The fate of most people is arranged at the moment of birth. In other words, if you are an ordinary person or a rich person in this life, your fate has been arranged. Note, I'm talking about most people. Maybe you don’t agree with my statement, think I’m talking nonsense and come up with various reasons to refute me.
However, the cruel reality tells us that what kind of family you were born in is determined by your parents; your parents' fate is determined by their parents. meme theory tells us: a person's poverty is often passed on to the next generation through memes. Parents’ cognition and behavior are coded with poverty and will be transmitted subtly to the next generation.
The ancients in my country said that one life, two fortunes, three Feng Shui, four accumulations of good deeds and five readings. This world itself is a pyramid, and most people live at the bottom of the pyramid throughout their lives.
80% of the world's wealth is in the hands of 20% of people. In other words, 80% of people are fighting for 20% of their remaining wealth and resources throughout their lives.
Whether you want to admit it or not, this is a cruel reality. Society is not friendly to ordinary people, and almost all high-quality educational resources are moving closer to the rich. Children of the rich are considering whether to go to Tsinghua University, Peking University or Harvard Cambridge; while children of ordinary people may have to pay a lot of money to get into an ordinary university.
The economy is in a downward trend, from incremental to stock game, there is overcapacity of talents and solidification of classes, and it is more difficult for young people to turn over; the more people living at the bottom, the greater the pressure on life, the more susceptible they are to be squeezed. Because your connections, vision, and resources that can be mobilized are limited, the environment you come into contact with will make you stuck at the bottom of society.
You can only do low-end jobs, such as running takeaway, being a waiter, and working as a worker on assembly lines... These jobs do not require you to have strong skills and are very substitutable. You can do it, and others can do it too. If you don't do it, some people do it. You will find that anyone can command you and you have to see whoever looks.
But this does not mean that you are an ordinary person in your life and cannot change your destiny.
In this world, the only thing that remains unchanged is change itself. The development of everything is dynamic. Some people have achieved a surge in wealth through real estate leverage; some rely on the dividends of self-media to make money that ordinary people can never make in their lifetime; some people have made hundreds of millions of yuan by speculating on digital currency ... These people have seized the opportunities of the times and changed their destiny.
We should be glad to live in a good era. The highly developed Internet has broken the information monopoly and created opportunities for everyone's development. We still have many opportunities to counterattack.
So, what is the way out for ordinary people in ? How to break through from the bottom layer? ? As individuals, we cannot influence and change the environment, but we can continuously improve ourselves from the following 6 aspects.
01 There is a strong desire to change
Ordinary people want to break through from the bottom, they must first have a strong desire to change. Desire is the driving force for a person to change.
Only when a person has a strong desire to change can he inspire his actions, force himself to get out of his comfort zone, constantly challenge and improve himself, and complete self-iteration and transformation.
The movie " When Happiness Comes Knocks on the Door " changed according to the real story. The protagonist is tortured by life because of poverty. He runs into a wall everywhere and cannot pay his rent late at night. He is kicked out of the rental house with his son to sleep in the toilet; he goes to a relief facility to live; he is forced to divorce...
The dilemma of life makes him in pain. The lack of material and money makes him suffer mental torture at all times. The strong desire to change stimulates his motivation to make money.
In order to become a stock trader on New York Stock Exchange , he began to study frantically. After work, he devoted almost all his time to learning stock trading knowledge. Finally, he stood out in the cruel competition and became a trader with an annual income of one million, completing a gorgeous transformation.
From a low-level place with no fixed place and material scarcity to a trader who earns millions a year, all this stems from his strong motivation to change and desire to make money.
However, most people just passively choose their jobs and passively accept the mercy of life. Gradually sinking in life, accepting the settings of life for yourself, and thinking that this is what you have in your life.
If you really want to change, you must first have a strong desire to change and be able to continue to maintain this desire. Changing desire can be the strongest driving force that prompts a person to make changes and will continue to inspire a person to move forward.
02 Don’t stop learning
Birds spread their wings first when they want to fly high, and people should read first when they want to advance.
Most successful people have the habit of reading and studying. If a person does not learn and does not accept new things, his brain is like a pool of stagnant water, his thinking is rigid and his spirit is poor, and he can easily become stubborn and numb, and his understanding of things has always remained on his original cognition.
For example, the perception of making money is to find a factory to work. After you have some savings, you can open a noodle shop, a milk tea shop, a clothing shop, a bun shop, a hot pot shop, etc., but many people lose a lot in the end.
This is because most people's understanding of making money is still stuck in the traditional understanding of opening stores and doing business. Their thinking and cognition have not kept up with the development of the times, and they have spent time and energy in the wrong direction. As a result, the harder they work, the more tragic it becomes.
Most people leave school and leave education and no longer study. The lower the education level, the more obvious this trend is. It’s not because I’m unwilling to learn, but more because I don’t have the awareness of learning. The whole person is trapped in a low-level cognitive cycle and is even less aware of the importance of learning.
