The protagonist of "Adventures of the Bull" Spanish Bull Ferdinand easily helped his new partner, Highland Cattle Angus, to solve the life problem that the bangs are too long to see the road. This is not because Ferdinand has an invincible IQ. He learned the hairstyle entirely from his previous owner, Nina.
In real life, many times we feel that knowledgeable people are only because of first-hand advantage. They just knew and learned some knowledge ahead of us.
I still remember that in elementary school, a boy sent a note saying "clown" to the girl with the best grades in the class to scream at her. At the time, I didn't know the word, and after guessing it for a long time, I didn't know what they were talking about. I could only tell from the angry expression on the girl's face that it was not a positive word. This word is not complicated, it's just that they learned it before me.
After just listening to singer Gao Xiaosong's "Xiao Shuo", I think he knows so much and it is really amazing. Later, he accidentally found a topic he had talked about and found that what he said was highly consistent with what was written on Wikipedia. At that time, it suddenly became clear. It turned out that he had only seen and summarized the knowledge earlier than our audience, and finding this information was not as difficult as imagined.
Successful people often make use of asymmetric information such as language and resources to make a career.
For example, Selfridges, a department store in the United Kingdom, was designed by the American owner after imitating the latest department stores in the United States and France. International trading companies generally take advantage of the price differences in various countries and regions to make profits.
The once-popular skirts on the US crowdfunding website Kickstarter that won’t be stained with water are made of umbrella-like materials that have existed for a long time, not as novel as we imagined.
The map marking service for merchants is free, but many online shops still sell this fee-based service to shopkeepers who don’t know the status.
Art auctions and house sales often contain a lot of poor information. If you are not very knowledgeable, it is difficult for the average person to know the true value of the artwork. Before buying a house, many people may not have imagined how expensive the labor costs for windows, doors, heating equipment, and decoration are in European and American countries.
On Valentine’s Day last year, it was said that someone made tens of thousands of dollars a day by sending lone frogs and cuckoos via WeChat. The price of the widow frog service is as high as one hundred yuan or even more people place the order, because customers think that the expensive service will definitely be better than the cheaper one.
The market shows the same regularity of Giffen products as well as big-name luxury goods. The prices of these products have risen, but the demand has increased. Many people may not look at the product ingredient list at all, but simply think that expensive things will be of better quality, so they are more inclined to buy. Not doing any research like this, just believing that price determines quality will cost a lot of wronged money. Because it contains high-quality protein and sialic acid, bird's nest has been promoted by various businesses as a nourishing holy product. But its protein content is far less than that of pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese, and enough sialic acid can be synthesized in the human liver.
As long as we are willing to continuously observe and actively collect useful information, one day we can also become "learned" people in the eyes of others.
*There are more movies/TV series recommendations on my Weibo (aka Maruko who loves to read), welcome everyone to follow!
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Reference materials:
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https://www.sohu.com/a/415723215_100050482
https://www.shangyexinzhi.com/article/2360342.html
https://www.zhihu.com/question/269412401
https://www.chinaz.com/2020/0927/1189990.shtml
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%89%E8%8A%AC%E5%95%86%E5%93%81
https://www.zhihu.com/question/19769416
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