Why do most people do nothing all their lives?

There are three poisons in modern society: consumerism, sexual freedom and success. Success is one of them. It won't poison you, but it can give you short-term excitement. From this perspective, success is no different from ecstasy (or virus). There is no one in this world who is not eager for success when he is young. However, time flies, and most people still do nothing all their lives until they die. Except for a few helpless sighs, life continues in poverty. Why are most people destined to be mediocre all their lives? This is a classic and old-fashioned question, and it is also a more controversial one. China has two traditional ideas: First, as long as you are smarter than most people, you will not be mediocre, but why did all the top college students disappear after many years? The explanation is not clear. I recently read a book called "Outsider", which is very enlightening. In the book, the author tells a story about Changshou Village, named Rosetto. Rossetto is a small self-sufficient society, and almost all the ancestors of its residents came from an Italian place called rossetto. When researchers found that most residents in rossetto died of aging rather than disease, they tried to find the reasons from the aspects of diet, living environment and genes, but finally found that the only reasonable explanation for longevity was the lifestyle of rossetto people as immigrant communities. There are many people in rossetto who run their families. The neighbors are harmonious and people help each other, thus creating a small society that is relatively isolated from the modern high-pressure society. The view of the book is that successful people are actually ordinary people, and their greatness is not because of their outstanding talents, but because of "10000 hours of practice and social factors." The author Gladwell quoted many stories to prove the above point. For example, Bill Joy, one of the founders of SUN, and Bill of Microsoft? Both Gates and the Beatles meet the "10000 hours of practice and social factors." The author's statistical results show that if you want to become an expert in a certain field, you need to invest at least 10000 hours of training or practice. For example. Bill Joy, who was praised as "Edison in the Internet Age" by Fortune magazine, had an opportunity when he was 17 years old. It happened that the University of Michigan had a computer lab, and he got endless opportunities through the system. Gates is also very similar. In high school, he got computer time sponsored by the mother of a rich classmate, and then he got the opportunity of Washington University. At that time, few young people could get such computer conditions, even university computer professors! This book thinks that the date and year of birth are very important to people's fate and discovers the generational phenomenon of people. For example, if you want to become a successful lawyer in new york, the best route is to be born in a Jewish immigrant family in new york. 1930. The first generation of these Jewish immigrants are often craftsmen such as tailors, the second generation has their own small businesses, and the third generation is all doctors and lawyers. Born at that time, you will catch up with the best period of public schools in new york, get the best education, and then just in time to start a new lawyer career. Perhaps, as some people do, people are like charged particles in the electromagnetic field. We are often interested in those electrons or protons that have gained extremely high energy, which account for a small proportion and are called alternative charged particles. Are these electrons special in themselves? In fact, all electrons are the same, just appearing in the right position in the electromagnetic field at the right time! Therefore, the fundamental reason why most people do nothing all their lives is that they can't be in the right place in society at the right time. Li Kaifu, president of Google China, is very appreciative of this book. He commented that Gladwell gave a simple equation about success with wonderful pen and ink: intelligence+social environment+opportunity+diligence = success. We used to ignore two very important things: social environment and opportunities. Aliens: Different Revelations of Success (America) Malcolm? Gladwell, CITIC Publishing House