Nowadays, the class is solidified, and the rich occupy resources. How can ordinary people counterattack?

Recently, there is a very popular documentary called "Seven Years of Life", which was filmed by BBC TV for more than 50 years and has not been completed yet.

The documentary was filmed on 1964. The content of the documentary is to record the changes of 14 seven-year-old children every seven years. These 15 children were born in completely different family environments. Some of them come from elite families in the upper class, some from ordinary middle class families, some from families at the bottom of society and even orphanages.

Director Michael Apter's original intention is to interview and review their lives every seven years, trying to answer a question: "Can your class determine your future?"

-Are the children of the rich still rich?

-Are poor children still poor?

-Is our social class really solidified?

Does "seven-year-old pension" really exist?

Leave a suspense, and you can continue to look at another case with this question and your own guess for the time being.

Wealth distribution simulation experiment

This is also an interesting simulation experiment of wealth distribution that I saw on the Internet recently. The experiment is like this:

There are 100 people in the room, and each person 100 yuan. They are playing games. In each round of the game, everyone gives one yuan to another at random. What is the wealth distribution of this 100 people?

Here are three different answers. Guess which one?

We might as well regard this game as a simplified model of social wealth distribution, so as to simulate the running law of this world.

Suppose everyone starts playing games at the age of 18, and the initial capital is 100 yuan, once a day, until they retire at the age of 65.

"Take out one yuan a day" can be understood as basic daily consumption, and "the probability of acquiring wealth is random" is to … simplify the model.

Based on this calculation, people will play 17000 games in their lifetime, that is, they will get 17000 wealth distribution opportunities.

Under the above rules, the result of playing the game 17000 times is as follows: (When someone's wealth value drops to 0 yuan, he doesn't need to give 1 yuan to others this round, but he still has a chance to get the money given by others. )

The horizontal axis label in the above picture represents the player's ranking. The higher the ranking, the more wealth. At the beginning, everyone's wealth value was equal, and as the game progressed, the wealth value gap became larger and larger.

If debt is allowed, you can borrow money from relatives and friends, banks, investors, etc. , the chart will become the following form:

Yes, whether debt is allowed or not, the distribution of wealth is close to the power law distribution:

-The wealth of the richest people is about four times that of the original wealth;

-top 10% of the rich hold about 33% of the wealth;

-The top 20% of the rich hold about 56% of the wealth;

-About 25% of people are in debt, and the highest debt is about 200 yuan;

In this way, most people's money went into the pockets of a few people. Even under the fairest rules, the world still shows a cruel side. Although borrowing can give us more leeway when we are cornered, it will eventually make the poor poorer.

Will the rich second generation take advantage of ordinary players?

In the real world, there are always some rich second generation and rich third generation, who took advantage of the wealth game from the beginning. Our model should also take this into account.

To simplify the calculation, we assume that there are only two types of players: 90 ordinary players+10 rich second generation players.

500 yuan, the initial wealth of rich second generation players. The game results are shown in the following figure (the red column is a rich second generation player and the green column is an ordinary player):

Although this distribution pattern is basically consistent with the results of all ordinary players, if you look closely, seven of the top players in 10 are rich second generation, and all the Top5 players are rich second generation.

Although there are also "black sheep" among the rich second generation players, they still have great opportunities to maintain their wealth at a high level. Rich second generation and ordinary people live in two worlds, but occasionally they intersect.

Yes, ordinary people must have excellent luck if they want to reach the same height as the rich second generation.

This is a cruel world.

Let's go back to the topic of "seven years of life". What happened to this 14 child after 50 years?

You guessed it, the result of this simulation game is almost the same:

-? The children of those elite families in the upper class graduated from aristocratic schools in an orderly way, entered Oxford University, and then became famous lawyers, leading a superior life in the upper class.

-? And middle-class children pay more attention to the development of diversity. Some of them have also entered the first-class universities, but after graduation, they are more engaged in public welfare undertakings or teachers' careers, continuing the simple and quiet ordinary life of their parents.

