Universities can offer hundreds of postures and styles, and offer all kinds of professional subjects in all walks of life. But some knowledge is very important to college students, and may even affect their life. But few universities offer special courses to teach this knowledge.
Fortunately, with the Internet, information is convenient and learning methods are varied. Even if the school does not teach, you can have a preliminary understanding of the following three topics through intentional study.
Every day we live is actually leading us to death. Nothing or anyone can exist independently without time. Time is silent and invisible, but it can affect your voice, face and smile; It is extremely precious, but it can make people who don't make progress poor for life. Because there are always lucky people born with silver spoons, life is unequal; But the time of life is absolutely equal. No matter where you are, who you are and what you are doing, today will always be the youngest day in your life.
I once sent a picture in a circle of friends when I got off work on the subway 13 line: because there were no seats in the rush hour, two girls were standing opposite each other in the subway, one was watching a TV series on her mobile phone and the other was reading a book. I added this sentence in the photo: "People who read books in the subway don't necessarily read books when they go home, but people who watch TV dramas in the subway definitely watch TV dramas when they go home."
This state has received many messages from friends, and those who agree with it say, yes, I can read three books in a month by using subway time. Some people disdain that people are born to enjoy, so why bother? I don't usually reply to such comments. Because if I argue when I know that my values are different from each other's, the argument itself is a waste of time.
Man's attitude towards time is his attitude towards life. I watched how steel was made when I was very young. Nicholas ostrovsky's passage has always been impressive:
This passage made me know from an early age that time is precious and should be cherished.
A person who has no goals will feel that four years of college is very long, and he will graduate in a blink of an eye, and he will feel that going to college is nothing more than that. Those who have a clear plan in mind will either improve their skills and graduate directly from work, or improve their learning ability to graduate from postgraduate entrance examination or go abroad, or find business opportunities and their own talents to drop out of school and start a business. After four years in college, your attitude towards time has long distinguished you from other students.
Let's extend the dimension of time to the whole life. There is a very popular and realistic article on the Internet called Life on A4 Paper. The whole life cycle of a person is only 900 months (75 years old). If these 900 months are expressed in the form of 30X30, then a piece of A4 paper is enough to write our life.
The picture below is a screenshot of A4 paper life.
Isn't it intuitive and concise? Isn't it shocking, too? Do you think that the long four-year college life is just a line with a tail in this "A4 Life Table"? Time flies and youth is limited. There should be no regrets in the tears on graduation day, only gratitude for four years of struggle.
Time management books can be read in the first two chapters of pomodoro technique, Xiao Qiang's Promotion and Dark Time (the third chapter is mainly related to computers, so you can read it selectively). The first one can teach you to concentrate, the second one can teach you the "four-quadrant method of time", and the third one can teach you to think and summarize in fragmented time. APP recommends "Tomato Clock" (used with pomodoro technique) and "Love Today", and official WeChat account can follow "Hawk".
"Money is not everything, but you can't do anything without it". This sentence analyzes the essence of money from both positive and negative aspects and is a typical critical thinking. "Money is everything" and "money is useless" are too one-sided and easily mislead college students.
20 15 Angus deaton, winner of the nobel prize in economics, mainly studied the relationship between money and happiness. Since 2008, he and his team have collected 450,000 questionnaires about it. After analysis, they come to the conclusion that having money may not make you happy, but having no money usually makes you miserable.
Without money, people dare not buy good clothes, enter big hotels or even fall in love. Without money to face such a big world, they can only look for pictures online. How many rural college students, even if their learning ability is excellent, can go to graduate school after graduation, but they have to graduate from work in the face of high tuition fees and family burdens. And the university doesn't teach a word about such an important thing. I heard that a city in the south once set up a stock trading course in a primary school, but it caused opposition from more than half of netizens.
In fact, the original intention of the school to offer financial management courses is good, but the course should not start with the most risky and volatile stocks, but should start with the nature of money, the role of money and how to make money. Even adults who have been in the stock market for many years may be surprised, and the idea of letting primary school students go to stocks is naive. But in any case, at least some schools have realized the importance of teaching students to manage their finances.
In fact, the great poverty gap in China has much to do with the lack of financial education and the lack of financial and business awareness. As we all know, Israel is a desert country, and its natural conditions are not suitable for national development at all, but it has embarked on the fast track of economic development through "rejuvenating the country through science and education" and become a country with very developed medical care, science and technology and military affairs. Financial management education is a very important part of Israel's strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education. The parents of newborns there will greet the arrival of newborns with the sound of knocking on money, which shows that they attach importance to money.
When Israeli children grow up to be a little more sensible, parents will let their children stand on their own feet by letting them do housework and paying their children wages, and plant the financial management concept of "no pains, no gains, no pains" from an early age. Warren Buffett 1 1 year-old joined the stock market, which is directly related to the financial education of enlightenment.
