"Reading is useless" is the most direct one.

In contrast, it is more of a mild "reading uselessness": "I think experience is more important than reading. (So I don't study) ","You study, I study in society, the same. " "I think reading is dead and people are alive. It is better to believe in books than to have no books, so it is difficult to use them in real life (so reading is useless). "

In our above answers, many questions are superficial phenomena, and the essence of the problem lies in: over-reliance on experience, not thinking mode.

People's understanding of things often comes from two aspects: books and experience.

When he doesn't get inspiration from books, then all he has left is that little experience.

It is not surprising that everyone has experience. A person, as long as he lives, has experience, experience, experience.

When a person relies too much on experience, when he makes a decision, experience, feeling and intuition are all confused, so that he can't tell which is experience, which is feeling, which is intuition and which is thinking, and he can't tell right from wrong.

At this time, sensory stimulation replaced the brain, intuition replaced thinking, and a series of problems followed, which I will talk about slowly later.

1 phenomenon

Because in manufacturing, you often meet all kinds of people. There are gangsters, officials, manufacturing bosses, factory employees and small white-collar workers in the office. Their income is not high, ranging from 3000 to 7000 a month, but this level is not low in China.

Needless to say, since China opened the WTO in 2000, foreign trade has faced unprecedented opportunities. With a net worth of less than 10 million, I am embarrassed to say that I have done foreign trade.

Here, from the boss to the employees, from the outside to the guests, from the inside to the acquaintances, you can always feel an anti-intellectual tendency.

Sometimes when chatting, I say, "Hey, reading is not that useful. Look at you. " Then I stopped talking, meaning, "You read so many books, didn't you end up working with your boss?"

Some colleagues want to speculate in stocks. I recommended him to read some books and return them to me intact. Compared with these, they prefer to watch the news, watch the explosive news that "anonymous bull market made 6 million", discuss the K-line form and look for inside information.

Others want to start a business and open a factory (the manufacturing industry is very depressed now, in fact, they also want to open a factory), but no one wants to calm down, save energy, read some books and learn something. They often give me the answer: "I don't think reading is that important. I need it after reading!" " What I lack now is experience, which I really, really need. You're like my master. You can't type a word, and you're criss-crossing, but you're very experienced ... "

Here, people like to talk about wealth, lament the past, gather in gossip and talk about celebrity events in Kan Kan. But no one ever wants to know the theory and reasons behind these events, and no one will calm down and take a book to study it slowly.

Two reasons

Since the reform and opening up in 1980s, disastrous changes have taken place in China, which have had a far-reaching impact on China's economy. In this context, countless opportunities were born, and countless rich people were born.

Some people get rich without knowing how they got rich. In the face of wealth, people tend to be extremely inflated, overemphasizing their own abilities and ignoring the role of objective factors.

Our society is very realistic, and the reasons are often deduced from the results. When a person succeeds, you always feel that everything he says is right. Therefore, these phenomena give people an illusion that it is true that you can earn money and have the ability to study.

I believe that you will often encounter such a situation. When you were reading a book, suddenly a man came up and patted you on the shoulder and said, "Hey, stop reading. You might as well go out and hang out in the society for a few years and learn more than books." You see a man who never studies but still makes a fortune. This society sees ability. "

What is the ability? God knows. Some people think it's connections, some people understand it as "resources", and some people understand it as power.

However, in my opinion, these interpretations don't point to the essence of the problem at all-in the past few decades, all rich people without brain power or technical content have a premise: because of the asymmetry of information.

What is information asymmetry? Let me give you an example:

In the legend of China stock market, you can never escape the word "Yang Baiwan". As the part of people who got rich first in China stock market, no matter how you evaluate him-speculation or luck, the name Yang Baiwan has been written into the history of China stock market and has become a legend.

How did this man complete his primitive accumulation?

One day he occasionally read the newspaper and found a phenomenon: the prices of government bonds in the two places are different.

In this way, he bought treasury bills from places with low prices, then put them in snakeskin bags and took the train to another place with higher purchase prices.

He went back and forth many times a year, until one day, the spread of treasury bonds no longer existed, and he completed the first primitive accumulation-the first million in his life, that is, 1989. For a factory worker, this money is undoubtedly an astronomical figure-and all this is not because he read an egg book, but because he saw a magical newspaper at a certain time and place on a certain day, but others didn't notice it.

