In this 120-minute play Here, we see the attractiveness of Ben Campbell, a math genius, and watch him transform from a hard-working, blushing MIT student to an ambitious and confident mature man. In the film, under the leadership of Professor Mickey Rosa, he entered the blackjack algorithm team, saw the lavish fans of Las Vegas, felt the magic of money, vanity, and desire, and experienced calmness, wildness, confusion, and loss of control. ,calm down. It was this transformation and extraordinary experience from a boy to a man that made him, who was once unconfident, extend his hand to the scholarship with a charming smile at the end of the film, and proudly said: "Am I very much like a man from a book? The person who came out?"
Yes, this extraordinary experience in the casino is like an invisible big hand sculpting the cowardly and unobtrusive Ben into a heroic spirit. But you have to remember that at the beginning of the film, Professor Mickey Rosa told everyone: "Remember, you are calculating, not gambling."
In my opinion, this film is actually more like a movie Youth inspirational films, tell us a few principles that you must adhere to if you want to succeed and shine when you are young.
1. Logic is king.
Often times, it is not logic but emotion that induces us to make irrational judgments.
At the beginning of the film, Professor Mickey Rosa asked "Three Questions". Even at MIT, where math geeks are piled high, most people still insist on not changing their original choices.
In fact, this is an example of a probability theory result that does not match human intuition. It tells us that logical judgments based on data are always the most authentic and credible, especially when making judgments based on quantification, they should be based on facts and data, not "I think".
Otherwise, empirical and intuitive judgments often lead us to consciously or unintentionally ignore objective conditions and draw unfavorable conclusions.
Therefore, if you want to succeed, you must first learn to think rationally and insist that "logic is king". Usually collect and analyze raw data and basic facts, and practice logical inference a lot, instead of following others' opinions or making daily schedules based on horoscopes.
Driving a car or riding a sheep depends largely on whether you believe in logical judgment or subjective emotion.
2. Calm down. calm down. calm down.
In the film, the professor chooses Ben, partly because of his mathematical talent, but partly because he appreciates his calmness.
There are very few people who are gifted, and very few people who have talent and still think calmly. Therefore, Ben with the above two characteristics has become the best candidate for the big winner.
Experiments show that when people are angry, the frequency of brain waves is in the state of beta wave 13-35Hz. In this state, people's emotions will produce violent anger, their analytical ability will drop sharply, and their IQ will tend to zero.
In the film, the former big player Fisher loses his head because of Ben's talent and success. He is jealous, defiant, and even provoked at the gaming table, and is eventually kicked out of the team.
And Ben, after encountering a friend asking him to withdraw from the 2.09 competition, became unstable, resulting in a big loss in the "team work" that followed.
After that, because of his lack of calm, because of his self-inflation and greed, he ignored his original intention. After earning the $300,000 he needed, not only did he not stop, but he increased his chips, and the warning to his girlfriend also Indifferent. His lack of calm brought him into the abyss of desire and depravity, and also made his life slip out of the predetermined track and almost "lost everything".
Good thing it's a movie. Ben with the protagonist's halo will definitely be reborn after a catastrophe. But in real life, we often not only do not have the protagonist's mind, but also the protagonist's shit luck.
Therefore, in the countless multiple-choice questions in life, if we want to walk more steadily and better, we can only make ourselves calm enough, calm, and calm every time we make a choice.
When you are not calm, it is better to force your brain to shut down than make an impulsive choice.
After all, attitude determines the outcome. When the choice comes, remember your original intention and choose calmly, so that the result is usually not too bad.
Remember, at the gambling table of life, we all have to make our own choices and take full responsibility for whether to leave, or not to leave, and when to leave.
3. Don't let your education be your only experience.
At the beginning of the film, it shows us a perfect image of a "child from someone else's family" in the traditional Chinese concept: GPA 4.0, MCAT close to perfect score, a preparatory student at Harvard Medical School, team leader of the American Mathematical Elite League, and a teaching assistant of a well-known professor... ...even so, the scholarship interviewer is still saying, "Most of our 76 applicants have resumes that are as amazing as yours. We'll only award the scholarship to the brightest person who seems to be out of a book. The people who come out are so extraordinary. What experiences in your life make you special? Can you tell me what experiences you have that will make my eyes shine? (So what is going to dazzle me?)”
At this time, We saw the lack of self-confidence and embarrassment of the young boy who only knew how to study. So, he said to his friends while working in a small clothing store, "The reason I'm useless is that I'm not good at anything."
It turns out that in Western culture, the education we strive for is only a small part of the experience.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that education is not important. It is to say that academic qualifications are often just a stepping stone to success, it is just your admission ticket, and the key to subsequent development depends on your unique and extraordinary experiences.
Therefore, in Western culture, people attach great importance to social practice, and hope that young people can contact the society in their spare time, go to study tours, experience the one-year gap year, and contact the world outside the campus.
Indeed, what students face from school to society is not only a change in their identity, but also a change in their way of life and way of thinking, from a relatively simple utopian world to a materialistic world of intrigue, risks and challenges. This world seems to have no constraints and no dogma. It seems that you can do whatever you want to play the role you want, but when you really pay the price that makes you feel distressed, you will have unprecedented understanding and growth.
In the university of society, no one is forcing you to take enough credits to graduate, but these painful experiences that really exist have really taught you how to use the right way to fight for your own interests and how to stick to your own principles in temptation , How to break through and realize yourself in difficult situations.
Maybe, you will be embarrassed for Ben's apparent hard work at the end of the film, but don't forget that it is this special life experience that makes him responsible and confident, and makes him understand what is most important. , let him know the infinite possibilities of change, let him truly understand the concepts of good and evil, love and hatred, love and benefit, etc., so that he can see more clearly and walk more steadily in the future.
It was this shining and extraordinary experience that finally earned him the $300,000 scholarship he needed.
Is it worth it? So worth it!
Maybe, you will say: "I don't have the math talent like BEN, and I haven't met Bole. I'm ordinary, I don't even want the so-called success, I just want to live my life quietly."
Even so, You can't deny that in your daily trivial life, you will still encounter many choices and temptations. Whenever we have to make a choice, remember the three inspirations brought to us by the film "21": follow logic, choose calmly, and expand experience.
From a real estate investment to a stock trade or online shopping, establish your principles and follow them. In the near future, you will find that a little more thinking, a little more self-control, and a little more experience will make your life shine with the light of thinking. And these initial bits and pieces will eventually converge into a sea of stars, making your life pattern show the gorgeous appearance you have never expected.
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