Because I am in the manufacturing industry, I often meet all kinds of people, including underworld, officials, factory employees and office white-collar workers. Their income is not high, ranging from 3000 to 7000 a month, but this level is not low in China.
Not to mention the boss, since China's accession to the WTO, foreign trade has ushered in unprecedented opportunities. With a net worth of less than 10 million, they are embarrassed to say that they have done foreign trade.
Here, from the boss to the employees, from the guests to the acquaintances, you can always experience such a tendency. Sometimes when we talk, we say, "Hey, reading is not so useful. Look at you." After reading so many books, you didn't end up working with your boss

1. People like to talk about wealth, but they don't want to hold up books
   Some colleagues wanted to speculate in stocks. I recommended him to read some books, and then returned them to me intact. Compared with these, they prefer to watch the news, watch the hot news of "a woman made 6million in this bull market", discuss the K-line form and look for inside information.
   Others want to start a business and start a factory, but no one wants to calm down, recharge, read a few books and learn something. The answer they often give me is: "I don't think reading is so important. I have to use it! What I lack now is experience. I really need it. Look at my Shifu. He can't read a big word. He still travels far and wide, but he is very experienced
   Here, people like to talk about wealth, sigh about the past, rush for gossip, and talk about celebrity events. However, no one ever wants to know the theory and causes behind these events, and no one will calm down and study them slowly with a book.
   Since the beginning of the reform and opening up in the 1980s, China has undergone great changes, which have had a far-reaching impact on China's economy. There have been countless opportunities and tens of thousands of rich people.
   Some people don't even know how rich they are, so they get rich. In the face of wealth, people tend to inflate extremely, overemphasize their ability, and ignore the role of objective factors.
   Especially in this realistic society, the causes are often deduced from the results. When a person is successful, you always feel that everything he says is right. Therefore, these phenomena give people the illusion: what is the use of reading? It is true to be able to earn money and have the ability.
   I believe you often encounter this kind of situation. When you look at a book, a person suddenly comes over, taps you on the shoulder, and says to you, "Hey, don't read. It's better to go out to society for a few years and learn more than you read in books. You see so and so, you never read, and you still don't make a fortune. This society is looking at ability."
   What is competence? God knows. Some people think it is a network, some people understand it as "resources", and others understand it as power.
2. In the past, all the sudden wealth was due to asymmetric information
   However, in my opinion, these interpretations simply do not point to the essence of the problem - all the sudden rich who did not rely on brain power and technical content in the past had a premise: because of asymmetric information.
   What is information asymmetry? Let me give you an example. You will know that in the legend of China's stock market, you can never escape the word "Yang million". As the first to get rich in China's stock market, no matter how you evaluate him - speculation or bad luck, the name of Yang million has been written into the history of China's stock market and has become a legend.
   How did this man accomplish his original accumulation? One day, he happened to read a newspaper and found a phenomenon: the prices of treasury bills in the two places were different. In this way, he bought Treasury bills from places with low prices, loaded them with snakeskin bags, and took the train to another place with high purchase prices.
   He went back and forth many times a year, until one day, there was no price difference in treasury bills, and he completed his first primitive accumulation - the first million in his life, which was in 1989. For a factory worker, this money is undoubtedly an astronomical figure - and all this is not because he has read any books, but because he saw a magical newspaper one day, at some time, at some place, and precisely others did not notice.
   Another example: when China just joined the WTO, its foreign trade was easy to do, and the money seemed to have been picked up. At that time, few factories were opened and the competition was incomplete. Therefore, foreigners came to China without any bargaining conditions - of course, they did not need to negotiate. At that time, the goods were simply too cheap for them to hold dollars.
   It is common to earn 50 yuan for a pair of real leather shoes at 100 yuan. For Chinese people, 50 yuan was a lot. At that time, the salary of an ordinary worker was only one or two thousand yuan. For foreigners, these shoes are too cheap. They are made of genuine leather and only cost 100 yuan a pair.
   Incomplete competition, in essence, is the insufficient circulation of information. Because many people do not know how to make money from foreign trade, they can only rely on word of mouth. The speed of word-of-mouth is very slow, and it is difficult to distinguish the actual from the actual. Therefore, the manufacturing bosses have enough time to complete the original capital accumulation.
   Do these need reading? unwanted. In the era of information blockage, you don't need technology, knowledge reserve, or even capital.
3. The Internet changes the rules of the game. Only by reading more can we see the trend
   I remember when I was just born, my father made a lot of money in business. The reason was very simple: at that time, the reform and opening up had just begun. Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce were at the bottom of the list. Everyone felt that it was a disgrace to do business. But my father was brave enough to pull his face and push a cart out to ask for business, so he did it.
   Yes, you only need to be brave enough to seize an opportunity, and you may become rich.
   "The key to life is to learn to seize opportunities. Sometimes one or two can affect your life." Isn't that what many of our predecessors told us? (in order to publicize his opportunism, some people even quote Beethoven's famous saying "I will hold the throat of fate".)
   As for whether this opportunity fell from the sky or came from your friend's mouth, only God knows. Maybe you've waited all your life, and you can't wait for such an opportunity. Therefore, there is always the illusion that "good things always happen to others, and I am the only unlucky one."
   Now, however, things have changed for a simple reason: the Internet.
   When the Internet was born, information began to become fully circulated. For example, when you used to buy things, there were many things you needed, but you couldn't buy them - such as mechanical keyboards. I still find that even in big cities like Guangzhou, there are still very few shops selling mechanical keyboards.
   It's not easy for you to find a seller. When people see you full of joy, their first consciousness is to kill you.
   Now with Taobao, it's hard for people to kill you. When you search the Internet, the price is clear. Because the online price is too transparent, it is almost the same.
