How can young people improve their horizons and get rid of the limitations of thinking?

? People often say that vision determines a person's height, but what is vision? The explanation given by Du Niang is the scope of perception, and the extension refers to the breadth of knowledge.

But in my opinion, compared with the breadth of knowledge, vision is the depth of one's view of the world. A person's vision has nothing to do with age, but with knowledge.

It doesn't mean that a person's horizons will broaden with age. An old man living in the mountains is not necessarily as knowledgeable as a child in a big city.

The deepest reason why each generation is stronger than the next is that information resources are getting richer and richer. Standing on the shoulders of their predecessors, the younger generation can take as few detours as possible, carry forward the past in known fields and open up new horizons in fresh fields.

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Family education plays a vital role in the process of vision cultivation, which is the basis of the pyramid of vision cultivation.

In the professional class, the teacher told the story of his son's investment. At that time, the little guy was still a primary school student. Because of the influence of family environment, his mother is a professor of university investment and has been familiar with stocks since she was a child. She helped her mother make a lot of money through her careful observation in primary school.

In fact, the child's idea is very simple. He doesn't understand the obscure K-line diagram and various technical elements. He just observes what toys his classmates are keen on.

At that time, yo-yo (a toy) was very popular, and every little friend in the class had one in his hand. After learning that the company is a listed company, the little guy clamored for his mother to buy a certain number of shares. Sure enough, in the next period of time, the company's share price rose steadily.

Going home after a while, the little guy hurried to the teacher to sell stocks and asked him why.

The little guy methodically analyzed: "I bought it last time because all my classmates played." Now everyone doesn't play yo-yo If no one buys it, the stock will definitely fall. "

After listening to the child, the teacher sold the stock. As the little guy expected, the company's stock began to fall shortly after the sell-off.

Of course, there are many examples of failure. But few people have a sense of involvement since childhood, which is the influence of family education on a child's vision development.

This is a cognition that it is difficult for parents to face the loess and face the sky. Of course, it doesn't mean that the countryside is absolutely bad. Similarly, it is difficult for professional teachers to intuitively describe the scenes of playing in the fields and starry nights for children.

Different giving abilities bring different horizons to a child. Childhood eyesight may not determine a person's height, but it can definitely extend a person's width.

If you are a new parent, you must work hard to improve your cognition. Don't be completely squeezed by work and ignore family education. This is an example education for your children while you are getting better.

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There is a classic question in Zhihu: What is the greatest harm that poverty brings to a person?

In my opinion, the lack of spirit is more worthy of attention than the relative lack of material.

Matthew effect says that the rich are richer and the poor are poorer. Children of the rich are more likely to become rich, and children of the poor are more likely to become poor. This cycle is hard to break.

Poverty causes most people to have too low risk-taking ability and are timid. More importantly, because they are poor, they are too narrow-minded, so it is difficult to have a long-term vision, let alone overall planning, and they will only run around for short-term profits.

The importance of education is self-evident, but there are still many people who are bound by their inherent ideas and think that what they say is right and don't listen to other people's objections.

The child of a distant relative was admitted to the university last year because she was a girl. This relative is unwilling to pay the tuition fee of only a few thousand yuan a year. It's not that she has no money at home. Only in their cognition, giving money to girls is a waste. Girls should teach each other and divide books. It is terrible that a big chicken soup like this should have such loyal supporters.

In the end, this relative only let his children go to a tuition-free normal school, and they were not allowed to go home during the summer vacation, saying that the travel expenses were too expensive, and working outside the home could also subsidize their families.

Everyone has heard the story of sitting in the well and watching the sky. Narrow-minded people are like frogs. They think that the world is as big as a wellhead, and everything beyond their cognition will instinctively resist. It can be said that summer insects talk about ice.

If you meet such parents, it is useless to complain. I'm glad her parents won't let her go home and let her work hard outside during the summer vacation. When studying abroad, don't forget to take out your dreams. If you like design, you should study. If you like writing, you should pick up a pen. You should stick to the correct cognition more than listening to your mother.

When you give up self-education, the world really gives up on you. When it comes to self-education, we have to talk about the typical trap of self-investment because of poverty-"everything is for money".

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Speaking of horizons, I can't help thinking of another question of Zhihu: How should a poor person improve his horizons?

