A good mother is better than a good teacher

Chapter 29 Thinking Wisdom and Using Wisdom to Create Wealth (1)
Man's earliest aviation dream

first manned airplane with the wright brothers
One of the most significant inventions of the 20th century was the airplane. In 1903, after more than 1000 gliding test flights, the Wright brothers of the United States finally produced the first aircraft "Aviator One" that relied on its own power for manned flight, and the test flight was successful.

On December 1903, 12, on this day, Wright piloted the "Aviator One" and finally successfully flew into the sky.It is the first successful flight of a powered, manned, sustained, stable, and maneuverable heavier-than-air vehicle in human history.

On July 1909, 7, the first flight over the English Channel was successful.This is the first time that humans have used an aircraft to complete an international cross-strait flight without navigation equipment and protection.

The first man in space - Gagarin
On April 1961, 4, Soviet cosmonaut Gagarin broke through the atmosphere on the "Vostok 21" spacecraft and became the first person to enter space and orbit the earth.

When he returned to Earth, he made a speech that will always be remembered by the world: "When I orbited the earth in a spaceship, I was amazed by the beauty of the earth. People on the earth, let us protect and increase her beauty together." Beautiful instead of destroying her!"

first people on the moon

On July 1969, 7, three American astronauts took the "Apollo-16" spacecraft and entered the lunar orbit after a long journey.Then, two envoys were sent to transfer to the "Eagle" lunar module and land on the moon, starting the first lunar landing activity in human history.Captain Armstrong first stepped onto the hatch platform, stared at the strange lunar world for a few minutes, then moved his right foot and climbed down the escalator step by step. It took him 3 minutes to complete the 11 steps at a height of 2 meters!Then, his left foot carefully touched the surface of the moon, while his right foot remained on the steps.When he found that his left foot was rarely sunk into the surface of the moon, he mustered up the courage to step on the surface of the moon with his right foot.Later people commented: "That's one small step for a man, but one leap for mankind!"

What people did not expect is that the lunar world in front of Armstrong is a "super Sahara" without air, water and life.What greeted him was only the deep black sky, brown-gray dust and a desolate and dead world.

Eighteen minutes later, astronaut Aldrin also set foot on the moon.Wearing space suits, they swim and jump like ghosts on the lunar surface, take pictures of the lunar surface, collect lunar rocks and lunar soil, install instruments, conduct experiments and send detection information back to the ground control center.

After the event, they flew off the lunar surface in the lunar module, ascended into lunar orbit, and rendezvoused with the command module piloted by Collins, which was waiting in lunar orbit. The three astronauts returned to Earth in the command module and landed in the Pacific Ocean.

The entire flight lasted 8 days, 3 hours and 18 minutes, and stayed on the lunar surface for 21 hours and 18 minutes.Although the time was short, it was a historic feat.The astronauts also left a "monument" on the moon with the following words: In July 1969, humans on the planet Earth set foot on the moon for the first time, and we come here on behalf of the peace of all mankind.

mother heart words
From ancient times to the present, facing the vast and boundless universe, we are full of infinitely beautiful imaginations.With the development of science and technology, we have realized the dream of "Chang'e flying to the moon", and traveling in space is no longer a fantasy.What surprises will science bring us?We will wait and see.

Break through the bottleneck of creativity
A few years ago, they graduated from the Department of Computer Science together. During college, everyone was a typical example of hardworking and studious. When they approached graduation, everyone had to consider the issue of work, whether to continue their graduate studies or enter the company, because the Department of Computer Science was a Very good majors, employment is not a problem, so they entered the company very smoothly.

After working in the company for a period of time, they found that the work in the company was completely different from what they had imagined. Therefore, everyone had the idea of ​​choosing a new career, and they all resigned soon.

At that time, supermarkets and chain stores quietly emerged with computer system management.After research, 4 students decided to establish a company, specializing in the software development of business management systems.

The first thing I encountered was the problem of funds. They all just graduated and had no savings, but everyone worked together to make the funds in place.

A year later, when the funds were about to run out, the dawn appeared: a supermarket that was about to open was going to install a computer management system.This is the first interested supermarket in this city. If they install it successfully, they can get the first pot of gold and at the same time help to develop the next shopping mall.The four students went to negotiate with full confidence, but the boss of the supermarket thought the company was too small, with almost zero strength and reputation, so he turned them down straight away.

