In the office, the man was a little flustered.

I feel like I have met my opponent today.

If a person who is engaged in the education industry encounters someone who is engaged in house decoration, he can't even talk to him.

While preaching, I was actually being educated by the other party.

This situation is indeed a bit unbelievable in the eyes of middle-aged men.

But after all, this is his home court. Being teased like this by a young guy, the middle-aged man was a little panicked, but he still agreed with a smile:

"What you just said is correct. These three points are all about constantly settling for the second best. The earliest goal is to get a diploma. If you can't get a great diploma, just get an average one."

"If you don't win with a diploma, then master a few advanced and complex tools. If you don't understand the tools well, then be a person with basic common sense."

Glancing at Lu Weiwei, Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha who were beside Gu Chen, the middle-aged man remained calm and said in a calm tone:

"Therefore, the reason why it is said that education is a narrow gate is because the vast majority of people have not mastered any of these three things and can only play with their mobile phones."

"It seems that you are talking about me?" Lu Weiwei suddenly felt like she was being called on by the teacher in class, and she couldn't help but shudder.

The middle-aged man, based on what Gu Chen said just now, also gave his own opinion:

"What this little brother just said is very good, and I agree with it very much. The problem is that playing with mobile phones is only a consumer product for them, not a complex tool."

"The vast majority of people have suffered a lot in the education field. Whether they have high academic qualifications or not is secondary. After all, life is a long road, and there are many opportunities for comebacks in the future."

"But if your brain is not clear from the beginning, your sense of common sense is too weak, and you always struggle with things that don't make sense, and the key is, this is not rational at all, and you cannot be persuaded."

"In other words, I am too easily persuaded, never have my own opinion, and will not absorb new things."

"When I see something I don't understand, I think it is rubbish. If there is only a hammer in the tool arsenal, there is no doubt that my life will definitely fall into a trap."

"Haha." Listening to the middle-aged man's professor-like remarks, Lu Weiwei couldn't help but joke: "So, we all have to be lifelong learners?"

"That's necessary." Officer Wang on the side nodded in agreement, and also interjected: "Why do many people now say that they need to learn for life? In fact, I think it's not because of how valuable knowledge is, but because...

Become a reasonable container that can absorb new things."

"When the opportunity comes, instead of instinctively ignoring it, we should study what this thing is. Is this the truth?"

"Brother said it very well." When the middle-aged man heard what Officer Wang said, he felt that there was something in this guy's stomach.

At least everyone seems to have some common ground in the field of knowledge and cognition.

Gu Chen, on the other hand, crossed his arms and talked eloquently: "This is just like when many people came into contact with Bitcoin many years ago, their first reaction was that this thing is pure garbage, and they didn't bother to understand it."

"But now, I don't know much about it, but I find that many people are beginning to realize that if I have heard of something, it must not be that simple."

"It's at least worth taking the time to find out what it is."

"Yes, you just talked about Bitcoin. This is very representative." Seeing that Gu Chen even knew a little bit about Bitcoin, I felt that Gu Chen was someone I could communicate with happily.

The middle-aged man clasped his hands together, sat upright, and began to communicate seriously with Gu Chen.

"So I say that education itself is something that everyone experiences, but only a very small number of people can really benefit from it. This is the first narrow door."

"And the second door is work. Many people think that working hours are very long. If you graduate from college at 22 and retire at 65, there will be a gap of 40 years."

"But then again, the real job only lasts about eight years."

"What? About 8 years?" Did she hear wrongly? Lu Weiwei suddenly became confused.

This person started working at the age of 22 and retired at the age of 65. Just now, this person said that there was a gap of 40 years. In the blink of an eye, he actually said that he had only worked for 8 years. It feels too ridiculous.

Seeing that Lu Weiwei didn't quite understand, the middle-aged man suddenly felt proud, so he explained with a superior tone:

"I mean seven or eight years from now. It doesn't mean that you won't be able to work anymore, but it means that the overall situation has been decided. The further you go, the lower the probability of change. You can see the end at a glance, right?"

After the words fell, Lu Weiwei suddenly felt that something made sense.

After all, after working hard in the industry for 8 years, my abilities are basically finalized.

The probability of change is indeed very low.

For example, if you work as a police officer for 8 years and then do something else, it will definitely be difficult to change.

Listening to it this way, the middle-aged man's words had a somewhat philosophical flavor in them.

So Lu Weiwei nodded fiercely and admitted: "Indeed, what you just said is right."

"Right?" Seeing that Lu Weiwei agreed with his words, the middle-aged man suddenly grinned:

"Actually, there are two types of jobs I'm going to talk about here. One is very limited in nature, with a low upper limit. Maybe the only advantage is that it looks stable."

