Economic Wisdom to Apply in Your Twenties

Chapter 81

Chapter 10 Section 4 Friends Are for Trouble
Since ancient times, people have not enumerated famous quotes about friends, which fully proves the importance of "friends" in our lives.It is often said that friends are for trouble, and many friends have many paths.In fact, in the eyes of economists, friends are resources, and a friend is a resource. The more friends a person has, the more resources he has. When he allocates resources, he can do a job with ease. , to optimize the allocation of resources; friends are information, and a friend is an information base, and at the same time it is a path to transmit information. many.

Economics believes that the existing information that a person has about a certain thing and all the information about this kind of thing are always asymmetrical, that is to say, a person can only grasp more information about a certain thing. , and it is impossible to grasp all of them.It is the asymmetry of information that makes it difficult for people to judge, choose and make decisions.To reduce judgment and decision-making errors, it is necessary to obtain more information.

"An inch is long, but a ruler is short."Everyone has their own resource advantages, and a friend is such a resource that can use his advantages to make up for your disadvantages, that is, to achieve resource complementarity.If you have very few friends, or if they are all in a certain field, it means that you have a single way of doing things, and you will not be able to handle many things with ease.Look around you and you will find that few people who fight alone can succeed; on the contrary, behind every successful person there is a group of life-and-death friends who help.

Modern society is an information society, and we live in a large amount of information flow every day.Because the flow of information is too fast, we capture too little and can use even less for ourselves.And everyone's educational background, society and experience are different, so everyone's information resources will be different.Because of this, our desire to connect with people is heightened, and we need to get information from our friends.The information obtained through communicating with friends is a kind of information integrated with you and your friends, it is a kind of live information, and it is also a kind of more reliable information, a kind of information that is more conducive to bringing benefits.Since the friend's information has been processed by one's own thinking, it can be used directly, which saves a lot of trouble.

When modern people talk about connections, they are actually interpersonal resources.An authoritative report published by the Stanford Research Center in the United States shows that only 12.5% ​​of the money a man earns in his life comes from knowledge, and the rest comes from relationships.People often say, "Hedong for 30 years, and Hexi for 30 years." If you help others sincerely today, you may turn to others for help sometime.Investing in interpersonal relationships is a special kind of investment, because you need to invest with your heart.One more friend and one more road, and more friends are easier to handle.People often say: "Rely on parents at home and friends outside." Friends are a priceless wealth. With friends, our lives will often be bathed in the fragrance of friendship; with friends, we can make better use of ourselves. The resources around us, so that we will go further on the journey of life.

Wisdom Pieces: What Friends Are Called
Forgetful Friends: Break through the differences in age and seniority and make friends.

Forgetful friendship: Indiscriminate lack or ugliness, make friends who do not distinguish between you and me.

Gentleman: refers to the friendship between moral and righteousness, that is, friends who support each other morally.

Mo Nijiao: Refers to the mutual understanding of minds and no disobedience.

Neck cross: Refers to a deep friendship and can live and die together and share adversities.

Poor and humble friends: friends made when you were poor and down.

Buyijiao: Make friends with each other without being an official.

Friends in need: Friends who have gone through adversity and become friends.

Best friend: The friend with the deepest friendship and no suspicion.

Shijiao: also known as Shiyi and Shihao.Generally refers to the friendship between two generations.

Gujiao: also known as old friends, old friends, old friends.Refers to old friendships.

One-to-one acquaintance: only acquaintance, but not very understanding.

Shidaojiao: In ancient times, it refers to the friends made by means of doing business, but they were ungrateful because of their heavy profits, and they were later called villain friends.

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