- Text/Su Xiaowen Editor/MBA think tank Liu
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"Millions per year"
A big hole in the road of young people's struggle
A few days ago, a video of "95 Night Market Husband and Wife Laughed at Their Income" caused heated discussions on the Internet.
It is about a post-95 couple, who voluntarily set up a stall in Zhejiang to sell snacks, relying on their hands to make more than 9,000 a day.
Looking at the title, it was shocking. But after thinking about it, netizens immediately questioned the income in the video.
Some netizens who do finance seriously calculated the account for everyone:
If you sell 9,000 yuan a day, according to the peak business period, from 6 pm to 3 am the next day, a total of 9 hours.
Sell 1,000 yuan per hour, earn at least 16 yuan per minute, and you can't stop in between.
If you press 10 yuan a potato, it is equivalent to selling at least 1.6 servings per minute.
9 hours, and you have to cook and pack, all the time, how is it possible?
As netizens said, if the money is really so easy to earn, then there should be stalls selling potatoes around!
Perhaps because there were too many doubts on the Internet, on March 25, Beijing Youth Daily interviewed the person concerned.
To sum it up, this post-95 couple did have a turnover of 9184 yuan that day.
But because the program was recorded on the same day, the scene was like a movie, attracting a large number of onlookers, so there was this amount.
The little couple started setting up a stall in 2016 and didn't make much money at first.
Later, it was after learning "iron plate tofu and wolf's tooth potatoes" at a relative's house that he changed his location to Yiwu, which has a large flow of people.
According to the parties, the turnover of stalls is usually up to 67,000 yuan, and it is basically about 5,000 yuan in normal times.
In addition to the cost of various ingredients, booth fees, employee salaries and other costs, the monthly profit is about 100,000, of course, you have to add live broadcast and apprenticeship earnings.
But even so, the couple made millions a year.
What is the annual income of millions in the world?
According to relevant data, the average income of the United States the year before last was about $50,000, and Luxembourg, which ranked first in the European Union, was only $110,000.
In other words, annual income of millions, in any country in the world, is a minority phenomenon in the industry.
The authoritative data of the questionnaire network shows that among the more than 1.4 billion people in the mainland, the proportion of annual income of one million accounts for only 0.05%.
In other words, out of 10,000 people, only 5 people can earn one million a year.
Before watching the news, a college student got an offer with an annual salary of 6 million as soon as he graduated.
But he has a doctorate degree from the University of Science and Technology of China, and his major is artificial intelligence that follows the trend.
During his time at the university, he has published 16 academic papers and applied them more than 1400 times.
Such a resume definitely belongs to the top 0.05% of the pyramid.
In the salary list of those top 500 companies, the people who can earn millions a year are basically the top executives of the enterprise, and the orders signed are hundreds of millions.
"Nikjin 9000" is widely circulated as a gimmick, but as everyone knows, survivorship bias has led most people to treat individual cases as a common phenomenon.
It will also make people mistakenly think that taking off the "Kong Yiji robe" to set up a stall can set up a job dilemma.
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Chicken soup can have
Drinking too much is easy to "poison"
Many people don't know that this small couple set up a stall in Yiwu, a place with a large flow of people, and the rent is 340,000 a year.
This number alone blocks most of it at the door, not to mention other conditions.
Even if you estimate costs and profits, there are still too many uncertainties.
For example, the ingredients that have just been made suddenly encounter a rainstorm.
Party A sees that your business is good, and unreasonably increases your booth fee.
The chengguan chased after it every day.
This post-95 couple, who get up early every morning and are greedy and rainy, is indeed an inspirational story.
But directly feeding the results to young people's chicken soup and treating chance as the norm is not only absurd, but also has negative effects.
I have seen such a story before.
According to legend, there is a jianghu langzhong who claims to have an ancestral secret recipe, giving birth to a boy, and the secret recipe is effective and charges 2,000 yuan as a reward.
If it is not spiritual, it will not receive a single point, and the right should give love.
In order to dispel doubts, he also said that the continuation of incense should not be offended, as long as you are sincere, blessings will come because of you.
