Chapter 51 be happy while working

Bring fun to work, just like acting, make the show more exciting. There was a young man named Sam who was engaged in the boring job of turning screws in a factory.He really wanted to quit, but he was afraid that he would not find another job.Since this job has to be done, it's better to have fun.Sam decides to race another mechanic.Of the two, one is on the machine to finish the surface of the screw, and the other is to trim the screw to the correct size.The two sometimes trade machines to see who can make the most screws.Impressed with Sam's speed and precision, the foreman soon transferred him to a better job.A series of upgrades followed. Thirty years later, Sam Walkland is president of the Baldwin Locomotive Works.If he hadn't decided that he liked his work, he would probably have been nothing more than an ordinary lathe worker throughout his life.Howard was also my student, and a few years ago, he made a decision that changed his life.He is determined to make work fun.And his job is really boring for ordinary people: washing dishes, scrubbing counters, mopping floors, serving ice cream for other boys while other boys are playing football and chasing girlfriends.Howard hated the job, but since he had to, he decided to study how ice cream was made, what ingredients were in it, and why some ice creams were better than others.He studied the chemistry of ice cream, admiring his high school chemistry grades.As a result, he became more and more interested in food chemistry and entered the University of Massachusetts majoring in "food technology".When the New York Cocoa Promotion Center offered a fellowship to the author of the best applied research report on cocoa and chocolate, all college students were eligible to apply, and only Howard won.

Not long after, a new law was passed in the United States requiring bacteria in milk to be counted.Howard hired three assistants in the basement of his home and set up his own private laboratory. He was entrusted by nearly 20 nearby milk companies to count the number of bacteria, so he was so busy that he had to hire two assistants. Twenty-five years later, Howard has become a leader in the field, while other students may be unemployed and complain that they never had the opportunity.In fact, if Howard hadn't been determined to make a boring sleazy fun, he probably wouldn't have had a chance.

Because he had a deep understanding of the life of the French during that year, it also helped him to report news in Europe on the radio.Cadenbo can't speak a word of French, so how could he become a top salesman in France?It turned out that he asked the employer to write the sales pitch first, and he memorized it fluently.He rings the doorbell first, and the housewife comes out, and Cadembo begins to recite the sales pitch, his French pronunciation is ridiculous, and he shows the pictures for the housewives to see, and when they ask questions, Cadembo just shrugs. He leaned over his shoulders and said, "An American... an American." Then he took off his hat and pointed to the sales pitch in French stuck on the bottom of the hat. Multiple pictures.Kadember was honest with me about how tough the job was, and what kept him going was his determination to make it fun.Before going out every morning, he always cheers for himself in the mirror:

"Kadembo, if you want to make a living, you have to keep working. Since you have to keep working, why don't you work hard and happily? Every time you ring the doorbell, why don't you imagine that you are an actor who is about to go on stage, and there will be an audience to watch your performance Acting? Isn't it?" Cadember told me that a daily pep talk can turn what had been a hateful fear into an adventure he loves, along with extra money. I asked Mr. Kadember to give some advice to today's American youth. He said: "We bet on ourselves every morning. We all know that if we wake up in the morning and we can do some exercise to refresh ourselves. In fact, every day In the morning, we need to give ourselves some refreshing exercise, and don't forget to cheer ourselves up every day!"

When my wife worked as a typist for an oil company, she had to do very uninteresting work a few days a month, filling out forms, typing in numbers and statistics.The work itself was monotonous, and she was determined to make it more interesting.She competes with herself every day.Every day at noon, she counted the forms she had typed in the morning, and then asked to complete more in the afternoon than in the morning, and more today than yesterday.As a result, she completed this boring job in less time, much faster than other colleagues.Did she get credit for it?No! get grateful?No!Get promoted?nor!Get a raise?Not to mention... Although there were no such substantial gains, it did help her avoid burnout caused by monotony, and it also improved her work morale.Because she strives to make boring work interesting.As a result, she has more energy, more enthusiasm, and more enjoyment of leisure time.

Even pretending to be interested in the work is well worth it.My student, Sifni Loday, once told us her own story in class: "There are four typists in our group, and each one is responsible for typing letters for several supervisors. Uneven distribution of work is unavoidable at times.One day, a department head insisted that I retype a long letter, and I resented it.I told him that those mistakes could be fixed and that he didn't need to do a full replay - he actually threatened me that if I didn't want to fight, he could find someone else.I was so angry that my lungs exploded.However, when I sat down and began to retype this letter, it suddenly occurred to me that there are still many people waiting for the opportunity to replace me.Moreover, the boss paid me for my typing.I feel much more comfortable.Suddenly, I made up my mind to make myself like this job, even though I actually despised it.So I made a big discovery: If I pretended to like the job, I actually liked it to a certain degree.I also found that it was faster and more efficient to do what I loved.So overtime is rarely required.My mindset has earned me a reputation for doing great work, and when a supervisor needed a secretary, he promoted me because she said I would do more work and not complain!The power of this attitude change is truly a major personal discovery of mine, and it works! "