-? Without exception, those children at the bottom left school prematurely and began to work to make money. They got married very early and had children very early. They are the earliest grandparents of all people, and they also have many descendants, but their descendants, like them, have not received much education and are engaged in low-end jobs, such as repairmen, security guards or cleaners.

However, one of the children named "Nick" unexpectedly broke the barrier and walked all the way from a single-room primary school in a remote area to Oxford, and then went to the United States to become a physics professor.

It seems that the hand of fate has also escaped from the net?

How did he do it?

In fact, most of us are like Nick. We don't have rich fathers or good luck. We're just ordinary people. What can we do to change our destiny?

Still the same mathematical model, now we assume that the initial wealth of each player is still 100 yuan, but there are 10 people who study harder, harder and harder than others, thus gaining 1% competitive advantage, that is, the probability of winning profits is higher than others 1%. What will the simulation result be like? (The red column is a hard-working player, and the green column is an ordinary player. )

It can be seen that the overall distribution pattern of social wealth has not changed. However, among the hard-working players of 10, 9 have entered the top 20 of the rich!

As long as you work harder than others, maybe you can try to tell a story about the Jedi's counterattack and thank the cruel world for giving us a chance to live.

So, how should we face this cruel world?

The answer is two words: hard work.

Well, at this point, it is completely a chicken soup article.

But do you really think what I want to say today is "hard work"?

Actually, it's not. Hard work is not the point, and hard work is not difficult. Who hasn't tried? But why are so many people so far from success?

Because what is really hard to do is not "hard work", but "persistence"!

How to learn to persist?

The simulation game just now, after adding the factor of "hard work", got the result of "diaosi counterattack", but there is a particularly big implied premise:

It is this person who works harder than others every day from 18 to the end, instead of 1 day, 1 month, 1 year ... every day!

This is the real difficulty of "diaosi counterattack"!

Since childhood, we have seen many inspirational movies, most of which are children born in poor families. Through our own efforts, we finally got stories of wealth and glory, such as Pursuit of Happyness, three silly Bollywoods and a TV series Struggle that was once very popular in China. ..

Why is the story of diaosi's counterattack often used to make movies?

Because there are too few.

Why is it too little?

Because this road is too difficult, many people can't persist and give up!

This is the real scary place!

It's not that we don't have dreams, that we don't try, but that we don't persist!

All successful studies teach us to work hard, but never tell us how to "persist".

Today, what I really want to tell you is how we can learn to "persist"!

So how should we let ourselves

Continue to "stick to" your own efforts?

Fight by willpower?

Or climb the snow-capped mountains and take the Gobi desert?

Or do you want to beat chicken blood and drink chicken soup every day?

Or write persistence 100 times and paste it all over the room?

nor ...

The answer is:

Don't force it!

Anything that needs "persistence" often won't last long.

And what you are doing every day, forgetting to eat and sleep, can never jump out of the word "persistence" in your mind …

For example, if a person likes to play games, will he say that he needs willpower to continue playing? Don't!

Once you start, you can't stop at all, but you need strong willpower to stop! I'm addicted to playing, and you can't even take it away!

What you are insisting on means that you don't like it at all. Since you don't like it, why do you expect you to succeed on this road one day?

What you don't need to insist on is that you are "insisting".

What we have to do is not to cling to what we don't like, but to find what we really like and enjoy it for a lifetime! Let yourself "get addicted"!

Your life password

Ok, so the question is coming. How can I find something I really like and have a chance to succeed?

Can't play games every day? Of course, in this era, if you love playing games from the heart and are really talented, you can also succeed. Many professional players earn as much as the CEO of a big company. )

First: find your own talent.

We were taught from an early age to get up from where we fell; You are good at math, but poor at English. You should make up your English. You are quite independent and unique, but you are too self-centered. Keep your temper and get along well with others.

