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It started with the Danjian werewolf killings

It all started with the werewolf killing game in team building last Friday. In the first round, I’m a werewolf, hide my strength, don’t cry, don’t fly, win; After two bureau humble clergy, point soldiers point will, “a blind”, talk, the result is a big victory.

This seemingly disruptive behavior at the macro level can actually dramatically increase the odds that the good guys win.

For the werewolves, the key to victory boils down to simply “keeping your identity from being blown.” For the good guys, the key to victory is “letting the werewolves be blown.”

Knowing that wolves are in the shadows, it’s a lot harder on instinct and luck to expose a werewolf, and if you can’t kill a few werewolves at first, the longer you wait, the worse it gets. How do you expose a werewolf? My strategy is to upset the balance, not be afraid to make mistakes, give the werewolf away, and increase my chances of winning.

At the beginning, werewolves know each other’s identities, randomly refer to two people, among which the probability of werewolves is quite high, and the performance of werewolves is easy to reveal some important information; Even if the means are good people, werewolves performance is different also, identify the number of people likely to use a little more, at this point, people have begun to groups, at the same time also revealed to you people good probability refers to the greater judgment information, such as add up all these will increase the probability of winning, which is a began to think of some way to get a werewolf also involved, werewolves are know each other’s identity, The more you talk, the more you do, the more you reveal. However, if at first you will barak barak said some some no words, the first inning basically depends on luck, werewolves have the tries.

Much of what we do at work is similar. For example, in the bug test of software development, we can see that the bug in the software is the werewolf killing the werewolf. To make these bugs appear, our normal operation routine is far from enough. Destructive extreme test boundary tests must be performed to expose these bugs, such as no data, network anomalies, sudden 10x network access spikes, etc.

As you can see, it’s a very effective way to bring out potential problems, potential bad guys, to upset the balance, to intentionally make mistakes. This strategy is also their own work and learning strategies for growth.

Unbreakable philosophy

If our life as a game of werewolves, stagnation, repetition, limitations and comfort can be seen as a werewolf, we need to find out to kill them, however, people always used to stay in the comfort zone, easily, often can’t see behind the werewolf actually killed every night in your heart that good people, over time, Your life could be ruined by a werewolf.

, for example, many developers into the Internet industry, after 1 ~ 2 years will grow very fast, meet a lot of new things every day, there is always a lot of things, will not, however, as a 2 ~ 3 years, after the business such as adept, you will find work if there is no challenge every day, work content and repeat, as if there was no significant growth, every day at this time, You’re clearly in your comfort zone, or you can view it as a growth bottleneck. Many people work way is to change the change, to stimulate their own different business team culture, it’s really very effective, but this is not a long-term solution, when come to you will find the same, usually 10 years or so, you will find again into a bottleneck, all nature doesn’t change, and age, the higher the cost of changing jobs, Having to stay in one place and be comfortable, and then watch the younger generation surpass you, that’s what the midlife crisis is all about.

Therefore, if you want to be successful in life, especially in the emerging and fiercely competitive Internet industry, the key is to practice your own internal skills far from your comfort zone, rather than relying on the environment. By your own behavior and strategy, you can find out the werewolf hidden in the dark and destroy it. Then you can win in life.

How do we find these werewolves? My approach is consistent with the above werewolf killing, to destroy, the so-called unbreakable, the specific approach includes the following points: the destruction of balance, the initiative to make mistakes, the breadth of stimulation, create difficulty.

1. Upset the balance

The picture on the left is called “twister car”. The children in the family like to play and play very smoothly. The power of a twister is interesting. To move forward, it has to twist and turn, creating momentum through imbalance. It’s a lot like technical growth, or progress in life, where you need something unbalanced to get ahead.

Going further, this is actually similar to the class difference and the wealth difference internally. People think that in the past, when everyone was equal, social and economic development was slow, but the apparent balance caused stagnation. And it is estimated that when the ability is superior and the imbalance is generated, the country’s economic development in the past 40 years is very rapid. The imbalance can generate power. As long as the balance is well mastered and the car does not overturn, it can continue to move forward.

Life is the same, if full of the status quo, feel very good, no desire; Or confused, do not know where the future road is, what they want, then the development will stagnate, for the Internet industry, if the stagnation means that it will be overtaken, is very dangerous.

If you’re in this state, you need to break that balance to gain momentum. There are many methods, such as breaking xiao Yan’s marriage in the sky, which is a kind of balance break; Or talk about a vigorous but failed love, let me think of Dong Mingzhu if not the death of her husband, afraid of not today’s achievements; Or ask the boss to give you a one star incentive.

I used to use stimulation to break the fog, but now I use setting goals to keep me going.

For example, IF I want to change the world, I find that my goal is still far away, so I have to refuel and work hard every day. Because the current state is unbalanced compared with the goal state, this imbalance generates the motivation to move forward.

