Repost a reader's article: People who don't know how to learn are being eliminated by the times
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Not long ago, an EETALK was launched in the forum: Do engineers also have a mid-life crisis? How to get through it? A few days ago, Guan Guan saw a reader article: 36-year-old laid-off toll collector crying and 83-year-old grandmother applying for a job at Alibaba: People who don’t know how to learn are being eliminated by the times. Guan Guan was very moved. The saying "live and learn" is really not only an incentive, but also a practical need. Here is a forwarded article for everyone to read: 36-year-old laid-off toll collector crying and 83-year-old grandmother applying for a job at Alibaba: People who don’t know how to learn are being eliminated by the times Author | Guo Xue Some time ago, there were two news that swept the screen. A piece of news is that the local government of Tangshan City, Hebei Province has cancelled all the local road and bridge toll stations. The previous toll station staff are also facing layoffs, so they went to the relevant leaders to seek an explanation. Among this group of laid-off workers, a 36-year-old woman said: "I am 36 this year. I have spent all my youth on collecting fees. Now I don’t know how to do anything. No one likes me and I can’t learn anything."
I don’t know how to do anything except collecting fees, this sentence has been strongly discussed on the Internet. Another piece of news is that Alibaba is recruiting senior product experiencers with an annual salary of 400,000 yuan, and the age requirement is over 60 years old. After the recruitment was completed, the first batch of 10 grandpas and aunts who applied for the positions participated in an offline communication meeting. Among them, the 83-year-old Tsinghua scholar grandmother is the square dance KOL (opinion leader) of more than a dozen groups and often organizes some offline activities. The 62-year-old Zeng Dazai directly took out the PPT he made. He is also proficient in Photoshop…
Young netizens said: "Directly crush me who is in my twenties and still using Meitu XiuXiu." On one side, grandpa and aunt in their sixties and seventies showed off their talents, on the other side, a 36-year-old female toll collector cried that she was too old to learn new things and could do nothing but collect tolls. Comparing the two pieces of news, it is not difficult to draw a conclusion - People who do not know how to learn are being eliminated by this era. Have the ability to learn at any time If you don’t want to be replaced, you must have the ability to learn anytime, anywhere. In the German city of Siebich, there was an old lady named Johanna Max who was a household name. In 1994, after six years of hard study, 70-year-old Johanna Marks obtained a master's degree in education from the University of Cologne with excellent results. Nine years later, 79-year-old Johanna Marks completed her 200-page doctoral thesis, the title of which is: How to spend your old age in peace - learning makes the elderly always full of vitality. Before that, she was just an ordinary clerk. After retirement, she was dissatisfied with the status quo, so she signed up for a French class. Later, she had the idea of going to college. In her third year, she learned how to use a computer with great difficulty and completed all the credits. After graduating with a doctorate, Johanna Marks appeared on Divorek's talk show and became a household name in Germany. No one would have thought that a retired old lady would reach the peak of her life at the age of 80. According to statistics: in the past 10 years, the total amount of human knowledge has exceeded the total of the previous 2000 years. and it is still developing at an exponential rate. For example: if an authoritative scholar in an industry does not learn new knowledge for three years, then three years later, it will be almost impossible for him to understand a cutting-edge doctoral thesis in the industry. Stability often brings a disadvantage. It makes people lose their fighting spirit, just like a frog in warm water, not daring to take the initiative to make changes. Once change comes, they will inevitably fall into passivity and even be eliminated. Developing the ability to learn anytime and anywhere is a chip to break this dull and lifeless stability. It is a kind of vertical self-improvement, and at the same time, it is a kind of enrichment of one's life in the horizontal direction. No one can spend their whole life just relying on the knowledge they learned in school. In fact, only about 20% of the knowledge a person learned in school can be used in his future work. No one should jump to the conclusion that "they are too old to study" or "they have the will but not the strength" too early. In Through the Looking Glass by British writer Lewis Carroll, there is a sentence in which the Red Queen said to Alice: “You have to keep running to stay where you are.” Biologist Leigh Van Valen borrowed this sentence and proposed the famous "Red Queen Hypothesis" in 1973, which pointed out the law of survival in nature: No progress means regression, and stagnation means extinction. Academician Pan Jianwei, chief scientist of the "Mozi" quantum science experimental satellite, met an old lady in a wheelchair in a small town in the Alps during a visit to Europe. Then they had a very interesting conversation: Old lady: What do you do? Pan Jianwei: I study quantum physics. Old lady: Which aspect of quantum physics do you study? Pan Jianwei: Quantum information, quantum state teleportation. Old lady: I have read the article you published in Nature.
