There is a popular saying recently: "poverty limits my imagination". 1500 yuan paper clip; 150000 hermes bags; 660000 LV gold-plated toilet; Nokia mobile phones similar to old people's machines cost 2 million; The most irritating thing is that a wool ball for pets costs 87000 yuan These things that ordinary people think are sky high prices are the daily necessities of the rich. If poverty limits your imagination, it doesn't matter. It's just a matter of less knowledge. You can't afford those things anyway. But what's really terrible about poverty is that you can't climb out of the deep pit of "poor people's thinking" unknowingly. Because you don't know you're in the pit. Like a frog in a well, its understanding of the world is just that square well. "Imagination" is a bright gun, "poor thinking" is a hidden arrow. Open guns are easy to hide, but hidden arrows are hard to defend. Why poverty? Because there's no money. Why do poor people think? Because it's been too long without money. one If you have money, can you get rid of the thinking of the poor? Many people like to say: "If I had money, I would do better than Liu qiangdong." "If I had money, I would be better than Wang Sicong." In fact, not necessarily. People who have been in poverty for a long time, even if they get rich occasionally, will soon become poor. The National Bureau of economic research conducted a survey: in the past 20 years, the bankruptcy rate of European and American lottery winners was as high as 75% within five years. There is a popular program on the Internet, called "rich house, poor house", that is, "the British version of Metamorphosis". It's about letting two families with a huge gap between the rich and the poor exchange their lives for a week. Poor families have only 150 pounds a week, while rich families have 3000 pounds a week. After the poor exchanged, they were very happy. The first thing they do is go out to eat and drink, extravagance and waste. After the rich came to the poor's house, they did not lose heart, but faced it positively and found a lovely and sunny place from life. And began to manage money, work and think about all kinds of life. Finally, through the program, the audience clearly understand that the reason why the rich are rich depends on their positive attitude, firm will, clear concept, broad vision, and continuous efforts and persistence. If you don't understand these, even if money falls from the sky, it will come and go quickly. In my hometown, in recent years, the state has engaged in infrastructure construction, built reservoirs and built high-speed railways. Many farmers who have lived in the mountains for generations will be relocated, selling their fields and houses. Suddenly I had a lot of money in my hand, and the largest amount of compensation was tens of millions. Some bookmakers engaged in gambling saw this opportunity and opened many hidden casinos. Those farmers who suddenly had money all ran to the casino at once. In less than a year, many people lost everything and owed a lot of debt. I have a primary school classmate. His family has millions of demolition funds. So he immediately bought a big house in the city and the whole family moved in. But their family life is still no different from the original: The weather is hot, parents are reluctant to turn on the air conditioner; When I went shopping, I couldn't help moving home when I saw some good junk. Such a big house was packed full and messy in half a year. Why is that? Because although they have money, their behavior still depends on the thinking of the poor. This is just like the mismatch between dream and ability, which is doomed to pain. Knowledge and wealth do not match, so do they. two Why can't the poor get rid of the curse of poverty? After ten years of research, American economist Murray Nathan and psychologist schaffel finally found the answer: the fundamental reason why the poor can't get rid of poverty is the scarcity mentality. What is scarcity mentality? That is, "the more scarce something is, the more you care about it". For example, farmers who receive relief funds will first think of eating a big meal. Instead of investing or educating children. For another example, a person who hasn't had sex for three years, when he thinks of the opposite sex, his first thought is to go to bed. In this way, he is likely to miss the real good girl. Mullinathan said: "People's vision will become narrow due to scarcity mentality, forming a pipe view, that is, they can only see a small number of objects through the hole of the pipe, ignoring everything outside the pipe." In other words, scarcity will lead to "selective blindness" of the brain, only seeing the amount of money, but not other gains and losses. To this end, mullinathan and Shafir put forward the concept of "bandwidth". The so-called bandwidth refers to the capacity of a person's mind. If this bandwidth is often filled with a scarcity mentality, it will affect a person's cognitive ability and executive control. In India, there is a vegetable market. A large number of poor people live there. They borrow 1000 rupees a day from the rich to buy goods. After selling the vegetables, the profit is about 1100 rupees. Return 1050 rupees to the rich and earn only 50 rupees. In fact, these vendors only need to save 5 rupees a day. Relying on the compound interest effect, they can not borrow money from the rich in only 50 days. Then their income will rise sharply. Wealth is within reach, but all vendors insist on borrowing money from the rich and paying interest of 50 rupees a day to the rich. Nine years later, the rich are getting richer without work, while the poor are getting poorer with hard work. Mullinathan said: "The poor who have been in a state of scarcity for a long time will greatly reduce their judgment and cognitive ability by paying too much attention to immediate problems and have no excess bandwidth to consider investment and long-term development. They will eventually become more stupid and impulsive." In other words, when a person is poor, he will become stupid and impulsive. They will fall into such a vicious circle: Lack of money - only care about making money, become impulsive and out of control - reduce mental bandwidth - produce wrong cognition and decisions - amplify the mentality of scarcity of money - vicious