Post Date December, 03 2023
Why are people with low education more likely to succeed?
Today, I saw an article on the Internet, which explained the cause of this phenomenon from the perspective of economics - everyone has their own comparative advantages, and a high degree can not cover all advantages, and a high degree also costs time and opportunity; The most important point is that people with low education are closer to the market, while high education may not bring you the knowledge and skills that the market needs you to know.
"The market is dangerous, and people always seek for wealth and wealth. The experience of people with low education in the market for many years is far more vivid than the dogma in books. Others learn knowledge from books, and they learn skills with blood in society. The lessons of reality are always impressive, and also allow a person to grow rapidly."
Why can people with low education become billionaires?
"The game of dreams and humanity"
Now, we live in an economic society, but most people do not understand economics very much. Our general impression of the concept of economics is likely to be as follows:
1. Economics is about money. It is a major and has little to do with daily life;
2. Economics may be complex, and we don't need to understand or understand it;
3. What economist A said must be opposed by economist B;
3. When economists say there is no inflation, everyone is very careful and nervous;
Of course, this impression is generally correct.
Modern science always starts from some basic principles, and then starts from a human life field or problem field to start a transformation process. The transformation of this process is mainly through the introduction of advanced mathematics, the establishment of complex mathematical formulas, and the invention of many professional words to make the problem more abstract.
In a word, if you can't understand it, that's right.
So is economics. For example, it is likely that you do not understand such words as cost and comparative advantage. But you must have heard that there is no free lunch in the world, or that we are born to be useful. The use of economics has been restricted to the economic field, which is really a waste. In fact, its basic principles can also help us to see everyone's life clearly.
Economics seems to be talking about the allocation of scarce resources. In fact, it can also be said that we are talking about choice.
My general impression of economics is as follows: economics is to study what people will do under limited resources or conditions? What kind of motivation determines what people will abandon and keep? What kind of mechanism will lead to a basically known result.
Economics is a game of dreams and human nature.
Therefore, with a little knowledge of economics, life may become better.
"There is no free lunch in the world"
After graduation, college students began to look for jobs. If you can't find a job, you will take the postgraduate examination. If a graduate student can't find a satisfactory job after graduation, he or she will take an examination.
The logic of this thinking is as follows: education determines the way out. With a high education background, after reading the book, it is naturally more competitive than others in the society, and it is easier to grab a decent position with a high salary.
Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that our entire primary and secondary education is frantically working on questions and exams, and thousands of troops are going to cross the single wooden bridge.
There are several basic common sense mistakes in this strategy, which is completely based on academic competition:
1. Today's education is not the same as ability. Today's enterprises value the ability and contribution of employees, and the education background is secondary;
2. It depends on when to take the postgraduate or doctoral examination. Most people who take the postgraduate entrance examination believe that they may have greater advantages by delaying entering the society for 2 years.
People always want to be fully prepared and face the opportunity of job choice. The idea sounds reasonable, but the cost of graduate school is not in the tuition fee, but in the time of two years, and there are many opportunity costs. Imagine two people, one graduated from graduate school and the other has worked in a certain industry for 2 years. This difference in opportunity is rarely noticed.
Today's university is not what it used to be. You can make sure that you leave quickly and plunge into the flood of life before you catch the bad habit of being delicious and difficult to do. At any rate, you can get lost in the face of cruel life. Everything is still in time. The more people are afraid to leave, the more they struggle and dare not leave.
School is a safe haven. As long as you can spend the money your parents are willing to pay, you can push your work as far as you can, until you are ashamed to push it further.
What will you get? You have paid the cost of time and opportunity, and you may lose your confidence.
A scholar finally regards reading as his whole life. I don't know whether it is a hobby or an escape.
This is not how the book is read. There is no free lunch in the world. Today's timidity and hesitation will one day be repaid by life.
It is better to suffer now than to suffer in the future. The pain in youth will pass quickly, and the pain in the future may be the pain in life.
"I am born to be useful"
Each of us can't run 110 meters hurdles with Liu Xiang. Because he is the first in the world. But maybe one day after his retirement, some of us will act as his agent for his singing career. Follow the star, not necessarily better than him in some aspects, but not necessarily less money than him. We have a comparative advantage over Liu Xiang in some aspects.
According to our understanding of educational thinking, if A performs better than B. Then, A is more promising than B.
This competitive thinking cannot explain some real social phenomena: why can people with low education become billionaires?
The people selected through the examination results can basically prove that their own quality is good. But this is not the logic of economic and social operation.
The operation logic of economic society is as follows: profit from the exchange of providing products or values to others.
Those who can read books eventually occupy the position of an executive in a successful enterprise through selection at all levels. He gets his own reward through the profits of the enterprise. He must be very capable personally.
A person who is not very good at reading may also create a successful enterprise: he may not remember the things in books, but he may be very sensitive to the market. He will play tricks on what people need and what the market needs.
It is his nature to keep trying and making mistakes. He may not want to conform to the MBA textbook, or he may not know what the MBA is. All they think about is how to make money. Self-interest motive always makes people very sensitive to market demand. When they find the interests of others, they find their own interests.
He doesn't know much, but he knows who knows and what he needs now. Then, no matter what, bring them together. He is not as professional as others, but he may have great comparative advantages in understanding and controlling the whole system.
More importantly, it is possible that excellent students have failed many times when they were learning to fall in love and walk in college.
When excellent students began to rush all over the street to find jobs, the poor students in the past had successfully started their own businesses. Then they began to recruit top students and work for them.
Just as not all people with low education may succeed, so will those with high education. Education is an experience, not a ticket.
Education may also be a cost. You need to weigh carefully whether you can afford it.
Education can prove what you have learned, but it can't say what else you need if you want to succeed.
Being able to read is not necessarily an advantage, and not being able to read is not necessarily a disadvantage.
Life has shown us the objective reality of college:
1. Many people can go to college;
2. It takes four years to go to college and a lot of money;
3. After graduation from university, finding a job is your own business. It is not the responsibility of the university to not learn knowledge.
In a word, no matter what you do, everyone should pay for their choice. Therefore, whether to go to college or not is not the reason why one can succeed.
Reading is useful, but it also has costs. Regardless of cost, it is an irresponsible choice.
On the contrary, a person can find opportunities through his own eyes, try bravely, learn and grow in practice, think about the needs of others, and bring benefits to himself.
Even though he has not attended university, he has already possessed the spirit of entrepreneurship. He can obtain huge wealth from the natural laws of economic society by creating and producing products and services needed by society.
Therefore, we are born with a natural talent. It is a question of self-cognition and positioning.
"Choose the direction first, then talk about efforts"
The key to a person's success is simple: how to put yourself in a proper position and make reasonable use of economic rules to create wealth.
The mentality of taking a seat and being stable may not be the most advantageous competitive strategy.
