In the opening chapter of Wu Xiaobo's famous work "The Big Lost Game" about Shi Yuzhu, he wrote an interview in 1992. Tens of thousands of young people in major cities in Beijing and Shanghai "write out the young people you most admire", the first place Bill Gates, the second place The second is Shi Yuzhu. Bill Gates, an American who has become well known to all Chinese people since the 1990s, who is he? Programming genius? Business elite? Profit-seeking? selfishness? All kinds of labels are affixed to his face invariably, making the truth more and more confusing. Understanding a person is not only about what he does, but also about his family. A person's values are when he is young. It has already been formed, and it is basically repeated in the following days. The influence of the original family is self-evident.
First of all, let's get rid of the chicken soup that Bill Gates, who has been talking about since childhood, dropped out of Harvard to become the world's richest man. The documentary mentions that Gates participated in the math competition in the eighth grade and won the first place in the state, and his mathematical talent was just beginning to emerge. As far as China is concerned, it is the champion of a provincial mathematics competition. According to what I have learned, Gates was admitted to Harvard University with a score of 1590 (out of 1600) to study law at the age of 18. In our country, it is the top student of the college entrance examination at Tsinghua University and Peking University. Mention is really harmful and poisons people's hearts.
These three documentaries are mixed with the current footage and the previous memories, as if to reveal the true face of Bill Gates from the ancient castle of time.
Teenager: Gates was born in a wealthy family in Seattle. His father was an elite lawyer, and his mother was well-known in the Seattle social circle. She was a member of the volunteer committee, an excellent board member, and a proper business woman. In a middle-class family in a first-tier city in China, he grew up in a comfortable environment, and his parents were in good financial condition. He should have never experienced the trouble of lack of money in his youth, and he was a typical businessman, so he was not short of money. it took.
Before Bill Gates founded Microsoft, he had built a team as a teenager to get paid commercially for his programming skills.
"At age 15, he made his first $20,000 gold for developing a computer program to measure traffic flow in the Seattle area"
"17 years old, commissioned to write electronic timetable for $4,200 due to Lakeside Middle School's co-educational merger"
"I took a year off from high school, went to a water conservancy company to write programs, and got paid unknown"
"19 years old, wrote a program for the personal computer Alta 8800, earned $3,000 in software fees and $180,000 in royalties"
These four are the business activities that I know. The real projects should be involved in more and more rewarding. The teenagers have groped for experience from various business activities, exercised their skills, maintained their personal connections, etc. , laying a solid foundation for the future Microsoft empire, and the birth of such a genius boy cannot be separated from the company and care of his mother.
Like all families facing parent-child quarrels, so did Gates's. Thirteen or fourteen-year-olds have come into puberty, and their self-consciousness has burst out. Gates is introverted, disobedient to discipline, disobedient, and disrespectful to his mother. When he is sarcastic at his mother, he is splashed with water by an angry father. At this time, his mother took the initiative to seek the help of a psychiatrist and learn how to get along with her children. Afraid that Gates forced him to participate in social activities because of his introverted psychological problems, and helped him learn how to communicate with people on the spot, she still worked tirelessly to take care of Gates' daily life in the early days of Microsoft's business, helping him choose clothes to shoot magazines and so on. She did not interfere strongly with Gates' life and choices because of her being a mother, but was more patient and doting on him.
At the same time, the mother has a very wide network of contacts. It is understood that the reason why IBM's company found Gates was that she knew IBM executives through needles and leads, which allowed Gates to receive a generous salary of 16 million US dollars a year. And the acquaintance between Gates and Buffett became a close friend and she introduced it. Writing here, I suddenly remembered that I had seen other documentaries of Gates before. After the advent of the personal computer 8800, Gates wrote a program for it but did not charge a one-time patent fee for Edward Roberts to sell it, but a fixed machine. money, so that Robuts only has the right to use it without ownership. Two or three years later, Roberts shouted that he didn't want to give up the profits again, and he didn't want to be dragged by Gates. The two sides went to court, and Gates' father was an elite lawyer. Well, it's good for your own legal contract. Networking, capital, legal risks, etc. are the most important things at the beginning of business activities. Gates' parents help him perfectly, and he himself is a completely abnormal workaholic. Licking and eating the orange powder directly, because I don’t recognize Paul Allen’s work intensity and his life friend are drifting away, concentration, thinking, and execution are endless, and he is unsuccessful. Impossible, the richest man in the world also deserves his name.
Charity: dysentery, polio, nuclear energy. Human disease and the energy it consumes, the documentary Gates devoted himself to all three things in his philanthropy all "failed" together. Excessive costs, terrorist actions, and Sino-US trade have made his wish to rebuild a new life for mankind all in vain, OH, SHIFT! What the hell, I can't do anything, but I still have to do it. Yes, he still has to do, this is Gates.
Mingyue wrote this sentence in the final chapter of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" that year:
There is only one success - live your life on your own terms.
Bill Gates lived his life in his own way. He did what he wanted to do. Success and failure are beyond his control. He is a person, not a god of objective laws. He also has many shortcomings, mistakes, etc. Wait, but he's adventurous, and challenging difficult things is his sparkling quality, no one asks you what to do, but you do and that's who you really are.
Recognizing that every life is of equal value, the concept conveyed by the documentary is so good!
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