What can the most neglected fourth dimension bring us?

Primary school students' poems can write the simplest and most straightforward truth. If I ask you what this sentence means? Your possible answer is to tell us to cherish time. However, do you really know what the dimension of time brings us? I thought I knew, but now I'm not sure.

What can this time, which often becomes our fourth dimension, bring us?

First, the compound interest effect.

The compound interest effect is easy to understand. I think it is a universally applicable formula and can be used in any field. I don't want to use formulas to expand a lengthy narrative. Here, I use a metaphor to explain.

This is like the speed of an object is V, and now it is moving to another position A. If there is acceleration acting on it at this time, its speed will be faster and faster. And no matter how small the acceleration is, he travels more distance per unit time than before, which is the compound interest effect.

There are two points to note here, one is acceleration, and the other is time. If you make rapid progress, that is, the acceleration is large enough, you can succeed quickly and take less time. On the contrary, if your acceleration is small, the duration will be long, but sooner or later it will reach the state you want, and the power of time will be reflected.

Spring planting and autumn harvest are the most common examples. If you plant a grain of wheat and produce an ear of wheat, it will be ten times or even a hundred times the return. If you plant only one grain at a time, your harvest will be fixed. If all the harvested 100 grains of wheat are planted, the harvest will be 100 times of the original. If you want to harvest 10000 wheat, one grain at a time, it takes 100 years to simulate, and it only takes two years with the idea of compound interest. This is the power of time to produce compound interest effect. Of course, the reality is much more complicated, and the ratio of income to output can't be so wide, but compound interest is already very powerful.

Many people know that this concept will be used in financial fields such as savings and insurance, but in fact it is everywhere. Even if people take the college entrance examination, they will be affected by this. Some people finish their studies ahead of time and take exams; Some people repeat for better grades. In either case, all the previous study time should be counted as compound interest. Some people may get high marks easily and just study normally, while others may have to review for many years or finally give up.

Second, in the long run.

We just talked about the compound interest effect. Let's talk about the long term. Anything, as long as you add a long term, is not simple.

For example, if you can run 10 km every day for 20 years, many people will give you a thumbs up and say that you are really self-disciplined.

For example, washing parents' feet is nothing. If you can wash your parents' feet every day for 20 years, most people will take you as an example and praise you as a dutiful son.

The above example of the college entrance examination is also true. If you really study hard and make progress every day, even if you make slow progress and keep repeating, you will definitely be admitted to Tsinghua Peking University.

Long-term is a great weapon of time, but this is the place we are most likely to ignore.

Luo Pang said that he founded Luo Ji Thinking, and he couldn't win the poker table in the field of new media. When I first heard this sentence, I didn't understand the concept of long-term I just think Luo Pang is very modest. After all, he has become a well-known IP in China with countless fans. Now I know, Luo pang has long seen that long-term is not so simple.

This week, Luo Ji thought of liquid crystal, which is in line with the topic of several days. Liquid crystal technology was invented in the United States, and Americans are bent on using it to develop LCD TV. From now on, this is a correct decision, but other conditions were not mature at that time, and this task could not be completed. This has long recognized the rise of Japan. Japan continues to apply LCD technology to electronic watches, calculators and other small objects. These inventions have brought huge income to Japan, and at the same time made Japan's LCD technology lead the world. After all, scientific research and development needs investment, but there is no output. Who will keep filling a hole without a bottom? It is not surprising that the United States has lost its LCD faucet.

The time here is a long time, and the United States finally failed to withstand the pressure and interrupted long-term investment. Japan, on the other hand, maintained its growth and once monopolized 90% of the global LCD industry.

No one knows what will happen in the future, so the best gambler is the gambler who can keep gambling. This is the theory that Luo Pang Luo Zhenyu can't stay at the poker table, and it is also the original intention of Luo Pang Luo Yonghao to insist on making mobile phones. They all want to have a place in the future.

Third, circulation.

After studying for a long time, I think time is really amazing, at least I ignored it for a long time. However, the cycle that Li Xiaolai talked about again caught me off guard. Until now, I'm not sure if I still lack other knowledge about time.

The concept of cycle is also easy to understand and easily ignored by us.

The periodic curve is the kind that fluctuates up and down all the time, much like a person's electrocardiogram. There are peaks and valleys, which actually tell us that in the long-term dimension, things will not always remain in a state, but will change periodically.

Take growing wheat as an example, one year is a cycle, which is the smallest dimension. One-year cycle may be high-yield, low-yield, or no-harvest, and the output varies in different cycles. However, it is easy to understand the cycle through farming, but it is not so easy to understand in other fields.

Or the story of LCD. The LCD industry is also divided into cycles, and there is a rising period of the LCD industry. This industry is very profitable and at the peak of the cycle. Then other companies poured in, overcapacity, declining income, and the industry entered a trough. During the trough, Japan reduced production lines, laid off some employees, reduced production capacity and responded to the crisis. This is a very correct decision today, but it also gives South Korea a chance to rise. South Korea has increased its investment and hired employees who were fired by Japan. In fact, this is a big gamble. South Korea won and Japan lost. The LCD industry once entered the peak period, and South Korea firmly occupied the leading position. This is why we now regard Samsung and LG as NBs.

End of movement

Summarizing these three concepts, I have to admire Elon Musk. Everyone knows that he is the boss of Tesla, but his X-SPACE is also very eye-catching. His plan is to immigrate to Mars, which seems impossible, just as the United States originally studied LCD screens. However, Musk did not say that people should be sent to Mars now. He just divided the Mars program into countless small pieces, each of which was designed to reduce flight costs and improve technology. Of course, this is not a waste of money. As far as his rocket recycling project is concerned, this technology can attract countless gold. In addition, he also undertakes business such as satellite power generation. What he has done is to constantly turn funds into technology, and then use technology to recover funds, and so on and so forth, and finally realize his Mars immigration plan.

Look at his story, isn't it amazing? Immigration to Mars is a long process. The constant transformation of technology and capital naturally draws a cycle, and every progress is his growth rate. He wants to realize his dream by compounding interest.