In the past few days, various circles of friends have been swiped by Xiaomi’s 10th anniversary speeches. I feel a lot. Some of the content seems to wake up the dreamer with a single word, which makes me feel like I am suddenly thinking about the value of life.
Is success equal to value?
Many people like to say the word success, and what most people call success now seems to be judged by temporarily visible power, wealth and status.
However, can existing power, wealth and status prove success? Maybe it is.
But can this so-called success be equivalent to his value? I think it must not be!
personal value
What value is can be divided into personal value and social value. The success judged by the current wealth status may be a kind of personal value. The personal value I understand is the value to oneself.
One's own value is judged by oneself, and the value of society needs to be judged by society.
Some people don’t need to think about the meaning of life or the value of life throughout their lives. It is best to let the flow go.
And some people are always looking for the value of life, always thinking, always summing up, always exploring, and always correcting.
To seek or not to seek is dictated by the attitude of life, and is related to talents, experience, and education.
Social value
To live, you need to find a way to continue to live, so people need to work, and the rewards for work should be regarded as a manifestation of personal value.
Some jobs and some professions are born to realize personal value while having more social value than others, such as teachers and doctors.
This kind of profession, teaching and educating people, saving lives and healing, especially teachers, all affect other people in batches. This kind of value itself cannot be measured by salary!
A teacher with a monthly salary of 4000, and a manager with an annual salary of one million, usually I think that the social value and overall value of this teacher must be greater.
Even though the manager may be a celebrity, or may even leave marks on some media or books, the teacher is unknown.
In this way, the value of the teacher must be greater than the others, and naturally it is not.
Some big bosses use their abilities, connections and wisdom to create many employment opportunities for the society and change the lives of many people who know or do not know. The people he directly or indirectly affects may be far greater than a teacher People affected.
So what I want to say is that the social value of a person should not lie in how high he is, how much power he has, how much wealth he has, or what occupation he engages in, but what he has. How many people were affected in the end!
Cousin
There are many friends and relatives around me, including doctors and masters, hundreds of millions of bosses, factory workers, teachers and doctors, and so on.
Among these people, there are many people who directly and indirectly influence and help me, and I am very grateful to them.
But if I want to pick the one that has the greatest impact on my outlook on life and values, I think it must be my cousin Yang Jichang. I usually call him "Brother Chang".
From the perspective of so many relatives and friends, he actually seems very ordinary and inconspicuous. He is just an ordinary factory worker, not an expensive boss, a teacher of soul work, or a healer who saves the wounded. Among the deeds I know, he must have produced the most value to others among relatives and friends, and many of the values themselves cannot be calculated with money.
In Dongguan, he runs second-hand housing rental after work. In the same village, town, and even county, many acquaintances and relatives often choose to settle there when they go out to work, especially many parents who have just come out of school and are in the countryside. Not at ease, but even more willing to ask him for help.
Going to him can not only solve the housing problem with confidence, but he will also enthusiastically help find a job or contact other relatives and friends.
That's it, it seems to be nothing, but it is true that many people who are richer and more advanced than him can't do it!
It is such a person who sometimes speaks too straightforwardly, which can make people uncomfortable at the time. But this is such a person. Many of his very wealthy classmates and some of our very wealthy relatives are simply willing to spend time with him. This is not without reason.
My value
I often hear some friends and relatives say how much money they have, or how many great connections they have, or how many houses they have.
It must be admitted that this is indeed a value!
Wealth, status, and connections are, to a certain extent, one of the conditions and foundations for influencing others.
However, these are only one of the conditions and foundations. If you have these, but only have an impact on yourself or at most, your family, and you are unwilling to help other people, then the value of these things is only equivalent to the impact. The value of these people is nothing.
People are flesh-and-blood animals, have blood relations, and have distant and close relatives, so I have always advocated that the importance of actual relationships is hierarchical.
Family members, brothers, relatives, and friends have different relationships, and their value to them is also different.
To exchange work for remuneration and to improve family conditions and environment is the value to my family and my most important value. Therefore, it is the responsibility and mission to continuously improve my ability, find opportunities, and obtain more remuneration.
Providing convenience with wealth and opportunities with contacts can help brothers, relatives and friends. This is the value to relatives and friends. Therefore, on the basis of obtaining more labor compensation, continuous maintenance and expansion of contacts also has social value that is difficult to measure. .
The value of writing
These values above all affect people in a small area around them, and may also be things that most people can and actually do.
And one thing, I think the value is much more than that, and that is writing.
I have always insisted on writing a blog, focusing on technology, and there will be various life thinking and summary.
One sentence that people often ask me is: "What's the use of this? Is this rich?"
I used to answer that this is just to make notes and memos by myself. In fact, many bloggers may also have the purpose in the beginning. such.
But now that I think about it, the significance of this matter is actually very great, but this meaning and value cannot be directly fed back in the form of money.
The same is going to work, the same is writing code, with the same salary, and living the same time, it looks like everyone is the same.
Maybe someone else’s salary is much higher than mine, and it looks more valuable than me.
In fact, from the point of view of personal value, this is indeed the case.
However, I have clearly expressed my experience, summary and thinking. If one person sees it, I will affect one more person. If 10,000 people have seen it, I may have affected 10,000 people. The intangible social value produced cannot be compared or measured.
Therefore, the value of blogs may be small for individuals, or even invisible at all, but for social values, they must exist. Even though I am no longer a person, those words are still circulating.
Even if no one knows whose speech it is, no one knows who it is, but as long as the actual value exists, what does it matter?
Regarding sharing, I think it must be to help others to sublimate myself, so why not be afraid of the church apprentice starving to death the master!
Ali has a dream, so that there is no difficult business in the world;
Xiaomi has a dream, so that everyone in the world can use mobile phones well;
I also have a dream, he hides in my heart!