Ideals come at a price.
People often say ideals. Ideals are precious. Especially when people realize that their main time is to make money, ideals are particularly precious. This means that ideals are expensive. Ideal has a cost, which is so high that most people can't afford it. Do you have the ideal of starting a business? Yes Do you know what it takes to succeed in starting a business? I don't know when you start a business, you will gradually know the cost of failure. Avoid these failure factors, and your chances of success may be much greater. I wish I knew where I would die, so that I would never go there. I will never go there. ? Charles Munger).
The main failure factor of starting a business is poverty. Without the accumulation of wealth, entrepreneurship is easy to fail. Start-ups with no revenue stream at first are easy to fail. College students should have a high probability of failure in starting a business, and they may die within a few months because they have to eat. Even those who have worked for several years and have a good income will not have a low probability of failure in starting a business. They often have jobs that bring income, and they have to do other things that they really love. However, without money, you can't concentrate on what you are best at and get the most out of it. The time to accumulate original capital is really tiring, and it is mainly repetitive, but it has to be done. If your parents and family can support you and directly invest money to let you do things, that is of course the best. You can focus on what you want to do, and the probability of success is higher.
But now, you can only take it step by step. You must first accumulate original capital by yourself through other jobs. Then you can do what you are most willing to do. Then I hope it is possible to do what I want to do. Think about Mark who dropped out of Harvard? Zuckerberg, and Bill? Gates, they can do something by themselves because they have a lot of resources. Zuckerberg 10 had his own computer when he was about 1995. His parents are dentists and psychologists. Bill? Gates's father is a lawyer, his mother is a director of several companies, and his grandfather is a banker. Not everyone can get into Harvard, let alone bear the consequences of dropping out. But they can.
The second failure factor related to this is multi-line operation, which can't concentrate. Most entrepreneurs are forced by their own survival and need to do some other work. You are suffering for it. Very painful. It seems that only one condition is needed to complete one thing at the beginning: concentration. However, being able to concentrate is 1 day 10 hour and only do one thing. To this end, you must have a stable income or capital investment, and you don't need to worry about your own survival. But most people can't; Especially after having a family and a mouth, people will behave more cautiously.
The ideal of loving people in people's hearts is very ideal. However, ideal is different from fantasy: fantasy has no cost, while ideal has a cost. In order to win the ideal love, women need to dress themselves up, which takes time. They need to learn how to dress up. After learning, they need to buy clothes and cosmetics, which requires money. To make money, you need time, if your family doesn't have that much money for you; If a man wants to win the ideal love, he needs a lot of ideas and knowledge, so that he can provide a stable income for his family in the future. If your parents can't help you, and ideas and knowledge can't be thought of by cleverness, it will take time.
Both men and women need self-cultivation, and it is easy to be tempted without self-cultivation. Where does self-cultivation come from? Want to study. Learning takes time. You have to go to a good school to study hard. With good classmates to discuss, only by working hard can we get into a good school, and the people around us will be excellent. If you work hard, it means time. You should study every day. If you can study with peace of mind, you can't work all day. Work takes time. If you don't go to work, it means your family can support you. If your family can't support you, it's hard for you to learn well and deeply. You need to learn a lot of things, not just what the textbooks and exams require. And even if you do this, there is also a factor of luck. The ideal love is a brilliant spark when many conditions come together. Most people's love is realistic, yes, realistic, because the ideal love can't afford it. Even if you can afford it, there is still a probability problem.
Besides reading, you should also see the world more, walk more and see more. Wherever you go, wherever you see. You can't just go home often. You need money to go to developed cities and first-class occasions. It takes time to make money. People often say that time is money. I tell you, money is time. Money is the time your parents and your ancestors have accumulated for you. You have no money, do you? Trade on your own time. Seeing someone else's car BMW, you work here day and night. You can't complain yet; Complaining doesn't change anything. This is not the government's fault. This is not the school's fault. This is not a professional fault. "This is my fault! This is my fault! " It's not your fault.