circle. three How can we jump out of the thinking of the poor caused by scarcity? First: force important things into the pipeline vision. Eaton's Division said: Making plans and doing things today is for us to have a better tomorrow. The future belongs to those who make difficult decisions today. The poorer people are, the more they need to make a complete life plan for themselves. Harvard University once did a very famous research. They found a group of young people whose birth environment and IQ are not much different. Among them, 27% have no life planning, 60% have very vague life planning, 10% have short-term planning and only 3% have long-term planning. After 25 years, those who have long-term plans have almost become the top people in society; Those with short-term plans have become the middle class, such as doctors and lawyers; People with fuzzy planning live in the middle and lower levels of society and have little promise, but they especially want their children to have promise; Those who have no plan at all have become the bottom of society and complain all day. What does this survey show - different life plans have distanced everyone. Therefore, to get out of the thinking of the poor caused by scarcity, we must forcibly pull important things into the pipeline vision—— Make a clear life plan, short-term and long-term, and then realize it step by step. Second: do the most important thing, not the most urgent thing. There is an old proverb: "If the first thing you do every morning is to eat a live frog, you will be glad to find that there is nothing worse than this day." "Living frog" represents the most important task. If we don't take active action on the most important task, we may delay time and opportunities because of it. Therefore, almost all elites understand one truth: important things first. That is to put the most important thing first. Secondary things always come second, no matter how urgent. In this way, we can always grasp the key point and not be influenced by the feelings, emotions or impulses in the process. When you have made a plan, make the most important 20% of the plan first. If this part is done well, it will produce 80% results! Therefore, try to concentrate your energy and don't be torn and divided by urgent things. Third: take action. This sentence is an old saying. But it's often talked about because it's too important. Many people know the truth, but they can't live a good life. The reason is that I didn't understand it and didn't take action. You have to cheer for yourself. Be a good cheerleader. In any case, remind yourself to look at the positive side of things, and then catch up. There is a good saying: the only thing in the world that can be obtained without work is poverty, and the only thing that can be made out of nothing is dream. If you find yourself in the deep pit of "poor people's thinking", you should rise up and take action step by step. Waiting to die can never change the situation, because nothing can be achieved without doing something. Although the world is cruel, there will always be a way as long as you are willing to go; You can't see beauty because you don't stick to it.

There is a popular saying recently: "poverty limits my imagination". 1500 yuan paper clip; 150000 hermes bags; 660000 LV gold-plated toilet; Nokia mobile phones similar to old people's machines cost 2 million; The most irritating thing is that a wool ball for pets costs 87000 yuan These things that ordinary people think are sky high prices are the daily necessities of the rich. If poverty limits your imagination, it doesn't matter. It's just a matter of less knowledge. You can't afford those things anyway. But what's really terrible about poverty is that you can't climb out of the deep pit of "poor people's thinking" unknowingly. Because you don't know you're in the pit. Like a frog in a well, its understanding of the world is just that square well. "Imagination" is a bright gun, "poor thinking" is a hidden arrow. Open guns are easy to hide, but hidden arrows are hard to defend. Why poverty? Because there's no money. Why do poor people think? Because it's been too long without money. one If you have money, can you get rid of the thinking of the poor? Many people like to say: "If I had money, I would do better than Liu qiangdong." "If I had money, I would be better than Wang Sicong." In fact, not necessarily. People who have been in poverty for a long time, even if they get rich occasionally, will soon become poor. The National Bureau of economic research conducted a survey: in the past 20 years, the bankruptcy rate of European and American lottery winners was as high as 75% within five years. There is a popular program on the Internet, called "rich house, poor house", that is, "the British version of Metamorphosis". It's about letting two families with a huge gap between the rich and the poor exchange their lives for a week. Poor families have only 150 pounds a week, while rich families have 3000 pounds a week. After the poor exchanged, they were very happy. The first thing they do is go out to eat and drink, extravagance and waste. After the rich came to the poor's house, they did not lose heart, but faced it positively and found a lovely and sunny place from life. And began to manage money, work and think about all kinds of life. Finally, through the program, the audience clearly understand that the reason why the rich are rich depends on their positive attitude, firm will, clear concept, broad vision, and continuous efforts and persistence. If you don't understand these, even if money falls from the sky, it will come and go quickly. In my hometown, in recent years, the state has engaged in infrastructure construction, built reservoirs and built high-speed railways. Many farmers who have lived in the mountains for generations will be relocated, selling their fields and houses. Suddenly I had a lot of money in my hand, and the largest amount of compensation was tens of millions. Some bookmakers engaged in gambling saw this opportunity and opened many hidden casinos. Those farmers who suddenly had money all ran to the casino at once. In less than a year, many people lost everything and owed a lot of debt. I have a primary school classmate. His family has millions of demolition funds. So he immediately bought a big house in the