文/曾鹏宇

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两年前，小何大学毕业后进了一家公司。因为是新人，他被安排到基层的岗位，每天干的都是琐碎的事。

几月后，小何就有点儿不开心了，说自己比很多人都能吃苦而且兢兢业业，为什么领导看不到？后来，他忍不住跟领导表达了一下自己的想法，没想到反而被调去看仓库。

小何所在的公司是我以前所在单位的供应商。有一次，我们联合做完活动，小何跑过来跟我诉苦。我问他，“你觉得自己应该做什么工作？”

小何说，“至少干点技术含量高一点儿的，能学到东西的。”

我说：“你只有把这一份工作做到极致，换工作才有意义，你觉得自己做到了吗？”

小何说：“看仓库那样的工作，我当然做到了极致。”

我特别直接地告诉他：“不，你并没有做到。就说这次做活动需要取放货物，我发现物品A数量比较少，你们放得离门口很近；物品B数量很多，你们放得比较远。可是，领物品B的人远比领物品A的多。你觉得合理吗？”

小何想想说：“可是，送货的人送来的时候就那么放的啊！”

我说：“送货的人不懂，但你是负责仓库管理的人，你应该懂！除了物品码放领取，你们一共7个人，负责领物的4个，负责看管的3个，领物的忙死，看管的是闲死，你也觉得合理吗？”

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我又想起来，大约七八年前，我还在媒体上班。我负责的一个部门接收了一个实习生，是名牌大学新闻专业本科生，为期三个月。结果刚一个月，他就来找我说想结束实习。我问为什么，他倒也直接：“我想当一个好记者，但我觉得自己在这里学不到东西。”

听到他的回答，我特别意外。他现在每天干得最多的是从各个渠道整理新闻线索交给编辑，再由编辑从中选出可以操作的情报——这是每个新闻专业学生刚开始工作时必须经历的一个环节。

他继续哭丧着脸地说：“这一个月，我觉得每天都挺用心，但是整理出了很多好的线索，但是最后总是被编辑否掉，这让我心里特别沮丧。”

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I started my career in the media industry, and for an entire year, I was doing especially mundane basic work, nothing more than information collection and data organization. Some of my intern colleagues left soon after starting, but I stayed on. People said it wasn't tiring? I said it wasn't tiring because there were many things I didn't understand.

The first week at work, the editor saw the title I came up with and laughed: "This is so rigidly serious; will readers love to read it?"

My first interview, the draft was returned by my superior countless times. I asked her why she did that; she replied: "You're writing this for yourself to read, not for our readers."

My first large-scale event participation resulted in a piece of writing full of passion and fervor being criticized by a senior colleague: "Your emotional involvement is too much; where's your calmness and objectivity?"

In those early years of professional life when everything began with discovering problems solving them improving levels then repeating discovery solution improvement cycle.

At one point when I was criticized by my leader after working diligently saying “Leader you always criticize us don’t you fear demotivating our enthusiasm?” Her response still etched in memory: “If you do enough good work no one will criticize you.” Moreover criticism from others isn’t as scary as self-criticism! So even if they deny me personally their denial won’t hurt me nearly as much as outside denial would!

Every person knows how hardworking they are yet few pay attention to details. They haven’t worked something into perfection but only repeated a task 100 times. And even then they never took time out to analyze what changed between each repetition let alone learn from it nor have they ever reflected on setbacks or doubts raised from outside world before giving up.

Years of experience have taught me two things - First pay close attention to every detail Second seek key elements within those details The first makes you sharper considering more comprehensively while second enables evolution from quantitative change to qualitative transformation.

True diligence isn't about busyness! In this busy world live richly Don't use tactical busyness cover strategic laziness How can we distance ourselves from low-quality busyness begin high-efficiency living? You shouldn't use war tactics busywork camouflage strategy laziness