In drifting through the tides of job hunting, is the person who stays most conscious wins the game. Yet this is such a convoluted world full with complexities and on top of everything, there is human factor that attributes to the dynamics of our world today.
Financial industry is even in line with this statement. The things we know for sure today might be disregarded tomorrow, and we are left with two choices. One is to foresee the upcoming trend by historical and present events. Although there is some studies like predictive analytics on their incubation stage, human in nature is not accustomed to visualizing the future. The sheer difficulty of first choice left us to the second and last choice: realize the changes from within and be even more resilient than you are now.
When resilience is being highly regarded yet individual competencies are still the deciding factors on one's success, young talents have to be more conscious on striking a balance between the two polars, namely over-generalist and over-specialist. It is in other words to correctly identify the few qualities to be specialized over time, depends on your personal strengths. The qualities have to be stay sound regardless of business cycles and in the same time easily transferrable. These qualities, combined with resilience could be the driving factors of one's performance under the increasingly unpredictable global world today. The reason being that one could continue to deliver with the alternative qualities if one day his foremost quality is being dismissed as unimportant for the business.
On a side note, there are warnings that a singularity point could emerge when everyone in the corporate world has been as resilient as others and is able to cooperate perfectly between each other, then individualism would be dethroned and replaced by the community-driven paradigm. This is when the social media brings very intricate value to business and this is when the idea of "global village" eventually become a reality.
However as far as the status quo is concerned, this fundamental change is still on early stage, as seen by the relative market share of grass root organizations and global for-profit organizations. The arrival of singularity point could be quite far ahead of where we are now, and it is more pragmatic for us to collectively look for the hard-sought balance between resilience and individual competency.
22.6.12
Managing Emotions
In the midst of busy work life, busy event preparation period and stagnant social relationships, I was so occupied by things that I forgot to visit my personal emotional closet. Leaving the closet uncleaned has brought some drastic consequences....
Living in such a fast-moving society where meritocracy is held high to form a social hierarchy, it's easy to lose ourselves in the stiff competition. Inevitably, managing emotions and achieving a work-life balance have continually become more important to our performance.
There are three reasons behind the importance of self-management. We have the highest influence over our emotions, and our productivity is, surprisingly, largely driven by how do we feel. It had been clear that the ultimate way to look for long-term happiness is to adjust our emotional states.
Secondly, deep down we are just humans, who require support from friends and family no matter how independent we are. Seeking for help when in need is something we should all learn to do, regardless of how strong we are as a person. We are naturally inclined to social with people around us to get warmth. And this positive energy of being connected with others, is worth far more than merely material benefits.
Thirdly, the prerequisite of thrive in your workplace is to feel good about your work. To "feel good" is a vague term indeed, yet this is precisely how we should gauge our career. If we don't feel contented or thrilled on accomplishing in work, it becomes meaningless to continue accomplishing more tasks. This is much easier said than done, but nevertheless the direction that we should head on to truly enjoy it. We are going to spend at least a third of our 24 hours to work everyday anyway, why not making it more fun to deal with?
Living in such a fast-moving society where meritocracy is held high to form a social hierarchy, it's easy to lose ourselves in the stiff competition. Inevitably, managing emotions and achieving a work-life balance have continually become more important to our performance.
There are three reasons behind the importance of self-management. We have the highest influence over our emotions, and our productivity is, surprisingly, largely driven by how do we feel. It had been clear that the ultimate way to look for long-term happiness is to adjust our emotional states.
Secondly, deep down we are just humans, who require support from friends and family no matter how independent we are. Seeking for help when in need is something we should all learn to do, regardless of how strong we are as a person. We are naturally inclined to social with people around us to get warmth. And this positive energy of being connected with others, is worth far more than merely material benefits.
Thirdly, the prerequisite of thrive in your workplace is to feel good about your work. To "feel good" is a vague term indeed, yet this is precisely how we should gauge our career. If we don't feel contented or thrilled on accomplishing in work, it becomes meaningless to continue accomplishing more tasks. This is much easier said than done, but nevertheless the direction that we should head on to truly enjoy it. We are going to spend at least a third of our 24 hours to work everyday anyway, why not making it more fun to deal with?
- Our productivity is, largely driven by our feelings.
- We receive positive energy by connecting with others.
- The prerequisite of thrive in workplace is to feel good about your work.
20.5.12
Are we going to be alone together?
We are in the times where we are regularly, immensely and uncontrollably overwhelmed by the inflow of information. Nobody could ever imagine how our communication works, two years from now.
Say Facebook. Only established less than a decade, it had become so handful, so convenient in our daily lives that our social channel is never the same. It simply abuses the human psychology of needing other's attention to build a fastest growing social network in the human history. This accomplishment alone, could not be compared or measured by any existing methodology. In this regard, it's worth to realize how should we utilise Facebook as a social channel but not THE social channel in our lives.
You have access to your circle of friends 's thoughts and emotions by just glancing through the posts. You are always keep up with trends and casual news, as long as you diligently browse Facebook every single day. (Just count how many minutes you spent on Facebook per hour in average. Then multiply by 24. You will be amazed.)
