After the death of the French rich man Baraão, the Corsican newspaper published a special will of his:
I used to be poor, but when I died and went to heaven, I was a rich man. Before stepping into heaven, I didn't want to take my secret of getting rich away. At the Central Bank of France, I had a personal safe, which contained my secret to getting rich, and the three keys to the safe were in the hands of my lawyer and two agents.
Whoever can guess my secret by answering "What the poor lack most" will be congratulated by me. Of course, it was impossible for me to stretch out my hands from the tomb to cheer for his wisdom, but he could have taken 1 million francs from that safe, and that was the applause I gave him.
After the publication of the will, the Corsican newspaper received a large number of letters. The vast majority of people believe that what the poor lack most is money. What else can the poor lack? Money, of course. There is also a view that what the poor lack most is opportunity; All in all, the answers are varied.
A year later, on the anniversary of Baraão's death, lawyers and agents opened the safe under the supervision of the notary department, as Baraang had confessed during his lifetime.
In 48,561 letters, a little girl named Tiller guessed the secret of Baraang. Their answer is that what the poor lack most is ambition. That is, the ambition to become rich.
On the day of the award, the host asked 9-year-old Tiller, why do you think of ambition and not other answers when answering the rich man's answer? Tiller simply said: I have an older sister who always warns me not to be ambitious for her boyfriend every time she brings her boyfriend home, so I'm thinking that having ambition should give people what they want.
When The mystery of Baraão and Thera's Q&A were reported, they caused a lot of shock, and this shock even extended beyond France and affected Britain and the United States.
This is true for adults, and it is true for students. The reason why many students do not study well is not because they do not use their work, not because they have a poor foundation, nor because they are not capable enough, but because these students lack an "ambition" that transcends the current situation. They always feel inferior to others, always feel that their minds are stupider than others, and their learning efficiency is lower than others. In this doubt and lack of self-confidence, their potential is not fully tapped, and they lose their most precious foundation.
Zhang Yiming, born in 1983, a native of Longyan, Fujian Province, is the same as Wang Xing and Xueqiu Fang Sanwen of the Meituan, and the three are also known as Longyan Sanjie. In 2005, Zhang Yiming graduated from Nankai University, went from programmer to CEO in 6 years, and was valued at $30 billion after founding Toutiao 5 years ago. But you still can't see where his boundaries are, he says things have no boundaries, time has no boundaries, and the most important thing is to run forward. In 2016, Zhang Yiming was interviewed by financial affairs, and in the manuscript that came out, the word delayed satisfaction appeared 10 times. One of them, Zhang Yiming said: "Half of the problems in many people's lives are caused by this reason - there is no delay in satisfaction."
What is Delayed Gratification? In the 1960s, there was a famous "Stanford Marshmallow Experiment" in the United States, in which a child could immediately receive the same reward, such as 1 marshmallow, or wait for a while to get 2 marshmallows. Experiments have found that children who can endure longer for favored rewards generally have better life performance, such as better SAT scores, educational achievement, and body mass index. Delayed gratification refers to giving up immediate gratification and demonstrating self-control while waiting for a more valuable long-term outcome. The opposite of delayed gratification, but also the antithesis of ambition, is immediate gratification.
Match ambition with your talent
You won't be young forever, but someone will always be young
The news is not important, we ourselves are important, the book "20 years old time will not come again" said, don't let your 20 years old have nothing but youth.
There are often words on WeChat, "There is a gap that you are not worthy of your ambitions, and you have failed to live up to the suffering you have suffered." Academic qualifications are depreciating, age is depreciating, and love will also depreciate if you don't improve yourself. Have you seen the one hundred of your peers who you now look down on and have nothing? They work overtime until 12 o'clock, they review the GRE or learn Spanish on Saturdays and Sundays, and they bury their heads in business day out all year round. Ten years later it became "they picked us" instead of "we picked them". Others can effortlessly erect a rainbow for you, and they can remove the rainbow effortlessly. No one cares what you're still up after 29 and what you're left with. The pipa girl in the high school who "snubbed the car in front of the door, and the boss married a merchant's wife" recited the silent punishment so many times, did she really lose her heart? I like the words "think of danger in times of peace".
If a person wants to become a successful person in society in the future, he must have a different mind and optimism, an indelible sense of gratitude, and an enterprising spirit of desire for success, once these good mentalities are possessed, no matter what environment they are in, they can be invincible.
People without ambition may one day enjoy fame, but it is rare for ambitious people not to want to get ahead.
- North