It is said that studying is useless. Many college students in China work for their classmates who were poor students in junior high school or high school. Because when you were studying, those scumbag students had already entered the society and worked hard to become small bosses.
This is actually a very one-sided statement, although my father’s generation had many bosses with low academic qualifications who relied on physical strength and hard work to rise, and some were even illiterate.
But today is not an era where you can rise by relying on physical strength and sweat. You may not be too poor if you work hard, but the chances of becoming rich are undoubtedly much lower than those with high academic qualifications.
Take a look at how much people with a high degree of education earn each month, regardless of whether they work part-time. It’s clear at a glance how much people without academic qualifications earn and what positions they hold.
Some people say that two thousand yuan can afford to hire a college student, but it cannot hire an illiterate migrant worker. Migrant workers can only work part-time throughout their lives, but academic qualifications can give you a higher ceiling for growth.
The reason why people who go to college do not earn as much as those who work in a factory has nothing to do with academic qualifications or knowledge. It’s just about you as a person.
For example, if you are working in a factory and have a high degree of education, as long as you are willing to work hard, you can really get extra points in the education column when you are promoted. Even if you are a boss, under the same conditions, would you choose a person with a high degree of education to manage your company, or would you find someone who has graduated from junior high school to help you manage the company?
So it’s not the academic qualifications that are incompetent, it’s the people who are incompetent. Domestic college students have an unrealistic arrogance. They feel that they are great once they go to college. They look down on this and look down on that. Even their parents, who don't have much education, feel stupid.
As soon as I graduated, I set all kinds of lofty goals, but then I was beaten to pieces by reality. In the end, I no longer looked for the reasons myself, but shouted that studying was useless.
This kind of thinking is related to the fact that educated people were held in high esteem in the past. After all, if a college student was born in the 1970s and 1980s, it was really a gold-rich country that was rushing to get distribution.
But if you look at the continuous expansion of university enrollment, the number of college students has increased, but what about the quality?
Let’s not talk about quality. In the past, when college students were assigned with graduation packages, they were really qualified for the job, and could even do it better and more promising than those who were uneducated.
What now?
You are also moving bricks on a construction site. If you understand the mathematical functions, how many more bricks can you move than those migrant workers who only know addition, subtraction, multiplication and division? Therefore, the direction of comparison and the reference object of comparison are not the same thing, and then a group of people advocate that reading is useless.
There is no point in studying and those rich people send their children abroad?
In the eyes of a group of weak-kneed Chinese, the air in the United States is fragrant. Those American tycoons are crazy enough to donate money to prestigious universities just so that their children can go to school?
Even if you are not good at academics, you can still make useful connections in college. What are you doing in college? I guess I stayed up late and played blackmail with my friends, right?
So there is no useless knowledge, only useless people.
For example, Adams Smith, who is just 36 years old this year, is a good example. As an orphan from a poor class, he had successfully turned his life around if he had not been admitted to Yale University with excellent grades.
If he had not gone to school, he would have become unemployed like most children in poor areas, and then would have done some petty theft work, and finally been sent to prison.
And that's why there were so many refutations about the useless people in China just now, except for the living example of Adams. Also because he has a piece of statistics in his hand.
This is a statistics from kindergarten to university. There are ten kindergartens, each of which is located in the richest city in the United States, with the largest number of elementary schools and junior high schools. The high schools are affiliated to major prestigious schools, not to mention universities.
Among the lists of these schools, the most conspicuous thing is the various school celebrities corresponding to each school, and even the wealth ratio of the parents behind the children in these schools.
This is a very general statistic, but it is also a very important statistic. If Yang Dongxu wants his son to become a talented person, he should start from kindergarten according to the school according to this statistical table.
Then Xiao Wenchen will be regarded as a scumbag in the future, as long as he can become some true friends in school when he reaches the stage of junior high school.
After junior high school, go to high school to stabilize your behavior and moral character, and then go to college to broaden your horizons. Even if Yang Dongxu is not needed in the future, he can still live well just relying on these classmates.
Therefore, going to school is the easiest and most direct way for people at the bottom to come into contact with those at the top of society. As long as your grades are good enough and you work hard enough, you will have the opportunity to sit in the same classroom with these people. Rather than in real life, there is an invisible barrier between the two parties, making the poor and the rich seem to live in two worlds.
There is a saying circulating on the Internet in later generations, "The person you meet every day is someone that other ordinary people will not be able to contact in their lifetime."
The statistics in front of me analyze this point from another side. It is said that dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes, and mice’s sons can dig holes.
Even if the son of a mouse grows up with these dragons and phoenixes, he will be more promising than other mice in the future.