Therefore, many people asked him to try the secret recipe, if the other party gave birth to a girl and used his secret recipe for free, they had to blame themselves for not having enough luck.
And the person who gave birth to the boy not only paid for it cheerfully, but also gave him word-of-mouth publicity.
In the end, the crook actually received a room full of pennants.
The irony of this story is that this Langzhong is good at confusing the public with chicken soup.
People mistakenly think that the secret recipe is not effective is not a problem of the secret recipe, but their own dishonesty and insufficient blessings.
But the probability of actually having a boy is 50%, and people who have a boy without a secret recipe abound.
I don't know if you found it, now many people who teach you to make money also like to feed chicken soup.
The typical sentence of this chicken soup is usually: as long as you are, you can be what you are!
"As long as you do what we say, you can succeed; If you haven't succeeded, it only means that you haven't worked hard enough and didn't obey and do what you were told! ”
Isn't it familiar?
These chicken soups, seemingly justified and inspiring, are actually correct and useless nonsense.
But upon closer examination, these people are nothing more than a close connection between a person's confusion and the products he sells.
For people with low cognition, it is easy to be confused by this chicken soup, and thus fall into the designed trap of the heart.
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Focus your time on high-probability events
I have heard a very heartfelt sentence:
If you haven't grown now, then a month, or even a year from now, if nothing else, is still the case.
It's like we see a chess player who lost the last game, crying in front of the camera, studying hard in private, vowing to win a game back.
We, as spectators, are likely to think that he will turn defeat into victory in the next game.
But if you extend his record forward and you find that he lost 40 of the 50 rounds, then the next game, he is likely to lose.
A person who believes in opportunism, blindly pursues the shortcut to make money, even if he encounters the next way to make money, even if he may make money because of luck, does not learn the lesson, and often makes repetitive mistakes, then the high probability will still fall short.
Like a small probability event of making 9,000 a day at a stall, it is difficult for an ordinary person to encounter even if he works hard.
People are a collection of events, what you have done in the past, shaped who you are today, what you do now, shaped you in the future.
Similarly, when you plan your time, you are also choosing space, and space shapes you in turn.
What events and spaces your time is betting on, and the gains are there.
Mu Bing, a self-media person, told a story about his junior brother.
After graduating from university, he joined a newspaper as an editor.
One day, Mu Bing asked his junior brother, what do you hope will change in 3 years?
The junior brother replied to him that he hoped to earn an annual salary of 200,000 yuan, buy a car to take his parents to travel, buy a suite, and marry a daughter-in-law to go home.
Mu Bing immediately poured cold water on him: "Your wish will most likely not be fulfilled!" The traditional newspaper industry is going downhill, although you now earn 6,000 a month, in 3 years, it is difficult to say whether the salary can rise. ”
After his junior brother was awakened by him, he decisively jumped to an Internet company and made a plan.
Unexpectedly, three years later, his wish was fully fulfilled, while his colleagues at the previous newspaper faced unemployment.
This is also why many people work hard, it is better to buy a house in Kitakami in 2010 and a stock in a certain family in 2013.
Because hard work is only a single point, after a year, it is only the result of this point's efforts.
Whether it is the house of Beishang Guang or the stock of xx, it is the result of a linear cycle that is attached to the dividends of the times.
Everyone's time is the same, 24 hours a day, 12 months a year.
You bet your time on something that makes you grow faster, and the probability is that it won't be too bad.
If you bet your time on a space that makes your body, brain, and spirit more active and healthy, the probability is not too bad.
Therefore, whether it is a main business or a side business, it is important to bet time on high-probability events.
As Liang Ning said: A key ability of people is the ability to make the right decisions.
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Write at the end
Li Xiang, the founder of Ideal Auto, said in "Li Xiang's Suggestions":
"Those who are particularly highly educated and incompetent, there must be, but the probability is small; Those who have particularly poor education and ability must have, which is a smaller probability. ”
For most of us ordinary people, lucky gods will not take the initiative to find the door, but at least we can spend our time improving a little more every day, and accumulate steps to have a chance to reach thousands of miles.
Doing the right thing is far more important than doing it right.
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