"Li, why do you lay out so many industries and carry out so many businesses? Why can you do anything? "
Li Ka-shing said:
"In fact, in doing business, you must remember that there must always be one thing at hand. Even if the sky falls, you will still make money."
Like the Black Swan in COVID-19 now, all localities often close down, business is difficult to do, and enterprises are laid off, but the money that should be spent still needs to be spent, and the loan that should be repaid still needs to be paid. What should you do?
At this time, let's review Li Ka-shing's answer: "Even if the sky falls, there must always be business in hand to make money."
Indeed, we happen to have a saying: one trick eats all over the sky.
It is necessary for us to have a skill that can make a living at any time. This is your ability to settle down.
1. Why do you have such a skill?
Take myself for example. In my early days as an e-commerce, Taobao's business was good, but at the same time, new opportunities emerged, such as Tmall, JD.COM, Pinduoduo, AliExpress, Amazon and micro-e-commerce. These platforms have just emerged, and they are all blue oceans. As long as you do it, you can make money with great probability.
I didn't do it. My idea at that time was: what if I went to build a new platform and distracted my energy, and now the store business is declining and I can't do it anymore?
Later I decided that it was fear that bound my hands and feet.
If I have a skill, everyone can make a living when the sky falls.
Maybe you will let go of your fist and try new opportunities.
Because the children of poor families are poor, the fault tolerance rate is low. When they see a life-saving straw, they will cling to it and miss more and greater opportunities.
It is even more necessary to cultivate the skills of earning a living as soon as possible, which can be English, dancing, painting, writing, marketing, making baked cakes, making videos, holding weddings and so on.
In heaven, Ouyang Xue, why did she dare to be the CEO of metrical poetry company? Facing the lawsuit of powerful competitors, she dared to accept the withdrawal of shares from Liu Bing, Feng Shijie, Ye Xiaoming and others, because she could open a restaurant, but she could only open a restaurant.
A phrase that often hangs on my lips is "I will go back to open a restaurant if it is a big deal."
This is a lesson I learned from my own experience. Must have, the sooner the better, so as to properly overcome some birth defects of the poor.
2. What's the difference between making a living and hobbies?
The skill of earning a living literally means the skill of earning a living.
Based on this, you will have a strong motivation. In order to survive, you will want to do better and better, because nothing is more important than survival.
The second point is the skill of making a living. You will use validation in your goals, life and work. You can see the gap between desire and reality, and you will have enough motivation to make up for these gaps. So you have entered a positive feedback loop, which is getting more and more refined.
And if you just study as a hobby and don't use the scene often, you will do whatever you want and finally give up halfway.
3. Why not one?
In Gladwell's Alien, the 10,000-hour law is mentioned: if a person wants to be an expert in a certain field successfully or become a world-famous celebrity, then he needs to stick to one thing he is focused on for at least 10,000 hours.
If a person wants to be profound in a certain field, he must at least practice in this field for enough time.
And a person's time and energy are limited, so it is impossible to be profound in many aspects, especially for us ordinary people.
So if you want to make a living and make money with it, you need to do one thing well in a period of time, or even do one thing well all your life.
We have cultivated a lot, but we can't do anything well.
4. When can it be cultivated? How to cultivate?
I will introduce them in four age groups: childhood, youth, middle age and old age:
First, in childhood, we don't have to worry about the current money, spend all our parents' money and have a lot of time and resources, which are cultivated based on our own likes or long-term needs. If you learn a hobby from the age of three to five until you graduate from college at the age of 22, then this can definitely be used to make a living when you are very difficult. If it is a sports hobby, you can be a coach. If it is an art class, you can be a teacher.
Second, I started my first job in my youth, that is, when I graduated from college and entered the society. While doing your job well, you can cultivate skills to improve work efficiency, such as PPT and office software related to work. If you can do a good job, you don't need any living skills.
This in itself is a skill that everyone can make a living when the sky falls.
There is also investment, which everyone should master in the future.
I read a story on the Internet. When a student is in college, he learns how to invest and manage money with the pocket money given by his parents. Coupled with the accumulation of wages for several years after graduation, because the investment time was early enough, he invested with compound interest and realized financial freedom at the age of 30.
Third, in the middle age, there are many things, more money, physical strength can't keep up, and the career also encounters bottlenecks. This is the performance of midlife crisis, and there is less time for special training. All I think about all day is making money.
At this time, you need to be calm and look for and cultivate a career that you can do for a lifetime, that is, a career for a lifetime. Maybe after two or three years, not only will your wealth and freedom be solved, but your midlife crisis will also be solved.
Fourth, in old age, you have made clear the height you can reach in this life, and your desire for material things is not so strong. You just want to enjoy your old age and improve the quality of life in your old age. You can cultivate hobbies such as cycling, fishing, traveling, photography, and flower cultivation to make your old age less boring.
If you cultivate a lifelong career in middle age, you can not only pass the time, but also continue to work and shine for the society.
From the above analysis, I can see that we can cultivate at any stage and lengthen the time span. This is the best time.