Recently, the craftsman spirit has been mentioned, firstly because of Jonathan Lee's propaganda film "To Ingenuity" for New Balance, and secondly because of Luo Yonghao. Apple designers have said that it is easy to be different, but it is very different to be better. It means it's not difficult to make something that no one has done before. The difficult thing is how to make this innovation truly trusted and used by everyone. The second half of the sentence is the spirit of excellence pursued by Apple and the craftsman spirit mentioned by Jonathan Lee and Luo Yonghao.
Jonathan Lee is an evergreen tree in the music industry, worthy of its name. It is persistent, slow, firm and growing step by step like a tree. Time may take away youth, but it also ferments out the craftsman spirit that breaks away from the secular and makes the heart stronger. Those familiar songs are rooted in the hearts of every generation. Even though the years have passed, the popular wind is changing, the trees are still there, the songs are lingering in the wind, the seasons are evergreen, and only time flies. Therefore, being stubborn, slow, niche, not pursuing fashion, only paying attention to the new balance of inner voice coincides with it.
Luo Yonghao is a wonderful flower, and it seems to many people that he is a "god man" who doesn't play by common sense. When he was a lecturer in New Oriental, he would tell some jokes against the system, attack unhealthy trends in the classroom, stimulate students' independent thinking, and oppose superstition and brainwashing. These jokes circulated on the Internet, which made Luo Yonghao famous. Later, he made a blog. Com and founded "Lao Luo and his friends Education Technology Co., Ltd.". Then I gave a speech to the whole country. Many people still remember the wonderful debate called "Mein Kampf" in Jilin University and the later "An Idealist's Entrepreneurial Story" in Beijing. Many people have expectations for him, and always think that he is a maverick and a thoughtful person. He can do something if he wants to. So when he made a hammer mobile phone, this ingenuity won him many fans.
There is a book called The Future Philosophy of Motorcycle Repair Shop, written by a doctor named Matthew Crawford. His main business is blue-collar repairman, and he wrote a book in his spare time. As soon as this book was published, it received attention and welcome. In this era, a doctor of philosophy to be a repairman will really make many people feel incredible. Matthew believes that the best result brought by 3D printing is not the technology itself (its application is very limited at present), but it awakens people's imagination of rival industries. Handwork has suddenly become a very complicated and fascinating technology. Once people begin to study how to make it, they will understand that traditional technology is more cost-effective and practical than 3D printing.
It suddenly reminds me of the teaching video on YouTube. Nowadays, hand-made technology is exploding, and most of these people are out of hobbies. I think the manufacturing industry in the United States will increase some small and specialized enterprises. But the United States can't compete with China in large-scale manufacturing. So this should provide some opportunities for some young people who love innovation and restoration. In this era, it should be regarded as a progressive thing that young people can rekindle their love and stubbornness in craftsmanship.
In my opinion, good jobs should be those that enable you to exert your greatest potential, and every action you take can have a direct impact. The most important difference is not physical labor, nor mental labor. On the contrary, this job requires your judgment. If there is no mistake in the quality of a product, people will work hard for it; I'm sure I won't be careless again. Craftsman spirit simply means doing things well voluntarily, because it represents an honor. Even if you don't do well, you will feel hatred and shame. When culture is destroyed or in a constantly changing state, society will no longer attach importance to honor and disgrace, and its quality will also be reduced.
At present, we have a wrong understanding of "knowledge work" and technical work. If a job is dirty, people will easily think it is stupid. But the fact is that skilled workers need to do a lot of thinking, which is why their income is relatively high. And many office jobs make people more and more stupid, which is also the reason for their low income, even though you need a college degree to get this job. Another problem is that different people have different learning methods. Few people are born scholars and can sit still for hours every day and stare at books. But imagine that you want to build a track for a racing car, and math will suddenly become very interesting because you need it. The training of manual skills makes you want to acquire comprehensive and abstract knowledge. It is also easy to concentrate when studying. From this perspective, sometimes some people are born craftsmen.
In commercial companies, there used to be a rule called "barrel theory". How much water a bucket can hold is determined by its shortest board. The essence of barrel theory is to pay attention to details. If a small detail is not done (the board is not high enough), the whole barrel will not hold much water. A common saying supporting the barrel theory is that the devil is in the details.
However, it takes time to polish the details, and in the Internet age, there is a so-called rule that "the martial arts in the world are only fast and unbreakable". Basically, the development of companies in the Internet era is based on the beauty of being fast, and the slow company is an anomaly. The fact is that although some media articles advocate slow companies, which one is the real slow company?
In my opinion, this change in management thinking is one of the subversive things of the Internet. Break through at a single point, erect a high board, and slowly fill the remaining short boards. The core point is that the tall wooden board meets the market demand and is creative and innovative. If we have to talk about craftsmanship, it is that there is craftsmanship at this single point, and it is repeatedly polished, not repeatedly polished on the whole product. Time doesn't allow you to do this.
The biggest drawback of barrel theory is that it assumes that the resources of enterprises are infinite, but the objective situation is obviously not the case. Craftsmanship was born in the agricultural era dominated by handicrafts, so there is enough time for you to do something slowly. The assembly line in the industrial age destroyed this slowness, and the craftsman spirit in the information age was not completely rebuilt, but only partially revived in some areas (single point).
This is an era of extreme fragmentation. It is better to let a single point shine when each board is pulled up. Craftsmanship is not as outdated as everyone says, but we need to change our thinking a little.
Finally, the ingenuity of Jonathan Lee's written version is attached:
Many things in life are urgent, so you have to wait for him to get acquainted.
I started my career in my early twenties, and I wrote less than 300 songs in 30 years, which is of course a small amount.
I don't think how talented a person is has anything to do with what kind of works he creates.
I still have a gift. I have a gift to control my temper.
People can't live alone. The reason why they have works is to communicate.
Tell people what they think in their hearts, how they see the world in their eyes and what they care about and cherish through their works.
So, the work itself.
All the objects made by Seiko are the most precious and irreplaceable, and there is only one word-"people".
People have feelings, beliefs and attitudes.
So, it's not taken for granted,
Is to do the best in all possible variables.
No matter how noisy the world is, the craftsman's heart must be quiet and stable.
In the face of the material given by nature, I have to achieve it first, and it can achieve me.
I know that craftsmen often mean stubbornness, slowness, small amount, hard work,
But what is hidden behind these are concentration, skill and the pursuit of perfection.
So we'd rather do this, we'll do this, and we've always done this.
Why do you want to keep what you are most precious and proud of?
I always want to let some goodwill push my life forward.
Therefore, we can be willing to listen to our inner arrangements.
Focus on doing one thing, at least, worthy of the years.
Leave the rest to time.