On a late autumn morning, I smelled the fragrance of crabs, got up with the smell, and steamed a pot of hairy crabs in the kitchen. Open the ointment from the crab, like the red leaves basked in the sun, mixed with the taste of autumn, and life is plain and practical.
After a full meal, I opened a series called "Into Bill: Decoding Bill Gates Inside Bill's Brain Decoding Bill Gates". In less than three hours, the happiness that was digested by the hairy crabs gradually transformed For a profound remorse.
The man on the screen who used to be the richest man in the world, and the me in front of the screen who is content with the crab cream in autumn, they all live in the same dimension of time, on the planet called the earth in the solar system, and our thoughts, we life is so different.
The biggest similarity between me and him may be that they both use the Surface computer in front of them. This is also one of the products that Gates is proud to change the world. Besides, we seem to be on two completely unrelated planets. , This documentary, like a cannon, blew a hole out of my life, tore apart the small satisfaction under my meager self-esteem, and exposed Gates to the world, and also exposed every audience to it. in front of yourself.
The other is not hell, the other is a mirror. Seeing others is not to imitate, but to give yourself a position in the crowd. This documentary is a good work that can make every audience stand in front of the mirror and examine themselves naked.
Yes, that is Bill Gates
If Bill Gates is mentioned, I believe no one will confuse who he is. But with the passage of time, he may no longer have the influence of a new generation of business leaders such as Zuckerberg in the hearts of the younger generation. But he's still a legend, a legend unique even on the planet.
How many richest people are there in the world? This number must be less than the number of US presidents. In a country, the richest man and the second rich are good friends, and they often play bridge together, which is very uncommon. What is even more surprising is that the second rich donated half of his net worth to the richest man's foundation. Entrust your life's efforts to the "card partner", which is Gates and Buffett.
Now Gates is fully engaged in the operation of his and his wife's foundation. After founding Microsoft and leading Microsoft to the top of the world, Gates began a new challenge in his life. Here, the richest man and CEO no longer exist, only the responsibility and hard work of a husband and a citizen.
Gates who is lucky in business is equally lucky in love
There is a section in the film where the producer plays a poker game with Gates. Gates has won several times, saying that he is lucky. The producer said that your business success is also lucky. Gates is very sure and adds In a word, in love, also lucky.
The documentary takes a multi-line narrative approach, centering on the three efforts of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—remodeling toilets, eradicating polio, and designing safe nuclear power plants, bringing together Gates’ family, Friends, business careers, and philanthropic careers are alternately presented to the audience.
In a way, Gates is very lucky. Born into a middle-class family in the United States, his father is a lawyer and his mother is a successful entrepreneur. The family gave him an excellent guarantee for realizing his talents, and of course such a slightly dominant family also caused some tensions between parents and children, until Gates' mother suffered from cancer and finally achieved a reconciliation. Gates' mother is definitely the person who has influenced him the most, whether it is in the development of his talent, the path of business, and the active participation in community life by example, which has set the best example for Gates to finally enter the field of philanthropy.
And the one who took over from his mother to help Gates was his wife, a woman who was equally smart, but more emotional than Gates, and more able to deal with daily life. She supported the richest man who only knew how to work most of the time. family. In the film, Gates also showed respect and love for his wife, just like when he emphasized the foundation again, he always corrected his wife's name.
When asked if he died in a car accident and regretted what he hadn't done, Gates pondered for a moment and said, "Thank you Melinda."
In addition to his family, the relationship between Gates and his friends has also been a topic of conversation in this world. It's not a relationship that counts as a friend. But the film does not discuss those gossip too much, but guides that over time, the story tends to fade away, leaving only emotions.
Ask questions, learn, and change the world
Gates has his own reading time. The secretary regularly updates and cleans up books for him. How is his reading level? The answer given in the film is 150 pages per hour. And he reads four or five books on a topic at almost the same time, absorbing the content quickly.
The Gates way is almost the best way to learn. He is not reading books blindly, but after asking a question, he finds books from different perspectives that discuss the issue, cross-reads it, and sorts it out on his own to come to his own conclusion.
Of course, he seems to have a unique talent. In the film, he laughs and says that he can remember every license plate number of his employees in the parking lot, so he knows who is working. This also verifies from the side that the ability to read 150 pages per hour is a gift, and not everyone can achieve it.
I used to read more than 200 books a year at most, and the reading speed at that time was only about 40 pages per hour, and most of the contents of the books were still in the relatively popular economic, social and scientific fields. Gates' themes are basically in a certain professional field, such as immunity and energy. Only people with talent and strong concentration can achieve such a level of reading.
But Gates' approach sets a good example for us ordinary people. There are actually several levels of reading, from simple reading to intensive reading, the most effective is the reading around the theme. Asking a question, learning about it, and using what you learn to change the world is probably one of the coolest things a person can do.
Raise your head and look at the world we live in with multiple eyes
There is an interview in the film, asking Gates are you a workaholic? He probably replied that he thought work was good, but he didn't think everyone should think so, just that work made him feel comfortable. In fact, in the whole film, what touches people the most is the variety of perspectives.
Who is Gates? He is the richest man and father, CEO and husband, boss and friend, business leader and charity ambassador. In the real world, in order to save energy, we often look at someone or something from a single perspective, resulting in many alternatives, such as things should be this way instead of that, someone should be this way kind, not that kind.
But the world is complex, and simplistic Facebook-like things exist only in the imagination of children. Gates is a complex existence, and he also uses a complex perspective to simplify the problems he encounters. To solve the problems of drinking water and plague in underdeveloped areas, we start with toilets; to solve polio, we start by drawing a map of a country in Africa; to solve energy problems, we think about nuclear energy, which most people hate.
When talking about polio, he said that his daughter asked "what can I do for her" when she saw a little girl in a film who couldn't stand up. The daughter meant to help the little girl in the film, Gates said that seeing such a child is very painful. If you see a million children, you can't increase the pain by a million times, but to solve it from a larger perspective. these questions.
Most of us, our daily life is like farming. Every day, we lower our heads, look at the land under our feet, and think about how to plant better, grow more grain, and eat more. But when we're full, shouldn't we look up and look at the world and see what's going on in the distance, and what can we do?
Some people may say that because he is the richest man in the world, he has this ability. In fact, it is not because the richest man has this ability, it is because he has this ability that he can become the richest man step by step.
What is everyone doing when they are not plagued by hunger and disease?
It is with a narrow vision, relaxation and entertainment, and stubbornly insisting on some of your own ideas, unwilling to shake them; or find some interesting problems, learn some new knowledge with purpose, and dare to use this knowledge To change yourself, to change the world around you, or even to change the whole world one day?
From a multiple perspective, there is no right or wrong, it is just a choice, and this choice is not about what you get or what you give, but ultimately about what kind of person you become.
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