I. Concept - the foundation and starting point of changing life
(A) What do the poor lack most? After Balang's death, he left the secret of "what do the poor lack most?" and offered a bonus of 1 million francs. Among the 48,561 letters received, a little girl named Tiller (9 years old) guessed the secret of Balang correctly. She and Balang both believed that what the poor lacked most was ambition. Ambition is an eternal special medicine, the starting point of all miracles. Some people are poor mainly because they have an incurable weakness, which is the lack of ambition.
A person is poor mainly because his mind is poor. To live a rich life, you need to have rich thoughts first. A rich mind leads to a rich pocket. Having rich thoughts can help one stay away from poverty... Why does this world have people whose monthly income is 100 times, 1000 times, or even 10,000 times higher than yours? Are they 100 times, 1000 times, or even 10,000 times smarter than you? Perhaps you haven't done anything wrong, but you should understand what successful people did right! Some people only see the results of others' wealth, but they don't see the process and starting point of achieving these results.
Result: Wealth
Process: Opportunity, knowledge, skills, methods
Foundation: Ambition (dreams, ideals) ---------- Concept
The basic concept of dreams and ideals is: the thing that people subconsciously want most and desire most during a certain period, like a camping knife.
We say: Concept - it has its own reason for being the foundation and starting point of life transformation. Imagine: if a person doesn't even dare to think, how could he take that step? How could he put it into action? If given the opportunity, could he seize it? He probably wouldn't even dare to ask for it. Therefore, if the concept remains unchanged, you remain unchanged; when the concept changes, you change. Concepts identify opportunities, choices determine fate, and efforts change lives. The reason we are not descendants of the rich is that our elders never thought about how to become rich. We are not descendants of the rich now, but we can become ancestors of the rich.
(B) Concepts must keep up with the times as they constantly improve
In my previous unit, there was an older colleague who went shopping on the street and came back expressing a bunch of feelings: "Once I hit the street, I felt completely out of place, full of passwords in my mind, so much distress, so much embarrassment." It turned out that this old man used a card to withdraw money but didn't know how to use it properly. He pressed buttons randomly, causing the ATM to swallow his card. This small incident reflects the issue that his concepts, knowledge, and skills have not kept pace with the development of society and the progress of the times, yet he complained bitterly and longed for the era when wages were paid in cash. However, that era will never return. Banks go online, and the flow of funds becomes an information flow, reducing transaction links, improving transaction speed, lowering transaction costs, and achieving resource sharing. This is the modern economic development model, scientific development, and social progress. Looking at the present, situations similar to my old friend are everywhere. Times have changed, their bodies have entered the information age, driving cars around the streets, but their concepts and ideas are still stuck in the past, riding in ox carts wandering through the fields. Imagine, a person's body has entered the information age, but his thinking is still in the industrial age, just like a soulless shell, how could he not bump into walls everywhere? Times have changed, and our concepts must also change, knowledge needs to be updated, and skills need to be improved. Some of our friends talk about opportunities with an envious tone, mentioning how a few years ago their teacher seized an opportunity and reached a certain level. He started doing it over a year ago, and his performance isn't great yet, but I am very hardworking, enduring hardships to become superior. I highly agree with his dream, greatly admire his honesty, and highly appreciate his hard work and struggle, but I feel a bit sorry for his concept of choosing opportunities. Friend, let me straighten out your thoughts and analyze together whether the opportunity you mentioned is the same as the one your teacher had a few years ago. In such a short time, society and the market have changed dramatically, new things and new opportunities keep emerging, especially the rapid development of the information industry, which has led to a reshuffling of the entire global economic landscape and caused many operators in various industries to reposition and choose their professions again. So it may not necessarily be your opportunity in a few years. You might consider learning about new things and new opportunities, "new" means opportunity.