In a British documentary "Brother Rich and Poor Brother" tells the process of two brothers born to a mother living in each other's lives for four days, totaling eight days.
Although the eight-day period is very short, it makes people see the reason behind the gap between the rich and the poor even if they are from the same family, why the elder brother will become rich while the younger brother sleeps in the car, struggling on the poverty line.
Ivan is an elder brother with a net worth of tens of millions, and he is also a Conservative party politician. Even with a net worth of tens of millions, he still works hard and enjoys the enjoyment of wealth outside of work. Riding horses and participating in various meaningful gatherings, he is also a board member of a charity established by the Prince of Wales to teach traditional arts.
Brother can be said to be a model of successful people: successful career, interesting life, and face the future with a positive attitude.
David is the younger brother, and he currently lives in a home: RV. No long skills: odd jobs everywhere. Only earning a meager salary to make ends meet, he also participates in parties: conspiracy talks. There is no real meaning. A group of people talked about the so-called conspiracy theory of certain people against the country. As for who wants to play the conspiracy, I don’t know.
Compared with the elder brother, the younger brother is a typical loser: no fixed income and no wealth accumulation, not enterprising and angry, and live every day.
Since 30 years ago, the two people’s lives have moved on different paths, and they started to part ways, and the relationship is not harmonious. In the process, the different attitudes to life make the two of them live. In this show, the two of them have to see whether they can break the deadlock in the relationship within eight days of getting along. What we finally see is what makes the gap between the rich and the poor so huge. .
The irony is that Ivan’s childhood is even worse than David’s. David can always have a good relationship with his father and stepfather, but Ivan can’t, so childhood has always lacked a sense of security and stability, so Yi Everyone thinks that lack of stability is one of the main reasons for his progress. He has to work hard to get rid of this situation. On the other hand, David spent his childhood in mischief and did bad things since he was a child. This kind of vacillation at work, in fact, with the help of his elder brother, can lead a good life, but a bit angry, he chose to self-exile.
Recognize the relationship between oneself and the world
Bubenman once said that the most essential human value of is human independence.
People must recognize what kind of relationship they have with others and the world, whether they get results through their own efforts or ask others for it. In the
show, the two brothers quarreled on the first day they met. During the quarrel, David asked Ivan who had promised to buy him a boat. Why didn’t he buy it? In the course of this quarrel, I can see that Ivan said calmly, trying to finish the sentence and trying to explain, while David was unreasonable and interrupted the other party angrily. It seemed that his brother owed him a boat. .
Yifan finally apologized and explained the reason. It was too expensive to buy a large hull and it had to be disassembled into 20 separate parts before being shipped back, so it was not bought in the end. Ivan is a doer who makes rational judgments. Even if he is worth tens of millions, he will calculate the cost instead of spending a lot of money on a boat for fun and it is still unknown what the boat is used for.
Some viewers commented: David is always asking for it. If he doesn't get it, he mocks everything. The sense of dependence is too strong to be independent.
Actually, although I did not buy a boat, Ivan also funded David a lot of money. After years of accumulation, it is estimated that it is almost 100,000 pounds. David thinks that there is not that much. In fact, David does not know that a lot of money is They paid through the channel of their mother.
Even though David is worth tens of millions now, he still believes that work is the most fundamental, and he has been working hard.Force is the norm. On the contrary, David has not stabilized his job. He once had a chance to stabilize, but he gave up on himself. Ivan originally blamed himself for his own reasons and made David quit his job. Finally, through the words of his mother, he knew that David himself gave up. This kind of stability.
From David, we see the lack of independence. He did not see where he should be. There are many such people in reality, including the current popular gnawing people. They are true portrayals of such people. .
A TV station once reported such a documentary: a college student started a business right after graduation, where did the venture capital come from? Parents gave hundreds of thousands of start-up funds, and then he first bought a car, and he said that he could only save face when he went out to talk about business. As a result, the business was unsuccessful. When he finally wanted money, his parents would not give it. After the failure, I kept complaining to the media in interviews after the failure that if my parents gave him another 200,000, the business would be successful. The reason for my unsuccess was that my parents did not continue to support him.
This college student can say that he has the same idea as David. It looks like an adult is independent. In fact, he has not really achieved an independent personality. Sorting out the relationship between himself and others is not based on his own hard work to obtain, but thinking Success is achieved by gaining nothing.
