Staying curious will benefit you throughout your life

Curiosity killed the cat!

You are too curious!

These Internet buzzwords and reproachful advice seem to send us a message that curiosity is not a good thing, and it is enough to take care of your own affairs.

Many years ago, when Taobao’s C2C personal online store just started, very few people knew about Taobao. Some people felt that this was relatively new and they occasionally tried it, but the early system was really not satisfactory enough. , not to mention the shopping experience, most people criticize it, and even more people promote it as selling fake products.

In fact, these situations existed, but the infrastructure and supporting supervision at the time could not do anything about it.

In such an environment, a young man who ran a street stall that I knew in my life became very curious about this. He told the street vendors in the market that he wanted to open a Taobao store selling cultural and entertainment jewelry.

Many people were a little disdainful and warned him with concern to do what they were doing! Don’t be too curious! Be careful of scamming you out of money. . . Others are silently waiting for the joke to happen. Living in a low-level business environment, there are many such people.

Then he started to work, slowly learning how to operate the backend, how to open online banking, and how to take photos. . .

After two months of hard work, he finally built a store for him. Although the photography and picture skills now seem to be poor, he can still see clearly. I remember that the first time he received an order was 20 days after opening the store. Only people who start a business can understand the excitement and happiness.

Many years later, in China’s cultural and entertainment jewelry e-commerce industry, Donghai, Guangzhou, Fujian, and Hangzhou basically accounted for all the market share. However, Chengdu in the southwest occupied the market even though it had no resources. They have occupied a small share of this industry, and some categories are doing pretty well. What’s strange is that these online stores are all concentrated in the cultural and entertainment market.

Yes, this market is the same market where the young man who set up the street stall used to be. He learned it on his own, made money, and taught many people in the market. There are dozens of online stores in a small second-tier city cultural and entertainment market. He also taught me the Tmall store I later opened.

In 2014, he bought a 130-square-meter house in Chengdu with full payment, and an office building of more than 100 square meters in Tianfu New District to invest in fixed assets. The online store business is also doing very well.

This is the most real case that happened to me, and it is also a successful case of a small person's counterattack. Many people who laughed at him many years ago later followed him and made a lot of money.

In 2011, teacher Li Xiaolai saw a message about Bitcoin on Twitter. His curiosity led him to delve into a series of knowledge about Bitcoin, and finally bought a large amount of Bitcoin when the price was low. Buying, now everyone knows the price of Bitcoin, which has also allowed his assets to increase thousands of times in a few years.

At the same time, he has become a famous investor and industry leader in the blockchain industry.

These two real cases tell us that people should maintain a certain degree of curiosity when dealing with new things. Don’t reject them first, but learn more about the specific situation. Sometimes a small choice will change you. life. In fact, everyone now understands this truth, because many bloody lessons tell us that when an opportunity passes you by, if you don’t use your heart to understand and seize it, if you miss it, you will really miss it, and you will never get it back. go!

But attention is scarce, and I don’t want to waste my limited attention on things that I feel are useless.

Here I would like to give you some advice. As long as the information comes to you about anything related to money, the less you understand, the more you need to understand it. You don’t understand, and most likely ordinary people don’t understand either. In this world, there are always a few people making a lot of money. Many people will turn a blind eye to what they see and are too lazy to understand it. They also like to draw conclusions and wait for the day when the news media reports that something has multiplied many times or that someone became rich because of something. He often pats his thigh. I have known this for many years. Why! How it should be at that time. . .

This kind of tragedy often happens, and I am actually a victim of it. . .

When I purchased goods in Shenzhen this year, a customer asked for direct shipment to him in Shenzhen. I did a small test. When sending the express, I asked SF Express and ZTO respectively. The two guys on the express delivery had the same two questions:

Me: Handsome guy, do you know Bitcoin?

SF Express: I know, the price has risen very fiercely recently. I knew this a few years ago.

Me: Do you know about blockchain?

SF Express: I don’t know about this!

Me: Handsome guy, do you know Bitcoin?

Zhongtong: Oh! I know, it’s that virtual currency that’s used to make money.

Me: Do you know about blockchain?

ZTO: What chain?

Me: Oh, it’s nothing

After they left, I wiped my chest and felt relieved. This industry still has a few years to reach its peak!

Yes, the difference between people is that after receiving the same information, they will have completely different opinions. If you explain the future prospects of Bitcoin to a handsome man from SF Express, he may tell you that I bought it a few years ago. It is so expensive now and the price will definitely drop.

If you tell the handsome guy from ZTO about Bitcoin and blockchain, I guess he won’t dare to come to your house to receive goods next time, for fear of being cheated by you, hahaha!

There is no discriminatory meaning here, I just want to show that everyone’s perception of the same thing is very different. And many people generally choose to ignore it when they don’t see a living person they trust doing it. It's okay to ignore it, but many people still need to draw conclusions to prove that they know the matter. This is also a manifestation of lack of curiosity. Lack of curiosity can also be regarded as laziness in thinking. It's scary to imagine a person with very diligent limbs and stagnant thinking. Teacher Li Xiaolai said, this is a giant baby, very scary.

And what’s even more frightening is that when the living people around you do it, and you eagerly participate in it, there is a high probability that you will be the harvested part of the people, commonly known as the receivers. Because a living person who can be friends with you and trust each other is most likely a person with lazy thinking. He has already come in to make money. If you go back and don't harvest you, what is the law of heaven?

You really need to be curious, and your curiosity about money and knowledge must be even stronger.

Stay curious and don’t jump to conclusions yet. After all, practice is the shortcut to wealth and freedom.

I am Yang Xi, a blockchain value investor and an entrepreneur in the blockchain industry. The industries we are engaged in are mainly software demolition and quantitative trading. If you are interested, you can join Our arbitrage learning and exchange group is a potential arbitrage method in the future blockchain. You need to stay curious about new things, and it is also related to money!

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