A successful example of changing the world

If you change yourself first, some people around you may change with you; Some people around you have changed, and many talents may change with them; Many people have changed, and more people may change. I have carefully collected and sorted out the successful cases of changing the world for you. Let's have a look.

A successful example of changing the world 1: change yourself and change the world.

Robert middot Siodini is a famous American psychologist and professor of psychology at Arizona State University.

One day, after a day's work in new york, he went to Times Square Station by subway. It was the rush hour, and people flocked down the steps and headed for the platform as usual.

Suddenly, Robert &; Middot Siodini saw a man in rags lying in the middle of the steps. His eyes were closed and he did not move.

People who catch the subway pass by him in a hurry, as if they didn't see the man, and some even crossed him and rushed home by subway.

Seeing this, Robert &; Middot Siodini was very shocked. So he stopped to see what happened. Just as he stopped, an intriguing change appeared: some people stopped one after another.

Soon, the man was surrounded by a small group of caring people, and people's sympathy suddenly spread. A man went to buy him food, a lady was in a hurry to buy him water, another man informed the subway patrol, and the patrol called an ambulance. A few minutes later, the man woke up, eating food and waiting for the ambulance to arrive.

People gradually realize that this ragged man can only speak Spanish and has no money. He wandered the streets of Manhattan hungry for days. He fainted on the steps of the subway station because of hunger.

Why did people turn a blind eye to this ragged man at first?

According to Robert middot Siodini, one of the important reasons is that people often fall into a complete self-state in the hustle and bustle of people, ignoring irrelevant information and people around them who need help. It's like a poet said, we are "walking in a noisy street, but our eyes can't see and our ears can't hear". In sociology, this phenomenon is called "urban trance".

Why did people's attitude towards this ragged man change greatly later?

Robert middot Siodini believes that a very important reason is that the situation has changed because of one person's concern. At that time, I stopped just to have a look at the man in trouble. Passers-by woke up from the "city trance" and noticed that the man needed help. After noticing his predicament, everyone began to help him with practical actions.

Seeing others do good things has an impact on their own psychology, and then they have the desire and action to do good things. Psychologists call this change "sublimation". Psychologists' research shows that helping the sick, the poor or other people with difficulties is the easiest way to cause people to "sublimate". Although these charitable acts of helping others are not necessarily grand events, they need not be as selfless as Mother Teresa, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, when she helped the poor in Kolkata.

From psychologist Robert &; Middot Siodini's story is reminiscent of the epitaph of an English bishop:

When I was a teenager, I was high-spirited and full of ambition. At that time, I dreamed of changing the world. But when I get older and have more experience, I find that I can't change the world. So, I narrowed down the scope and decided to change my country first, but this goal is still too big. Then I entered middle age. In desperation, I locked the object I tried to change in my closest family. But contrary to expectations, everything is the same. When I was getting old, I finally had an epiphany: I had to change myself first and influence my family by example. If I can be a role model for my family first, maybe I can improve my country next, and then I may even transform the whole world.

Yes, if you change yourself first, some people around you may change too; Some people around you have changed, and many talents may change with them; Many people have changed, and more people may change &; It is in this sense that we can say that if we change ourselves first, we may change the world.

Ex. 2: We need people who change the world.

People call him "Xiao Yang", but his name is unknown. However, this is obviously not the most important. What attracts our attention most is that this boy from Yinchuan, Ningxia was once a student who failed in the college entrance examination. Growing up in the countryside, he failed the college entrance examination for almost a year, but at the beginning of 20 12, he was admitted to Harvard University and gave him a full scholarship. Even more surprising, he was the China student with the lowest admission score in the history of Harvard University. The reason given by Harvard University is: "We need people who can change the world in the future."

Can a failed college entrance examination student change the world? This is perhaps the last thing we understand. When I told this story to the students, their surprised eyes and mouths didn't close, revealing too many accidents. Isn't Xiao Yang so lucky? Let's listen to what Xiao Yang said: "These students not only lack material resources, but also lack spiritual resources." Xiao Yang refers to children in western rural areas, because Xiao Yang often subsidizes students in western rural areas. In his spare time, he did a lot of public welfare things. He once collected 50,000 books and 15 computers with his companions and gave them to 18 rural primary schools respectively. He also went to universities to recruit short-term teaching teachers to teach English, computers and music in primary schools in remote areas. Xiao Yang doesn't like the utilitarian practices of some local non-profit organizations. He said, "They regard public welfare as a business and sell dog meat." So after overcoming all kinds of difficulties, he organized a non-governmental organization, which is a website integrating local public welfare resources. Through this website, he found volunteers to teach, and those in need can contact directly for teaching help at any time. Another example is materials, such as computers, books and periodicals, winter clothes, etc. , published on the Internet for everyone to control and share resources.