Being alone together, is an emerging trend especially for my ages and younger.
http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html
This inspirational TED talk addresses this worrying topic very thoroughly. I got heart-moved watching this talk, because what the speaker says is so matched with the reality. The future she foresees, is not so thrilling to know.
Have a common sense on human psychology and a couple assumptions, you could see, people could be read like a book.
Say Facebook. Only established less than a decade, it had become so handful, so convenient in our daily lives that our social channel is never the same. It simply abuses the human psychology of needing other's attention to build a fastest growing social network in the human history. This accomplishment alone, could not be compared or measured by any existing methodology. In this regard, it's worth to realize how should we utilise Facebook as a social channel but not THE social channel in our lives.
You have access to your circle of friends 's thoughts and emotions by just glancing through the posts. You are always keep up with trends and casual news, as long as you diligently browse Facebook every single day. (Just count how many minutes you spent on Facebook per hour in average. Then multiply by 24. You will be amazed.)
Being alone together, is an emerging trend especially for my ages and younger.
http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html
This inspirational TED talk addresses this worrying topic very thoroughly. I got heart-moved watching this talk, because what the speaker says is so matched with the reality. The future she foresees, is not so thrilling to know.
In fact, Facebook is better for observation on people than for interaction.
Have a common sense on human psychology and a couple assumptions, you could see, people could be read like a book.
8.5.12
The day-2 anecdote
The foggy hill is in fact, a very bumpy one.
At least very bumpy and foreign to me at first sight. I mean first day. This job is very rewarding with a number of reasons; it might be the most stretching one out there, it values you to a level that you never expected, it, basically, throws stuffs to you, and you have to take them one by one.
I still see things at a very positive side although might not be as enthusiastic as on some other things, which is perfectly reasonable. Banking per se is just as described by all others: fast-paced, dynamic, exacting, meritocratic. No matter what people actually do, regardless of functions, they bear the same banker's attitude.
Certainly I like this kind of atmosphere, I like positive people, I like to perform. The hard fact, though, is the transition between campus life and professional life is inevitable, and I am not good at adapting in a new environment.
We will see, we will see.
At least very bumpy and foreign to me at first sight. I mean first day. This job is very rewarding with a number of reasons; it might be the most stretching one out there, it values you to a level that you never expected, it, basically, throws stuffs to you, and you have to take them one by one.
I still see things at a very positive side although might not be as enthusiastic as on some other things, which is perfectly reasonable. Banking per se is just as described by all others: fast-paced, dynamic, exacting, meritocratic. No matter what people actually do, regardless of functions, they bear the same banker's attitude.
Certainly I like this kind of atmosphere, I like positive people, I like to perform. The hard fact, though, is the transition between campus life and professional life is inevitable, and I am not good at adapting in a new environment.
We will see, we will see.
4.5.12
On the savepoint
Resting recklessly in between of busy semester and exciting internship, so many things crossed my mind in this yet another transition of life.
I walked down from a bumpy road, looking afar, a foggy hill.
Events, coursework, tutoring, competition, job-hunting, networking, socializing;
Coursemates, friends around me, friends at US, friends back home, event partners, seniors, juniors, graduated seniors, family and all the people living around me.
My life is so multifaceted and dynamic that I could spent each of my day here differently, learning something new everyday. To a certain extent, I have deliberately paved down my path in this way, and I have enjoyed everything like never before.
The next, is judgmental. Real world, here I come.
I walked down from a bumpy road, looking afar, a foggy hill.
Events, coursework, tutoring, competition, job-hunting, networking, socializing;
Coursemates, friends around me, friends at US, friends back home, event partners, seniors, juniors, graduated seniors, family and all the people living around me.
My life is so multifaceted and dynamic that I could spent each of my day here differently, learning something new everyday. To a certain extent, I have deliberately paved down my path in this way, and I have enjoyed everything like never before.
The next, is judgmental. Real world, here I come.
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| I like this place. |
30.4.12
Do it in style.
The (unexpected) exposure in Chinese Modern Art has taught me a valuable lesson. Perhaps the only thing I bring back for this course.
That doing anything is up to you to decide. In these days you have the total freedom to execute your rights and thrive for your dreams. The thing is that, you have to do it in style. Do it differently. Do it simple yet with unprecedented manner. If you get the response from others of "oh it seems obvious, why I never thought of that", you are a winner.
Because obvious things, like making a habit of waking up early, are never that easy to achieve.
That doing anything is up to you to decide. In these days you have the total freedom to execute your rights and thrive for your dreams. The thing is that, you have to do it in style. Do it differently. Do it simple yet with unprecedented manner. If you get the response from others of "oh it seems obvious, why I never thought of that", you are a winner.
Because obvious things, like making a habit of waking up early, are never that easy to achieve.
Personal favorite from this course.
27.4.12
失去
我还是无法直率地面对.......《失去》
失去陪伴走来的人，一起拥有的岁月。
失去不能重来的青春
失去单纯的年纪
真的工作了，就不快乐了吗？
...自己的正面能让身边的人更正面。我这么执着地相信着。
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