water. I can fish, and at the same time I can’t seem to show my sense of existence and importance. I don’t know, because of this interest in front of him, he failed the expectations of the leader, and in the end exposed the defects of character and morality. It is the root of the unit that is persuaded by the unit.
Only if he is willing to step out of the closed cognitive system and see the more ambitious opportunities and development behind the immediate interests, this person can really grow up. Otherwise, his workplace dilemma will always exist, and with age Growth, the road to the workplace is getting narrower!
“The meaning of success should be to play with your own strengths, and after doing your own efforts, feel a kind of heartless harvest, not for vanity or money.” Roland