So, we smooth the edges and corners, fill in the shortcomings, and put away our nature ... Finally, we become an ... ordinary person.

A person can only go from excellent to better!

Let's look at a famous experiment:

In order to improve the method of teaching fast reading, an American university conducted a three-year study: the researchers tested the reading speed and comprehension of 10000 readers:

Before training, ordinary readers read about 90 words per minute, and some excellent readers read about 350 words per minute.

Then, after everyone was trained in fast reading methods, the average reading volume increased to about 150 words, an increase of nearly 2 times. But guess how many people could read 350 words per minute before?

The answer is: about 2900 words per minute, an increase of nearly 10 times!

This result surprised all researchers, because at first almost everyone believed that readers with poor level would make greater progress.

Therefore, if you continue to invest in your own gifted fields, the return rate is the greatest!

Then how should we find our own excellent places, or talented places?

We generally think that talent is a dominant talent, such as being beautiful, physically coordinated, singing well and having a high IQ. ...

In fact, there is another kind of talent, which is a hidden talent. You will be happy because of some things, which will continue to give you satisfaction, and you can spend it here all the time. After a long time, you are actually different.

We all know the genius theory of 10000 hours, but why does a person spend 10000 hours on one thing? By persistence?

Some people have to do this. But most people find satisfaction and self-existence value through in-depth experience. Only with constant satisfaction and pleasure, a person will become addicted if he is not careful. If you are not careful, you will put in 10 thousand hours, and if you are not careful, you will become a master, not the so-called persistence.

Others think he is struggling, but in fact he enjoys it.

Why is it painful to practice PPT twice? And Jobs practiced 100 times for the Apple conference, but still enjoyed it?

Why are some people suffering and others happy at the same point?

Search your past and see if there is anything you would like to do together. If you can't be perfect, what can't you stand? For example, an icon has been changed 100 times?

These places that make you tired, pursue perfection and can't stand it are your talents. This is the life password left by God.

Second: Redesign your life.

When you find a place where you are talented?

Write a ppt, make a resume, and then tell others that you have this talent. This is your hobby, okay?

No, you need to start redesigning your life around your "talents" and "advantages".

There is a singer named Li Jian in China.

I graduated from Tsinghua with a master's degree in mathematics, right? But he really has no talent in class. His roommate either grew up watching Hegel, spoke six languages, or won various Olympic gold medals. .....

He needs to work very hard to get 60-70 points in every exam, while those who really learn to bully easily get 98 points and 99 points.

On the contrary, as long as there is a singing competition on campus, Li Jian can easily win the first prize almost every time.

But when he graduated, like most people, he made a choice and went to work in the counterpart SARFT. Not bad, right? But he feels that he is doing a job he doesn't like every day, listening to people in a strange environment with skills he is not good at. Although I work hard, I still can't finish my work, and I have no sense of existence at all ... After work, I can only go to KTV to sing and vent. ...

Until a few years later, Lu Gengxu woke him up and invited him to form "Shui Mu Nianhua", which gave birth to the famous China singer we later knew: Li Jian!

As we said before, the return efficiency is the highest if you continue to invest in a place with abundant talents.

So, if you find your "talent", don't just regard it as "interest", it may be your "life password", and you need to start to redesign your life around it.

So how to design it? It can be divided into four steps:

1. Set goals and give them great significance.

Set "identity" first, and then give "mission".

What is identity? What kind of person do you want to be?

For example, if you like singing and want to be a singer in the future;

For example, if you like painting and want to be a painter in the future;

For example, you have been the king of children since childhood and have leadership skills. You want to be an entrepreneur in the future.

Identify yourself first. What needs attention here is not to regard goals as skills. For example, you like making money, and you want to be "a rich man" in the future ... it makes no sense. Making money is not your talent, but the possible result after you play your talent.

Then give this "identity" a certain "mission".

What is a "mission"? It's "altruism"

What benefits can you bring to others after you become this identity?