More than a year of hard work and 10,000+ investment were seen as worthless, which made them extremely frustrated.At this moment, a classmate told the story of a crow hunting a sheep:
Crows don't know how to hunt, so they follow the flock of sheep, take the sheep's dung into the air, look for the whereabouts of wolves, and once they find wolves, they throw sheep dung eggs down.The wolf smells the fresh sheep dung, finds the flock and reaps something.After the wolf ate and left, the crows rushed to eat a feast of mutton.

After hearing the story, they were a little dazed, and then clapped their hands.Everyone agreed on the next step. Go to Beijing to find a powerful company and sign a chain contract with that supermarket. And debugging must be done by them alone.

A week later, a large company in Beijing sent two signing representatives.When these four classmates appeared in front of the boss of the supermarket again, the boss was inexplicably surprised.They said: "Until the installation is successful, we will not leave the mall for half a step. If there is a mistake, you will immediately send us to the Public Security Bureau and call us liars." At this point, the boss had no choice but to agree.For the next three days and three nights, their team never went out of the gate of the mall. When they were thirsty or hungry, they drank some cold water and ate a few mouthfuls of dry biscuits, because they knew that the "sheep" to hunt was not money, but reputation.

As a result of the debugging, everything is normal and the merchant is satisfied.Today, their company installed the computer management systems of half of the shopping malls in the city, and their business has expanded to other provinces, all of which stemmed from that successful "sheep hunting" operation.

mother heart words
As a weak starter, being good at taking advantage of the situation is like flying your own flag with the wind. It is a win-win strategy that allows you to reach the other side of success conveniently.

two chances in life

One afternoon in the winter of 2003, a 22-year-old young man sat silently in a cold and windy bay in California, USA despite the biting cold wind.Judging from his face, he was very sad, but very helpless.

It turned out that he had just graduated from college and was unfortunately selected according to law in the winter conscription that year, and he was about to serve in the most difficult and dangerous Marine Corps.The news was such a shock that the young man could not hold his head up.If unfortunately sacrificed during overseas service, not only will the bright future be ruined, but even the most precious life will be difficult to save, how terrible it would be!

Since the young man learned the news that he was selected by the Marine Corps, he seemed worried and depressed all day long, losing his former vitality and happiness.

The grandfather who was teaching at the University of California saw his grandson's distraught look, so he found a seemingly accidental opportunity and enlightened him: "Son, there is nothing to worry about. In fact, there are many opportunities and choices."

The young man looked at his grandfather in bewilderment, incomprehensible.

Grandpa smiled and said: "If you go to the Marine Corps, you will have two opportunities. One is to stay in the internal service department, and the other is to be assigned to the field service department. If you are assigned to the internal service department, you don't have to worry about it at all, do you?" ?”

The young man asked his grandfather, "What if I was assigned to the field service?"

Grandpa said: "There will also be two opportunities, one is to stay in the United States, and the other is to be assigned to a foreign military base. If you are assigned to the United States, then there is nothing to worry about!"

"So, what if they are assigned to foreign bases?"

"There are also two opportunities. One is to be assigned to a peaceful and friendly country, and the other is to be assigned to the Gulf region. If you are assigned to a peaceful and friendly country, that is something to be thankful for!"

"Grandpa, what if I am unfortunately assigned to the Bay Area?"

"You will also have two opportunities, one is to stay at the headquarters, and the other is to be sent to the front line to fight. If you are assigned to the headquarters, then what is there to worry about?"

"Then what if I am unfortunately sent to the front line to fight?"

"Then there are still two opportunities, one is to return safely, and the other is to be injured unfortunately. If you can return safely, isn't it unnecessary to worry?"

"What if you get injured unfortunately?"

"There are also two opportunities, one is only slightly injured and not life-threatening, and the other is seriously injured and life-threatening. If only slightly injured, why worry too much?"

"What if unfortunately you are seriously injured?"

"You also have two opportunities. One is that you can still save your life, and the other is that the treatment is completely ineffective. If you can still save your life, why worry?"

The young man finally asked: "What if the treatment fails completely?"

After hearing this, Grandpa laughed and said, "Then you are all dead, so what else is there to worry about?"

The young man finally smiled, and immediately felt relieved, and his mood changed drastically.

