Fall in love with school, no longer tire of learning

Chapter 31 Correct understanding of dropping out of school (2)
Some billionaires even left school earlier than Adelson.Richard Branson was a poor student and was dyslexic.He dropped out of school at 10 to start a magazine.

To support the publication, he also started a mail-order record business, which later became Virgin Records.Richard Branson took the plunge by signing the raucous, raucous soundtrack after two other high-profile record labels deemed the Sex Pistols too hot.Later hits signed also included Boy George and Peter Gabriel.

He went on to found many companies in succession, entering the aviation industry, health insurance industry and medical industry.The space field will be his next stop.His most recent company, Virgin Galactic, aims to send tourists into space beyond Earth's atmosphere.

But you must not come to the conclusion that going to school is useless just because of these $10 billion dropouts.Even the world's most famous dropout (No. 3 on the rich list) acknowledges the importance of a good education.

Li Xiang: Head of Bubble
Li Xiang is a typical representative of the post-80s generation. He gave up the college entrance examination at the age of 18 and founded Beijing Paopao Information Technology Co., Ltd. at the age of 19. He is currently the chairman and CEO of Paopao.com, managing more than 200 employees.His Paobao.com is a website engaged in information services of computer hardware, personal and office digital products.Li Xiang

At the end of 2005, Pao Pao's revenue reached 2000 million, and its profit was 50%. According to the prevailing market acquisition standard, that is, calculated with a price-earnings ratio of 20 times, he holds an absolute share of the company, and his net worth exceeds [-] million.

At the age of 24, he established a professional automotive portal - Autohome. In 2006, Paopao's revenue exceeded 6 million yuan, and the market value of Paopao.com exceeded 6 million yuan.The founder, Li Xiang, has more than half of the shares and is worth more than 3 million yuan. In 2006, as the youngest person, he won the "China's Top Ten New Entrepreneurs" award, and more than 400 media reported independently every year.Li Xiang became the wealth representative of the post-80s generation.

Mao Kankan: The Demonic Baby of the World
Let's take a look at this resume:

17岁：高中二年级退学。21岁：从《黑色帝国123》、《无间道123》、《黑鹰坠落》、《达芬奇密码》、《24小时》中得到灵感，开发网络游戏的现实版，并创建世界第一个真实版网络游戏公司——MaJoy。

This is Mao Kankan.Mao Kankan, known as the Hunshi Mowa, was born in 1983 and is a native of Beijing.Junior high school diploma, officially started business in 2004. The total investment in MaJoy exceeds RMB 15 billion. Mao Kankan holds 25% of the shares and is worth more than RMB 3 million. He has become the youngest billionaire born in the 80s in China. He is currently the chief architect and chief operating officer of MaJoy.

Mao Kankan

In 1999, Beijing Yuying Middle School had a "once in a century" embarrassment.A freshman boy named Mao Kankan failed the geography exam and failed the make-up exam.According to national policy, he is not eligible to take the university entrance examination.Said frankly, this is not right, so we will not learn.It is said that the grade director at the time lost his hair in a panic.Such a person unexpectedly appeared!

Mao Kankan was as thin as a bamboo pole, his face was blue and black, and he was dressed hip-hop.Sleep 4 hours a day, or 8 hours in a row for two consecutive days.She's not married yet, but she wears two platinum rings on her right ring finger, one from her mother and one from her girlfriend.My favorite places to go are Cash Drawer and Shangdao Coffee.

In those years, I lived like this: I got up at 5:10 in the morning, went to school by bike for 5 minutes and worked hard, eliminating all the homework for the day.When I was in class, I was thinking about things at night.I came home from school at 12:8 in the afternoon. After eating, I was alone in the small room working on the computer until 2 o'clock.In the first year of junior high school, Ying Haiwei Time and Space was already online, and he applied to be a moderator of a program forum. The most exciting thing was to think of various ways to maintain the development of the forum.Organize activities on weekends and invite people from the forum to chat together.At that time, Kankan led the school team to sweep the computer competition in Beijing, but could not meet any opponents.In the third year of junior high school, I became obsessed with mountain bikes again. I played mountain bikes until [-]:[-] p.m. after school every day, and then worked on computers until [-]:[-] a.m.

