The story of plumbing: becoming a plumber in your life

Before I start reading this book, I want to ask you a question.

There is a clear river near the village. In order to get water conveniently, the villagers built a huge reservoir in the square, but the water in the reservoir needed to be transported from the river.

At this point, there are two jobs in front of you. One is to use barrels of canal water and pay you according to the price of each barrel. The other is to build a pipeline leading to the reservoir by the river.

Which would you choose, the bucket or the pipe?

Smart people will choose the latter. However, when this matter is put into life, many people fall into the strange circle of carrying buckets.

This is a multiple-choice life question put forward by the author baker Hargis in The Story of the Pipeline. This is a book to help you solve your financial difficulties and a free guide to jump out of the trap of life.

The scene depicted by Pipeline's life is very similar to an old saying of China: Take advantage of the fishermen. In the right place, take some time and do the right thing. Success is like water in a pipe, which keeps coming to us.

But the reality is that most of us live in the world of carrying buckets.

From birth, parents told us that if we want to get into a good school and find a good job, it is best to have an iron rice bowl. We grow up according to this model, become parents, and then pass this truth on to our children.

We are like mice running on wheels, spinning in the world of carrying barrels.

Having said that, what is the mode of carrying barrels? The simplest understanding is to exchange time for money. On the other hand, as long as you stop and don't pay time, you won't get the money naturally.

People in the fighting world practice the equivalent exchange of time and money, and sell a piece of time for a piece of money with the same value.

There is an old teacher around me who works hard all his life and lives on his salary. When I was nearing retirement, I finally saved 200,000 to 300,000, thinking that I could finally enjoy my life after retirement. As a result, his daughter called to buy a suite, which almost emptied all his savings, and the only thing he could do was to expect his salary to rise a little and then a little. Later, in his fifties, he took classes at school during the day and worked part-time in training classes at night. Not to mention his meager income, he is already very tired.

This old teacher is the man who carried the bucket. I want to sell it every time, but time is limited. 24 hours a day, 1440 minutes, neither more nor less.

Looking around, how many people live like this old teacher?

Perhaps you will retort that the old teacher is down and out because his income is not much and the bucket he carries is too small.

This is also a misunderstanding in the bucket world.

The reason why I don't live well enough is that the income of this job is not high. I can do a lot of work at the same time, or I can find a job with a higher salary.

However, people are not easily satisfied creatures. If you have a car, you want a house. If you have a house, you need tickets. If you have all these, you want something better. How many people are willing to live for more than 1000 with a salary of 10000?

The bucket cannot be filled with water automatically, and the water in the bucket will eventually dry up. Either lose your job, shorten your life or lose your health.

The wealth of a wise man is not accumulated by selling a time. What brings them wealth is the water flowing out of the pipeline.

Compared with carrying a bucket, the mode of pipeline is a mode of exchanging more money at one time. Even if we stop to have a rest, we can keep creating more money at this time.

How to understand the difference between a bucket and a pipe?

Take writing as an example. Write an article, then submit it and get the payment. This is a bucket. Write a book, then publish it and earn money. This is the pipe. The former has nothing to do with the author after the article is sold, but the latter can earn multiple rewards by printing and spreading books.

Your pipeline is your lifeline. This is the wise saying that the author's father taught his son.

This father used to be one of the richest people in Cuba. His wealth at that time exceeded $20 million, equivalent to $200 million today. At the same time, he also owns 65,438+02 different enterprises.

Father's achievement tells the young baker Haggis a truth: a pipeline is a lifeline, and the more lifelines, the better.

The reason why the pipeline is so powerful stems from the mysterious distance behind it-lever.

Archimedes, an ancient Greek physicist, said, Give me a fulcrum and I can move the whole earth.

This is the best interpretation of the lever principle.

In the pipeline mode, when we skillfully use the lever principle, although we make the same efforts as those who carry barrels, the result is hundreds, thousands or even tens of millions of times that of them.

How to maximize the effectiveness of leverage? We can look at this problem from two dimensions: time and money.

There is an old Appalachian proverb that there are two ways to stand on the top of a tall oak tree. One is to sit on the oak seed and wait, and the other is to climb up.

The former is a money lever, and the latter is a time lever.

Einstein made compound interest the eighth wonder of the world. There is another interesting story about compound interest.

Indian King Shehan decided to reward Sass Bandal, the prime minister who invented chess, and asked the prime minister what he wanted. The Prime Minister glanced at the chessboard and replied, "Give me/kloc-0 in the chessboard 1 box, 2 in the second box and 4 in the third box. After that, each grid is twice as large as the previous grid, and it is good to fill in 64 grids. "

So she Hanwang ordered people to bring wheat and put it on the chessboard. Slowly, the king found that even if he brought all the wheat in the world, he could not meet the needs of the prime minister.

Currency leverage is about the role of compound interest.

Once, I got my salary, which was first used to pay off various debts, and the rest was used to ensure my daily living expenses. In the end, the rest was saved in the card or invested. However, there is often nothing left in the end.

The premise of using money leverage correctly is to get rid of this wrong concept of financial management and learn to manage your own money.

Pay yourself in advance for the use of a sum of money. Use this money for investment and leave the rest to time.

What is a time lever? Hiring employees and spending money on other people's time to create income for themselves is a typical example of time leverage.

Time is fair to everyone, what matters is how you use it. People who spend seven hours watching TV after work every day have a completely different quality of life from those who spend two hours improving themselves every day.

There is a joke that a person stands in front of the French window on the 30th floor of a luxury hotel, ready to enjoy the scenery in front of him. Just then, he saw a man fall from the window.

"What's the matter with you?" He asked the man who fell.

"Good ... so far." The man replied.

People who only know the status quo and wander around in comfortable circles can hardly enjoy the wealth brought by time.

Remember that sentence, it's going to suck? Time is money. Although it is a cliche, it is the biggest secret of acquiring wealth.

Effectively using and creating more spare time is the key for those successful people to get more returns.

Fortunately, we live in a golden age of rapid development of the Internet. People fully enjoy the dividend brought by compound interest because of network connection and network.

This is electronic compound interest, which is also called the ultimate channel by the author. Here, we can make time and relationships give full play to the role of compound interest and bring us rich returns.

So, how does electronic compound interest work? In short, the operation of this ultimate channel is that you form a cooperative relationship with a stable e-commerce website, you are responsible for attracting customers, and the platform is responsible for providing technology.

Let's take writing for example. In the era of knowledge payment, online courses are the best example of using electronic compound interest model.

The writer is responsible for providing the course content and the platform provides technical support. The result is destined to be a win-win situation. You have gained a fan base and the platform has benefited.

This big era, called Internet Big Data, provides each of us with the opportunity of wealth freedom. The key is to see if you can jump out of the thinking cycle of the bucket world, be a person who is always ready, and strive to seize every opportunity and establish your own resource pipeline.

Don't be bound by your own thinking, because thinking is a wall that limits us.

If you are still curious about the other side of the wall, if you haven't lost your yearning for a free life, then you must become a pipeline builder. Remember, the pipeline is the lifeline.