Most people suffer from professional pain and confusion because they cannot find the internal driving force.

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If you don’t go to work, what are the ways you can make money?

This is not the case. A 53-year-old uncle in Japan, Kaiji Nakamura, relied on his clever ideas and a handful of origami skills, which not only subverted everyone’s imagination of origami, but also countless circles and became a tubing ( Youtube).

Soon, a publishing house saw him and came to him to publish a book.

So, a book called “Nakamura Kaiji: Magic Paper Rubik’s Cube” came into being. As long as you cut out the paper book pages, you can directly make the same paragraph of Nakamura.

The book was published in the second year. It lived up to expectations and sold for a while. Nakamura earned 1200w yen a year.

This income not only made it easy for Nakamura to pay off the mortgage, but also created a toy genre that swept Japan.

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Uncle’s famous work: Penguin Bomb

Uncle Nakamura, relying on creativity and a pair of dexterous hands, has achieved the financial freedom envied by many people.

If you also want to achieve financial freedom like this uncle one day, you may wish to read this article, I believe it will give you some inspiration and help.

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Like many of us, Uncle Nakamura hates going to work. I do n’t want to go to work for 7 days a week.

However, like many of us, this uncle says that he can’t go to work, but his body is very honest. Although he can’t escape the fate of “Social Animal”, his love of origami has always supported his life.

In order to learn more about paper art, the uncle is in the library whenever he has time.

One day, the uncle occasionally saw a “Paper Model Book”, and he could make things with rubber bands and paper, which opened his eyes.

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The Japanese also use mechanical principles to create robot-like dolls.

The 40-year-old uncle made a crazy decision, that is, resolutely resigning, and staying at home crazy “playing” with paper.

It is amazing that his talent is enough to support his willfulness, and the uncle goes further and further on the path of origami.

Because of the exquisite craftsmanship and innovative ideas, he has also won many practical awards:

First prize in the 11th Paper Craft Grand Prix

Excellent Award of the 10th YUPO Design Competition

The 20th Tokyo Handicraft Hall Design Award

Recommended works by the Examination Committee of the 12th Cultural Bureau Media Arts Festival

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Later, the uncle’s creativity and ability in origami became more and more powerful, so he put these on the oil pipe by hand and sucked countless powders for a while. This was the story of later books and even the creation of toy schools.

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I don’t know what inspiration you got from your uncle’s experience?

  • In my opinion, the key to uncle’s success is to find his own internal driving force. Once people find this kind of motivation, they want to It is difficult to fail.

    I wonder if you found it?

    This is the society. Really powerful people seem to have a steady stream of motivation every day. They seem to be tireless and can keep going up. What is going on?

    For example, Academician Zhong Nanshan who was in the recent fire, the elderly are still at the front line at the age of 84; and Dr. Zhang Wenhong, who is humorous and witty, is in his 50s and still in the same state as a young man …

    Where are the secrets of these cattle?

    Why are they always motivated?

    I have to mention an important concept here, Drive .

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    What is the driving force?

    In short, the driving force is the power that influences us to do things.

    The author Daniel Pinker tells us in the book “Drive” that in addition to physical needs and the power of money, there is a third level of internal motivation. This internal motivation is called driving force 3.0. .

    Drive 3.0 includes three elements:

    1. Autonomy: What I do, I decide;

    This includes four aspects: self-determined work content, working methods, working hours and working team.

    Encouraging autonomy is not encouraging irresponsibility, it is encouraging us to be autonomous individuals, not robots.

    2. Specialization: Do what you want to do better and better;

    Specialization is a psychological orientation.

    If you value learning goals (such as speaking English) rather than performance goals (such as passing English levels 4-6), you will pursue specialization.

    At the same time, specialization is also a continuous effort and investment. It requires the quality of “persistence”. From the perspective of those who pursue professionalism, good performance is always the next time.

    3. Purpose: to surpass one’s desire;

    Emphasis on maximizing purpose and becoming a guide for people’s ambitions and actions.

    This desire depends not only on existing goals, but also on future goals.

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    At Uncle Nakamura, we can easily find that the road to financial freedom of Uncle Nakamura is the embodiment of proper driving force 3.0:

    1. Autonomy: What I do, I decide;

    Uncle Nakamura loves origami, not only stays on his mouth, but also reflects on actual actions.

    He is not only satisfied with origami, but also actively researches and explores spontaneously. This is a typical manifestation of “autonomy”.

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    Uncle’s Tumbler Penguin

    At the age of 40, Uncle Nakamura quit his job, and the house family devoted himself to studying origami. This was a major “autonomous decision”.

    2. Specialization: Do what you want to do better and better;

    He properly interprets “specialization” here.

