This is a delicate balance, that is, most people lose little, while a few people make a lot of money. This is why 20% of the people in the world hold 80% of the wealth.
His wisdom lies in: never follow the crowd, just be a "minority".
In fact, what is more important than wealth is that a few people always hold treasures that most ordinary people can't touch: wonderful luck, passionate feelings, lofty reputation and extraordinary wisdom. Even the truth is always in the hands of a few people.
Instead of pursuing promotion, salary increase, famous cars, villas, wisdom and security ... it is better to say that we are extremely poor all our lives and are pursuing material and spiritual wealth that only a few people can enjoy.
The first meaning of this journey is to be a "minority".
So, how to define "minority" and how to become "minority"?
The most wonderful experience in the world
Belong to a minority
What exactly does "minority" mean? I thought about it for a long time, but I couldn't find the answer.
In desperation, I typed the following words and asked the editor:
I have played in 56 countries on 5 continents in the past 7 years. I have read 95 books this year, and I am still doing what I think is very interesting: teaching entrepreneurs how to improve their self-awareness and improve their chances of success. Is this a minority life?
He said: this belongs to people who have experienced it and will make people curious.
It suddenly dawned on me that instead of being reasonable, I should share how I became a so-called "minority" unconsciously.
I like floating clouds and wild cranes. I can go anywhere and do anything I want. So with the freedom of time and space, I can study and travel, do things with great sense of accomplishment and earn living expenses. It doesn't sound incredible to me.
But all this comes at a price. First of all, you will not be understood and accepted.
Many of my decisions don't even understand my mother:
I took a scholarship to go to Singapore to study in high school, so I was alone since I was a child.
Go to school as a manager in BlackRock's most technical group;
Give up the comfortable life in Silicon Valley and the application for green card, and return to China to start a business with the original 20% salary.
When I switched from investment banking to working as a product manager in the most hardcore game company in Silicon Valley from scratch, I was the only girl on the whole floor except a lesbian and a transgender.
Many things can't be confided, and you need to bear them silently.
Second, the risk is high. Many times, a decision will take everything from me.
I dived in Cuba, but my glasses came loose when I went down to 10 meter, and the sea suddenly flooded in, so I couldn't open my eyes. But I dare not go up at once, for fear of hitting the ship. After gesturing, I felt my companion's hand pull me to the sea and saved my life.
After walking along the bank slope of the glacier in Greenland for five hours, I turned back, but because of a mistake, I didn't take a shortcut and escaped the tsunami caused by the sudden collapse of the glacier several hundred meters high.
Furthermore, you need to have a choice and give up many things that are valuable in the eyes of others.
I spent all my money on travel, books and interesting experiences, and there was nothing to wrap my clothes in. Once I was transferred to business class because the plane was cancelled. Because my clothes were casual, the stewardess of American Airlines came to check my ticket and gave me a dirty look.
I have moved almost once a year since 15 years old, so that's all I have to do. The so-called freedom can only be realized when there is no care and fetters.
There is no fixed job, no fixed home, no settled parents, and they are free to go out and explore.
But if I start all over again, I will still choose this road that few people take.
The first beauty is the surprise it brings.
When diving in a cage in South Africa to watch a great white shark, my two-meter mouth opened in front of me, and my sharp teeth creaked on the iron cage.
I was traveling in the pyramids of Mexico when it suddenly rained cats and dogs. I had nowhere to hide and stopped a car. The old couple inside can only speak Spanish, but they enthusiastically drove me back to the hotel for more than an hour.
Or the local people in the town who showed me the way enthusiastically took me to play for a long time; Or accidentally meet a special congenial donkey friend in Egypt, and simply change the itinerary and travel together.
The second beauty is the sense of accomplishment it brings.
I have changed three industries, and each industry has achieved good results in just 1-2 years. Such a rapid sense of growth is unmatched by other roads.
At work or in life
How to become a minority
What do ethnic minorities like me need?
Growth mentality
People will have two kinds of mentality in the face of failure: fixed mentality and growth mentality.
A fixed mindset holds that intelligence and talent are inherently fixed.
Success is to prove your ability, and you need to prove it again and again. A mistake may indicate that you are not smart or talented. You naturally don't want to take risks or be a minority, because failure is more likely, and failure will define your value as a person.
The growth mentality thinks that the ability can be improved.
A person doesn't need to be good at something immediately, but he can expand himself by doing things he is not good at. You will be willing to pursue adventure and challenge, thus enriching and improving yourself. Failure doesn't define your life, it's just a kind of motivation.
A friend of mine has a growing mind. I joined an English education startup company before I graduated from college.
The way for her to make a profit is not the mode that everyone usually thinks that the content is from free to charged, but around the public, selling parent-child toys and even charging WeChat group to urge everyone to read.
No matter what the result is, every time she tries, she can jump out of the original idea and embark on a new path. Her company is currently valued at hundreds of millions.
Independent thinking ability
Peter thiel said that in his interview with others, one of the most critical questions is whether this person can put forward a point of view different from the popular view.
