Post Date December, 03 2023
Why are people with low educational qualifications more likely to succeed?
Today, I saw an article online that explains the reason for this phenomenon from an economic perspective - everyone has their own comparative advantages, and a high degree cannot cover all advantages, and it also costs time and opportunity; The most important point is that people with lower education backgrounds are closer to the market, while higher education backgrounds may not bring you the knowledge and skills that the market needs you to understand.
"The market is treacherous, and wealth and wealth are always sought after. The years of experience of people with low education in the market are far more vivid than the dogmas in books. Others learn knowledge from books, and they use their blood to learn from society. The lessons of reality are always impressive, and they also enable a person to grow rapidly."
Why can a person with a low degree become a billionaire?
"The game of dreams and humanity"
Nowadays, we live in an economic society, but most people do not quite understand economics. Our general impression of the concept of economics is likely to be as follows:
1. Economics is about money, it's a profession that has little to do with daily life;
2. Economics may be relatively complex, and we do not need to understand or understand it;
3. Economist A must have objected to what Economist B said;
3. When economists say there is no inflation, everyone is already very cautious and nervous;
Of course, this impression is generally correct.
Modern science always starts from some basic principles, and then starts with a transformation process in the field of human life or problems. The transformation of this process mainly involves the introduction of advanced mathematics, the establishment of complex mathematical formulas, and the invention of many specialized words to make problems more abstract.
In a word, if you don't understand, it's right.
The same is generally true of economics. For example, it is likely that you do not understand such words as cost and comparative advantage. "But you must have heard the saying that there is no free lunch in the world, or that we are made to be useful.". The use of economics has been restricted to the economic field, which is truly a waste. In fact, its basic principles can also help us see clearly everyone's life.
Economics seems to be talking about the allocation of scarce resources. In fact, it can also be said that it is about choice.
My general impression of economics is this: Economics is the study of what people will do with limited resources or conditions? What kind of motivation determines what people will abandon and retain? What mechanism is designed to lead to a basically known result.
Economics is a game of dreams and humanity.
Therefore, with a little knowledge of economics, life may become better.
"There is no free lunch in the world"
After graduation, college students begin to look for jobs. If you can't find a job, you'll take the postgraduate exam. If a graduate student cannot find a satisfactory job after graduation, he or she will take a doctoral examination.
The logic of this approach is as follows: Education determines the way out. With a high education background, after reading a book, it is naturally more competitive than others in society and easier to grab a decent position that can earn 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 crossing a single wooden bridge.
This strategy, which is entirely based on academic competition, has several basic common sense mistakes:
1. Nowadays, education is no longer a concept of competence. In today's enterprises, the ability and contribution of employees are valued, and education is secondary;
2. It depends on when to take the postgraduate or doctoral examination. Most people who take the postgraduate entrance exam believe that delaying their entry into society by two years may give them a greater advantage.
People always want to be fully prepared before facing the opportunity to choose a job. The idea sounds reasonable, but the cost of studying for graduate school is not in terms of tuition fees, but in terms of two years of time and a lot of opportunity costs. Imagine two people, one graduating from graduate school and the other having two years of work experience in a certain industry. This difference in opportunity is rarely noticed.
Today's university is not what it used to be. You can ensure that before you catch the bad habit of being delicious and difficult to cook, quickly leave and plunge into the torrent of life. At least, in the face of cruel life, you can still get lost and know where to go. 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 job as far as you can, until you're embarrassed to push it any further.
What will you get? You have paid the cost of time and opportunity, and may even lose your confidence.
A scholar, who finally regards reading as his whole life, doesn't know whether it's a hobby or an escape.
This is not how books are read. There is no free lunch in the world, and today's timidity and hesitation will one day be fully repaid by life.
It is better to suffer now than to suffer in the future. When you are young, the pain will pass quickly, while the future pain may be the pain of a lifetime.
"I am born with a talent that must be useful."
Each of us won't be able to run 110 meter hurdles with Liu Xiang. Because he is number one in the world. But maybe one day after he retires, some of us will act as his singing agent. Following a star is not necessarily better than him in some aspects, but not necessarily less profitable 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 in terms of academic performance. Then, A is more promising than B.
This competitive thinking does not explain some real social phenomena: Why can people with low educational backgrounds become billionaires?
The people selected through the examination results can basically prove that their own qualities are good. But this is not the logic of economic and social functioning.
The operational logic of economic society is as follows: to profit from the exchange of products or values provided to others.
People who can read books, through selection at various levels, eventually occupy the position of an executive in a successful enterprise. He obtains his own remuneration through the profits of the enterprise. He must be very capable personally.
And a person who is not very good at reading books may also be able to establish a successful enterprise: he may not be able to remember the things in books, but he may be very sensitive to the market, and 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 anything about MBA. All they think about all day is how to make money. Self-interest motives always make people very sensitive to market demand. When they find the interests of others, they find their own interests.
He doesn't know much himself, but he knows who understands and what he needs right now. Then, regardless of the situation, gather them together. He is not as professional as others, but he may have a significant comparative advantage in understanding and controlling the entire system.
More importantly, it is possible that excellent students have failed many times in frustration while learning to fall in love and take walks in college.
When excellent students began to rush around the streets looking for jobs, the poor students in the past had already started businesses successfully. Then, they began to recruit top students and work for them.
Just as not all people with low academic qualifications are likely to succeed, so are those with high academic qualifications. Education is an experience, not a guaranteed ticket.
Education can also be a cost, and whether you can afford it still requires careful consideration.
A degree can prove what you have learned, but it cannot explain 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. Going to college takes four years and a lot of money;
3. After graduating from college, finding a job is one's own business. Failure to learn knowledge is not the responsibility of the university.
In a word, no matter what you do, everyone has to pay for their choices. 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, one can discover opportunities through one's own eyes, bravely try, learn and grow in practice, reflect on the needs of others, and bring benefits to oneself at the same time.
Even though he has not attended college, he has already possessed the entrepreneurial spirit. He can obtain enormous wealth from the natural laws of economic society by creating and producing products and services that society needs.
Therefore, I am born with a natural talent and must be useful. It is a question of self recognition and positioning.
"Choose the direction first, then talk about efforts"
The key to determining a person's success is simple: how to put oneself in a suitable position and make reasonable use of economic rules to create wealth.
The methodical, accustomed to occupying seats and maintaining a stable mindset may not be the most advantageous competitive strategy.