city and the whole family moved in. But their family life is still no different from the original: The weather is hot, parents are reluctant to turn on the air conditioner; When I went shopping, I couldn't help moving home when I saw some good junk. Such a big house was packed full and messy in half a year. Why is that? Because although they have money, their behavior still depends on the thinking of the poor. This is just like the mismatch between dream and ability, which is doomed to pain. Knowledge and wealth do not match, so do they. two Why can't the poor get rid of the curse of poverty? After ten years of research, American economist Murray Nathan and psychologist schaffel finally found the answer: the fundamental reason why the poor can't get rid of poverty is the scarcity mentality. What is scarcity mentality? That is, "the more scarce something is, the more you care about it". For example, farmers who receive relief funds will first think of eating a big meal. Instead of investing or educating children. For another example, a person who hasn't had sex for three years, when he thinks of the opposite sex, his first thought is to go to bed. In this way, he is likely to miss the real good girl. Mullinathan said: "People's vision will become narrow due to scarcity mentality, forming a pipe view, that is, they can only see a small number of objects through the hole of the pipe, ignoring everything outside the pipe." In other words, scarcity will lead to "selective blindness" of the brain, only seeing the amount of money, but not other gains and losses. To this end, mullinathan and Shafir put forward the concept of "bandwidth". The so-called bandwidth refers to the capacity of a person's mind. If this bandwidth is often filled with a scarcity mentality, it will affect a person's cognitive ability and executive control. In India, there is a vegetable market. A large number of poor people live there. They borrow 1000 rupees a day from the rich to buy goods. After selling the vegetables, the profit is about 1100 rupees. Return 1050 rupees to the rich and earn only 50 rupees. In fact, these vendors only need to save 5 rupees a day. Relying on the compound interest effect, they can not borrow money from the rich in only 50 days. Then their income will rise sharply. Wealth is within reach, but all vendors insist on borrowing money from the rich and paying interest of 50 rupees a day to the rich. Nine years later, the rich are getting richer without work, while the poor are getting poorer with hard work. Mullinathan said: "The poor who have been in a state of scarcity for a long time will greatly reduce their judgment and cognitive ability by paying too much attention to immediate problems and have no excess bandwidth to consider investment and long-term development. They will eventually become more stupid and impulsive." In other words, when a person is poor, he will become stupid and impulsive. They will fall into such a vicious circle: Lack of money - only care about making money, become impulsive and out of control - reduce mental bandwidth - produce wrong cognition and decisions - amplify the mentality of scarcity of money - vicious circle. three How can we jump out of the thinking of the poor caused by scarcity? First: force important things into the pipeline vision. Eaton's Division said: Making plans and doing things today is for us to have a better tomorrow. The future belongs to those who make difficult decisions today. The poorer people are, the more they need to make a complete life plan for themselves. Harvard University once did a very famous research. They found a group of young people whose birth environment and IQ are not much different. Among them, 27% have no life planning, 60% have very vague life planning, 10% have short-term planning and only 3% have long-term planning. After 25 years, those who have long-term plans have almost become the top people in society; Those with short-term plans have become the middle class, such as doctors and lawyers; People with fuzzy planning live in the middle and lower levels of society and have little promise, but they especially want their children to have promise; Those who have no plan at all have become the bottom of society and complain all day. What does this survey show - different life plans have distanced everyone. Therefore, to get out of the thinking of the poor caused by scarcity, we must forcibly pull important things into the pipeline vision—— Make a clear life plan, short-term and long-term, and then realize it step by step. Second: do the most important thing, not the most urgent thing. There is an old proverb: "If the first thing you do every morning is to eat a live frog, you will be glad to find that there is nothing worse than this day." "Living frog" represents the most important task. If we don't take active action on the most important task, we may delay time and opportunities because of it. Therefore, almost all elites understand one truth: important things first. That is to put the most important thing first. Secondary things always come second, no matter how urgent. In this way, we can always grasp the key point and not be influenced by the feelings, emotions or impulses in the process. When you have made a plan, make the most important 20% of the plan first. If this part is done well, it will produce 80% results! Therefore, try to concentrate your energy and don't be torn and divided by urgent things. Third: take action. This sentence is an old saying. But it's often talked about because it's too important. Many people know the truth, but they can't live a good life. The reason is that I didn't understand it and didn't take action. You have to cheer for yourself. Be a good cheerleader. In any case, remind yourself to look at the positive side of things, and then catch up. There is a good saying: the only thing in the world that can be obtained without work is poverty, and the only thing that can be made out of nothing is dream. If you find yourself in the deep pit of "poor people's thinking", you should rise up and take action step by step. Waiting to die can never change the situation, because nothing can be achieved without doing something. Although the world is cruel, there will always be a way as long as you are willing to go; You can't see beauty because you don't stick to it.