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In the reader’s message, I think the work is boring, and I can’t find a goal to move forward. The proportion is very high.

If you want to clearly understand your career plan and goals, you must at least know what you like to do and what kind of work you are willing to sleep and forget.

Many readers feel that they do n’t know what their goals are, what they like to do, and what they like to do is not to work.

Without lifting the bar, you can understand who has n’t been confused since young.

Maybe it ’s really hard to find your favorite things to do. After all, our job selection also has too many objective factors. But can we change our thinking and find ways to make ourselves like work?

In fact, it is a keyword that has been repeated countless times, curiosity.

If you can stay curious at work, in most cases, you can find the positive side of the job. Moreover, when your curiosity is strong enough, your initiative and motivation will also burst out.

I still take the case of an industry I am familiar with.

For example, you are a product manager.

If you can be curious about the reason for user churn, you will try to analyze the behavior trajectory before user churn, try to find the reason for user churn, and then use product iteration to verify that your understanding is correct. This matter is no longer to deal with the leadership work, but to satisfy your curiosity.

For example, you are a researcher.

If you can be curious about the cost of system resources and the underlying mechanism of data indexing, you will naturally analyze some underlying technologies in depth, analyze each potential optimization point, and take a step in the technical field.

For example, you are an operator.

You are curious about the source of users, you are curious about the way users spontaneously spread, you are curious about the different characteristics of users in different channels, you are constantly looking for answers to satisfy your curiosity, your operating strategies and capabilities are not rising .

For example, you are data analysis.

Not to mention this, so much data, logs, how many stories behind it, how is it hiddenIf you are curious enough, you will feel that there are interesting things everywhere and gold mines everywhere. How can you think this job is boring, how can you think this job has no future.

If you are curious about your work goals, you will naturally have an interest in active exploration. Your workplace experience will be very different, and your professional development will also be very different.

A few days ago, a group of old rivers and lakes happened to mention the person in charge of a super giant phenomenon product of a new giant, tracing back the history of joining the old club in that year. When he first entered the business, his boss ’s boss paid attention to This child has a future, because he is full of curiosity and desire to explore the product, and has been defined as a high-potential young man by the middle of the company. This kind of talent can’t be suppressed.

Some people say that the time window is very important. In the past, the examples I gave were all taken out ten years ago, but many of the things I saw recently came out in the past five years. There are no new cases, but from the cases shared by others, there are still such talents and opportunities. You may think it ’s a survivor bias, but to be honest, those proactive and curious young people who worked together many years ago now find it difficult to cite a counterexample that does n’t work out.

I often ask myself some questions.

  • What do you want to know about some goals in your work?

  • How to understand this information, what are the ways and means, or who can you consult?

  • Find a way to understand it thoroughly and use it as a problem-solving game to overcome it.

  • Through trial at work, verify that you understand correctly, such as code optimization, such as product and operation strategy adjustment.

    Find ways to fill yourself with curiosity, you can dig into the fun of work and find your own direction better.

    All opportunities are for yourself.

    High-potential young people certainly have more than curiosity, but curiosity is often the foundation that drives you forward.

    This article comes from the WeChat public account: caoz fudge (ID: caozsay) , author: caoz