There was a recent news that got the majority of racing fans excited:
Formula 1 (Formula 1), a sport with a pyramid apex, has finally ushered in the first Chinese driver!
Zhou Guanyu, a 22-year-old Shanghai boy who joined the Alfa Romeo team, is a "first man" who has been involved in karting for the first time from the age of 8 to becoming China's first F1 professional driver in 2022:
Since CCTV began broadcasting F1 events for more than 20 years, we can finally see Chinese drivers racing on the world's highest level of racing stage!
So it is not surprising that Zhou Guanyu was not born into a professional racing family.
As a "layman", he spent more than ten years to get to the position of F1 professional racing driver, of course, his talent and hard work, but also the strong capital support of his family.
Zhou Guanyu is reportedly a "paid driver" who and his sponsors have joined the Alfa Romeo team with a sponsorship fee of 30 million euros (about 210 million yuan) for a three-year contract.
In fact, this kind of "paid driver" is a "routine operation" in the racing world, and bringing money into the group does not mean that the driver's skills are not good. Over the years, the commercial value of racing has "declined", and racing is really a very expensive sport, you need to enter the professional training system of Europe and the United States very early to train, and every time you rise to a new level, you pay millions of dollars.
From the training of drivers, the cost of the journey to the sponsorship that the team hopes to get, if there is no strong funding, no matter how talented, it is difficult to get ahead in this industry.
Zhou Guanyu's parents did pay a lot for him.
At the age of 8, Zhou Guanyu tried his first two-seater kart ride in the company of his father, and since then he has started his racing dream, and his parents are also fully supportive. In order to facilitate his son's practice, his father even built a go-kart track for him.
However, in more than two years, 10-year-old Zhou Guanyu won all eight races of the National Karting Championship, showing a strong driver talent.
At the age of 11, he went to Sheffield, England, while studying abroad and training professionally, and with his excellent results in british and European junior karting competitions, he eventually became a Ferrari youth driver, and all the way to become today's F1 professional racing driver.
For fourteen years, Zhou Guanyu's progress has been inseparable from the financial support of his parents: building a lane for his son and buying him an F2 UNI-Virtuosi team ("UNI" stands for "Universe").
Without burning up hundreds of millions of yuan, it is impossible to cultivate the current "First Person in China's F1".
There is very little information about Zhou Guanyu's parents, but from the perspective of their full support for their son, they are definitely invisible rich people.
Zhou father and mother
For the interest of children as children, it is also eye-opening to be able to burn money with such blood, and the interest of rich parents and mothers is also eye-opening.
In fact, rich parents spend thousands of dollars for the interest of their children is also a routine operation. In addition to Zhou Guanyu's parents, there is also bill Gates as we know him.
The eldest daughter Jennifer has been exposed to equestrianism since she was 6 years old, and her father, Bill Gates, is very supportive of her daughter, not only spending a lot of money to buy her the best foal, equipped with ultra-luxurious stables and veterinary suites, but also buying racecourses and ranches in the United States.
He once spent $16 million (about 100 million yuan) to buy a racecourse of more than 500,000 square meters in North Salem, New York, for his daughter to train, and it was also a gift for Jennifer to graduate from college at the age of 22.
Even if they are not the world's richest people, celebrity families in order to cultivate children's interests, the degree of "trench" is far beyond our ordinary people's imagination.
At the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, there is a player in the Chinese men's ice hockey team named Ying Rudi, the son of Yingda and Liang Huan, and his professional career in hockey is like Zhou Guanyu's, which is also a road paved by massive money.
Ying Rudi accidentally played skating at the age of three, which became interested, and began to play ice hockey when he was older.
In order to let the children have a training environment, at that time, Yingda united with a group of parents who love ice hockey, and spontaneously established the Beijing Tiger Hockey Club in Beijing to let his son play in the team, and the old father Yingda personally served as the team leader.
At the age of 9, Ying Rudi was sent to the United States, where the sport of ice hockey is developed, for study and professional training.
For his convenience in practicing, the Indah couple immigrated to the United States and lived in Chicago. As a mother, Liang Huan, a talented woman and famous screenwriter of Peking University, gave up her career to accompany her professionally trained son throughout the process and take care of her life.