    He can play hobbies to a professional level, and even won various awards. He has gradually become a “big god” figure in the origami world. He is really professional (professional) and proficient (proficient).

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    (Transformers in the origami world)

    3. Purpose: to surpass one’s desire;

    Until today, in the eyes of outsiders, an uncle with both fame and fortune can make more than 3,000 paper models a year, which means that he can make 10 models a day. Obviously, origami has become a self-projection of Uncle Nakamura Now, he keeps innovating because of his strong desire to surpass himself.

    Uncle Japan

    (Mighty member of the Kamikara family)

    You may wish to observe that today, with the development of the Internet, many people use the Internet platform to become popular overnight. Many of them are the realization of the driving force 3.0!

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    For many professionals, what kind of inspiration and help can Driving Force 3.0 bring us?

    1. Autonomy: It is important to find a job that is willing and capable;

    At this level, We need to start with a combination of will and ability.

    In reality, will and ability interact with each other.

    For example, if you really hate a job (insufficient willingness), it is clear that you must not do well (not capable); and if you like it at first but then do not do well (insufficient ability), it is a long time You don’t want to do it (not enough will).

    2. Specialization: Find your own flow;

    In order to enter the state of flow, you need to meet certain conditions. The more important thing is the matching degree of your skills and challenges:

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    • Low skill level and low task difficulty will cause indifference (apathy), which is why many people do not want to start with basic skills (shooting, drawing circles, etc.) when they start to practice the same skills, because there is no There is no interest in challenge;

    • Medium skill level & low task difficulty will lead to boredom.

    • High skill level & low task difficulty will lead to relaxation;

    • Low skill level & high task difficulty will cause anxiety. Imagine the difficulty of survival game is always difficult to pass;

    • High skill level & high task difficulty will generate flow.

      So, if you want to specialize, you need to have an objective assessment of your skills and then combine the difficulty of the task to determine whether it is possible to enter a state of flow.

      3. Purpose: to find your way of being;

      This involves an extremely important question, that is, how do you define yourself, and what do you think reflects you?

      From the consulting cases I dealt with, the occupational pain and confusion of most people stems from the fact that they cannot find an internal driving force.

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      Finally, share a true story.

      Visitor Tingting (pseudonym)The dance dream, in her memory, she is the kind of child who automatically swings when she hears the beat of the body, and the dance teacher often praises her fast learning and good understanding.

      Tingting ’s parents believe that entering a state-owned enterprise as an accountant is the main business student of a girl ’s family.

      Tingting did not dare to disobey the will of her parents, she chose to obey, took a major that she did not like, and entered state-owned enterprises through family relations after graduation.

      You can imagine how painful Tingting was doing this job!

      From the perspective of objective results, Tingting’s work efficiency in the unit is not high, and she always makes mistakes. The leader often criticizes her. Tingting also knows that if she does not have an acquaintance relationship, I am afraid she would have been fired.

      I still remember that when Tingting found me to consult, she was sitting opposite me, and those big watery eyes always inexplicably burst into tears.

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      After performing related psychological counseling and construction for Tingting, we used Tingting 3.0 to find the answer about Tingting’s future career path.

      1. Autonomy:

      Undoubtedly, except for dancing, Tingting ’s path from choosing a profession to employment is a reflection of the will of her parents, with little autonomy;

      2, Specialization:

      Tingting still works secretly to study dance outside of her work. She always enters the state of “flow” in dance, and the more she invests, the more she feels that her job is boring; p>

      3. Purpose:

      In Tingting’s view, dancing is an important expression of her self-expression. She cannot imagine how she would exist in this world if she left dancing.

      With the advancement of counseling, Tingting’s career path is on the horizon, and she finally decides to choose a dance direction she loves and become a dance teacher.

      A few years have passed. Today, Tingting not only became a dance teacher, but also opened a dance studio with a few friends. During the recent epidemic, they were not idle. They taught video online on the Internet to students Do some coaching, etc.

      Tingting also told me that her current income is an amount she couldn’t even think of as an accountant in a state-owned enterprise a few years ago!

      And at the moment, are you really reading this article?

      “I only know today that the most frightening thing in the world is the way to myself.”-Herman Hesse’s” Demian “

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      -About the author-

      Zhao Xiaoli, senior career planner, national psychological consultant, workplace writer. Author of the best-selling book “Stop Blind Efforts: Your Life Needs Redesign”, based on career analysis case analysis, has become one of the few practical consulting and personal development books in the field of career planning. The new book “From Minimalist to Extreme: Be a Good Person in Your Field of Excellence” in the 2018 career planning and work methods dry goods category was named the top ten best books in economics and management in 2018. WeChat public account “丽 语 职 美人” (crystal_words), Sina Weibo @ 赵晓 璃.