Recently, the hottest topic in the circle of friends is the amazing words of Uncle Xiang Jiao in Shanghai People's Park: "Five thousand yuan and ten thousand yuan a month (salary), that's begging!"
The picture comes from the Internet.
This kind of remarks about the income level of first-tier cities have poked many netizens in the ribs.
@52 Hz Waiting: I was a beggar in 1993.
@ Xiao Tingting's winter and winter: A monthly salary of 10,000 is begging. Aren't we beggars of 3,000 a month?
@dis Tingzi: With a monthly salary of over 10,000 yuan, it is a great honor to join the Beggars' Sect.
@ Weng Xian 199 1: There are more than 5,000 beggars.
Of course, everyone expressed understanding-
@ Tingting Tingting 1 12: Uncle is right.
@ Xue Fei Sophia: A monthly salary of 10,000 really feels worse than begging in Shanghai.
A user in Weibo once said, "I just got rid of poverty with an annual salary of one million", and then made a heartfelt comment on the female blind date. Although the speaker may have no intention, this topic about money has disturbed our sensitive nerves.
This is no longer a "money worship era", but the simultaneous economic needs and the desire to realize our needs make it easier for us to fall into confusion.
In today's class division and solidification, we are immersed in anxiety and panic. Can we find a better way to look at money and life?
How much do we earn?
Just a few days ago, I interviewed financial media person Jian Qi. When talking about this topic, she said:
"Money is one of my means of self-realization, so as long as I can realize my self-realization, that money is enough. It is not an absolute number. "
The so-called gap between the rich and the poor is by no means a number.
Attitude difference: "Hate money" is as terrible as "only driven by money"
Ibsen, a famous Norwegian playwright, wrote a famous play A Doll's House. The heroine Nora in the play has been living under the traditional marriage system, and her relationship with her husband is very unequal. Finally, she woke up and finally ran away from home and started a new life.
The picture comes from the stills of the online Doll's House.
Unlike most readers who will praise Nora's rebellious spirit of pursuing freedom and equality after watching this play, Lu Xun wrote different words after watching it:
"In addition to her awakening heart, what did she bring? If there is only one scarf with purple velvet rope like gentlemen, it is completely useless to be two or three feet wider. " -What happened after Nora left.
Yes, she needs to be richer. There's something in her bag. To put it bluntly, she needs money.
When many people talk about making money and managing money, their nerves begin to become sensitive or negative.
"I am engaged in art, how can I earn more money than finance?"
"I always have unpaid credit card bills. It doesn't matter. Young people don't have to save money. "
Hating the rich, hating the rich, can't help you who are poor.
Objectively speaking, if elites and successful people are just born better than ordinary people, then we have every right to despise them. However, if the success of the elite is based on the level of hard work and knowledge, what is the significance of our moral superiority?
Of course, at the other extreme, some people put their happiness and happiness entirely on the amount of money.
For example, Hurun's report released in June 20 17 said that the threshold of money freedom has increased by 50% compared with that in 20 16, including 290 million yuan in first-tier cities and 0/700,000 yuan in second-tier cities.
According to this standard, most people can only live in depression every day, and it is difficult to think about it.
"Blindly obsessed with the growth of numbers, like Balzac's Grandet, accumulated a lot of wealth, but never really lived. In fact, many people live what they like, which has nothing to do with the absolute amount of money. "
Differences in thinking: the poor think-I work for money; Think of the rich-I want money to work for me.
Poor Dad, Rich Dad describes two fathers, both of whom have rich incomes.
A father has a university degree and a doctorate, but he has been struggling with personal financial problems all his life. The other didn't even finish junior high school, but became one of the richest people in Hawaii.
The author recalls that a father always said "I can't afford it"; Another father forbade them to say such things. He insisted that we say, "How can I afford it?"
A father taught him to write an impressive resume in order to find a good job; Another father taught him to write ambitious career plans and financial plans, thus creating entrepreneurial opportunities.
One father encouraged him to become a professional with a stable job, such as a lawyer and an accountant. Another father encouraged him to learn to get rich, understand the law of money movement and let money work for him.
"I don't work for money, I want money to work for me." This is the fundamental difference between the thinking of the poor and the rich.
