Chapter 12 about stress

About pressure (1) In the eyes of many people, I should be a very busy person.Almost every phone call, the other party said to me apologetically, sorry to bother you, can you take a moment.In fact, the real situation is that if I am in Beijing, I feel that I am not too busy.I can have time to go to the gym (fitness), and I can also have time to do yoga.Find time almost every day to eat with different people, or have a cup of coffee.But everyone can still see the news I do on TV.Sometimes, two or three news items are interviewed a day. So except for business trips, or returning to Hong Kong, most of the time I feel that I have too much time and I don’t seem to put enough pressure on myself, so besides work, I want to find some interesting things, or those that are busy when I am busy. Sometimes, there is no way to do things.

Chatting with the editor of a magazine, she said, you know, white-collar workers in Beijing feel very stressed now.Not long ago, a group of white-collar workers in Zhongguancun were reported by the media to have taken drugs collectively, and due to long-term pressure, there was a sudden death of a senior executive of a foreign-funded company.The survey shows that more than half of the white-collar workers think that time is not enough and energy is spent on work. Going to the website to chat with netizens, everyone is most concerned about how to deal with work pressure.I think this needs to start from two aspects. The first is to learn to arrange time reasonably, and the second is to learn to improve work efficiency.

I remember that when I was in middle school, the math textbooks contained the content of overall planning. Although it was only some very elementary things, one thing impressed me deeply, that is, time can be repeated.That is to say, when you spend a period of time doing one thing, many times there will be a lot of gaps in the middle. At this time, you should learn to arrange another thing in it.So, there is more time. When interviewing outside, except for the time of filming, most of the time was spent waiting.I will use these gaps to do some pre-arrangement work for other interviews, such as making phone calls, drawing up an interview outline as soon as possible, or reading some news background materials that I have prepared in advance.Also, it is to review the manuscripts of other colleagues.Sometimes, you need to use these gaps to solve your own life problems, such as confirming flights, booking tickets, and so on.

I think the presence of mobile phones in this world is really a complete revolution, which has changed people's living patterns.It's hard for me to imagine my day without my phone.Of course, there are exceptions to vacations when you wish to self-isolate. I have seen many peers, when waiting, they will not use it to do other things, but chat there, or just sit there alone in a daze. I often advise my colleagues to make good use of the time when they return to the office from the news interview scene.During this period of time, although I can't ask everyone to basically finalize the manuscript, at least they should conceive how to write their own manuscript during this period of time.

Some people have a work habit of going back to the company, gossiping with other people on social first, and then sitting in their seats and starting to do their own work.And I'm the kind of person who won't let himself stop until he's done with the job at hand.When people chat with me, they will find that I am like a hedgehog at this time, and people cannot get close. When I am working, I will forget all the things that have nothing to do with work.Because I think that I would rather finish the work with the fastest speed, so that if I need to modify or need to make any additions, I will have enough time and I will not mess myself up.

In fact, everyone has the same amount of time, but you will find that in the office, such a situation often occurs, some people are always the first to come and the last to leave.There are two kinds of such people. One is because there are countless tasks at hand, and after finishing one, he then asks himself to do another one, while the other is that it takes him more time than the previous one to do just one thing. It takes twice as much, or even several times, for such people.And this kind of person will feel more tired and stressed than the first kind of person. Here, it involves how to improve work efficiency. I always think that the person who spends the longest time in the office may not be the best person.

When I was at the Phoenix headquarters in Hong Kong, we had nine reporters.The duties of these nine reporters include six to seven daily news interviews, five ten-minute specials every week, and a half-hour news program from Monday to Friday. These reporters take turns hosting and editing.I found that everyone's performance and tolerance are different. Some reporters do it very easily. A ten-minute topic often takes a few hours to complete, while some reporters need an overnight. After a long time, some journalists will be overwhelmed. Seeing how miserable they are staying up all night, I will tell them that the workload will not be reduced because of your hard work, because the work shared by everyone is the same. You need to think about it. One thought is how to be quicker.