There is a saying that Most people have become rigid in their thinking when they grow up to 25 years old, but they just repeat inertia and mechanically live to their 70s. has become a portrayal of many people's lives.
Looking at history, 100 years ago, the people of China were not enlightened, their thinking was rigid, and they had almost no deep understanding of society and human nature. A large number of tragic figures like Camel Xiangzi appeared.
After a century of development, the Chinese people have awakened and the people are enlightened. The whole society has made a qualitative leap, the public's appearance has also been completely renewed, and education has made an indelible contribution.
The biggest difference between people is the difference in thinking. Learning to enlighten your mind, expand your thinking, improve your cognition, and have a deeper understanding of things and human nature. Only by being willing to invest in yourself, working hard to enrich your brain, constantly expanding your horizons and thinking, improving your cognition, and constantly breaking away from ignorance and ignorance can you become a different self.
On the contrary, those who refuse to learn will eventually become the bottom of society.
03 Get rid of the original circle and continuously optimize your living environment
The environment will affect a person. The environment you are in is likely to determine what kind of person you are. When you work in a factory, you are most likely to be in contact with people with low education; when you work in a restaurant, you are basically in contact with people with waiters. (No discrimination)
Circle is similar, the topic of discussion is similar, and your cognition and thinking are basically the same as theirs. Your living environment will always remain in the inherent environment, day after day, treating hard work as diligence, and may not make any progress in several years.
No one tells you how to go? What exactly can be done to change? Because their understanding ceiling is likely to be yours. So, if your living environment has not changed for a long time, you have to reflect.
04 Looking for opportunities in uncertainty
The poorer the more you have to struggle. Only by struggling will there be hope. Hold on to certain things and be content with the status quo. Life without any change in the sight of the head.
Many times, what can really bring you great rewards is uncertainty.
For ordinary people, what you can do is to try and make mistakes and pitfalls as soon as possible, try more, and try hard to find your own life track and survival gaps. When you encounter opportunities, take the initiative to attack, show off your courage, actively embrace changes, and constantly temper and iterate yourself. The earlier this time, the more beneficial it is to you. Only when you step on the more pitfalls you have, you will know what you want.
Of course, don’t mess around, everything is risky. Some people don’t consider it, and just toss it, but instead put themselves in a debt crisis, which is not worth the loss.
05 Staring at your target and chopping off useless desires
Many people have never really worked hard for one thing in their entire lives, and spending a lot of time and energy on trivial matters every day, such as wasting time on playing games, playing cards, and meaningless social interactions.
If you want to break through from the bottom, you need to get out of your comfort zone, turn off meaningless socialization and entertainment, concentrate your energy and time in a certain field, constantly try and make mistakes and optimize, and persevere. Until the goal is achieved.
This does not require you to have extremely high talent, because except for professional basketball players, singers and other few people who need physical talent, most people are actually the same. As long as you work hard, you can become an expert in a certain field, you can become an excellent speaker, you can become an excellent programmer, , you can become a professional calligrapher, etc. The most important thing is that you do it.
06 Continue to build a personal brand and enhance personal influence
Influence is wealth, and personal brand is the best reflection of a person's influence.
I believe you must have heard of the story of pipeline repair: There is a village that has drought and rain all year round and lacks water sources. The villagers' water draw has become a big problem.
To solve this problem, two young people in the village began their own plans. One young man carried two buckets of water between the village and the lake every day. He got up early and worked late every day, but he still couldn't meet the villagers' water use.
Another young man digs everywhere with a hoe every day. The villagers don’t understand and often laugh at him. But after a long period of hard work, a pipe leading to the village was dug up, and the villagers no longer had to fetch water, and they could eat clean water 24 hours a day.
Most of us live in a world of carrying water: if you do a day's work, you will get a day's salary, if you do a month's work, you will get a month's salary, and only a few people are laying pipes.
Because laying pipes is a time-consuming and labor-intensive thing that requires long-term persistence, you may not see the result at all for a long time, but once the pipe is repaired, it will save time and effort.
For example, writing, doing videos, and programming are all about laying pipelines. You may not get any rewards in the short term, but you have long-term returns and will get much more in the future than you think.
. People who carry water to drink can easily meet their current needs, but as long as they are alive, they have to carry water to drink every day. When you are old and weak, you can no longer carry water. For example, running takeaway, distributing flyers, and making screws in factories. Most industries with low ceilings are for youth. He is hard and has little income and will be eliminated at any time.
It is not easy for ordinary people to achieve a counterattack and break through from the bottom. On the road to transformation and counterattack, you will suffer various setbacks and failures, mentality collapse, and even the depression of giving without results, and you will have to endure a series of difficulties and setbacks such as loneliness, confusion, self-denial, etc.
But as long as you persist and walk the right path, the dawn is right in front of you.