For example, if you want to be a singer, what kind of singer is that? Who do you speak for? Who are you singing for? Can your singing bring strength to others? Cure? Or pleasure?

For example, if you want to be a painter, what kind of painter is that? What theme are you going to paint mainly? Why draw this theme? What spirit do you convey?

Without these meanings, how can you impress people?

Without these meanings, how can we form our own style?

Without these meanings, why do your users need you?

Users don't need you, how can you commercialize?

2. Think about commercialization and turn talent into a career.

If you want to redesign your life, you can't just play with it as your initial interest, because maybe at this time, you may have no other source of income, and you must think about how to commercialize it.

As for how to commercialize, the whole content of the last quarter of this column will focus on this point, how to understand your users from your mission, how to turn your ideas into products, how to establish your own business model, how to build a team and how to make money. ...

I won't go into details here, and it's useless to say it, because there are still two levels you need to go through, and we'll talk about them in the next two quarters.

3. Deliberately practice "routines" and complete the accumulation of 10,000 hours.

Of course, talent alone is not enough. It just tells you that if you continue to invest here, you will get the highest rate of return, but it doesn't mean that you don't need to invest again if you find talent.

From a person to a master in this field, you still lack the "routine"!

What is a routine? It is the experience summarized by predecessors.

Or for example, if you like singing, you can make a record directly, instead of yelling at KTV every day. You need professional training, such as how to sing with qi, practice intonation, learn music theory and learn stage performance … ..

The skills you are good at must be summed up by many mature "routines" for you to learn in this respect. These routines can make you take fewer detours, reduce useless exercises and help you reach the professional level faster.

Ten thousand hours of genius theory, deliberately practicing "routines", not your "interests" …

Top players, such as professional athletes, professional singers, artists and entrepreneurs, stand on the shoulders of giants and take their own step after mastering the routine!

This step is a small step for you, but it may become a big step for mankind in this field.

4. Set small goals and accomplish them one by one!

You should break this new life goal down into smaller goals according to time and stages.

Apart from the bad principles such as "Rome wasn't built in a day" and "you can't get fat in one bite", the most important thing is to set up a "positive feedback" for yourself in this process.

What is "positive feedback" is "empirical value".

If you have played any online games, you are familiar with this concept. Every time you kill a monster, you gain some experience. When you finish a task, you will also gain some experience; After you have accumulated some experience, you will be promoted; After upgrading, you will become stronger and gain some new skills and abilities; Then start a new journey, which will give you some unexpected surprises …

This "experience" and "upgrade" is your "positive feedback" He is telling you that what you are doing now is right and meaningful, which will bring you some returns and continue to inspire you to move in this direction.

These stable sense of gain, sense of accomplishment and uncertain surprises will make you "addicted".

And when you plan your life, you should set these "addiction" points for yourself and let yourself enjoy it.

How long does it take to decompose it? How small is the target?

Without standards, the more the better, let yourself achieve these small goals constantly, and record those moments, let yourself see the progress of your growth, motivate yourself to keep moving forward, and meet those "unexpected joys" that are destined to happen in the process …

You just need to pursue Excellence

Success will come to you automatically!

Back to seven years of life against Nick:

Did he really fight back by his own "efforts"?

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The real reason is his passion for physics and his persistence in his ideals since childhood!

At the age of seven, he dreamed of exploring the mysteries of the moon, which in turn prompted him to study physics harder. 2 1 year-old was admitted to Oxford physics department.

Later, he immigrated to the United States with the dream of promoting the development of nuclear physics ... Although his talent did not support him to go further, he eventually became a professor of college physics, but he has completed the class leap!

Back to simulated wealth calculation:

1% Is this competitive advantage that can run through your life and make you always more than others "hard work"?

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But your "talent" in a certain field!

Only talent can run through life, and all you have to do is find him, protect him and make him strong!

Redefine your life with your talents!