The first thing that makes Bill Gates amazing is, of course, his ingenuity. It may be influenced by what I have seen and known since I was a child. I always thought that managers are not necessarily proficient in that field. I seem to have foolishly thought when I was very young, can Bill Gates and Jobs know programming?
Facts have proved that Bill Gates is destined to be a genius from birth. He has an extremely fast reading speed, and the books he has read are almost unforgettable; his calculation speed is also extraordinary. At just twelve or thirteen years old, he was able to schedule classes for various schools, and despite many constraints, he could find the right algorithm to solve the problem.
After founding Microsoft, his company didn't have to work, but he walked around the company parking lot and could easily see who was coming and who wasn't, because he could remember other people's license plate numbers without much effort. correspond with the owner.
But it would be grossly irresponsible to attribute anyone's success to "genius." Bill Gates' concentration makes him almost unable to look away once he is invested in one thing, and forgetting to eat and sleep is the most normal thing.
But this documentary is not to promote his ingenuity, but more to show when he was frustrated when he challenged and solved some of the great difficulties facing human beings. This is also the most touching place.
"With great power comes great responsibility", it is very true. The problems that Bill Gates cares about are heavyweight problems, so the setbacks he suffers are also heavyweight setbacks. After leaving Microsoft, he turned his attention to some global issues—water sanitation in impoverished areas, the spread of polio that has long been eliminated in countries with better healthcare, energy issues, and more. He has spent huge sums of money to unite the top minds in these fields again and again, trying to find effective solutions. He has also funded many competitions, and encouraged various institutions and individuals to participate in scientific research in this area. Do your part to solve these problems. But even if he sent emails to some top universities in the United States for help, he would get their silence and patterns.
Is he being too greedy? He is also a person, and the problem he wants to solve is a problem that all mankind has not solved for decades and hundreds of years. He wanted to eradicate polio, and one of his descriptions in the interview was very sad-“ polio is like whack-a-mole, I eradicated it in this area, and there is a new one in another place. Waves emerge."
In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with the way he wants to solve the problem, but the way of thinking is wrong. His vision was too advanced. He wanted to eliminate dysentery, and worked with other experts to develop an improved toilet system. However, in poor and backward areas, there are no other facilities to match it. Even if it is built for free, people are reluctant to think. To accept new things, they just want to save trouble and put these advanced things aside; besides, people often come to instill anti-Western world concepts in them, making them reluctant to accept any help and maintain the status quo. He wants to establish a pipeline system in these countries that can ensure the quality of domestic water, but in fact, many countries have such systems, but the high operating costs have kept these systems idle.
The so-called "genius" has the loneliness that is not understood. The outside world's understanding of him may still be a rich man, and he has no idea what he is doing (of course, the idea of a more conspiracy theory is that even this documentary was carefully planned and made to establish Bill Gates' public image; But I still believe that everything he does is done with sincerity, otherwise he can retire in peace, why bother himself with such a daunting problem).
The whole documentary still shows Bill's personal image in a relatively three-dimensional manner. Although he was a bit rigid from time to time, as if he was too far away from the world (wife Melinda said that on the eve of their marriage, she had accidentally found Bill listing the advantages and disadvantages of marriage on the whiteboard in the office, which made her laugh and cry); There is also a gentle and lovely side-
The English title of this documentary is "inside Bill's brain", "into Bill's brain". When Bill Gates' wife heard the name in an interview, she couldn't help laughing. When a reporter asked her what she was laughing about, she replied: "It's so ridiculous, no one should want to go into his brain because it's so confusing. " Indeed , how many people have the ability and courage of Bill Gates to challenge those complex problems?
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