[Recommended reading] Don't let the poverty of thoughts limit our imagination

Don't let the poverty of thought limit our imagination

——Prontinar Li Xiao's speech at the undergraduate graduation ceremony of Guangzhou Business School in 2022

Dear graduates, parents, leaders, teachers, good morning everyone!

First of all, on behalf of all the teachers of the school, I congratulate all graduates and students!

Congratulations to you for four years of hard work and exercise, walk out of campus, to society, and to a new world.

On September 8, 2018, in the early autumn, 3777 students met at No. 206, Kowloon Avenue. From the admission notice to the graduation certificate, four spring, summer, autumn and winter, a total of 1022 days. Now, you are ushered in the graduation ceremony. In this flower -like summer, you are about to embark on a new journey of life.

Classmates, in these four years of undergraduate studies, you have experienced a lot of extraordinary extraordinary.

In the past four years, you have won a lot of honors for your alma mater, and you have won dozens of national, provincial and ministerial awards; actively practicing the school motto of "seeking truth from the truth". You live a colorful university life and are hone in the process of fighting the epidemic. Someone wakes up naturally, played in the morning, can't get up in the early morning, can't get up in class, and has a class; some people are in the community to perform personal talents; some people run on the track, jump on the court; some people do scientific research in the laboratory, in the library, in the library The postgraduate postgraduate entrance examination; many students actively devoted to the volunteers of the epidemic prevention and control, serving schools, society, and glowing. The teaching buildings you have passed, the dormitory building you have lived, the canteens where you have ever been in, and the small Donghu who have been rewarded, the classmates, roommates, and teacher you met. Deep memories of life.

Due to the well -known reasons, the difficulties of the employment situation of this year's graduates have not been before the reform and opening up for more than forty years.

In my college days, this country is booming, people are full of expectations in the future, the country is full of prosperity, and the rapid improvement of the people's lives. Individuals, society and the country have stable, upward and beautiful expectations.

Since 2018, the United States has launched a trade dispute with the United States, and Sino -US relations have rapidly evolved into a comprehensive big country game. The external environment of China's economic growth has undergone tremendous changes. New changes have begun to convert from a high -speed growth stage to the low -speed growth stage. In the process, the raging of the new crown epidemic disrupted the normal rhythm of domestic economic and social life, and the outbreak of the Russian and Ukraine conflict made the "double impact" of the existing great power games and epidemic raging. This round of World War II The globalization of the opening and climax in the 1990s is ending.

All the graduates of all the graduates are facing all of this when I graduated from college. For you, this will be an important life experience. It can also be said that it will be a valuable wealth in your life. I hope that forty years later, when you think of this experience, what you have in your heart is not only thousands of emotions, but also proud and proud.

之所以说，这段经历于你们而言将成为丰富的人生经历，是因为前人的过去，不再是你们的未来，你们需要在一条充满不确定的道路上寻找确定性，通过更大、 More hard work breaks into a path of life and move towards your future.

Taking this opportunity, I will share with my graduates with my experience and thinking as my experience and thinking as an old graduate 36 years ago.

First of all, at the starting point of life selection, it is best not to follow the logic of comparative advantages, but to follow the logic of the disadvantages. Essence

Students who have studied economics should know that the comparative cost trade theory proposed by David Li Jiatu in his book "Principles of Political Economics and Taxation" has still had a huge impact on economic growth and trade in various countries around the world. Compared with the previous absolute advantage theory, this theory pointed out that international trade should be based on the relative differences of factors endowment and production technology, rather than absolute differences. Countries should focus on producing and exported products with comparative advantages. Essence In this way, every country can profit from trade and promote economic prosperity.

In my opinion, of course, the choice of life needs to know your comparative advantages, but if you want to achieve the success and happiness of life, you should not follow your own comparative advantages, but to be more disadvantaged. The prerequisite for this is to rationally aware of its own shortcomings and defects. You know, for everyone, in the innate conditions such as IQ, personality, hobbies, physical fitness, and objective environmental conditions such as family and growth process are different, and there are even great differences. Therefore, when making your own life and career choice, you should avoid the comparative disadvantages of these aspects as much as possible, instead of being cloudy, blindly following the trend, chasing fashion, hot spots and trends, blindly compared with others, or in the environment or or in the environment or the environment or the environment or Under the pressure of others, choosing a career that is not suitable for you.

Based on a relatively disadvantaged life choice, you will allow you to avoid those industries or fields that are not suitable for you at the starting point of life, allow you to have less bonds, less obstacles, to work more suitable for your own work, easier and more enjoyable Go towards the goal you identified. More importantly, the comparative disadvantage of recognition is equivalent to your ability to recognize others. In this way, you will not be jealous and annoyed because of the success of others in your own disadvantages, but you will be happy with the success of others. This will make your life more rational, peaceful, and tolerant, and has a good mentality to your life, the success of others, and the society and the world. This is one of my important life experience so far.

Secondly, don't let the poverty of thoughts limit our imagination.

In 2019, Indian economist Abigit Banneja, an Indian economist in Massachusetts Institute of Technology, won the Nobel Prize in Economics. His award stems from his occasional discovery and persistent in -depth thinking and research.