Social choice is like this. This is the truth of society. This is the truth of life. You can't blame anyone, including yourself. Make spiritual reconciliation with yourself and your family. The fairness of this society lies in that whoever spends so much time has accumulated so much wealth and got so many things. These hours can be contributed by your parents and grandparents, and you are the center and you share their lives. For this, you can only be grateful. If they don't accumulate it for you, you can accumulate it yourself from scratch.
Looking at knowledge, cultivation and experience from the perspective of time cost, you will find that ideal love takes so much time to realize. If you don't have support, the cost may be too great for you to bear. How old are you when you have accumulated so much knowledge and self-cultivation, seen the world and become more and more beautiful or attractive or mature? You may be standing near the age when you become excellent, and your family is urging you. Time waits for no one, and women are particularly anxious. That's how genes oppress you, suddenly choose a person, and your ideal finally becomes a reality in an instant.
The time accumulation is constant.
Do you want to succeed in starting a business? Most people want to have a good idea. Where do good ideas come from? Smart. So many people in the world are so smart, why not start a business? It is not good to overestimate your cleverness. People must not fool themselves, and the easiest object to fool is themselves. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself-and you are the easiest person to be fooled. ? Richard feynman). They work from nine to five and have no time to think about the idea of starting a business. They will have a rest when they go home. They often get fat, because they are under great pressure and eat irregularly. In order to vent their emotions, they go to food stalls to drink and drink. Your monthly income is 7,000 yuan, just enough to support your life. When will you come up with a good idea?
Entrepreneurship is the business of idle people. College students have leisure. Although it is difficult to start a business, they can try. There's nothing to lose anyway. Entrepreneurship also needs resources and information. How can there be resources if you are not in the middle and high level of the company? A few years ago, if you were not proficient in English, how could you have good information? It takes time to learn English well to be proficient or climb to the middle and upper levels of the company. I was already 30 years old at that time. Then, spend a few more years in this position, and then do some entrepreneurial things on a small scale. But I'm still not focused, and I can't take care of time. Why not concentrate? Because you can't live without your job, because you want to get income from it. Because my parents and grandparents didn't accumulate so much income for themselves. Or, I happened to do some businesses and later sold them. Why can I only sell it? It is not necessarily a lack of ability and experience. It takes time to make an enterprise bigger, which will take several years without income. Who will support it? Venture capital. The earlier venture capital enters, the more equity it takes away. So I sold it slowly.
Most businesses, selling is the best ending, otherwise they can only suffer. How long will it last? What is the result? The result may still be sold. It may be hard for you to imagine that in 2006, the intranet was acquired by Thousand Oaks for $2 million. The difference is that Zuckerberg still retains about 25% of Facebook today. Other factors remain unchanged, and without a good venture capital environment, it is difficult for start-ups to go far under their own control. )
Success is the result of trial and error, and it is the product of countless small skills gathered in the process of trial and error; Without time accumulation, you can't learn from your mistakes. How long will it take to know that you have made a mistake? The average person needs 2-3 months. How long does it take to find a way to do things from mistakes? You have to make three or four mistakes in a row before you know the real method. Your parents, relatives and friends, if they have seen the world and their inculcation is very useful to you, you don't have to take detours. Yes, you don't have to take a detour. Please compare: a young man who wants to start a business, whose parents are entrepreneurs or social elites, tell him the skills of managing enterprises and the methods of understanding society. A young man who wants to start a business, whose parents have always been farmers, said to him, son, you should be upright. Yes, honesty is very important. But remember, entrepreneurs' parents also tell their children to be honest. They also tell the children other things.
It seems that some successes don't take time to accumulate. However, the accumulated money, the so-called quick money, will all go up in smoke. Even so, why is there a saying that you are richer than three generations? Is it because of mean regression? Are the descendants of the rich all black sheep later? When the tide rises and falls, the poor will turn over? Friend, it's much more cruel than this! The descendants of the rich are also excellent. They did a lot of things and spread a lot of information to more people. These advantages have become the basic configuration of society, and these advantages are no longer advantages. But anyone who doesn't have these characteristics is eliminated. Only those who have access to this information can survive.
