👤 My Assistant Resigned: Smart vs. Down-to-Earth People, The Four Years Newcomers Most Easily Miss in Their Careers
Ren Huichuan, General Manager of Ping An Financial Group of China, shares the story of his bright and lively assistant, a prestigious university graduate, who resigned because she felt her work was ‘trivial’ and lacked a ‘sense of achievement.’ The General Manager uses his own experience of pasting invoices to illustrate that the assistant lacked the ability to ‘be diligent’ and ‘dig deep,’ failing to extract data and patterns from simple administrative tasks and build trust. The article emphasizes that between the ages of 23 and 26, it is crucial to cultivate ‘a serious, down-to-earth work style’ and ‘the good habit of quickly learning and grasping internal rules,’ rather than pursuing immediate gratification. The conclusion is that while work needs smart people, it needs down-to-earth people even more, and being down-to-earth is a key quality that everyone can achieve and that lays the foundation for long-term development.