"I've never touched money in my life, I don't care about money, and my happiest time is when I receive ninety-one dollars a month when I was a teacher."
Is this familiar?
Yes, this is a classic quote from Papa Ma.
So the question is, assuming papa Ma really only has ninety-one dollars left in his pocket (sorry, I said nonsense), what should he do to make a comeback?
"The Bottom of the Rich Valley To Turn Over"
In the documentary, an American billionaire named Glenn is challenged to make a million dollars in 90 days.
For absolute fairness, Glenn is taken to an unfamiliar city with only a cell phone without any phone number, a broken pickup truck, and a hundred dollars.
Therefore, this film also has a name - "Anonymous Billionaire".
Everything starts from scratch, how will Glenn "get rich"?
The challenge begins.
It was winter, snowy and the temperature had fallen below freezing.
From beginning to end, Glenn's thinking was very clear.
The first step in starting a business is to solve the problem of survival – if you are busy making a living all day, you can't devote yourself to work.
It was an unfamiliar city, so Glenn had to understand the level of consumption in the city in order to distribute his small amount of property.
He found that to survive in the city, it takes at least $1,100 a month, or $3,300 for three months.
So Glenn set his goal for the first week, which was to earn enough to live for three months.
In the case of nothing, the easiest way to make money is to resell things.
But the problem is far from simple.
It takes time to find something to sell, but Glenn only has a hundred dollars, and he has all the food, shelter, and travel, and if he can't make money quickly, he will not be able to meet even the most basic food and clothing.
In order to save as much money as possible, he bought the cheapest instant noodles at a convenience store.
There is no hot water, only hard soaking with cold water.
At minus seven or eight degrees of night, he curled up in the car and fell asleep.
He even went to volunteer at a rescue station in exchange for lunch.
At the same time, at the first time, Glenn started a short-term odd job.
He became a salesman, selling dog toys to people.
He was in a clothing factory, printing trademarks for clothes.
He worked as a sweeper and cleaned houses for people.
Just here, Glenn has perfectly digested the transformation from a billionaire to an ordinary poor person, and we also see many excellent traits in him.
He was polite, sincere in his words, hard-working, and he let go of his "shame."
Few people now want to be cleaners, let alone rich people who haven't done housework in decades, but Glenn did it, and he did it willingly and happily.
More importantly, he is also good at reflection and knows how to be grateful.
When you have nothing but to work in exchange for food, you will feel very fortunate at that time.
Of course, this is not enough, if you want to succeed, it is more important to seize every business opportunity and be bold and careful.
He found that there were festival posters all over the town, and people who played around the festival always needed some small decorations.
A balloon can fetch only 50 cents, but it can sell for at least $5 on a holiday day.
So Glenn contacted his first connections in the city, the clothing store owner, one who provided clothes and one with accessories, and formed a temporary partner.
Glenn almost blocked all the money earned from working these days to buy goods, and if the results of the peddling on the day of the festival were not good, he was finished.
Fortunately, his eyes were poisonous, which was a very good business opportunity, and the clothing store owner even sold his clothes.
They make a lot of money.
So far, it has been a week since Glenn came to the city.
He failed to complete his first week's goal.
To make matters worse, Glenn was sick.
Glenn had started from scratch and had great success, but this time the road would obviously be more difficult than his previous entrepreneurial experience.
Because he's no longer young.
At the age of fifty, he fell ill in the long cold and fatigue.
He went to the hospital, and the good news was that the doctors diagnosed him as nothing serious.
The bad news is that a trip to the hospital has cost him almost all of his possessions so far.
In the car, the director asked him if he wanted to continue shooting.
He could have turned around and gone home, after all, he was old and sick, and there was really no need to suffer like this outside.
Glenn thought about it and decided to continue challenging himself.
In the face of the failure of the first week, he did not make excuses for himself, reflected on his overconfident self, and bluntly said that he underestimated the hardships of life.
This challenge also gave him an opportunity to re-understand the world and himself.
Although he didn't make that much money, he didn't waste the past week.
He saw on the Internet that someone nearby had bought abandoned tires, so while working, he drove his car in search of "treasures" that had been discarded by people in various suburbs and factories in the city.
On the ninth day, he found it.
Glenn contacted the seller and earned 1.5k.
He adjusted his budget and rented a $435 cottage.
Although there was nothing in the house, he finally had a place to stay.
Solving the problem of survival, the next step, Glenn is going to start planning to start a business.
Starting a business requires abundant funding, and Glenn's initial idea was that he would earn it by buying a house, renovating it and selling it.
But this goal was too big for him at the moment, and he didn't even have the upfront money to renovate the house.
So the goal for the week came: to make $10,000 as an upfront payment for renovating the house.
Again, the easiest way to make money quickly is to resell things.
The tires were obviously not enough to see, and Glenn decided to resell the vehicle.
Buy a car with a good mileage from a large dealer, refurbish it, and then sell it for a profit.
As in previous days, Glenn searched for a suitable vehicle in the city while heading to the Entrepreneurship Training Center to work with a professional team to understand the city's market and orient the company.
Past experience has taught Glenn that a reliable team is indispensable.
Next, Glenn decided to hold an open recruitment.
Glenn's every step he took was methodical, his thinking was very clear, multi-line parallel, and he didn't waste a minute or a second.
I think it doesn't matter to Glenn whether he succeeds in achieving his million goal or not.
He is a successful person in himself, this experience is like a real business game, when he uses his current experience to re-experience the process of entrepreneurship, the feelings he gets from it will be different from the past.
At the aid station, for example, Glenn realized that the barely surviving people were grateful for a meal, and that the rich had never thought about it, and that they had a lot to lose while they had a lot of things.
At that moment he sighed and was sad.
These people reminded him that the purpose of starting a business is not to prove how good he is, but to bring a positive impact to more people.
For the audience, instead of grasping the insignificant points such as whether the film is real or not, whether the film is a show, etc., it is better to think about why this film exists.
The success of the rich is not accidental, even if they have nothing and nothing again, they can still make a comeback.
For the most precious thing is never wealth, but their minds.
【Toutiao Signed Author】