The ability to learn at all three levels of society.
As a social person, whether it is basic survival or development needs, it is inseparable from learning. Learning is a kind of ability, we call this ability "learning ability", let's analyze the learning ability of the three social strata.
Grassroots society
Dead reading
In order to survive, the grassroots society must learn a skill, so the grassroots society has been instilled with this concept since childhood: "Studying is to find a good job in the future." "In this way, there is no fun in reading, what if there is no fun? Therefore, the grassroots society also believes in a saying: "There is a road and a diligent path in the book mountain, and there is no end to the hard work of learning the sea." I don't know how many people have been harmed by this sentence! This sentence is to tell the world that learning is hard, learning is tiring, but if you want to survive, you must learn. There are also bitter children from very poor families, who study hard in order to change their fate. As the saying goes: "There is nothing difficult in the world, only afraid of those who have a heart." "As long as you study hard, there is no homework that you can't learn, but those hard-working children who have succeeded in learning have fatal flaws, because they have a utilitarian heart to study, so they can't help but be tempted after success. Some of them are in politics, and some of them are senior workers in enterprises, which we call "corporate executives". They have a chance to control their resources, so they become wild horses, and the long-suppressed possessiveness finally explodes, and they are out of control, and they begin to demand ill-gotten income. The Anti-Corruption Bureau traced back to the source, and traced to the end, those * officials, as well as unscrupulous corporate executives, turned out to be from a bitter child, and the real roots were just seedlings. This is the evil result of hard study, there is a saying that "you start with this, and you must end with this." "When a man reads for desire, he will surely fall for desire. They don't sit in leadership positions*, their possessiveness is formed from the very beginning in young minds. In the end, they were still imprisoned, and the next generation is still poor, so dying and studying cannot change people's social class, nor can they change people's fate, which is something that grassroots society must reflect.
Middle class
Read the dead book.
It is worth affirming that the middle class is more focused on learning. Because if their business wants to develop, they must learn themselves, but they can't find a good book, because now the books can be said to be full of everything, how to talk about everything. Even the content of a person's lecture notes and the content of a book can be inconsistent, and these contradictions seem to be very reasonable, making the middle class at a loss. Because they really can't find books to read, some people in the middle class simply don't read, and it's nonsense to say that what is written in the books. But then they found out that it is not possible not to read, and refusing to read is equivalent to closing the door to the world, and they can only do it behind closed doors, and the consequences of reading are confusing. The trade-offs are really a headache for the middle class. In fact, what the middle class lacks is not the attitude of learning or self-motivation, but the method of discernment. As long as there is a book in the world that can be published on the market, there is some truth to it. A person, as long as he is called an expert, what he says is definitely not complete nonsense. However, the middle-class society needs to integrate these concepts, take the essence of them, remove the dross, and summarize their own knowledge system according to the characteristics of their own enterprises. The "essence" mentioned here is not a one-size-fits-all truth, but a truth that is suitable for your business itself. The "dross" mentioned here is not a useless statement, but a statement that is not suitable for your business. What you think is the "essence" may not be applicable to other companies, and what you think is "dross" may happen to be the success stories of other companies, but it is not suitable for you. If we want to develop, we must have the ability to analyze, find certain rules in the complex things, and summarize the truth that suits us, which is the way of development. Therefore, it is advisable for many companies to invite experts to tailor their development strategies according to their own conditions. But I would like to say: "The best expert is yourself, because only you know your business better, and outsiders can only help you for a while, not for a lifetime." "Therefore, it is useless to read dead books, we have to live and learn to use them.
High Society
Learn anytime, anywhere.
Many people don't understand people in the upper echelons of society, and think that they are lazy people, because they are always good swimmers, either going to climb mountains or playing golf, in short, they are rarely seen reading. In fact, the real knowledge is not all in the book, if an entrepreneur plunges headlong into the book, the business is absolutely doomed, let alone what industry leader he is. We see Zhuge Liang's reading called "viewing its outline", there is actually a lot of nonsense in a book, and some authors add all the clichés in order to complete the book, in order to sell a few more pages. But no matter how much nonsense there is in the book, the title and table of contents are not nonsense, right? If a book even has a title and table of contents, then there is no need to publish it at all, the author just uses the title to attract you, and you see such a powerful title! So I had the urge to read, but I didn't expect to read it for a long time is nonsense, and your time will be consumed in vain, and life is made up of time, if you don't do anything else in your life, and use it specifically to read those pages of nonsense, then your life will soon pass. Zhuge Liang understands this truth, so when reading a book, you must first look at its outline, a good title is not necessarily a good content, so Zhuge Liang will look at the content again, if the content is indeed very exciting, Zhuge Liang will never "look at its outline". Therefore, the concept of "looking at the big picture" has also misled many people, if all the books can look at the big picture, then I don't think the world needs to publish books, just publish articles. The concept of "looking at its strategy" is not to make people not good at reading, but to tell everyone that there are too few good books in the world, so we must read selectively, and the high-level society understands this truth. However, if you want to "look at the big picture", you must have the ability to distinguish and choose, which is exactly what the middle class society does not have, so the middle class society either reads a book and is made dark, or the book cannot grasp the key point, which is what the middle class must reflect.
When we see that the high-level society often goes to play golf, we say that the high-level society is not doing its job, and when we see the high-level society, they must take first class when they take a plane, and we say that the high-level society is wasting money, but this is not true. The reason why golf is very expensive is not because of how fun golf is, but because most of the people who play golf are key people from all walks of life, which is called "drunkards don't mean to drink", they take the opportunity to play golf to exchange information, exchange experience, and learn from each other. And the people who fly in the first class of the plane are by no means ordinary people, so they will exchange business cards to improve the quality of their circle of friends. The reason why the high-level society does this is because they understand a truth: only the face-to-face communication and learning of top people can get first-hand information, learn the most cutting-edge ideas, and get rapid improvement from each other.
Books, just play an auxiliary role, the real perception is your own, after learning must be precipitated, precipitation will have a feeling, this perception can be from a red leaf, a river of autumn water, the vast Bohai Sea, Yin Yin starlight, urgent ants, slow stream. Therefore, people in high-level society often travel to the mountains and rivers, in fact, the purpose is to make themselves transcendent and have some understanding. Learning in the upper echelons of society is anytime, anywhere, because they are more focused on spiritual enlightenment. You see that the leader Chairman Mao loves to write poetry, and his pattern is very large, and it is this pattern that has made a generation of great men. Many perceptions are often in the ten thousand kinds of frost days, in the original Chi wax figures, in the afterglow of the grass and trees, in the wind through the leaves, it depends on whether you can grasp the moment of perception, so that your cognition of things has a "qualitative" improvement.