In 1983, in a chance, he found that the poor who had only one meal a day would buy a TV set to save money, instead of accumulating more food or considering making more money so that he could make himself able to make himself. Full meal. Ban Najib feels very strange. Therefore, he spent fifteen years of investigation and research in poverty -stricken areas around the world to try to figure out what was poverty. What is the essence of poverty? Finally, based on these investigations and thinking, he completed the great work "The Innovation of Poverty" and won the Nobel Prize in Economics.

He clarified a logic in this book: The reason why people fall into poverty is because the poverty of the family has caused a lifelong impact on his way of thinking and behavior. This impact makes poverty pass from generation to generation like DNA. Ban Najib proposed in the book that poor people often do not read books, or they will feel boring when they read, but they are interested in watching TV, playing games or brushing, and they are very pleasant. This shows that the poor only do short -term planning. Instead of doing long -term planning, they only seek short -term sensory happiness and pleasant satisfaction, because this instant satisfaction is far more refreshing than the effects of long -term investment in reading and learning. Therefore, they have no expectations in the future, or they are pessimistic about future expectations. His conclusion is that poverty is a dead cycle -not learning leads to poverty, leading to low cognitive ability, which leads to no learning consciousness, so you will always live in poverty ... Ban Najib's research and conclusions show people to show people to people show people to show people. The cruel nature of the poor world.

I don't know, what do you think of Ban Najib's conclusions in Ban Najib? In my opinion, the reason why he said that "poverty is a dead cycle" is that poverty is limited to people's imagination. The rapid development and rise of China's economy have basically solved the problem of material poverty. Today, I am even more worried that the poverty of thought has limited our imagination.

The progress of people is not in essence to surpass others, the core is to transcend itself, or to surpass your family, living environment, and those inherent behavior habits, and continuously improve and improve. All those who have succeeded in certain fields in human history, those who have become bright stars in the human thought sky, are all those who transcend themselves.

The important manifestation of self -self is the continuous clearness and improvement of the way of thinking, logic, and ideas, and the vision of all things in the world is constantly expanding. The reason why a person is not ahead when facing difficulties, the key is that the size of the problem and its complexity exceed your vision or vision, just like on a dark road, the horizon of your lights cannot cover the horizon that cannot cover the field of view of the lights. The same is the same as surpassing huge obstacles. If the viewing angle of the lights is wider, you will find a new way or bypass the obstacles.

Third, continue to improve the ability to learn and master your own life.

At the opening ceremony of last year, I told you at the 2021 classmates and sisters that I went to college to master two abilities: the ability to learn and the ability to cooperate. The two are indispensable.

I do n’t know how long I spent in the library in the library in four years in four years. How many books have I read in addition to textbooks?

Today, the students who are about to embark on the road of life are facing three constraints: First, Douyin, B station, WeChat is full of logical and fragmented information, and even let us live in information cocoon rooms ; The end of the world, knowing that there is no end. Two thousand and three hundred years ago, Zhuangzi told us that human life is limited, knowledge is infinite, and to pursue infinite knowledge with limited life, which is inevitable.

Therefore, the most indispensable thing for a person starting from college is to master the ability of learning, not the accumulation of knowledge. In the era of information explosion and fast knowledge update, information and knowledge are always outdated. Only when a person's life is constantly mastering and enhancing his own learning ability, can you not lag behind the times and walk with the times.

Regarding the ability of learning, I want to say three words with graduates and students present:

In the first sentence, the improvement of the ability to learn is to live a lifetime.

In the second sentence, the ability to learn is not only to master the skills of professional knowledge, but also the formation, training and training of values ​​and worldviews, and enhancement of rational and logical thinking. All skill -oriented majors and their knowledge will allow you to obtain the ability and wealth of independent life in the material world. The disciplines of literature and history and philosophy will allow you to fly freely in the spiritual world, master and enhance independent thinking, autonomy The ability to choose. The third sentence, the ability to learn is layered. Confucius has three sentences. Everyone must be familiar with: do you say it when you learn it? Have friends come from afar? Isn't it a gentleman? In the first sentence, it is rational or knowledgeable, expressing the relationship between people and the world. The second sentence is perceptual. The sublimation of a person's inner world.

Therefore, in the life of a person, the ability to learn is not plane, but three -dimensional. Only in this way can you grasp the certainty in the increasing and enlarged uncertainty, enhance your understanding of the changing world, and keep constantly constantly. Improve the understanding of the meaning of life, become a physical and mental health, adapt to the pace of the times, and take up the responsibility of the times.

I hope that all students will maintain their curiosity and exploring the world and continue to improve their learning ability.

Finally, be a person with conscience.

Everyone's individual moral standards determine the overall moral level of a society.

I hope that every classmate will be a conscience at any time in the future life and work, whether the life is successful or not, no matter whether the career is successful or not, no matter what changes in this society and the world. A person's behavior must have a bottom line. What are absolutely not to be touched and cannot be done. Everyone has a scale in their hearts, and it should not be used to achieve the purpose. I hope that the scale in the hearts of students, there are more things that carry, and the weight of the scale is heavier. This is exactly the truth of Houde and stable.

Your conscience is the conscience of this society and the conscience of this country.

In the end, I want to tell you: In four years, you used to be proud of Guangshang. From today, Guangshang will be proud of you!

I wish you all your health, happiness, and career!

thank you all!

Source: Guangzhou Business School

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