When browsing the headlines, I found that someone asked such a question:
Those who are very powerful, their descendants have a higher starting point, why is it so difficult to surpass himself?
Don't their descendants have more resources, connections, experiences, and thicker roots than they did in the first place?
The starting point is so much higher than the average person, why has the achievement not surpassed his father's generation?
With the popularity of "Little Joy" a while ago, and the professor of Peking University complained about the "scum" daughter of "I teach my children to change their lives against the sky, but she teaches me to learn to recognize my fate", we are paying more and more attention to, in fact
The father is very powerful, as if it does not mean that his children will also be very powerful.
In addition to one's own ingenuity and the material support around one's own, a person's success is influenced by other factors.
First of all, in terms of intelligence, we can see from some celebrities or some acquaintances around us, if the parents' high IQ, it seems that it is "not completely" inherited to the child.
Isn't the IQ gene outside the genetics?
Of course not.
Many people use psychologist Francis Galton's "mean reversion" theory to explain this phenomenon, that is, when parents have an IQ higher than the average human IQ, then their children's IQ is likely to be "taxed" and lean toward the mean.
This is not only in terms of IQ, but also in terms of height genetics.
Galton once measured the height of couples and their 928 adult children, and the data found that if the parents themselves are tall, then the children's height will be higher than the average person's height, but shorter than the parents; conversely, if the parents themselves are short, then their children are more likely to be higher than their parents.
But the "mean reversion" theory is not the end of the problem of explaining that children's IQs are not as high as those of their parents.
It has been pointed out that the theory of "mean reversion" itself is based on the erroneous concept of "fusion heredity".
Mendel (the father of genetics) has long proved that the inheritance of organisms is not fusion, but obeys the law of separation and independent distribution, distributes independently and independently in the process of generational, and then passes on in its entirety.
That is to say, the parent's high IQ gene is not inherited to the child, nor is it "cut", but the genetic selection is not shown in the child.
To sum up, the child's IQ did not exceed that of the father's generation, because in the case of genetic "natural selection" and "random", after "reshuffling", the advantages of the father's generation were not expressed.
To review the topic we discussed: why it is still difficult for powerful people, whose descendants have more resources than ordinary people, to surpass themselves.
Innate intelligence is part of the reason, then even if it is not as smart as the father, it is still a normal IQ level. Guarding such excellent resources, why can't they be repaired the day after tomorrow, and some are even inferior to ordinary people?
This is probably the problem that we often talk about, "it is easy to fight in the country, but it is difficult to defend the country."
Hong Kong centennial group Wing On Department Store, at its most brilliant time, the business covered several entire streets. In the early 1920s, the Kwok family alone paid 6% of Hong Kong's tax.
As the third generation leader of Yongan Group, Guo Zhiquan has a very beautiful resume in the first half of his life. Born into a wealthy family, he received a doctorate in physics from Harvard University MID, and worked as a researcher at the IBM Research Center in the United States after graduation.
Not only that, but he is also a judo 9-dan master. You know, japan's samurai ascension stage is very strict, only five stages of ascension and six stages, and only two or three people pass the examination every year when thousands of people go to the examination.
If you don't pass hard training, without that kind of perseverance, you simply can't survive.
Guo Zhiquan can be described as a "man of letters and martial arts", a person with high emotional intelligence and high intelligence, and is still very persevering.
However, the Yongan Group of Nuoda has not embarked on a greater glory in his hands, and it can even be said that it is a turning point of "retirement".
After Guo Zhiquan took over Yongan Group, he found that compared with Chinese-funded real estate, making money like flowing water, his own business model was "too slow to make money". So he and his brother decided to take some of the money out and set up a company that invested in stocks.
Because of the underestimation of investment risks, under the Hong Kong dollar crisis in 1985, Guo Zhiquan "tested the waters" and failed, and The Wing On Bank under the Guo family was forced to sell, which brought a huge impact on the family business.
Guo Zhiquan also stepped down because of this, and since then he has been depressed and disappeared all day long.
Under the solid foundation laid by their parents, their children and grandchildren will enjoy more resources, connections and experience than others, avoiding many risks on the path to success.
People who have grown up along the way often feel "more pain" when they encounter the same setbacks than people who have already come from setbacks of all sizes, which is a thing called "frustration dullness".
Man is an experiential learning animal. As children, we learn almost completely what adults teach us about what they know.
The more you learn, the more you accept the knowledge given to you by others, and at the same time, you will combine your own experience and the knowledge structure in your own mind to make judgments.
If you can't form a complete understanding of this knowledge yourself, even if you have the blessing of other people's experience, money, connections, etc., there are certain blind spots.
Does this mean that children must be allowed to experience real, great frustration? No, but you need to let your child know the pain of frustration and give him a certain risk tolerance, just like a preventive injection.
In general, whether it is from the innate conditions or acquired conditions, there is no absolute statement: the child must have the ability to surpass the father. Outstanding is a small number of people, most of them are ordinary people, whether they are in the rich or ordinary people.