Now we should understand something.

Perhaps, like Xiao Yang, we should pay attention to those who need help. We can learn to do something to change the world, and so can you. For example, raise something to help poor children and pay attention to the elderly who need help around them. Maybe you can save the change for smoking and drinking to help an old man in need. Isn't it much better to have more energy to fight than you do? Maybe you will think that this is what noble people do. Why should I be a noble person? If you really need to answer this question, I think you can probably say: Aren't you bored? Aren't your grades unsatisfactory? Aren't you not interested in learning? There are two ways to solve these problems, one is depravity and the other is nobility. From the conscience of a person: you should choose noble!

Xiao Yang may never have thought that he was admitted to Harvard because he was doing public welfare. But one thing is clear: "My father always told me to learn to forgive and help others." Under the influence and education of his father, Xiao Yang's kindness is inevitable. Being admitted to Harvard may be just a by-product and an unexpected gain. But why is it not an inevitable harvest? He failed in the college entrance examination, but he was never "bored" or "depressed" because of his compassion and kindness, and his concern for people in need. Even because he often thought, "I want to change the society and help the poor", he did not forget to tell the students when attending the training of Xingtengke Information Consulting Company: "China has carried out economic reform for more than 30 years. People in the eastern coastal areas benefit the most. In the west, hundreds of millions of people are ignored. My hometown is still backward and poor. " "I often feel powerless and trapped. If I can go to school in America, I want to study economics most. I hope to learn good knowledge and theory and return to my hometown in the future to change there. "

I think this may also be a force that inspires Xiao Yang to struggle. Imagine, how can such a person be bored? How can it degenerate? Bottom line: "Noble people have noble reasons, and fallen people have fallen reasons." And conscience tells us: we must choose noble, because "we need people who can change the world in the future", and the world will become better!

Example 3 of successfully changing the world: talented investors who want to change the world

He is a mathematical genius and a chess master, and likes the works of Solzhenitsyn and Rand. In the global internet world, venture capitalist Peter &; MiddotThiel is a name that can't be bypassed. Because people in the industry are always looking forward to hearing what new projects this "prophet" figure is interested in, and also because of his successful entrepreneurial and investment experience and his ability to turn stone into gold.

PayPal listed, the first bucket of gold in life.

University Avenue, located in the most prosperous area of Palo Alto, is the outpost for the release of scientific and technological products in Silicon Valley. There is a room called caf &；; Eacute, the cafe in Venice. Most of Peter middot Thiel's industries are built in Caf&; Look around around eacute Venice. The guests in this cafe are all people who use Apple devices and are not very well dressed but full of energy. Their discussion topics are inseparable from their own creativity and venture capital. 1998 Summer, 23-year-old Ukrainian programmer Max &；; Middot Max Levchin listened to Thiel's lecture on currency trading at Stanford University. The next day, they met in Palo Alto, hoping to establish an electronic payment system to make e-commerce transactions simple, unified and secure, which is the prototype of PayPal in the future. In 2002, Thiel and his friend Allen &; Middot Elon Musk met to discuss whether to list PayPal and reached an agreement. Finally, this electronic payment company, founded in 1998, went public successfully, with a market value of about1200 million US dollars, becoming the first large-scale IPO after the "9 1 1" incident. Subsequently, PayPal was acquired by Yi Bei for $6,543.8+$50 million, and Thiel also got the first bucket of gold in his life & & mdash& ampmdash; 55 million.

Venture capital, turning stone into gold

Thiel, who was financially free, then devoted himself to venture capital. He renamed Thiel Capital Management, which was founded in 1996, Clarium Capital Management, and injected 1000000 USD into it. Since then, Thiel has been patiently looking for promising startups. At that time, social networking, an area that few people liked, was considered as the next dangerous Internet bubble, but Thiel was still full of confidence. In the summer of 2004, Hoffman and Silicon Valley urchin Sean &; Middot sean parker introduced Thiel to Zuckerberg, who was looking for major investors for Facebook. Thiel provided $500,000 in start-up capital for Facebook, when the company was valued at less than $5 million. This is Facebook's first foreign investment. This investment won him a 7% stake in Facebook and became a member of the company's board of directors. Although Thiel sold nearly half of the shares in the following years and the remaining shares were further diluted by Facebook's multiple rounds of financing, Thiel still holds about 3% of the shares. If calculated by the market value of $654.38+000 billion after Facebook's listing, the value of Thiel's shares is expected to reach $3 billion, and the return on investment will exceed 6,000 times. If Mark &; Middot Zuckerberg created Facebook, a miracle that changed human life style, so Peter &; Middot was born in 1964 in peter thiel, which is the driving force behind this miracle. The American internet community once again remembered Thiel's name.

