"Be humble and hide your abilities" is a real skill. Newcomers in the workplace can hone their skills here and start steadily from a good start (Part 2)

Continuing with the topic of the previous article. "Be humble and hide your abilities" is the best move for newcomers to enter the workplace, and it is also an attitude of being open-minded and enterprising. However, many newcomers do it improperly, and often behave like a tiger instead of a dog.

There are two types of dogs here. Either they are like my friend who has worked in the system for many years and hide themselves abruptly; or they make themselves like a villain in the workplace and give themselves Bring endless trouble.

Among them, the most criticized one in the workplace is "pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger". In the eyes of many people, "It is difficult to paint the skin of a tiger, but it is difficult to paint the bones of a tiger. You know the person but not the heart." People who "pretend to be pigs and eat tigers" can do anything to achieve their goals, regardless of other people's thoughts and interests. If you encounter such people, if you can't kill them with a stick, then stay as far away as possible.

Is this really the case? Here, based on Sun Yiqiu’s career fate in the TV series “Ordinary Glory”, let’s take a look at how a person who pretends to be a pig and eats a tiger should operate.

The biggest difference between "Being humble and hiding your energy" and "Pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger" is that the former's "hiding" is to wait for opportunities, stand out, and show one's strength in a stunning scene, while the latter's "hiding" "In order to eat people, by hiding their strength and waiting for opportunities, they can kill the opponent with one blow.

The latter’s methods are ruthless, poisonous, and sinister enough, so he has always been scorned by the workplace. However, as an unspoken rule, many people in the workplace still talk about it, and even go crazy. Some Playing with fire and burning yourself.

In fact, "Being humble and hiding energy" and "Pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger" are two sides of the same coin. The difference between them lies in how to operate and the scene of the operation.

Sun Yiqiu, a workplace novice in the TV series "Ordinary Glory", very successfully performed the two seemingly contradictory ways of surviving in the workplace: "Be humble and hide your abilities" and "Pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger". , from his operation we can understand little by little how the two are perfectly unified in your career development.

Sun Yiqiu, a high school graduate, has neither a high degree of education nor a prominent background. His only life experience is a delivery boy and a hotel waiter. As a small person living at the bottom of the city, Sun Yiqiu suddenly landed in the air. Working at Jinchen Investment, a large company, will of course arouse all kinds of criticism and exclusion from colleagues around him, and he will also be bombarded by a series of unfriendly behaviors from his boss Wu Kezhi.

Faced with such a harsh workplace environment, Sun Yiqiu's ultimate strategy is to "be humble and hide your abilities." As a newcomer, when he is unable to gain a firm foothold, he has to endure the pressure, learn to swallow his anger, lower his posture, listen more to the opinions of his colleagues and leaders around him, and do more auxiliary chores. Through this seemingly clumsy His approach adapted to the workplace environment, which actually increased his popularity, perfectly interpreting the ancient saying that "hard work can make up for weakness".

Sun Yiqiu's "shudder" seems to be resigned to the situation, but in fact, he secretly works hard to improve himself, hone his super individual combat ability, and defeats a group of top students from prestigious schools who joined the company at the same time. Achieve a successful counterattack in the workplace.

However, when facing a "scumbag" boss like Lu Siqiu, another big trick Sun Yiqiu used was to "pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger." In Lu Siqiu's eyes, Sun Yiqiu was a soft persimmon at the bottom of the food chain, someone he could trample on and ravage at will.

In this game, Sun Yiqiu hid his true intentions. He seemed to be a fool, and he was obedient to Lu Siqiu and did not dare to disobey him, but he remained calm. He hid it from everyone. Secretly investigate Lu Siqiu's dirty deals behind his back, collect criminal evidence, and finally send Lu Siqiu to prison.

Tigers are inherently ambitious, and pretending to be pigs is a protective color. On the surface, they look harmless to humans and animals, but in their hearts, they have already made plans and are waiting for the opportunity to succeed!

Under the protection of "Xiao Bai", Sun Yiqiu uses the lowest attitude to do the most advanced things. However, his "pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger" will make people feel brave, resourceful and daring to do so. Dare to act and bring your workplace spirit to its fullest.

Therefore, if you are "pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger" because you have a career in mind and are as wise as a fool, then what you do has not deviated from the original intention of "keeping a humble" and is on the right path; on the contrary, if you have ambitions in your heart and work hard, In order to disguise and hide, to plot against others, to put oneself in a weak position and make others become victims of one's own interests, this kind of operation deviates from the original intention of "keeping oneself humble", and such behavior is self-destructive.

In short, if you are a newcomer in the workplace, "Be humble and hide your abilities" means to you, what you have to do now is to stick to your original intention, stay calm, practice with concentration, improve your competitiveness, and give yourself time , once it breaks out, the flying dragon will rise in the sky!