David has always agreed with the so-called freedom when he was growing up. At the gathering, everyone also discussed the problems of the current British system, the threats it faces, and so on. Ivan said a fair word, I don’t What do you think is the problem with the current national system? But this group of people has always believed that there are speculators or hostile forces trying to destroy the country, etc., talking about conspiracy theories, it is really dumbfounding.
The same group of people did not really recognize their relationship with others and the world. While struggling in poverty and did not want to improve their own situation, on the other side they wanted to improve. Faced with the so-called conspiracy, the whole country talks a lot about conspiracy theories, but does not talk about how to strive for progress. If it really wants to improve, it is possible to work hard. Just like Ivan, it can participate in political discussions after reaching a certain level. It is the best way to improve. Action is always greater than imagined.
Money is not a thing, establish a correct view of money
Money is not a panacea, but it is absolutely impossible without money. This sentence is estimated to be familiar to many people, since the industrial revolution , The division of human labor is becoming more and more refined, and the self-sufficient life of the past hardly exists today.
Hayek once said: Money is one of the greatest free tools invented by mankind.
Different views on money will produce different power sources for the value of life and the struggle in life. People always say that the first pot of gold in life is the correct understanding of money. It is not ashamed to make money. , Especially those obtained through normal hard work should be respected.
Seeing money as dung is always a joke. If an individual regards this sentence as a motto, it can only prove his lack of understanding of money.
There is a minister named Wang Yan in the state of Jin. He has always advertised that he is a very noble person, and he is scornful of money and is reluctant to mention it. His wife Guo wanted to tease him about the word "money", but tried many times without success.
Once, while Wang Yan was asleep, Guo asked the servants to make a string of copper coins, and they surrounded the bed in a large circle. When Wang Yan wanted to wake up from sleep, he couldn’t Get out of bed and walk, this will definitely force him to say money. Unexpectedly, when Wang Yan woke up the next day and saw that the ground was full of money, he called his servant, pointed his finger at the money on the ground and said: Juche A Duwu.
He never thought that if he had no money, his servant would have run away long ago. How could he help you work without paying a salary? If he had no money, what should he do when the meal is not received?
In the show, David struggled on the poverty line because of his unstable work, but he always believed that Ivan was deliberately using money to harm him, and he was critical of capitalist money. In his eyes, being rich must be unkind. His brother Ivan’s money is not earned by his ability, but must be through abnormalThe hard-earned money earned by the channel is the money of the poor.
But in fact, Ivan has been working hard since he was eight years old. He delivers newspapers every morning and works in the supermarket at night. Hard work is deeply rooted in his bones, and it is still the case. It is precisely because of continuous hard work. He earned the first pot of gold in his life when he was young, and has since embarked on the road to wealth. At that time, he himself said that he had no idea what special things were doing (meaning making money) at that time.
In the show, I can see that Ivan has been trying to persuade David to work hard, not to care about things like mysticism, because which ones are too illusory, but big Wei thinks that his elder brother does not understand him, but only uses money to educate him. He has always recognized the importance of divinism. As David has always said in the show, he feels very happy to stay at this bottom because he is very free and completely for money. Holding an attitude of jealousy and indignation, it was ultimately this attitude that made him unable to reverse in the current situation.
The two brothers did not reach a final mutual understanding at the end of the show, but everyone took a step forward, trying to understand each other’s life, but their outlook on life Values are far apart, and not one show can break this kind of ice.
Finally, the brothers said goodbye in a friendly atmosphere. It is still unknown whether David's life will bring about a change.
The attitude towards life, especially the attitude towards money, led to the different lives of the two brothers. Kameda Junichiro has a best-selling book "Why the rich use long wallets", This book is not about the reasons why rich people use long wallets, but about how a person should treat money correctly. When treating money as something of personality, the money he has finally earned is used. The wallet is here to entertain them, keep the coin neat and beautiful shape, let the coin live comfortably, thinking about patronizing our wallet again.
When I finished reading this book that year, I immediately threw away the folding wallet I had followed for many years, bought a long wallet, and then every coin that I put away remained neat and smooth. This is just for A signal of myself, facing the real world, have a correct view of money.
If you want to learn from it, Ivan is the role model that should be followed. He has a correct attitude and values. Life is a process of continuous hard work and advancement, and gains the accumulation of wealth in the process, regardless of property More and less, it can be said that he is a rich person in his life.
Text: Changfeng Weiyang