So the thin man named Adams in front of him, although he looked a bit ordinary, left a deep impression on Yang Dongxu when they first met. At the same time, he also refreshed the pervasiveness of this kind of world-class consortium when doing business. There is always something. A way to make you willing to sign.
Yang Dongxu has never thought about letting himself study abroad, at least not before college. He feels that it is enough for his son to go to an ordinary school and teach him the concept of life first.
When you need to broaden your horizons or set goals in life, walk around and look around. He has a very powerful father and is entitled to enjoy a carefree and happy childhood.
But what I have to say is that even if I don’t plan to send my son to study abroad. But after seeing this statistical report, it would be a lie to say that parents are not impressed.
"Your straightforwardness surprised me, but since you came to me, you should know something about my assets. So I have the ability to plan for the future of my children." Yang Dongxu shook the document in his hand Put it on the table.
"This is natural. You are one of the most outstanding young self-made billionaires I have seen. The reason why I provide you with this information is just to provide some convenience to Mr. Yang.
I have no intention of overstepping my authority. You have your own plans and I have no right to interfere. I just hope that Mr. Yang will think of First Bank if there is an opportunity for cooperation in the future.
Cooperation is something that benefits both parties. I believe that as long as Mr. Yang can give First Bank the opportunity to cooperate, First Bank will not disappoint you and will only do better than other partners. "Adams has a humble smile on his face, but his straight back gives people an unyielding feeling. Humility is politeness and personal quality, and it does not mean that you have to be groveling.
Besides, there are few people in the world that he would have to kneel down to fawn over when representing Bank One. The reason for showing humility is because the person in front of me is indeed worthy of Bank One's investment. In addition to investing in companies and stocks, First Bank also invests in talents. Yang Dongxu is undoubtedly qualified to be invested by First Bank.
Of course, I had not noticed that Yang Dongxu was a big loss for First Bank, and the best investment time had passed. But if both parties can reach cooperation, it is not too late.
So Adams' seemingly humble and quality attitude was only given to those who were qualified to speak to him. For those who are not qualified, he feels like he is wasting his life by saying even one more word.
"I need to think about it carefully, let's give it three days, and I will give you a reply in three days. The cooperation between me and Nokia's senior executives will definitely not be successful in three days." Yang Dongxu leaned on the chair and tried his best to relax.
To be honest, it was the first time I met Adams, and his behavior was beyond my expectation. And he left a pretty good impression on him in a very straightforward way.
Although the exchange of interests was fruitful, it had to be said that the way Adams opened the negotiations made him not only not annoyed, but also felt very good. If your brain is out of control, you will use the statistical data from kindergarten to college to plan various paths for your son to go to school in the future.
Even if he has no intention of letting his son study abroad at all, whether to go abroad for college is just a choice. It will be up to my son’s own opinion at that time. But even if I don’t go now, I still can’t help but think about it.
"Then I will wait for Mr. Yang's good news. In fact, it does not matter whether we can reach cooperation this time. If Mr. Yang is interested, I can introduce to Mr. Yang some other very high-quality investment projects of First Bank." Adams He stood up and said goodbye very neatly.
Although it is for Yang Dongxu's Nokia mobile phone business shares, it is good to win it. It would be nice to be able to reach other cooperation with Yang Dongxu, a newly wealthy man.
After all, when there is cooperation, there is a common goal, which can produce benefits. Then such negotiations have corresponding reports. If cooperation fails once, they will give up continuing to contact a very high-quality rich man, and even think about revenge or something. This is something only the most retarded fool would do.
Adams stood up and left. It was as if he had forgotten the documents on the table and had no intention of taking them back. And before leaving, he paid the bill very carefully, instead of asking the assistant around him to settle the bill. Instead, go to the counter and take out your wallet to pay.
Yang Dongxu watched the whole process and couldn't explain how he felt. Everything seemed so dull. There was nothing particularly exciting or exciting, but the dullness made people feel very comfortable.
Compared to the first meeting between Yang Dongxu and Adams, it was dull and harmonious. Karu's side seemed tense, in an old villa.
There are seven people sitting in the living room, each of whom is a senior executive of Nokia. Because everyone is interested in Yang Dongxu's shares in the mobile phone business, Nokia's senior shareholders have returned to Finland intentionally or unintentionally in the past few days.
Therefore, if it were a different time, everyone really wouldn't be able to get together so neatly, and they would probably have to hold a video conference in the study room.
The average age among the seven people is over 50 years old. Even though Carew is the younger one, he is already 52 years old this year.
Among the seven people, two were women. At this time, they were frowning at the other five old men, chewing cigars and puffing away smoke. I don’t know whether the reason for frowning is because the things Karu raised made them look solemn, or because these old men made the surroundings full of smoke and made them have objections.
