This article comes from: Noteman

1. What is insight?

(1) What is insight?

The best words that can explain insight or destiny are the words of Mrs. Thatcher.

She said:

“Watch your thoughts, for they will turn into words; watch your words, for they will turn into deeds; watch Pay attention to your behavior, because it will become a habit; pay attention to your habits, because it will become a character; pay attention to your character, because it will determine your destiny."

In other words, destiny is actually decided from the beginning, in very small things.

It is not enough for people to learn a skill. Whether we call it general education or quality education, you must receive an education that will benefit you throughout your life. , and in long-distance running, you have to slowly leave everyone behind.

In the West, Newton is considered the second most influential figure in human history. In the eyes of Westerners, Newton was first a thinker and then a scientist because he had a complete set of ideas.

Today we are talking about what you are going to do in the future, and we are talking about innovation. If you want to do something that no one has done before, you must know and have a method to do something that others don't know.

You have to stand on the shoulders of giants. What is innovation? It's N+1. Others have done N. If you take one step forward, don't start from scratch. That's too low a starting point. What is a copycat? That is, N-1 is either innovative or copycat. How to innovate is to master the method.

(2) Why should we talk about knowledge?

Many times, our ultimate development—how far we can go and how high we can fly—depends on our knowledge.

Today we all live in a very good era. For example, if you master a skill, you will have a very stable development after graduation. But when you are 30 or 40 years old, it seems that you can no longer make progress. You can only hang around in the company and provide for your retirement.

What causes this? How to break through this ceiling? This is what we are going to talk about today.

During the past two days of interviews with the media, the word "anxiety" struck me the most.

The first anxiety: anxiety about the future. For example, will artificial intelligence take away my job?

The second anxiety: anxiety about "bad days". This is very interesting. People say that these are bad days, and I say "no, no, no." In any era, people say that the days before were good and the days now are bad. This is a typical anxiety mentality.

Where does anxiety come from? It’s the uncertainty about the future. If you are sure about the future, you won’t be too anxious.

There are three countries with the highest happiness index in the world, one is Costa Rica, one is Singapore, and the other is Denmark. The values ????and reasons for happiness in these countries are different, but one thing is the same, that is, these citizens have a great degree of certainty about the future.

(Looking at today’s society, no matter who you are, what resources you have, or how much wealth you have accumulated. There is always a change for you, there is always a crisis suitable for you. A society that has been shuffled arbitrarily , how can people maintain their original aspirations and perseverance? Impetuousness is a by-product of the rapid development of society)

I just said that knowledge determines everything in a person. We also heard a saying, education changes. destiny.

Case

There was such a British man in the early 19th century. Because his family was poor, he had never been to school since he was 18 years old. When I was 18 years old, I couldn’t even write my own name. But this man was very motivated. He worked in a mine and used part of the money he earned to attend night school, so by the time he was 19, he could write his own name.

After a year, he read slowly. When others went to the pub to drink, he studied there. Later, he got married and had children. Unfortunately, his wife passed away soon. He became both a father and a mother, but he still worked very hard and became a technician when he was about 30 years old.

This person has worked very hard all his life, but he has not been very lucky.

He invented a kind of lamp, which was called a safety lamp in British coal mines at that time. But unfortunately, someone at the same time in the UK invented an almost identical thing. That person was famous. Sir David, President of the Royal Society, is the person who has discovered the most new elements in the world so far.

It is conceivable that inventing something similar to the president of the Royal Society will not have good results, and patent disputes will last for many years.

When encountering such a problem, you may have three different attitudes:

?The first is to be very angry and destroy others.

?The second option is to give in.

?The third method is to analyze the reasons and figure out what to do.

This person adopts the third attitude, filing a lawsuit while continuing to invent and create.

Later he was called the "Father of Trains". This man was Stephenson. This is a case where education changes destiny.

This example also illustrates that he not only works very hard, but also has a very positive attitude towards fate, which determines his final fate.

But many people now do not believe that education can change destiny.

In the past two days, there have been two big questions:

The first question: the matter of giving birth to a noble son from a poor family. , won’t happen recently. Many people ask me, is this true?

Second question: Many people ask me, are social classes solidified now? Not moving?

Social class will not be solidified. Although the upward path is very narrow, there is still an upward path. It depends on how knowledgeable you are. The door to the downward path is always wide open.

Educational resources can never be balanced. I am grateful to everyone for being here. Among the 10,000 people in China, not one person can sit here, and there is no place in the world where educational resources can be balanced. I have never believed in attempts to balance educational resources.

Some people say that after MOOC comes out, each of us will be able to receive a Peking University education. I say NO. Before MOOCs, there were countless types of online education and TV education. Scholars still read, and non-scholars still played games. This is still the case after MOOCs came out.

2. What is the greatest destiny?

The first is the era.

Which country and era you live in is your greatest luck. Why do some people have good lives and some have bad lives in the same era? Because some people believe in this era, and some people don’t.

Take the housing prices in Beijing for example. Ten years ago, many people said that housing prices in Beijing were quite cheap. There are always people who will stand up and say that housing prices in Beijing are already expensive enough and it is a huge bubble. It will collapse. People say this every year, and it still doesn’t break down.

So don’t say how bad the future is. The future is a good era. Your greatest luck is that you believe in this era.

The second is birth.

What you can't control is where you are born, but you can control what you can do. What you can control is your destiny.