Give another example:

In 2000, China joined the WTO, and foreign trade was easy, so the money seemed to be taken up.

Because there were few factories at that time and the competition was not perfect, foreigners came to China without bargaining conditions-of course, there was no need to bargain. At that time, the goods were simply too cheap for them with dollars.

100 yuan for a pair of real leather shoes, it is common to earn 50 yuan-for China people, there are many 50 yuan. At that time, the salary of an ordinary worker was only one or two thousand yuan. For foreigners, this pair of shoes is too cheap, genuine leather, only 100 RMB.

Imperfect competition is essentially the non-circulation of information. Because many people don't know how to make money from foreign trade, people have to rely on word of mouth. Word-of-mouth is very slow, and you can't tell reality from truth. Therefore, the manufacturing tycoons have enough time to complete the accumulation of original capital.

Do these need to be read?

No need.

In the age of information occlusion, you don't need technology, knowledge reserve or even capital.

I remember when I was born, my father made a lot of money in business for a simple reason: at the beginning of the reform and opening up, scholars, farmers, businessmen and businessmen were at the bottom, and everyone thought it was a shameful thing to do business, but my father bravely pulled his face down and pushed the scooter out to buy and sell, so he did it.

Yes, you only need to be brave enough to seize an opportunity, and you may become rich.

"The key to life is to learn to seize opportunities. Sometimes one or two can affect you for a lifetime. " Isn't that what many predecessors told us? (Some people even quoted Beethoven's famous saying "I want to seize the throat of fate" to promote his opportunism. )

As for whether this opportunity fell from the sky or came from your friend, only God knows. Maybe you've waited all your life, and you can't wait for such an opportunity. So there is always an illusion that "good things always happen to others, and only myself is unlucky".

However, the situation has changed now for a simple reason: with the Internet.

When the Internet was born, information began to become fully circulated.

For example, when you used to buy things, there were many things you needed, but you couldn't buy them-such as mechanical keyboards. I still find that even in a big city like Guangzhou, there are few shops selling mechanical keyboards.

You finally found a store to sell. When people look at you with joy, their first consciousness is to kill you.

Now with Taobao, it's hard for people to kill you. Online search, the price is clear at a glance. Because online prices are too transparent, the prices are almost the same.

In the case of complete information circulation, opportunism is relatively rare-you can buy government bonds online, with transparent prices, no spread and no arbitrage space. Doing foreign trade, I finally searched on EBAY, and the price was clear at a glance. You used to have the right to bully others, but now I video you online with my mobile phone, and you are in danger of being laid off.

So, now we find it more and more difficult to make money. That's the point-your chances of profiting from opportunities are getting smaller and smaller, and information is fully circulated. What you can do is for someone else to buy a sample from your online shop and copy it. Finally, more and more people make the same products as you, and the price is getting lower and lower until it is unprofitable.

In an information-blocked environment, you can get rich overnight without studying. In an environment where information flows fully, without these opportunities to get rich, what can you rely on?

Relying on real skills, if there is an opportunity, it is also an accurate judgment of future trends.

I wonder what role reading can play in this industrial upgrading. I only know that without reading and knowledge, relying on experience, connections, relationships, money and upside down will easily be eliminated in this industrial upgrading.

3 abstract

The advantage of books is that you can't meet so many excellent people around you, because some writers are dead, and only ideas survive.

However, books give you a way to approach them.

Our experience in real life is often one-sided and fragmentary. You may suddenly realize one or two precious truths because of one or two experiences, but soon, as many times before, you will be excited for a day or two and soon forget what you should have done before.

The reason is that they are just scattered in your mind and have not become a complete knowledge system, supporting you and forming your beliefs.

Books give you systematic knowledge classification and combing. They connect all the points into a surface and make systematic induction. Books bring us more ways to sort out problems and ways of thinking, which cannot be replaced by experience.

Not only that, books can also supplement people's experience-one can't experience multiple lives. However, books can. Looking at history and biographies, we can see a colorful life, thus summing up the general laws.

The biggest problem caused by not reading is: blindly believe in empiricism and think that experience can be supreme: think about it, is there anything more precious than my personal experience? Only what I have experienced personally suits me. Everything in the book is dead, but my experience is alive.