Faster, largely depends on the working method.Some colleagues, during the interview process, were already thinking about the general idea of ​​their film and which passages of the interviewees could be included in the film. After arriving at the company, you can start writing soon.And for those colleagues who move slowly, the first thing they do when they return to the company is to watch the tape from the beginning to the end again before starting.Because they don't remember what they took, and they don't remember what the interviewee said at the time.In this way, they spend a lot more time than others.

In addition to working methods, what affects work efficiency is also the proficiency of your own job.We often face such a situation, there is still half an hour before the news broadcast time, and the interview has just been completed at this time, which requires the reporter to finish writing the manuscript, dubbing the sound, and editing the film within 20 minutes. Send finished.There is no time to stop and think about it, which is not something every reporter can do.It is at this time that the reporter's ability to work becomes apparent. About pressure (2) Because of the competition, because of the need for performance, we are under pressure at work.I think being stressed is a good thing.Because this will force us to add value to ourselves, to improve our competitiveness, and at the same time make us seriously do our job well.

I also often face stress.These pressures come from the audience, but also from our competitors.Whether the press release is well written or not, you can lie to yourself, but you can't fool yourself in front of the audience.However, competitors and peers are constantly improving, so we dare not relax at all. The demands on oneself are getting higher and higher, and the pressure on ourselves will also be increasing.Because I hope that what I do can be more perfect, so while putting pressure on myself, I also put pressure on the people around me, including colleagues, friends, and family members, intentionally or unconsciously.

I think that when the time is right, you should let yourself go.In the past, I liked to work all night, hoping to finish the things at hand as soon as possible, but later found that after all night, it would take a few days or even a week to recover myself, which was really not worth the candle.So now, when I feel very tired, I will definitely put down what I am doing and go to sleep. When there is a lot of pressure, people will become very irritable.I used to be like this, when I was so busy, all the people who came to talk to me at this time would look at my face.Because of this, everyone's mood became not very good.Some colleagues will feel very wronged, and they have done nothing, but why should I treat her like this.Although I was right about things and wrong about people, when I was done with work, my temper was gone.But over time, it becomes a vicious circle. I know it's not good, it's not good for myself, and it's not fair to others.So I tried to change it.I found that when I can't control myself because of the pressure, it's better to put the things at hand aside temporarily and let myself change the environment.I will take a few minutes to go downstairs to the company to buy a cup of coffee, which is just a few minutes of buffer time, and the previous impulse will disappear by itself.If I'm on a business trip, I walk away by myself to avoid a confrontation with the photographer. Because of facing each other every day, plus only being able to rest for a few hours a day, constantly changing cities and countries, and constantly interviewing, everyone's patience is slowly losing.Our previous experience was that as long as we were together for a week, there would always be a big quarrel between the reporter and the photographer. The reason was that the photographer was too slow or did not understand our request.After the quarrel, everyone sulked for a few hours, and then they made up again and cooperated happily. But that being said, the photographer also has an idea in his mind as the number of times increases.I am the photographer in our company who is the least willing to go on a business trip with me, because they think that, firstly, every time I go on a business trip, I go to many places, time is tight, and I have to work a lot. The second and most important reason is that I The demands on them are too high, and they cannot bear such pressure. I also know my own faults, and I know that I need to correct them, and I gradually figured out one thing, that is, I cannot require everyone to have the same working methods, attitudes, and proficiency as me, as long as they do their best. Yes, after all, everyone has different abilities.In this way, I found that when I was on a business trip, I got along with the photographer better. The best time was that I ran outside for a month without a single dispute.The photographer told me that I didn't lose my temper or rush them, so I didn't add psychological pressure to them, so they could concentrate on doing their work well. It seems that if you treat yourself better and relax yourself, the people around you will also benefit.