The new main answer song provides a very enlightening answer. Mullainathan, a tenured professor at Harvard University, found that the thinking mode of the poor is close to that of people who lack time.

In scarcity: why does having too little have serious consequences? In this book, Mullainathan said that when people's attention is excessively occupied by scarce resources, it will cause the overall decline of people's cognitive and judgment quality.

When we are too poor, it is difficult to make overall plans by running around day and night to survive. There is only one thing left in the subconscious: making money.

All the disappointments are attributed to lack of money. When the work encounters a bottleneck, the first thing that comes to mind is not to find a breakthrough, learn relevant skills, and strive to break the bottleneck as soon as possible, but only to think that it is caused by lack of money.

Slowly, people's fear of having no money will monopolize their limited attention, so that more important and valuable factors are ignored, resulting in psychological anxiety, simplifying resource management, further leading to the decline of personal intelligence and judgment, and then it is more difficult to jump out of the predicament.

I don't want to tell you in the form of chicken soup that the world is fair and efforts can break class restrictions. The reality is that there may be advantages and disadvantages from the moment you are born, both materially and spiritually.

Of course, material wealth or poverty is related to the spiritual level, but it does not mean that there is an absolute positive correlation. In other words, the rich may not have a broader vision, but the poor are doomed to have a narrower vision. Only on a relative level can money really help us improve our horizons.

There is a line in Paradise Cinema: "If you don't go out for a walk, you will think that this is the world".

When I was young, I went out to have a look when I had the chance, stayed in the youth brigade and participated in some offline activities. Even if you travel badly, you will definitely have a different vision after reading the mountains and rivers.

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I wrote a part-time article, which mentioned that when I was in junior high school, I successfully earned my first bucket of gold by relying on the PS skills of Tripod Cat. Originally just to prove that hobbies can be an example for us to make a living and improve our quality of life.

I will never forget a sentence in the comment: "Brewing, you already know what PS is in junior high school. At that time, I had never even seen a computer."

I was speechless at the moment and didn't know how to deal with it. A bad family environment has a far-reaching impact on a child than we thought.

I hope that the children of distant relatives will use the summer vacation to work and experience. Chatting with brother hammer, I learned that I was about to take the postgraduate entrance examination. He said: If you have the opportunity, you must visit the first-tier cities. Your horizons are different.

Yes, in this era when everyone wants to escape from Beishangguang, I am still full of expectations for it.

After going to college, I have to admit that the comprehensive strength of children in big cities is more prominent. Even if the roommate's overall performance is much worse than his own, the gap between himself and him is the gap in spoken English.

The poor are increasingly unable to get rid of the fate of poverty, not because they don't work hard, but because of their limited resources, limited education, limited medical care and so on.

When people at the top earn high fees by selling information and building platforms, people at the bottom can only exchange time for cheap returns.

Similarly, short-sighted people tear their faces for petty profits, but turn a blind eye to their own important things and can't see real benefits in the short term. And a wise man with a long-term vision will definitely look at everything in front of him in the long run.

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Seeing this, don't feel that your life is over, let alone be pessimistic. Having said that, I don't want to emphasize that childhood poverty is doomed to be hard to change all our lives.

I just want to tell you a reality, there is no reason to escape, and the moment I accept it frankly is the prelude to your transformation.

Family education is the foundation and self-education is the key. When the former is insufficient, we should increase our investment in ourselves.

Now that the Internet is so developed, you can learn the latest information with a click of the mouse, and you can listen to the lectures of famous teachers for tens or hundreds of dollars. As long as you are willing to change, there is a way to go.

Reading has also become a common people. If you want, you can pick up a classic book for tens of dollars and savor it. The books you have read, the roads you have traveled and the people you have seen flow through your body.

If you read more books, you will naturally have more calm and less anxiety. With more knowledge, I naturally feel more calm and less confused.

Besides reading and traveling, chatting with people in different fields is also a good choice. In fact, there are many ways to broaden your horizons. When you open your heart and start to look at everything in this world with an inclusive attitude, you can still shake hands with the whole world without blindly defining, being arrogant and feeling inferior.

By that time, when you look back, your eyesight has improved a lot. May you and I both become better selves.