I have a friend living in California, USA. When she returned home, she talked to me about her neighbor, a girl who was only 15 years old.
What is special about this girl that makes her so eager to tell her? In fact, as a person who lives in China and has no chance to go to the United States, he is more willing to listen to the strange stories and stories in the United States.
She said that this child can earn $70 per hour on Saturday night, so she can earn $300 if the tip is included! Many adults can't do it!
How did she do it? Regarding making money, this is undoubtedly an interesting topic, and I was a little eager to know the answer and looked at her curiously.
I admit that she is a chat expert. She seems to see my inner eagerness, but she deliberately avoided the topic and talked about the topic of parents educating their children.
She said that almost all Americans have this understanding: If all the people around you are poor, then you are probably just a poor person !
There is nothing strange about this. After hearing what my friend said, I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed because there is an ancient saying in China: People are divided into groups, and birds of a feather flock together!
If you translate this Chinese saying into English and have a little bit of copper smell, that's what it means!
"You are right!" My friend was a little disdainful, and she became a little angry because I interrupted her. "But, many times, we just stayed in the pile of old papers, but did not apply it to practice!"
is indeed the case!
If we talk about reasoning, there are really few who can surpass Chinese parents, but there are very few who really turn into action. We have really ruined the wisdom left by our ancestors in vain.
The principle is indeed very simple, but "integration of knowledge and action" is not easy!
She said that in China, the most common topic for many parents to chat with their children is: You must study hard and find a stable job in the future ! Is this wrong with
? I just heard what my parents and teachers said. Now, it’s our turn to be parents, and this is how we educate our children!
Going to school is not just to get into a good university, then find a stable job and live a decent life!
My friend made a strong nasal sound, and I heard her disdain from it.
Many parents in the United States have long realized that "only you can get a safe and stable job in school " mantra is long outdated!
In 2012, , Kodak, which has a history of 131 years, filed a bankruptcy protection application to the court. Thousands of Kodak employees' positions have become funeral objects. The reason for this is its own continuous updates and replacement technology!
Today, our school continues to train young people into employees, but their parents are the school’s biggest “conspirators”! The problem is that we are now in an era of highly developed technology, and more and more technical positions are gradually disappearing due to technological progress. Many prophets predict that the S&P 500 will shrink to the S&P 300!
This sense of crisis has made some wise American parents realize the importance of educating their children. They are no longer focusing on cultivating their children's "IQ", but education on "financial literacy", because " wisdom is more important than money itself "!
How to enable children to gain wisdom more important than knowledge itself in school? American parents do it to treat children who make mistakes well!
One word awakens the dreamer! My friend's words were like enlightenment to me.
To this day, we still believe that A child makes mistakes in school is unforgivable, and those who are obedient, never make mistakes and have good academic performance are excellent students!
Friend said: A child does not make mistakes in school, so where does he make mistakes? In the real world of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs who make the most mistakes and draw experience from them will become the ultimate winners!
Before successfully founding Ford Auto , Henry Ford went bankrupt five times. Jobs was once swept out by the Apple company , which he founded himself. Later, he returned to the company and saved Apple, which was on the verge of bankruptcy...
Ford, Jobs, and Zuckerberg are undoubtedly the lucky people of this era. So what are the living conditions of those small startup companies?
statistics show that nine out of every ten small startup companies will go bankrupt within the first five years. Can this 10th of the surviving company be smooth sailing and growing into an outstanding company?
of course not!
The one-tenth of small businesses that survived by chance in the first five years will still face a failure rate of up to 90% in the next five years!
Failure is almost the norm in life, success is accidental. If a person cannot withstand the blow of failure, he is destined to be unable to become a successful person!
Traditional school education deprives children of the right to make mistakes and makes them lose the best time to experience their strong will! The school has almost trained most of the "glass-hearted" employees!
In the United States, more and more people realize that becoming an entrepreneur may feel more secure than becoming an employee!
Therefore, everything they do to their children takes this as the starting point, not just asking their children to be a "outstanding student" in school!
If that is the case, have American parents given up their academic requirements?
no! Just the opposite!
My friend denied my question at once.
"Who is more likely to become an entrepreneur if a university professor holding more than ten patents or an ignorant person?" a friend asked me back.
"Do you still need to ask?"
I was almost angry. Obviously, my friend thinks my IQ is not online!
"The reason is that simple! Grove, CEO of Interer, has a famous saying: 'Only paranoids can survive.' If paranoids are replaced by words that we can accept, it is 'persistence'!"
Complete your studies, start a career, and create jobs! This is the idea of many American parents. They also do this in their education!
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