Of course, thanks to modern media and universities and other knowledge dissemination institutions, more ordinary children can understand this. Thus, in modern society, sometimes a child from a poor family has a chance to work hard. But what are the chances? The absolute number of rich people in a few rich families is much larger than that in most poor families. What does this mean? The virtues accumulated by your ancestors will directly affect your success probability. If they don't accumulate for you, you should also accumulate for yourself and future children. You have no choice but to study hard, work hard, earn money hard, and expect a little new wealth and creation.
Reflect on your living habits and time allocation, and think about what you are paying attention to all day. Maybe many times, you are still trapped by your emotions. Trapped in your own feelings, pay special attention to your little feelings. Your chances of success are slim. Very, very small. Whether a person succeeds or not depends on how many people he has served. Those who can serve more people must have seriously considered the needs of the people, which requires rationality, principles and analytical methods. Pay attention to your little emotions all day. I'm in a bad mood today, things are not going well and I'm in a bad mood. You pay too much attention to these things and think you are exquisite and have rich life experience. Yes, living within your own walls. You are also sad to see Zhang ailing. However, Zhang Ailing wrote it herself. If she can't control her emotions, she will never write about them. And you, thinking that you have a stake in her heart, then listened to Because of Love with satisfaction, despised the love of others, washed and slept. Tomorrow is another beautiful day.
People who can properly handle modern social life, grandparents and parents must have done a lot of thinking or are desperately thinking. If this is not the case, then you know nothing from rural areas or small towns to university cities. I don't know how to find a job, or even an internship place, because there are strangers everywhere, because I can't do it myself, because your parents didn't give you such advice, because they didn't live in a big city, because they didn't know how to live here. Then you stay in the dormitory, play on campus, think about your secret love in high school, attend classes and take exams. It's a pity that you didn't study hard, because you think going abroad has nothing to do with you, because you don't know what to do after going abroad, because none of your relatives, friends and acquaintances seem to have been abroad. What's more, you haven't even heard the lecture on going abroad in New Oriental. You're just studying the rules of the university.
Since there is not much information, the only criterion for you to measure the quality of information is what most people around you are doing. So you do it. You're afraid of doing something wrong. Indeed, for a person who lacks information, it is easy to make mistakes when doing things different from those around him.
Because too many college graduates can't find good jobs, you take the postgraduate entrance examination and then find a job as a white-collar worker in the city, earning 2,000 yuan a month, then 3,000 yuan, and then 7,000 yuan. You are very happy; Then you get married, then you have children, and then your life center shifts to children. For the sake of milk powder and kindergarten, you began to send your child to various weekend classes, and you pinned your hopes on him. And you, that's it, you no longer have time to realize your dream. If you want to realize your dream, you may have to give up your present job. What about your mortgage, car loan and children? You're locked up, and you haven't taken a wrong step on the road to a small white-collar worker. Being able to stay is the dream of new immigrants in many cities. This dream, for them, starts from scratch in a big city, which is expensive. With the accumulation of social wealth, this dream will only become more and more expensive. If they don't want to be locked up so soon, they will work hard, make money and pay off their mortgage, hoping they can settle down. How old will they be by then?
If your family doesn't provide for you, you still have society. The main way to acquire knowledge and information from society is learning. Study! Desperately read books and speeches written by excellent business elites and academic elites! Their knowledge is the time they share with you. With this knowledge, you can take the skills and knowledge they have refined after countless hours as part of your time accumulation.
Their existing life helps you accumulate time. Knowledge is money, money is time, and knowledge is time. According to Chen's axiom that "the time of success is constant", if you want to succeed in one aspect, other conditions remain unchanged, you always need a fixed time. Gladwell said in Alien that 10000 hours; Feng Lun said, "greatness is made"; It took Wang Shi 10 years (1984- 1998) to make Vanke successful. According to Chen's law of time accumulation (laughter), you can use your own time or other people's time as your own accumulation, so you need to read, read, study, study.