0 1 .7 years of life
The lives of others we can fully participate in are very limited, some quit halfway, and some join halfway. However, there is such a documentary that it took us more than half a century to walk from 65438 to 0964 with a group of 7-year-old children, and watched other people's lives for several hours along the way. This is the classic documentary "Seven Years of Life".
Director Michael selected 14 7-year-old children from different classes in orphanages, workers and peasants' families, teachers' families and private schools and began his recording. Every seven years, each person's 10-minute interview may be only a small fragment of their seven-year life, but lengthening the time constitutes their real life.
By 20 19, all the interviewees were in their sixties, some had died, some had cancer or suffered from other ailments, and in early 200219, the director Michael also died. I don't know if they will see their seventies in the future.
Through the documentary, we accompany the interviewees, from innocent childhood to sensitive and suspicious adolescence, to young people who are ready to meet the world with open arms, and then to truly become adults with families and careers, facing new life and loss with them, and also feeling the changes of the times and the world with the video recording. Through their life journey, observe their joys and regrets, and I believe you will have a new understanding of your life.
02. The rich fight with the poor.
What kind of life do people living at the bottom live without education and skills? The Battle of the Rich invites some successful people in the society to hide their education and identity and experience the life of the poor through reality shows. Lawyers and sales executives who are usually prominent figures in society can only live in board houses or even be homeless, and can only work as cleaners or do odd jobs in the street to collect paper.
This documentary describes the life of the poor. It is trapped in a situation that keeps turning like a gear, but there is no hope. As described in Scarcity: How We Fall into Poverty and Busyness, the poor don't work hard, they work 13 hours or more every day. This will also make people fall into a "scarce mentality." When it catches our attention, it will change our way of thinking, affect our decision-making and behavior, and then reduce the bandwidth that people can use at present (that is, mental ability, that is, cognitive ability and executive control ability). That's why the harder you work, the poorer people will be. Once they have income, they will not spend it on things that take a long time to get results, such as improving living conditions, but on some very short-sighted entertainment consumption, such as eating big meals or even gambling.
The value of this documentary lies in seeing those who are really "busy", not some lazy people who don't work hard. Hard as they are, they have no hope. It also inspires us to think: how can we not fall into such a "poor busy" situation? If you are curious about this question, you must watch the next reality show documentary recommendation.
03. Anonymous billionaires/millionaires are turning over at the bottom.
Glenn Stearns, founder and CEO of stearns, USA, is a billionaire. In order to prove that the American dream still exists in today's society, he anonymously challenged 100 to earn 100 million, and the principal 100 dollars, a pickup truck.
Just like echoing the last movie "The War of the Poor", this reality show is also discussing: How to turn the poor over, it really took 100 days to verify.
Regarding the hopeless vicious circle caused by "scarcity mentality", Glenn believes that every minute spent in business is equivalent to one minute spent in business, and we should get rid of the mode of spending all our energy on survival as soon as possible. What makes sense is not to confuse efforts with results, but to push the wheels forward. Hard work is a necessary condition, and the key is whether you are smart or not.
Glen found marketable discarded tires from the garbage and began to accumulate the first bucket of gold, and then upgraded all the way. There are too many enlightening views on career cold start, accumulating contacts, motivating employees and so on. This reality show not only tells the rich man's thinking on paper, but also tells how his thinking mode influenced his decision-making and subsequent implementation, making this 100-day concentrated hour even more impressive.
04. Become Warren Buffett
When it comes to the pursuit of life, most people are still in the stage of pursuing wealth and fame. The summit, I have to mention Buffett. Net assets exceed $60 billion, Warren? Buffett is a truly unique billionaire. The legendary investor still lives in a small house in Omaha. At the age of 86, he drives to the office every day to manage Berkshire, the fifth largest listed company in the world. Hathaway company, he is over 80 years old and tap dances to work every day.
Become Warren? Buffett is a documentary about a little boy from Nebraska who became one of the most respected people in the world. You will find his thinking mode, investment mode and life state here.
As a top rich man, his daily life is really boring. He still lives in the house he bought in his twenties, eats McDonald's breakfast all his life and spends five or six hours reading and thinking every day. He knew very early that what he liked was that he wanted to win, on the battlefield of investment. His wife said: What he is most happy about is that every piece of information in his investment decision is open. It was a fair game, but he won. He likes the feeling of winning after fair competition.
Buffett simply enjoys what he loves. After having wealth that others can't reach, he throws the complicated problem of how to create greater value with money to his good friend: Bill Gates.
05. Walking into Bill: Interpreting Bill Gates
The documentary "Into Bill: Decoding Bill Gates" tells the story of a successful man who no longer needs to prove himself to others, and what his subsequent life pursuit is, and also answers Buffett's question about how to spend money to improve mankind more effectively.
The narrative of the whole documentary is particularly clever. The main line is what Bill Gates did in the past few years after he retired from Microsoft. There are many difficulties in this, which will flash back to his childhood experience, the days when he was forced to socialize at school, and the setbacks he encountered on his life. In the multi-threaded narrative, how to dig out the clues of past experiences has made Bill Gates today.
It is this man who has reached the peak of his life, and now he is concerned about time-consuming, laborious and expensive things, but he can't get everyone's attention: health, climate warming, sustainable energy development and so on. -How to establish a sewage treatment system in Africa to eliminate malaria, how to vaccinate children against polio under the rampage of terrorist organizations, and how to improve global warming.
Bill Gates likes the fun of thinking and solving problems. He will set up a thinking week for himself, bring his own research topics and dozens of related books, and come to an island on the lake to immerse himself in his own thinking. Warren Buffett also mentioned that Bill's father once asked each of them to write a word that helped them the most on a piece of paper, and Bill and Warren wrote it down in unison: concentration. This is also the skill that I learned from two successful people that can improve my life quickly.
Finally, to discuss what success is, the words in Bill Gates' mother's speech may give us some inspiration.
At the beginning, everyone should define success by himself. With these specific expectations of ourselves, we are more likely to succeed. In the final analysis, it's not what you get, or even what you give, but what you become.
Perhaps the significance of watching these documentaries is that after watching these models, I realize the possibilities of life and have more specific expectations for myself.