"The other one looks unstable, but in fact the upper limit is very high."

"If you choose the first option, there is nothing to say and you will live the life of an elderly person in advance."

"For the second type, whether it can rise is often a symptom."

"But what is more important than promotion is whether you are suitable for this system and whether you are passionate about your work? This is very important."

Seeing that Lu Weiwei was listening with rapt attention, the middle-aged man did not hesitate to express his thoughts and still explained:

"Just like the same thing, some people do it as if it's for fun, while some people spend their days just like sitting on the stove roasting."

“If you don’t have passion for your work, you won’t think about how to improve it. If you don’t improve it, you won’t have any breakthroughs.”

"So you say you are going it alone to start a business. What I want to say is, whether you are doing it for yourself or for others, if there is no continuous improvement and small breakthroughs every once in a while, it will be easy to be ignored by your peers.

, those who do well are surpassed.”

"After all, a little adds up to a big thing. If we put it over a period of five or six years, the gap between people would be as big as the earth to the moon."

"The distance in school is actually not too obvious. After all, knowledge cannot be directly converted into money."

"If it is not converted into money, the effect will not be obvious."

After a pause, the middle-aged man glanced at Gu Chen secretly and talked loudly to Gu Chen:

"But in society, the gap between people is mainly the gap between money and status. This is very obvious."

"I see that you are quite young, you probably just graduated not long ago, right? In fact, I think that when classmates meet again 20 years after graduating from college, the gap between them will be as big as heaven and earth. This is also the reason.

"

"After all, the accumulated quantitative changes have turned into several large-scale qualitative changes, and they are no longer in the same dimension."

"And whether you can climb up and become the top elite essentially depends on how much value you can provide."

"Even if you don't know anything now, but you can flatter the leader, that's still providing emotional value to a key role."

"So in this sense, after you join the workforce, you have to find ways to continuously output value, and you must constantly improve your ability to output value. Do you think this is true?"

When Gu Chen heard this, he nodded in cooperation.

The man felt happy and said: "Anyway, the final goal is to enhance your ability and rise to a key position, or let the leader move you to a key position."

"You have to climb up anyway, or change from one track to another."

"I know a few people who made a mess in starting a business, but they made money by doing self-media."

Glancing at Officer Wang next to him, the middle-aged man added: "Some people may feel uncomfortable talking about this. It doesn't matter how much you do or how little you do. Do you feel this way?"

"Yes." Feeling that this guy had successfully brainwashed himself, Officer Wang also cooperated and said: "After all, working now, especially in family companies, mainly depends on relationships and backgrounds, and performance is not linked to ability. There is no way.

matter."

Pointing at himself, Officer Wang added: "Like me, if you choose a system that doesn't look at hard work, what people look at is your background, and you don't have a background, then your life will indeed fall into a trap, and you can only do it for yourself.

The choice paid for.”

"Haha." Listening to Officer Wang's nonsense about "tragic experiences," the middle-aged man couldn't help but smile and replied:

"So, this also reminds young people, can you accept the slow and easy-to-see life in an agricultural society?"

"If you can, that's not a big problem, although stability comes at a price, and the price is very high."

"If you can't accept it, then you have to take risks, bear the uncertainty, and go to a bigger city to give it a try."

After the words fell, the middle-aged man opened the drawer, threw a report on the table, and also tapped the file with his finger:

"The data I saw a few days ago said that 80% of people in Pengcheng are renting. Most people's annual salary is not enough to buy one square meter, so most people have to leave in the end."

"So that's why this city has a nickname, called the City of Dry Batteries."

"City of dry batteries?" I feel that this title is quite novel. I have never heard of it before, and Yuan Shasha can't help but be curious.

Gu Chen explained: "The city of dry batteries means that after squeezing out most people's youth, they throw it into the non-recyclable trash can."

"That's right, that's what it means." Seeing that Gu Chen had already explained it for him, the middle-aged man didn't explain too much. He smiled lightly and said:

"But we can also change our thinking, that is...what if there is no development in your hometown and you are a non-recyclable garbage?"

Seeing everyone staring at him, he realized that his metaphor was not appropriate, so the middle-aged man changed his words and smiled: "Oh, of course, I don't mean any harm here, I mean, why don't you try it?

?”

"The big deal is, let the big city squeeze it, maybe it can squeeze out something else? Maybe there is a mythical beast inside you?"

"After all, work is the second narrow door, and most people are engaged in careers with little future, so they live a life of retirement in advance."

"Especially if you start to provide for your retirement just after graduation, the later you go, the smaller your space for activities becomes."
To be continued...