Pan Jianwei was very surprised after hearing this. He was moved. In such an information-blocked place, an octogenarian still maintained a strong interest in the world's most cutting-edge science. This spirit of lifelong learning is truly admirable. Learning should be something that a person does throughout his life. No matter what industry you are in, no matter how old you are, whether you are willing or not. Maintain your core competitiveness I have seen a paragraph on the Internet before: A man was arrested for smuggling. He refused to reveal the location of the goods and was sentenced to 20 years. 20 years later, he was released. He took his brothers to the suburbs and found the place where the goods were buried. A group of people dug for a long time and found a big box. The man said excitedly: Once this batch of goods is sold, we will have money. These years of hard work have not been in vain. Finally, the box was opened and it was full of BB machines.
In fact, we can not regard it as a joke. It illustrates a simple truth: when a thing is eliminated or a person falls behind, it must be because this thing or this person has lost their core competitiveness. In early 2007, Apple, founded by Steve Jobs, released the first generation of iPhone. Nokia engineers got the prototype at the first time, but they were not interested in this new phone because the touch screen technology that Apple was proud of was originally a patent of Nokia. At that time, a classic Nokia model had sold 200 million units worldwide. Faced with huge profits, Nokia had no motivation to create a technological product that would revolutionize the era. As a result, within a few years, Nokia, once the industry leader, collapsed overnight. Apple has become the company with the highest market value in the world. Many people have asked a question, what is core competitiveness? There is a very vivid explanation: If the probability that you have a certain ability in the crowd is 10%, this ability itself has value and can be called competitiveness; but if you also have another ability, and the proportion of people with this ability in the crowd is also 10%, and your two abilities are independent of each other, then the probability of people having these two abilities is 10%*10%=1%. This is the meaning of core competitiveness. What really makes you different and stand out is that you are different in a certain field or from a certain perspective, that you have unique insights that most people do not have on a certain thing, and that you are different from others. It is not just saying that you are excellent or hardworking. It is meaningless to put an excellent person in a group of excellent people. If this excellent person also has other qualities that others do not have, then this person will stand out. Why do many beautiful women always have a boyfriend who has no money, is ugly and short? You will find that these boys are either humorous, considerate, or careful and kind - In short, they must have their own unique qualities. Therefore, what we need to do is to find areas that others have neglected, seize favorable positions through our own efforts, and clear the key links in them; at the same time, we must continue to dig deep into the parts we are good at and form our own core competitiveness, so that you have the possibility to stand out. Only by continuous learning can you have the last laugh When AlphaGo defeated Ke Jie, the top human Go player, many people sighed: humans will soon be replaced by machines. But it didn’t take long for AlphaGo to be defeated, and it was defeated miserably with a score of 100:0. It was AlphaGo Zero, the upgraded version that kept learning, that defeated it. The ones who can really laugh last are those who keep learning, improving and perfecting themselves. "36 years old, how old is that? It's pitiful that you give up on yourself at such a young age, but it also proves the saying that there must be something hateful about pitiful people. You don't need to ask anyone for help. In the end, you can only rely on yourself." A colleague of mine sighed. The 36-year-old toll booth lady's situation is certainly sympathetic, but people do not live on sympathy. Refusing to learn, refusing to accept new knowledge, refusing to embrace new trends, in the end, no matter what kind of hardship and necessity there is, the result is the same, that is, being ruthlessly eliminated by this society. Because no one can change you except yourself.
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