   When the information is fully circulated, opportunism will be relatively reduced - you can buy Treasury bills online, the price is transparent, there is no regional price difference, and there is no room for arbitrage. For foreign trade, the price was clear at a glance after a search on eBay. In the past, you used to have power and can be domineering. Now I take a mobile phone to shoot you online, and you are in danger of being laid off.
   So, now we feel that money is becoming more and more difficult to earn. That's the point - you have less and less chance to make profits by taking advantage of opportunities. The information is fully circulated. What you can do is that someone else buys a sample in your online store and copies it by dividing three by five. Finally, more and more people are making the same product as you, and the price is getting lower and lower until there is no profit.
   In an information - blocked environment, you can get rich overnight without reading. In an environment of full flow of information, without these opportunities for sudden wealth, what can you rely on?
   It depends on real skills. If there is any opportunity, it is also an accurate judgment on the future trend.
   I don't know what role reading can play in this industrial upgrading. I just know that without reading and knowledge, it will be easy to be eliminated in this industrial upgrading by relying only on experience, contacts, relationships, money and tossing.
4. Reading more books will reduce a lot of unnecessary disputes and quarrels
   The advantage of books is that, trapped in reality, it is impossible for you to get to know so many excellent people like those in books, because some people who wrote books have died, and only thoughts have survived. However, books give you a way to get close to them.
   Our experience in real life is often one-sided and punctate. You may suddenly realize oneortwo precious truths because of oneortwo experiences. But soon, like many times before, after a day or two of excitement, you immediately forget what you should have done before.
   The reason is that they are only scattered in your mind, and have not become a complete knowledge system to support you and form your beliefs.
   What books give you is systematic knowledge classification and sorting. It connects all the points into one face for systematic induction. Books bring us more ways to sort out problems and ways of thinking, which can not be replaced by experience.
   Not only that, books can also give people a supplement to experience - one cannot experience multiple lives. However, books can, you can see the history and biographies, you can see the colorful and diverse life, so as to summarize the general rules.
   The biggest problem caused by not reading is that we blindly believe in empiricism and feel that experience is supreme. If you think about it, is there anything more precious than my own experience? Only what I have experienced is suitable for me. Everything in books is dead, but my experience is alive. Like this one:
   In fact, his statement is a logical error, separating experience from theory and making extreme assumptions. In fact, in real life, there are no inexperienced people. As long as you live, you will have experience. If you have experience, you will have experience. Therefore, there are no people who only study but have no experience. However, there are many people who only have experience but do not study.
   This is also a group of writers. A writer actually advocates the theory that reading is useless. I don't know how he writes things.
   Lack of reading also leads to a series of problems:
5. low reading ability.
   These people even regard chicken soup as the essence of human thought. You can't remind him, for fear that he will be angry.
6. the speech is dominated by emotion without any logic.
7. those who rely on feeling and intuition but do not believe in science. For example, this is how our Master Wang Lin started his fire. Now some so-called energy masters are really believed. When others describe the magic of these people to me, they are really lifelike.
8. a person who doesn't like learning is usually not very modest. So it's hard to be aware of your shortcomings, so don't expect them to correct their mistakes. They thought it was fate, but in fact, many reasons were caused by themselves.
   If you read more books, nothing else, there will be less unnecessary disputes and quarrels in this society.
9. Most people who preach the theory that reading is useless do not read
   Personally, my family was not very good. Like many parents, my parents came from a barren age. They had great tastes but limited abilities. Like many of us, they teach Jianghu routines. For example, my father often said to me, "you should learn by methods." He never taught me how to read. He thought that if I repeated this sentence 10000 times, I would be able to speak the method. Then there is the pressure, reward and punishment mechanism, which is called education.)
   Many of my personality, thinking and habits benefit from books. I study methods and correct them slowly the day after tomorrow. I am not born with them.
   From the perspective of big data, the ninth national reading survey organized by the China Press and Publication Research Institute shows that in 2011, the per capita reading in China was only 4.3, far lower than 11 in South Korea, 20 in France, 40 in Japan, not to mention 64 in Jews. China is one of the countries in the world where the average person reads the least.
   Whether the survey data are accurate or not, we can roughly draw a conclusion: it is an indisputable fact that the reading rate in developed countries is much higher than that in China. Whether a country is developed or not is closely related to the reading rate of the whole people.
   When I was at my classmates' party, no one ever talked to me about movies, music and books. It was always a three piece set of "have you bought a house", "have you bought a car" and "how old are the children". After discussing these issues, the party could almost end.
   It is not a question of whether reading is useful at all, but of whether reading is useful.
   Many people who hold the view that "reading is useless" do not read, or do not understand after reading. You don't read very much and talk about whether reading is useful. This is a very funny thing in itself.
   In fact, many people don't even know that they don't read. They are actually reading in another way.
   For example, a boss spent thousands of yuan to listen to a "speech by successful people", He came to me with joy and said: "Hey, you know what? I heard the teacher's speech last night, and I really gained a lot. There are many new ideas in his view. For example, he said that many people in our world succeed because of persistence. One day, a friend of his, golf, began to learn from 0. His friend told the teacher that although he is a novice, he is an expert as long as he keeps swinging 1000 times. He swings 10000 times , he is the master... "
   Before she finished, I understood that the "story of my friend" told by the successful learning speaker was actually a modified version of the 10000 hour theory. The source of this theory comes from Gladwell's alien - in fact, they are not lazy, impetuous and can't stand loneliness. They prefer to sit down with a group of people and listen to others tell stories to themselves, even if it costs a little money, rather than reading line by line.
   A person who is lazy will usually make a series of reasonable explanations for his behavior, such as "the theory that reading is useless".
   Therefore, I think it would be better for these people to come back and discuss the topic of "whether reading is useful or not" after reading some books.