Of course, your goal may not be so far-fetched as to change the world. It may be short-term, for example, I will complete 10 shares in the team this quarter, and I will translate xx document in 1 month. Call your girlfriend at noon every day for a month. Your relationship will be better. Go to the gym at least once a week.

Unbalanced production, away from the current state, to gain momentum for growth.

2. Make mistakes

Not afraid to make mistakes, even actively.

Give me an example of how I know where to drive.

For frequent route, such as home, or go to work, in the early, I almost pathologically every time a different way, for example, Johnson often regardless of Shanghai high-speed, beijing-shanghai high-speed, high-speed Shen Hai this several high-speed main road opened, I don’t go many times directly under the high speed from slowly walk, walk not to walk all the highway, through half provincial highway, I walked all the trails in the city. It turns out that 80% of these side-door roads are bad choices. For example, the highway lasted for 2 hours, but it took 4 hours to drive on the highway. There were trucks, traffic lights, photos, and once there was a collision. It may seem that these decisions are wrong, time-consuming, laborious and painful, but the experience and learning from such active mistakes are valuable and impressive. The different characteristics of different paths become clear, and the skills of knowing the way grow quickly, which will bring great value in the future. As expected, the holiday came, the high-speed traffic jam became dog excrement, and I, then with wife adult in the car, eating hot pot, humming a ditties, along the following road, perfect to avoid congestion, all the way smooth returned home, than the traffic jam of these guys fast 1 times time.

The secret of becoming a road master is to take the initiative to try, not afraid of making mistakes, failure to grow quickly, as long as the discovery of a winding path through the secluded road is to earn, is not to earn, the scenery along the way is also good harvest.

When I learn skills, I will try all kinds of things, not afraid of making mistakes. Some mistakes in life can’t be redeemed. However, code and skills are not like this.

For example, when I was learning the TWO ES6 apis padStart() and padEnd(), the following completion parameter should be a string, but I made a mistake on my own. I tried all kinds of data types, only to find something else. Knowledge details than step by step shallow tasted learning students a lot, when you have countless such accumulation, you can throw others a Chang ‘an Avenue.

3. Breadth stimulation

The cost of seeking new stimulation by changing jobs is relatively high. Generally speaking, most enterprises do not like employees who change jobs frequently. But we do no harm by stimulating ourselves away from ease and inertia through breadth.

Breadth stimulation on the one hand is to pay attention to the new technology, not necessarily to know, at least to understand, can expand the breadth of their own technology selection. If some techniques are very helpful to the team, they can promote the landing of the team, easy to produce good performance, promotion and salary increase will naturally follow.

The other aspect is to focus on new models, new businesses. For example, there were a lot of live broadcasts last year, as well as the rise of Douyin and Pinduoduo. The understanding of these new models and new businesses helps to broaden my horizon and prevent me from being idle. Otherwise, they stay in a small part of the company and do not pay attention to external things. It is easy to drown in the rolling trend and be eliminated by The Times.

In the past, many people who worked in IBM and other traditional IT companies were so tired that their cognition was behind The Times. They could not play in the emerging Internet companies and their theories were outdated, which is very dangerous. We can take IT as a reference and effectively avoid IT.

4. Create your own difficulty

People in rivers and lakes, involuntarily. It is inevitable to receive boring work without technical content. For the front end, it is very boring to do some simple operation activities. Are you throwing your life away by following through on your work, or are you a bit obsessed with making it harder for yourself to have fun?

Having fun means not using your little bit of technology over and over again, but taking every opportunity to give yourself an interesting challenge and grow fast.

Here are some examples of the challenges I’ve set myself:

  • This icon I drew in pure CSS;
  • This effect is pure CSS implementation;
  • I will try this effect in SVG;
  • I want to control the loading size of all resources on this page within 100K;
  • Repetitive work is boring, write an automation tool, this page I just let me test a tool to test how it runs;
  • Recently, I have learned some new technology, which is relatively risky to use in large projects. This operation page, which is just for internal colleagues, can be used to try.
  • …

And so on and so on. Why do you feel boring work, because the repeat, then find a way to not repeat, give oneself increment challenges not good, more for more growth, though spend a little time, however, make originally the along while doesn’t make sense to waste your life time also becomes meaningful, himself up, and then he and his colleagues share share, the impending, influence also had, Naturally, it is easier to succeed in life.

There’s no falling pie

In the new industry of the Internet, you can’t expect to paddle around every day and stay in your comfort zone while getting promoted and raised to the top of your life.

The Internet industry is a relatively fair industry at present. If you work hard, make positive progress, have outstanding ability and excellent technology, you will naturally get the appropriate reward and status, because such people are scarce in the industry. Similarly, those who keep the point of learning a few years ago to look forward to a lifetime of pension in the company, will also be eliminated, by the edge, disappear in the rolling world of humanity. This is fairness, and this is one of the reasons why China leads the world in Internet development.

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