For external information, we usually only play the role of reporting, rather than judging through self-analysis. But reporting or following the crowd is doomed to go the same way as most people.
I received three job offers from Lehman Brothers, Swiss Bank and Investment Banking Department of Bank of America. American classmates all suggested that I go to Lehman Brothers, because Lehman is the most famous in the United States and its alumni are well connected.
And I, considering that my future advantage is to communicate with China and the United States, resolutely chose Swiss Bank, which is not so famous in the United States, but it is the first in Asia, thus narrowly avoiding the bankruptcy of Lehman.
People with independent thinking ability can easily extract the core elements of everything.
For example, the Stanford Business School, which is the most difficult to enter in the world, actually admits nothing more than three types of people: people with strength, stories and backgrounds; To refine the application process, you need to be smart enough, leadership enough and unique enough.
Summarizing these points and looking at other top business schools, we will find that the standards of each school are essentially the same. This understanding is the reason why I can tutor a student admitted to Harvard or Stanford Business School in my spare time almost every year.
Migration skills
Many students came to ask me how to switch to the internet industry. Can I transfer to a job unrelated to my major?
My answer is yes. Knowledge is dead, skills are alive, and with transferable skills, you can go anywhere you want.
My work experience is not very ordinary, from finance to games, to artificial intelligence entrepreneurship, teaching and writing in my spare time, internship consulting, journalism, personnel and securities research.
Fortunately, every line has made some achievements, otherwise the personnel recruitment department may throw it away at a glance, thinking that this person has changed industries too quickly and has no foundation.
In fact, I use the same skills in every industry:
Quick learning and judgment ability, ability to discover core elements and formulate optimization rules, creativity and expression ability.
The first two abilities can help me quickly learn some core attributes of the industry, while the rest help me with product development, team and project management. So I can change industries within two years, from product manager to operation and commercial director.
The following questions can help you know whether you have the above three qualities.
Is success for learning and progress, or to prove that you are smart?
Do you have your own opinions on everything, or do you just synthesize others' opinions? Can you extract the core elements of everything?
Do you want to accumulate in an industry and get promoted slowly? If not, what ability do you have to get rid of this bondage?
Finally, if you realize that the author only describes the significance and methods of taking the minority road from his own point of view, it may not be suitable for you. Then congratulations, you have another basic ability as a minority-the ability to know your own needs.
On the way to becoming a minority
We are destined to walk alone.
Just after 20 17, the theme of "anxiety" running through the whole year finally provided us with a breathing space in the popularity of "Buddhism" at the end of the year-
Work casually, life is almost over, wages are earned casually, and love depends.
Where is the Buddhist Dharma of "goodness"?
It covers the embarrassment of the poor, the weakness of the lazy and the despair of the weak. The Buddhist world has not failed, and the Buddhist life is not full of food and clothing.
Buddhism is just another carefully packaged "procrastination".
But we still have to face the reality. We are all greedy. Want to be better, want to eat better, want to dress more beautifully, want to play more exciting, and more importantly, most of us want to be a "minority" all our lives.
Because only a few people can succeed in the secular sense, and only a few people can understand the warmth hidden in the trivial details of life.
The sweet fruit of the evolution of the whole human civilization for hundreds of millions of years will never be shared by all, but left to a few people.
The rich on Wall Street, the beautiful women in the palace and the outstanding brains have proved time and time again that the incomparable precious resources and materials such as fame, wine, wealth and wisdom have been and will always be concentrated in the hands of a few people in various forms.
Therefore, in this life, we may be surrounded by people at first, and we may walk on the road together, but sooner or later, we will all achieve the same goal and walk alone on the road to becoming a minority.
At the end of the year, the work "Celui qui tombe" by the French performing artist Jon Bourgeois was quietly circulated in the online world of China.
In this artistic performance presented by six performers, this paper discusses how people find a balance in change. With the stainless steel masterpiece My Way by Hollywood superstar Frank Sinatra, we seem to see everyone's life and can't help crying.
As the lyrics say:
We are all going round and round, our partners are found again, looking for another chance. All I know is that we are all dancing.
From birth to toddler, we are full of curiosity and kindness to nature and the world. Stumbled in running, puzzled in exploration, experienced all forgiven childhood, beautiful and throbbing adolescence, and finally entered an adult full of unknowns and freedom.
Of course, I will also experience failure and betrayal, fall into confusion and disorientation, meet friendship and love, join groups and form families, taste the sweetness and pain of life in fetters and suspicions, and learn to trust and reconcile in tests and challenges.
Until I was black and blue all over, until I was no longer young, until I knew how to love and be loved, the waves of life turned into an abyss of peace, and I walked alone and came to an end.
But we need to understand that everyone is an independent individual and every life is a person's walk alone. We are on the road to becoming a minority from beginning to end.
Because we understand that a few represent Excellence, a few represent essence, and "minority" is almost equal to "success".
So come on, young man, so wake up, young man, so put aside your laziness and middle age and try your best to be a minority.