Self-growth｜Return to the thinking of "being a person"

Affected by the epidemic, after the start of the three-level alert, our company also implemented the WFH (work from home) policy, which is an adaptation to the new environment, but more often, it is a challenge to our time allocation.

The first week was a bit out of habit, and then I slowly started looking for new patterns, and a lot of different ideas came up, including one that had been delayed for a long time, and I had no chance to make a big move.

After several weeks of self-reorganization, I redesigned the layout of the website and revised the website by the way. In fact, this is a process of about a month. You can refer to the update record . I first integrated the original and wrote on both sides on 5/22. , and recently made a major revision of the website.

Of course, there are a lot of different thinking behind it. In the past, if you wanted to operate separately in the two places, it was based on your own history , which was diverse and seemed to be very different.

In the past, I always thought that these were two different identities, so it should be divided into two places to operate, to separate the body and mind from other fields. Originally, I wanted to treat them as two different identities, which could be converted into each other in writing.

With the passage of time, the feeling of this separation between the two becomes more and more strange. In addition, the time is really busy, so the productivity of writing decreases, which triggers this "weird" feeling and sets off a ripple of thinking in my heart.

Multiple identities, after all, one person

Due to my wide range of interests, I am grateful to God for providing me with enough resources, including real money and learning ability, so that I can learn different aspects of knowledge in a variety of ways. Just like looking back at the state of mind of the past five years , it was an unconscious, accumulated learning of various applications, and the certificate created many identities.

But after thinking about it seriously, identity is just a definition, and there is no way to fully describe me as a "person". And each person will inevitably have a variety of different identities in life , because different relationships construct our identity.

Just like when I finish a class today, I can become a learner in a field and slowly become an achiever. Even finally became a teacher, master, and leader in the field. However, these "identities" are all definitions given to you by the outside world.

Identity is the definition of a person formed through the outside world and under the connection of various relationships.

Therefore, a person can have multiple identities, but after a long time in one identity, time is tempered, links are accumulated, and finally it is easy to shine.

But the most real situation is that "people will replace this identity", and there are many such cases in real life. TSMC founder Zhang Zhongmou , even if he is no longer the chairman, is still a figure who can lead the direction of the industry; Lin Huaimin , the founder of Cloud Gate Dance Troupe, who announced his retirement in 2019, still has a piece of the art field. I won't give many examples, because as long as you open Wikipedia, there are thousands of cases, everything.

Gradually, in such wandering and wandering, I opened myself up and told myself: "Instead of struggling with identity, we should return to a person's perspective and examine ourselves."

An unfamiliar question: "As a human being?"

This question is very short, because it can be followed by anything, but I can't find any question to write down.

I rarely see myself from this angle, or should I say, I don't seem to ask myself this question properly in the years I can remember.

Is it because: "I don't think I'm a person?" or: "I've never taken something so natural that it needs to be converted into a question."

How many are there! A hundred possibilities can be named, and each one has a chance of being a percentage of that one hundred percent answer.

Try to use a very logical solution, or even consider using the SWOT analysis that is often heard in marketing, to write down your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and circumstances. However, after about a second, it felt too troublesome and gave up.

Thinking that I have learned so many skills of body and mind, this is the best time to get along with myself. It just so happened that the epidemic provided a rare opportunity. Under the three-level alert, the time to interact with the outside world was much less, and it gave me a lot of time to spend with myself.

Looking back at the articles that I have slowly sorted out, I suddenly found that the writing project originally titled " Writing-Driven Life " has already revealed what kind of "person" I am.

To put it bluntly, there is no way to do only one thing, so I do many different things; and for repeated things, there will be a rapid diminishing marginal effect, so I always look for something new. Shattering the reconstituted collection is my biggest motivation to do something different that keeps me starting.

Thinking back on it, if you insist on cutting up your own things and pulling out the body and mind, it runs counter to "this person" .

After such reasoning, I finally discovered, or should say, realized a sentence that I often heard.

"Be true to yourself" All things will become your nourishment, and those who are contrary are a kind of poison.

Redefine your own strengths and stay away from poison

The major purpose of this major reorganization of the website and blog is not to let oneself continue to ingest poison by mistake.

From the outside, it is to start to collect one's own abilities and skills to create a "personal brand"; but from a deeper perspective, it is to redefine one's own advantages.

Good at connecting, doing what no one else has done, and then simplifying the complex.

Only when there are enough things can you connect, gradually accumulate different resources, and help yourself to do different creations. As I design each menu item on the website, the placement of the home page, the adjustment of the layout, etc., I can gradually understand that I can have more innovative ideas after finishing.

I think it is the first step to put it all together, and I have spent a lot of time. There are a lot of technical and thinking things. I just saw that many people published articles on setting up websites in Matters, and then shared them to generate more exchanges.