Going back to what I said at the beginning, whether a poor family can produce a noble son, many people say that it is difficult for a poor family to produce a noble son now. I believe that compared with the citizens of American slums, your family is not poor. In the slums of the United States, there are some black groups. 70% of families have no fathers. Everyone says that this group is hopeless because it is really difficult for them to get out of the slums.

The United States is completely divided according to school districts. Some school districts have very good schools, but in slum districts they are very poor. What should we do? There is a special requirement for running a school in a slum - after entering, you must come to school at six o'clock in the morning and go home at ten o'clock in the evening.

In the United States, after four years of high school, they learn a skill and are separated from their community.

What does it mean? The difference between people is not that big, but the environment is very big.

So when you come to Peking University, it is very important: which course you take is really not important, the environment is important, and the classmates around you are important. This is a factor in your further success, which is why education can change the future.

This education is not about teaching you which knowledge is useful, but because you have a way to enter such a good school.

So: It is very important to master a skill. If you don’t have a skill, you can’t do anything just by talking about quality education.

But if you only have skills, you won’t come to Peking University. So you must want something more than skills.

It is not difficult to move from the sub-poor class to the middle class, as long as you have a skill, but it is very difficult to move from the middle class to the elite class, not only It's just that the tip of the pyramid is too small. What's more important is that in addition to skills, you also need to have knowledge. This knowledge can be obtained through quality education.

3. How to decide your own destiny?

What determines a person’s final future? It's actually destiny to some extent.

Many of the habits you developed when you were a child, the way you do things; what you learned from the teacher in school when you were young (not referring to the courses, but the habits you learned), etc. , ultimately determines your fate.

Can you change your destiny? You can still change it now, but it will be very difficult to change it after graduation.

Some people say that the reason why I did not succeed was because I was unlucky, and that Jack Ma succeeded because he was lucky. This makes some sense, but it is not necessarily correct.

According to incomplete statistics, there is such a rule: Anyone who succeeds in the end is in awe of fate. He will say that I am just lucky, or that luck is very important, etc.; People who have not accomplished anything will say that I was just a bit unlucky.

People always have good luck and bad luck. It is impossible to encounter bad luck or always have good luck in your life. Once good luck won't help you, don't worry about bad luck forever.

When I graduated with my Ph.D., our president Bill Brady, an expert in biomedical instruments, said nothing else at the graduation ceremony but that you should believe in fate and not be wrong. If you are overconfident, you should be in awe of your fate and believe that you will not have bad luck in your life.

In a middle school in Missouri, there is a student, we call him Gao Fushuai. He has good academic performance and good sports. He is the president of the student union and is everyone's idol.

When he graduated from high school, one of the most popular young and beautiful teachers congratulated him and kissed him. Other boys will be jealous but won't dare say anything.

Later, a very loser-like boy stood up boldly and said, "The teacher is unfair, we are all your students, why should you kiss him and not kiss him?" We?

Miss Brown said, because he does things much better than you do, and if you do as well as he does, I will kiss you in the future without breaking my promise. one time.

This rich, handsome student was particularly moved when he heard her words. He was particularly motivated throughout his life to do things well.

The kid who asked the question had good and bad luck. But in the end good luck came to him - he was elected President of the United States in 1945, and he was Truman.

Everyone has his own destiny. Luck alone is not enough. Truman had many advantages, and he reached the position of president step by step. His down-to-earth way of doing things determined that he had good luck in the end.

Watt improved the steam engine. Although he could not go to university, he was very knowledgeable since he was a child. He worked in the university, repaired instruments for people, and took all the physics courses. A good education, and finally opened the door to the industrial revolution with the key discovered by Newton.

Four or five suggestions

Here are my five suggestions:

1. See through money.

Understanding money does not mean pretending to be poor and not making money, but money is not the purpose, money is a tool. After you take the money, you do it to achieve greater things. In order to increase your influence, not just to get money, you must get used to seeing money through college.

2. Establish a belief.

No matter what kind of belief you have, only if you have belief can you be confident when you say something. When others oppose you, you can stand up against them, and you can live your life in one breath. The end.

3. Stackable progress.

The invention of science and technology is a superimposed progress. The more progress you make, the faster it will be. I hope that in your future life, your progress will be superimposed. We also call it compound growth. There is a book called "Heterogeneous", which proposes the definition of 10,000 hours. Once something is done well, it must be repeated for 10,000 hours. 10,000 hours at a low level, each time there is an improvement, and you keep going up.

4. Take the initiative to work hard.

When you take the initiative to work hard for yourself and your own work, you will have a goal, and then you need to know step by step what will happen if you advance to the next level. When you do it much better than your peers, your contribution may actually be ten times greater than his.

5. Do something that others can’t do.

If you are better than the people around you in any thing, you are a special and very scarce resource. With the ability to pay a premium, you can obtain things that others cannot obtain.

How much does it cost to develop DIPlearning? JFD is worth $10 million a year. The salary of most CEOs in the United States is US$500,000. This is the difference between a first-level engineer and a fifth-level engineer, and also the difference between a Hermès Birkin bag or Kelly bag and an A-bag bag bought on the street.

Finally, let me summarize some of my insights: Life is a river.

How to understand this sentence?

A river has three dimensions, length, width and depth. In the end, your influence on the world is its volume. The larger the volume, the greater the influence.