A year later, he set up the Founders Fund with US$ 50 million. After setting up the Foundation, he invested in a series of highly innovative start-up companies, including YouTube, photo sharing software companies Slide and Yelp, Palantir Technologie, which develops software for searching for terrorists and financial fraud, electric car company Chris and micro-credit company Kiva. These companies turned out to be very successful It can be said that Thiel is the most successful technology venture capitalist in the world.

How to choose promising entrepreneurs? Thiel said that he would ask every entrepreneur seeking investment the most important question, that is, "Why did the 20th employee join your company?" Thiel thinks: "It's easy to explain why some people want to be CEOs or join startups as early employees, because they want to run a company or get rich by joining early startups. It is also easy to know why the1000th employee is willing to join, because it is obvious that the company is on the road of growth, and joining can earn a stable income. But the 20th employee will have many different meanings. Because most of your company's equity has been allocated when the company 19 employees joined, but the company has not succeeded, so in order to stabilize income, your company is not a place worth joining. " "I will only vote for the company that answers this question, that is, the 20th employee will join in, because the company is doing something brand-new and different."

Contradictory complex, "born to win"

Thiel 1967 was born in Frankfurt, Germany. His father is a chemical engineer. His father Klaus has repeatedly jumped ship in several large engineering enterprises. He always took his family everywhere and finally settled in Foster, 20 miles south of San Francisco. Thiel goes to primary school in seven different places. Finally, in the fifth grade, he settled in Foster in San Francisco Bay. Gentel's early growth environment was full of self-confidence, intelligence and loneliness. He is a genius in mathematics and a chess master. His chess board is pasted with the motto of life "Born to win". When he was a teenager, his favorite reading was The Lord of the Rings, and he always read it again and again. At the same time, he also likes the works of Solzhenitsyn and Rand. Thiel grew up in a _ _ _ _ family and became a Christian in high school. He began to believe in libertarianism and even became an extreme believer of libertarianism. He described his faith as "a little heretical" and said, "I believe in Christ. But I don't try to convince others to keep the same faith as me. " At the same time, as a Christian, Thiel is also an out-and-out homosexual, which is one of the concrete manifestations of Thiel's being called ambivalent complex by the outside world. In this regard, he said, "In my mind, identity exists in various subtle forms. I think gays, blacks and women all have profound and different experiences. I also believe that everyone has an exaggerated trend and has raised it to the ideological field. " Obviously, Thiel is a typical contradiction complex. He lives or does business in his utopia and enjoys it.

The information age has brought Thiel great wealth, but he is still disappointed. He believes that the internet technology revolution has not created enough jobs, nor has it improved the manufacturing level and social productivity. Innovation in the virtual world cannot replace technological progress in the real world. Thiel rarely updates his Facebook page. He is also "not used to using things like BlackBerry, iPhone or email." It was not until a year ago that he started texting.

Firmly believe that innovation saves the world.

Now Thiel, who has made a lot of money in social media, has a new goal &; Mdash& ampmdash funds those "ideas that can save the world", in his words, at least "raise our civilization to a higher level". Thiel believes that almost all the problems in the world, such as the defects of government institutions and education systems, lingering financial turmoil, market bubbles, energy crises and resource wars, all stem from the stagnation of scientific and technological innovation, and the only way to save them can only be a drastic scientific breakthrough. At present, Thiel has invested a lot of money in companies that focus on crazy ideas such as extending life, moving to offshore platforms, commercialization of space, friendly artificial intelligence, and modifying DNA sequences to accelerate evolution. Recently, his Thiel Foundation invested in another remarkable project &; Mdash& ampmdash fresh meat 3D printing technology startup company.

Modern Meadow, a company engaged in the research of 3D printing technology for fresh meat, is located in Missouri, USA. It is said that it has received a six-figure investment from the Thiel Foundation. According to the company, through special treatment and cultivation of different types of special structural layers, test-tube meat can become edible, and it can also provide the human body with the required protein. The company said that it was engaged in this research to reduce the environmental impact of large-scale farming. At present, the meat produced is 2 cm long, 1 cm wide and half a millimeter thick. "We look forward to attracting a group of early consumers who like cooking and vegetarianism for moral reasons. Then with the gradual reduction of prices, more religious vegetarians (such as Hindus, Jews and Muslims) are recognized, and finally hope to provide safe and secure pork products for the general public. "

At present, Thiel ranks 365th on the Forbes list with a net asset of $6,543.8+$50 million. Thiel's contribution to the Internet world is not only as a venture capitalist, but also his unique thinking ability. In any case, Thiel's dream is to change the world.