Later, the situation finally turned around, and it did not reach the most serious level that my grandfather said-death in battle. Instead, he returned to his hometown safely, continued to study for his master's degree, and became an effective researcher.Of course, his biggest feature is his optimism and open-mindedness.People asked him, and he always told people: "You always have two opportunities, a good opportunity and a bad opportunity, you can always strip the problem to the end, and as a result, you always have a good opportunity .Life is as simple as that.”

mother heart words
No matter what kind of encounter you encounter in life, there will always be two opportunities: one is a good opportunity and the other is a bad opportunity.There are bad opportunities hidden in good opportunities, and good opportunities are hidden in bad opportunities.The key is what kind of vision, what kind of mentality, and what kind of vision we use to treat it.For those who are optimistic and open-minded and have a positive attitude, both are good opportunities; for those who are pessimistic and negative, both are bad opportunities. The key is how you look at such opportunities.

Unique vision is more important than knowledge

The dean of a famous American college has inherited a large piece of barren land.The land, having no timber of commercial value, no minerals or other valuable appurtenances, therefore, instead of generating any income for him, became a source of expenditure, for he had to pay land taxes.This piece of land has become a big burden for him, and this problem has been lingering, bothering him all the time, becoming his heart disease, but there is no way to deal with it better.

The state government built a road to pass through the land.An "uneducated" man who happened to be driving by saw this barren land sitting on top of a hill with a beautiful view that stretched for several kilometers in all directions.He (the ignorant one) also noticed that the land was covered with a layer of young pines and other saplings.He bought this 10-acre wasteland at a price of $50 per mu.Near the road, he built a unique wooden house, built a large restaurant, and built a gas station near the house.He built more than a dozen single-person wooden houses along the road, and rented them out to tourists at a price of 3 yuan per person per night.The restaurant, gas station and log home netted him $15 in his first year.

The next year, he continued to expand, adding another 50 log cabins, each with three rooms.He now rents them out to residents of nearby cities as summer homes for $150 a quarter.

And the building materials for these log houses cost him nothing at all, because the timber grew on his land (which the dean of the college thought was worthless).

What's more, the unique appearance of these log cabins became the best advertisement for his expansion plan.The average person would probably be considered mad if he built a house out of such primitive materials.

The story is not over yet. Less than 5000 meters away from these wooden houses, this person bought an old and abandoned farm covering an area of ​​150 mu at a price of 25 US dollars per mu, and the seller believed that this price was the highest.

This man immediately built a 100-meter-long dam, introduced a stream of water into a lake covering an area of ​​15 acres, stocked many fish in the lake, and then sold the farm to those who wanted to live by the lake at the price of building a house. People who escape the heat.Such a simple change of hands made him a total of $25, and it only took one summer.

And this visionary and imaginative man had no formal "education".

Referring to the story recounted above, the dean of the college who sold 500 acres of "worthless" land for $50 said: "If you think about it, most of us would probably think that man had no knowledge, but after combining his vision with 50 acres of wasteland, his annual income far exceeds my five-year total income earned by the so-called education method.”

Knowledge is not equal to wisdom and ability, but wisdom and ability can enable people to achieve real success.

mother heart words
Knowledge is important, but knowledge alone is far from enough. Knowledge is only the foundation of success. Real success requires foresight, keen observation and deep analysis, as well as openness to new things. , and these are not only learned in the classroom, but need more experience in life, think more about why, and have the courage to have your own ideas instead of copying what others say.

Create wealth with wisdom

Many years ago, in the notorious and tragic Auschwitz concentration camp, an adult Jew said to his son: "Now our only wealth is wisdom. When others say that one plus one equals two, you should think more than Three.” The Nazis poisoned tens of thousands of people in Auschwitz, but the father and son survived.

In 1946, they traveled tens of thousands of miles and came to the United States, intending to start a copperware business in Houston.One day, the father suddenly asked his son what the price of a pound of copper was.The son replied: "35 cents." The father said: "Yes, the whole state of Texas knows that the price of copper is 35 cents per pound, but as a Jewish son, it should be said to be 3.5 dollars. You try to make a pound of copper. Take a look." The father's words gave the child a lot of inspiration.

Twenty years later, the father died, and the son ran the copperware shop by himself.He made bronze drums, made reeds on Swiss clocks, and made Olympic medals. He once sold a pound of copper for 20 US dollars. At this time, he was already the chairman of McCall Company.What really made him famous, however, was a pile of trash in New York State.

In 1974, the U.S. government invited public tenders to clean up the waste left behind for the renovation of the Statue of Liberty.But months passed, and no one accepted the bid.When he was traveling in France, he flew to New York immediately when he heard about it. After seeing the piles of copper, screws and wood piled up under the Statue of Liberty, he signed without any conditions.

(End of this chapter)