Fortunately, Yingrudi did not live up to his parents' expectations, and at the age of 18, he signed a two-year contract with China Kunlun Hongxing Club, with an annual salary of one million, becoming a professional ice hockey player.
From learning to skate at an early age to going abroad for professional training, to playing professional games, the basic equipment, course fees, coaching fees, the cost of each time he went to other cities and countries to play, and the expenses of the whole family in Boston... Indah has said that the cost of raising a son's interest has long been incalculable. Conservative estimates that "burning" tens of millions of yuan is too normal.
Interested friends can also watch "Too Posh to Parent" and "Billionaire Babies" two British documentaries, which tell how rich people "burn money" to cultivate their children's interests.
For example, an 8-year-old child has 12 tutors responsible for their own learning and interest cultivation, these tutors are from the editor-in-chief of a famous British newspaper, a famous horticultural expert, etc.;
There is also a parent who gives preschoolers ph.D. level tutors who can earn up to £1,000 an hour. These PhD tutors are not used to teach children anything, the basic purpose is to "play with";
A couple from Russia, the daughter began to learn violin at the age of five, the couple spent 7 million pounds to buy a violin for their daughter, and then invited the world's top violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky to teach her daughter to play the violin...
These rich parents not only require that the teachers who cultivate children's interests must be famous and famous in the world, but even the nannies who take care of the children must be "dragons and phoenixes among people":
Must have a degree in child psychology and at least 15 years of experience as a nanny; The working hours are 7 a.m. and 8 p.m., to be able to adapt to the flying life.
Nanny recruitment notices
Of course, the recruitment requirements are so demanding, and the treatment is certainly not cheap.
Hired nannies not only earn dozens of times more than the average nanny, but also have free access to the family's beauty salon, gym, luxury cars at home (Porsche, Range Rover, Maserati), meals made by Michelin-starred chefs... One couple gave her a suite directly in order to keep a good nanny who wanted to quit her job.
These British high-society parents invest up to a million pounds (about 9 million yuan) a year in educating their children.
This is an unimaginable effort for ordinary middle-class parents to invest tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of yuan into their children every year, or spend two hours a day with their children to practice the piano and pick up interest classes.
Seeing the rich people's ability to burn money in cultivating children's interests, it is not that the children of our ordinary families should not cultivate interests. On the contrary, they remind us to have two correct attitudes when it comes to our children's interests and strengths:
First, set the right mindset and don't have too strong utilitarianism.
In the matter of cultivating interests, it is of course very good if the child can become a professional and live on this, but parents do not have to hold the excessive utilitarianism of "playing a drift must listen to a sound".
From interest to specialty, to professional skills, "burning money" is only one of the necessary conditions, but also requires the child's talent, hard work and hard-working spirit, and even parents give up their own and life to go all out to support their children.
This kind of strength and almost "betting" approach is not something that ordinary families can afford.
Even if these talents cannot make them settle down in the future, if they can become an embellishment or blessing on the future life path of children, it is also a beautiful thing to be able to enrich the spiritual world and heart, draw energy from them, and find another channel for expression and expression when they need it.
Second, for ordinary families, the shortest way is probably to "only read high".
In the matter of cultivating children's interest, the attitude of Li Na, a famous Chinese women's tennis player, is particularly responsible.
After Li Na retired from the army, she and her partners founded the "Li Na Tennis School", in an interview she said:
This tennis school is not aimed at training champions, but also children, young players, teenagers, you can come to tennis training, provided that your cultural class must pass. If you receive a call from the teacher saying that the student is not keeping up with the culture class a little bit now, you must stop the training. Your culture class must reach a certain level in order for you to have the opportunity and qualification to practice sports.
For our ordinary family, children master the basic knowledge through the syllabus, and pass the examination to select professional talents required for social division of labor, which is a visible life planning path that has been explored for many years.
While it won't be easy along the way (and it may be harder with the double subtraction), it's clearly defined, relatively low-cost, and well-documented.
It can be said that this is the most convenient and effective way out for children born in non-rich or expensive families.
Contributor: Jing Si, an independent contributor, has published 4 works, including "Key Breakthroughs: 25 Sharp Tools to Solve the Essence of Problems" and "A Long Life, To Live a Sense of Luxury".
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