In China, when it comes to the rich and powerful son, Wang Sicong, the only son of the richest man, is always the brightest star. As a rich boy with top traffic, it is inevitable that he will be pampered by others, so he acts in a high-profile manner and often publishes some "watery" words on the Internet, and his style is always like a nonsense child.
When Da S got married, he made a big fuss with his mother-in-law and Zhang Lan, chairman of South Beauty, on the Internet. First broke the news on the Internet, so that the big s could not come to the stage, Zhang Lan replied, "I and his father are good friends", wanting to calm down. Ke Sicong was stubborn: "My dad is not familiar with her." This operation made Zhang Lan lose face, but she had no choice but to reconcile: "He is still a child."
As Zhang Lan said, he is indeed an adult child, and he is the only one who can lose 2.5 billion in ten years, setting a record of a loser of 250 million per year.
In the Mexican movie "We Are Nobles", there are also wealthy prodigals like Sicong. Their parents provided them with an extravagant and exquisite life, but they did not teach them the ability to think independently and live wisely. When they grew up, they grew up to be genuine second-generation ancestors, who could do nothing but burn money.
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However, the wealthy father here is different from Wang Jianlin's practice of indifference. In order to save the three prodigal sons, he had to direct a bankruptcy drama, and moved the whole family to the slum where his grandparents lived, and experienced two months of poor life.
These precious experiences finally allowed them to learn to think independently and achieve self-reliance.
And this Mexican film also tells us through a series of laughing and scolding stories: people can be without a brain for a while, but not a giant baby, do things with brains and think twice before acting.
1. A brain can win a thousand miles, but a brain can't move a single step. Talk about the importance of the brain in being a person and doing things.
Harvey is the eldest son of a wealthy aristocrat. His father intends to train him to be the successor of the company, but he hangs out with rich sons and brothers all day long. .
His father and his assistant wanted him to start with company management and participate in the company's highway project, but he wanted to invest in the so-called "vip gas station" project. However, neither market research nor careful analysis was carried out on this gas station project. It was just that a few wealthy children were eager to get it out and burn Harvey's father's money.
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With the support of the sons and buddies around him, Harvey decided that this project would definitely make money. He left the company's highway project aside and packed a private jet with his friends to Miami to "talk business". The result can be imagined, the young man who does things without thinking is destined to be just a tool used by others.
The famous writer Liu Yong once said: "The human mind is like a warehouse, which can store all kinds of knowledge and memories. Those who know how to use the brain can categorize and organize knowledge in a very orderly manner, analyze it very clearly, and know how to review the past and learn the new, and constantly enrich it. , so that his ideas never fall out of fashion."
Harvey wanted to do business and make a lot of money, but he never kept the relevant knowledge in his head. Mingming's family gave him such a good opportunity and platform to learn to invest and make money. But he never thought of using his brain to learn and store down-to-earth.
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He wanted to invest in a "VIP gas station", but he could even misspell a few words in the signboard. Although he also wanted to learn marketing, he often carried the book "Marketing God" in his pocket, but he did not talk about the content of the book and turn it into his own professional knowledge. In the eyes of others, a very cautious investment is regarded as a matter of course and a family-style game for him.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a man from Chu State named Fan Li. He first displayed his talents to help Gou Jian try his best, and then devised a strategy to help him successfully destroy Wu.
After Gou Jian failed to attack Wu, he was forced to beg for peace with Wu. Before Gou Jian went to Wu State as a slave, he wanted to entrust the state affairs to Fan Li. However, Fan Li thought that he was better at military affairs, so he voluntarily asked to risk his life and followed Goujian into Wu Weinu.
After arriving in Wu State, he resisted the temptation of King Fu Chai of Wu to win over him; when Wu Zixu framed Gou Jian, Fan Li tried his best to defeat Wu Zixu's conspiracy. When Wu Wangfucha fell ill, Fan Li suggested that Goujian take the initiative to taste his feces to diagnose the disease. This move finally moved Fuchai, and Goujian was able to return to China. Later, when Fuchai went north to attack Qi, Fan Li made a decisive decision and launched a war to destroy Wu, destroying Wu in one fell swoop.
Fan Li's contribution to Goujian's destruction of Wu Fuguo was indisputable. He knew the truth of "a rabbit dies and a dog cooks", so he quietly left at the celebration banquet, away from the political circles and went to sea to do business.
He is good at "small profits but quick turnover", and quickly accumulated tens of millions of assets, but he adheres to the concept of "gathering but not keeping" money, and has scattered his family wealth three times to relieve poverty. However, every time he dissipates his family wealth, he soon earns more wealth than before.
Fan Li data map (source: Baidu)
"Loyalty to the country, wisdom to protect oneself; business to become rich, to become famous all over the world." This is the biggest compliment to Fan Li from later generations.
Fan Li used his powerful brain, strategized IQ, and brave wisdom to accomplish great things that others could not accomplish. He also experienced ups and downs in life again and again. No matter where he goes, he can bring his own light and shine. .
2. It is better to use the brain than to replenish the brain. People can be brainless for a while, but not a giant baby
When Harvey was still a rich second-generation, he was surrounded by friends and friends all day long, but no one took care of him after he was "destroyed".
After returning to the slums, he made a joke because his brain power was often offline. The salary he asked for when he was looking for a job actually exceeded his monthly turnover. In the end, it was only with the help of a nanny nephew that he found a job driving a bus on a chaotic street. But even so, he still has the habit of being a rich second generation, and he does things with no brains and keeps making troubles.
Within a few days of taking up the post, I started fighting with the bus driver, chasing me, and finally being pinned to a special road, which damaged the chassis of the bus. In the end, I had to rely on the help of my former nanny nephew to get the car repaired. After a month of work, not only did he not receive a salary, but he also owed foreign debts.