There is a word called resource reversibility, which means to think about "what I have and what I can do" first, and then find my goal along this direction. Instead of saying, "I can't, because I don't have this and that."
You know, money is a kind of power, and even more powerful is financial and business education. If you know how money flows, you gain the power to control it.
The so-called financial and business education is actually practicing a kind of control over money. Controlling money, not being controlled by money, is the power to control one's life.
Real wealth must be a common experience of economy and spirit.
Poverty limits your imagination rather than your way of thinking. Only by being a "rich man" in thinking mode can we get out of the trap of poverty.
The method is different: life needs subtraction, and people who spend money will earn more money.
Thoreau said that a person's wealth is directly proportional to the number of things he can ignore.
I deeply agree with this. Recently, the elites in the industry have repeatedly emphasized the same experience: most successful lives are minimalist, because precious time should only be reserved for the most precious people and things.
In life, if you meet a person who hoards everything, wants everything and can't choose, his life is often a mess.
Jobs once put a floor lamp in the living room because he could not find satisfactory furniture. In fact, this is an attitude of insisting on attention rather than doing it. What we have lies not in many things, but in the benefits that everything should have.
It is human nature to like to increase rather than decrease, and to like to get rather than give up, but many times reducing and giving up will make us live better.
Because this practice sometimes goes against human nature, many people can't do it. Of course, this gives more opportunities to those who can do it.
Those who can simplify the complex and get rid of distractions, desires and sundries can often find opportunities that are ignored by those who follow the big run from the essence of things.
The essence of business is to make people spend more money, not save money. As for how to make people willing to spend money, this is art.
The so-called "rich thinking", first of all, should not regard hoarding money itself as the embodiment of the value of money, but should measure its value through the benefits obtained by money.
As mentioned in the book Style, in the invisible life of the real upper class, there is no luxury we imagined, and they will spend money to customize what they like and are really comfortable.
Running towards a life of financial freedom is definitely not achieved by saving. Investing money in the right place, turning money into a force, and creating and realizing greater value for yourself is the meaning of wealth.
Financial management is to manage life, and the best investment is to invest in yourself.
The best investment is to invest in yourself.
Wu Jun, an investor in Silicon Valley, said that when a person has a huge positive impact on society, he can not only get material (such as money) and spiritual (such as reputation) wealth, but also have a heartfelt sense of happiness.
Only those who take the positive life goal of self-growth and creating value for society as the driving force, continue to work hard, increase their knowledge and invest in themselves, and make money and success as the means can realize this heartfelt happiness.
In the latest issue of Reader magazine, an article by popular science writer Wan Weigang-"Why knowledge is so important" was published.
In this paper, he used two hypothetical concepts of "elite" and "ordinary people" to discuss the difference between "rich thinking" and "poor thinking".
1, elites explore the unknown, and ordinary people fear the unknown;
2. The elite can make long-term plans, while ordinary people lack self-control;
3. Elites pay attention to personal choice and freedom, while ordinary people think that others should be like themselves;
4. Elites embrace change, while ordinary people refuse to change;
5. Elites love to discuss ideas, while ordinary people love to discuss people and things;
6. Elites spend their free time on study, while ordinary people spend their free time on entertainment.
Another difference is worth mentioning, that is, elites pay special attention to efficiency, while ordinary people emphasize fairness.
This conclusion comes from the new intention research of 20 15. Therefore, more elite people, such as students of Yale University, tend to choose challenging and enlightening options rather than fair and just options.
From the way of thinking, we can basically see a person's future. If you don't believe me, you can sit in the right place for the people around you. We all look at ourselves to see if we need to change our thinking.
The concept of money is a subject worth exploring for a lifetime. If you take this course, you will become a smart, rich and happy person. If you don't study, you will only complain about your work and boss all your life, looking forward to money and sighing.
And all this has nothing to do with the absolute amount of money.
We also want to be elites, but the modern world is completely different from our intuition, "chicken soup for the soul" and fables. Therefore, we should learn to understand, play games and change the world with the eyes and ways of thinking of the "rich".
Of course, the best way is to participate in person, and the fastest way is to read books.
Standing in front of the lowest threshold of reading, how to take this step depends on yourself.