What we can do is to cultivate the awareness of financial management as soon as possible, increase revenue and reduce expenditure, earn some spare money through part-time work-study programs, and consciously start saving money. The most important thing is to understand business principles and flexible thinking. Reality has proved countless times that studying in university is not enough. PhD students may only have a high school education.
Education is not comparable to ability, and ability is not comparable to experience. Years of accumulated experience in the business world have made newcomers more sensitive to money than ordinary people. It is this concept that has opened the distance between people and wealth. I don't advocate over-investment, but if we really rely on keen insight to catch up with the last wave of housing price increases and struggle less for 30 years, why not walk more and see the bigger world?
However, the knowledge in the field of financial management is complicated, so it is unrealistic for college students to make money by funds and stocks at once. But enlightenment (although it was a little late in college, if you didn't learn later) was still too late to get started. Here I recommend a book written by Schaefer called Qian Qian the Dog. A * * * consists of two volumes, and it is enough to read only the first volume. The positioning of the book is children's financial management book, but the book is not naive. It's just the author's own experience, telling the complex definitions and theories related to wealth in a very simple way. In fact, adults reading this book will also deeply agree with the author's understanding of wealth.
I have to say that this is another big deficiency of education in China. Let's talk about all children's first teachers-parents. When we were young, we always asked our parents out of curiosity where we came from, but few parents could give a definite answer. Most of the answers we get are "from the garbage", "from the toilet" or "Your mother doesn't want you, so she sent you to our house".
The first two answers are already very bad, which makes many children think that they are born with garbage and toilets and feel dirty. But this negative emotion will be released in junior high school biology class.
The worst is the third answer, because the answer "Mom doesn't want you" will make children who have just established their self-awareness believe it and plant seeds of self-doubt in their hearts. They will think that they are unpopular since childhood, and no one likes me, which will lead to inferiority complex, which is likely to accompany them all their lives. A casual answer from parents has gone far beyond the child's understanding of sex itself, and even limited the child's development and lifelong achievements.
Children are in the stage of mental enlightenment from 2 years old to 10 years old, so it is normal for them to be curious about knowledge. For them, asking their parents where they came from, like why it thundered and rained, is simply out of yearning for knowledge. But parents think too complicated, always looking around him, blocking the entrance of children's first understanding of sex.
Let me talk about school education. The school does offer physiology courses, but most of the key sex-related content is ignored. When the teacher gave a lecture, the students at the bottom were still embarrassed, amused and shy. Limited to maintaining the lofty image of teachers, the school can't explain it by playing live-action videos (parents won't agree, and the saliva of public opinion is enough to drown the whole school).
Although the school offers sex courses (accurate identification of gender is inaccurate, in fact, biology courses only focus on structure), but the teaching content is too little and time is too late.
Students are interested in sexy, but the formal content taught by the school is less, which will inevitably lead to students learning through other channels, and those with strong hands-on ability even practice. In the second year of high school, there were 1 1 pairs of male and female students in the same grade, all of whom were expelled from the school because they opened a house outside the school. There have even been tragedies in which parents of classmates heard that their children were expelled because of this kind of thing and felt that their faces would hang up and commit suicide.
But students should not take full responsibility. Why did they check in? On the one hand, curiosity, on the other hand, encouragement from classmates and friends. Several children don't understand the world, one person boos, and others boo unconsciously. And these two reasons can be made up by school education.
If the school teaches too late, students will not form a correct understanding of sex, which will lead to those who may have strong self-learning ability, and even have taught themselves all the basic knowledge of sex in primary school. What is the significance of offering this course in schools?
You know, Japan has popularized sex education in primary schools, French parents will accompany their children to watch adult movies, and evil American imperialists even take universities to visit brothels. The essence of sex is knowledge. Since it is knowledge, we should learn, understand and observe. Because out of rebellious psychology, the less you let your children know, the more they will rack their brains to find the answer. How to find the answer is beyond parents' control.
As the old saying goes, "food and color are also sexual", and consciousness is sexual. Just like eating, it is an innate instinct of human beings. But some college students despise sex too much and indulge too much. This is not only irresponsible to TAs, but also a great contempt for yourself. Premature taste of sexual pleasure may make boys indulge in this desire to conquer, neglect their studies, and may eventually ruin their health.
For the understanding of sex, you can see Kinsey's sexology report. No investigation, no right to speak. The author collected 65,438+08,000 cases related to sex, analyzed them and integrated them into this book. It is very helpful for college students to understand sex.
Society is the classroom of life. Starting to study these three courses as soon as possible can give your university a good start. One small step in college, one big step in life. Best wishes.
The lost compass
Heilongjiang Beipiao is now an English translator in the machinery industry. 20 16 Determined to change, read financial English and record a different self.