After staying in the comfort zone for a long time, Harvey gradually grew into a giant baby, never going through his brain when encountering things, and never really thinking independently.
Under the pressure of poverty, Harvey still didn't give up, and he went to borrow money from his former buddy to invest in the former junk project. As a result, he was naturally ridiculed by the "good buddy". Even so, he never thought about why the projects they used to be so sought after were now kept secret.
It wasn't until he started a down-to-earth life in the slum that Harvey really realized the high price of gasoline. If you add a 10% handling fee, most people can't afford it. At this time, he finally learned to think for himself. In his spare time, he began to pay attention to the problem of difficult bus parking, and also began to think about how to solve this problem.
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People can be brainless for a while, but not a giant baby forever. In the tempering of life, Harvey finally learned to use his brain and think about the bits and pieces of life, which can be regarded as an unexpected gain.
Throughout the ages, there have been many people who do things without thinking.
In the middle part of "Zhuangzi: Autumn Water", Zhuangzi has a famous fable. It tells that a young man in the state of Yan traveled thousands of miles to Handan, the capital of the state of Zhao, and planned to learn the walking posture of the people of Handan. As a result, not only did he fail to learn how others walk, but he also forgot his original walking posture, and had no choice but to crawl back.
Data map of "Handan Toddler" (Source: Baidu)
This brainless act of learning to walk was also ridiculed by later generations. Li Bai once satirized: "Shouling lost his own steps and laughed at Handan people . " If you use your brains and just blindly imitate others, you not only fail to learn your skills, but also lose your original skills."
In the book "Poor Dad Rich Dad", he once said: The most important thing in life is to learn to think, so that you can constantly exercise your thinking.
The human brain is the headquarters of the human body and the command post of human actions. Only by using the brain frequently can we exercise our thinking. In life, we often mobilize our brains to think, to judge every scene, to make decisions, and to take action. All final decisions and actions are the result of our rational thinking, not just a whim.
3. Be a person and do things before you act, learn to be a person first, then do things, this is the right way
When Harvey was in the slum, he was very optimistic about the long and narrow open space next to the bus stop. He believed that whoever bought the land would surely turn the wasteland into a golden land. However, this time, he did not take it for granted as before, but after proper and careful thinking.
First, he observed the difficulty of parking nearby. This place is a gathering place for buses and taxis, and a place for drivers to take a short rest. Whenever taxis change over, the place gets congested. Harvey believes that the vacant lot, if used wisely, will certainly bring greater value.
In a second step, he explored the idea with a good friend from his poor days. The friends at this time are not the same as the rich friends. They have rich life experience and can sincerely advise Harvey. They are more rationalists in action.
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But even if Harvey's idea was affirmed by his friends, it took a long time to demonstrate. But at this time, he had no money for investment projects, so he could only bury the idea in his heart, instead of simply looking for people to pull investment.
In the end, although he regained his status as a rich second generation, he did not simply and rudely reach out to his father to borrow money. Instead, he started a "driver club" with the driver friends he made during the poor period, and truly served the poor drivers in the slums. They put themselves in their shoes to provide services, and their business and connections are so hot.
After growing up so much, he finally learned to think with his brain and made his first project.
"The Analects of Confucius. Gongye Chang No. 5" has: Ji Wenzi thinks twice before acting. Namely: think about the dangers of doing this; think about the retreat after doing this; think about the future changes in the future. In other words, you must think more before you do something, and think carefully before you act.
After Harvey learned to think independently in the slum, he finally learned to think twice before acting. At this time, he must have made his father extremely gratified.
But in real life, not everyone can do this. For example, Wang Sicong, the second-generation top rich man in China, mentioned at the beginning.
In the ten years from 2009 to 2019, Wang Sicong not only lost the 500 million yuan his father gave him, but also owed 2 billion foreign debts. In the end, his assets were seized by the court, consumption was restricted, and he was given the title of the most famous "Lao Lai".
Wang Sicong data map (source: Baidu)
So, what caused Sicong to set an average annual loss record of 250 million?
1. The competition in the investment field is too fierce. Wang Sicong entered the game field desperately because he loves to play games. But the Chinese game giant is Tencent, and the companies that competed with Tencent before basically either closed down or were acquired. The end of the competition between 360 and Tencent is the best example. You know, in the game field, even the capital giant Ali has not taken any advantage.
Second, the investment vision is biased. At the beginning, he took the 500 million given by his father to set up an investment company called Price Capital, but in 2015 he purchased 3.96% of the shares of LeTV Sports and became the eighth largest shareholder of LeTV Sports. This investment caused Wang Sicong to lose more than 90 million yuan, and the capital chain has been problematic since then.
3. There was a problem with the company's management, which directly led to the bankruptcy and liquidation of Panda Live. At the beginning, in order to expand rapidly, Panda Live hired a lot of anchors from Douyu with the full payment of the termination fee as a bargaining chip. This move did dig some core anchors, but it also brought a huge financial and trust crisis to the company. It is said that when Panda went bankrupt, many anchors still had disputes with the company.
Wang Sicong data map (source Baidu)
Wang Sicong's failure this time, whether he was young and frivolous, or was born a calf, was finally defeated. If he can do more research, think twice, and do a full feasibility analysis, he may be able to rewrite the defeat.
The English essayist Lamb once said that you can take certain ideas from others, but you must think in your own way, casting the sand of your thoughts in your mold.
The movie "We Are Not Aristocrats" not only teaches the rich, but also teaches the general public to recognize the reality: if you lack the ability to think, even if you are given hundreds of millions of assets, you may not be able to get on the road to prosperity.
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