Why do I always feel that hard work is not rewarded

I went to see the assembly line workers in the factory, the casual workers in the processing factory who settled the wages by the piece rate, and the little brother who runs takeout every day. It is indeed a reward for every day of hard work.

I don't mean to despise these professions at all. Each mode has its advantages and stages. Maybe you need to go through such stages at the beginning, but you may not need them later.

However, the kind of work that pays off in a day, you can get very limited remuneration and experience.

can receive a return in one week

This situation is very common in our school age, we always admire those who review all night, recite questions, and guess the direction of the exam questions. "Straight A student". Their scores for a week of hard work may be higher than that of our hard work for a whole semester.

worked hard for a whole semester, but no one was effective for a week.

But is this really the case?

The reason why you feel this way is that you tie your effort to your score. That is, I work very hard, but my score is still not good. This causal relationship makes you feel more frustrated.

But did our efforts only lead to the result of a score?

won’t our knowledge increase,Will our thinking not expand, and our depth of thinking will not be improved.

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I know that the most important thing for someone to stand up and say, don’t learn from me, is the most important thing. It's true, the score is the most important thing in school age. But afterwards.

After entering the adult society, you will find that many things are not something you can see after a week of hard work.

Even if you work hard for a long time, you can't see the result. Because of the complexity of the matter, it will increase in many dimensions in an instant.

Your work ability, your work attitude, your interpersonal relationship, whether you can carry it, whether you have enough patience, your knowledge reserve, your depth of thinking, and even your luck, And so on, many dimensions are influencing and determining your career.

God, so many dimensions of interaction, you can improve in one week and one month.

Many people find that the total attack of the last week of the school age seems to be useless in adult society.

Because it is impossible for you to add a week's shift, the boss will give you a raise; it is also impossible for you to work hard for a month, and your business can change qualitatively.

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This model is also brought to our work.We can hear many colleagues complain about the boss:

I can do as much as I give.

I will do it if it can make money immediately. I don’t want to do it if I can’t make money immediately. Where do I make more money?

So, you will find that people who have this kind of thinking in their minds are generally constantly changing jobs, changing industries, or changing jobs.

In this world, there are really not all jobs. You have money when you come. You only need to work for a week and you can see future benefits in a month.

Human nature is to pursue short-term returns. For things that are uncertain in the future, people hate investing time or even money. Because I don't know if I put it in, I can get it back then.

The best thing is that I work hard now, and you immediately give me a feedback and a reward. Otherwise I won't do it.

So why we have worked hard for so long and we can see the results, but we can't see the hope, the root is here.

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Let me give you a very vivid example: military training

during military training. It's hard to find any usefulness on it.

What is the use of folding the quilt into a tofu-like shape, but it can’t make money;

What is the use of walking forward, you don’t need to walk like that when you actually walk; too difficult.

Can the instructor talk to you about this? You must give it to me, this is an order. There are not so many whys, not so many useful and useless. But you have to do it.

So you will find that those who return to join the army generally have more self-discipline than ordinary people. I don’t need to say more about how important self-discipline is.

Just like now, many people will question one thing: they will ask what is the use of reading? ? ?

Rolling calf, did we ask when we were in school, what is the use of reading? Not all teachers forced us to read books like this one after another.

asks this question. is because in the mode setting, they cannot directly link reading to the direct causal relationship between making money, getting a promotion, raising a salary, and starting a business. That is, I work hard to study and study. It is not directly equivalent to being able to make money and being able to get a promotion.

Coupled with the influence of survivor bias, many people feel that going to graduate school is not as good as graduating from elementary school.

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So,Here you will find that the reason why you feel that your hard work is not rewarded is that you always want to find a reason for doing something to support it. What is the use of what I did? Why do I do this thing.

ignores one of the simplest truths of the matter itself, When you don’t delve deeply and do it with your heart, you simply won’t get the true meaning of doing something, and you don’t know it. How much benefit can it bring to you?

There is a gap between ability and fantasy in this mode setting.

The fancier is always anxious, whether I want to do it or not, is it worth it;

and the person who set "must do", has long been thinking and solving problems. , Knowing the method, meaning, reason, and even a lot of unexpected gains later.

Today I talked about this problem, but in the final analysis it is a sentence: don't care if it is useful, just do it.