Have you ever met someone who is always calculating money? Do you like to be friends with people like that?
Today, we read the "Businessman" of "The Education of Love" to meet Carlo, a primary school student who looks at the world with a business mindset.
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Carlo is the son of a grocery store owner, and a cunning eye can prove that he is shrewd. He is fast in mental arithmetic, has a high ability to count money, and often has money in his pocket but does not spend it indiscriminately. He is a collector of old objects, especially stamps.
Carlo often resells all kinds of small things at school and keeps a book.
Carlo's dream is to run a store, and he is very good at folding paper bags, and the protagonist Enrico likes him very much.
But the other classmates hated him, and they thought they were calculating and exploiting heavy profits. He often had a lot of stuff in his pockets, so he wore a long coat over it. He cherished a stamp book, and some classmates ridiculed him and said: Carrot's stamp book is more precious than his mother's life.
【Reading Insights】
Being good at calculating money is actually what we now call financial thinking, cultivating financial thinking from an early age, growing up to be more business-minded, good at making money, and maybe you can live a life of financial freedom.
However, we don't like calculating children, and we don't think they are arrogant. Our parents do not pay attention to the cultivation of their children's financial thinking and teach their children to obtain money through their own labor, and we even feel that it is a shame to go outside to recycle waste, and we do not bother to get pocket money by helping our parents do housework.
When Warren Buffett was 5 years old, he made money selling chewing gum to people in the aisle of his home, and later he also sold lemon juice in the bustling city.
Foreign children Xi to earn money by themselves from an early age, recycling waste, doing teaching work, helping neighbors take care of pets, helping neighbors mow lawns, washing cars, etc., are all good ways to earn money.
When Rockefeller, the American oil magnate, was a child, he had a very money-making mind. Once, he picked up a toy car on the street, fixed it, and let his classmates play with it, then charged each of them 0.5 cents. Within a week, he had earned a new toy car.
Foreign children do not spend the money they earn, but make plans, use the money to buy the items they need most, and then save the rest of the money.
Children who are good at money calculations in life are often smart and flexible, and we should learn Xi the good in them, not think they are stingy.