It was at this stage that Mao Kankan's thinking habits and acting style took shape.He basically didn't deal with his peers, and the people he dealt with online were all seven or eight years older than him.Most of the people who play mountain bikes together are young people with jobs. What everyone talks about is what kind of business to do and what kind of problems to solve, which is very practical.Except for those superficial hip-hop dresses, Kan Kan's thinking and behavior are much more sophisticated than his actual age.After meeting many netizens, they couldn't believe that the person chatting with them online was a 17-year-old boy!
In 2000, he took the computer certification of Microsoft and Cisco, and took the two signs to find a position with a monthly salary of 3600 yuan on a website.In the next 3 years, I changed a dozen jobs!From small websites, game companies, and TV stations to government institutions; from research and development, planning, marketing, and publicity to program production.He also opened his own company and outsourced R&D projects to others.These years have really suffered, and I have paid more than 20 yuan in my savings as tuition fees. Of course, I have also seen "dao dao" from all walks of life and at all levels.

At the end of 2004, Mao Kankan once again ran into the boss of a state-owned enterprise he had worked with.Back then, I worked on projects for him, from background data processing to marketing planning, and the results exceeded the boss's expectations.This time, Kankan communicated with him about the MaJoy project that he had been thinking about for a year: move the online game offline, imitate its background data to run, but use real scenes and be played by players.The two hit it off immediately, and Kankan invested in his company with his intelligence. The two parties officially operated MaJoy, and the overall investment was expected to be 3 million.Later, Mao Kankan made a special report to the Shijingshan District Government and the Beijing Science and Technology Commission.

"You choose what to do, but as long as you choose what to do, you must do it well!" This is the truth that his mother emphasized to Mao Kankan since he was a child.Kankan often thinks about this sentence when he is in the society.There is often a saying in Hong Kong gangster movies, "Since you choose the underworld, you have one foot in the coffin, and you can't quit." Said frankly, "That's the reason."

Zhu Deyong: I don't like going to school, I love painting

He picked up a paintbrush when he was only 4 years old, and was already popular in Taiwan at the age of 25; he, a self-proclaimed boring person, humor is only one of his specialties; He is dubbed as "Prophet of Love" and "Prophet of City" by people; he even dissolves the joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys of countless individuals in his works, which always makes people laugh off their unhappiness...

He is Zhu Deyong.Zhu Deyong is a well-known cartoonist in Taiwan. He was born in Taipei in 1960 in Taicang, Jiangsu.Graduated from the Department of Film Editing and Directing at Taiwan World Journalism Academy.Its comic column has a history of more than 10 years of serialization in Taiwan, among which the column "Vinegar Family" has been serialized for 10 years, setting a record for the longest period of comic serialization in Taiwan.His comic works such as "Double Cannon", "Sweet Girl", and "Vinegar Family" have had a great influence on young men and women in the Mainland, and have a large number of loyal readers.And his work was made into a TV series of the same name, which is loved by many people.

Zhu Deyong

Today's Zhu Deyong is humorous and cheerful. Wherever he is, there is always laughter. Zhu Deyong has long been relieved of his "bitter" past, but what he can't let go of is that "maybe there are still many students struggling like me in the past." , has anyone helped them through this difficult stage, I hope humor and comics can give them a little help."

Let's take a look at Mr. Zhu Deyong's childhood memories and some views on his specialties:
"When I was a student, I always thought I was stupid. When I grew up, I realized that it was a learning disability. There are many types of people's learning acceptance ability. I am naturally sensitive to graphics, but difficult to accept words. kind.

When I was in junior high school, I couldn't stand that kind of education at all. Just like a football, I was kicked around by many schools, even the worst schools didn't want me.I remember when I went to a poor school to take the transfer test, the dean asked me sincerely: 'To be honest, do you smoke or not? 'I was very touched at the time. I met such a good teacher and treated me sincerely like a buddy. If I lied to him, wouldn't I be bad?I just said: 'I smoked it. 'As soon as I said this, I never waited for the admission notice when I got home.

I like drawing and drawing. Since I was 4 years old, drawing is the only thing that can entertain and relax me.I painted at school, in books and notebooks, and filled all the blank spaces. When I returned home, I also painted. I couldn’t stay in the outside world. The only way was to go back to my own world. , because there is my happiness in this world.When I was hit by a teacher in school, I dared not speak out when I got angry. As soon as I got back to my house, I painted him, painted him hard, and let him die a very miserable death, and then my mood will improve.

My parents also suffered a lot for me. They were often called to school by the teacher to listen to the teacher's lectures, and they often took me to various schools to see their faces and ask them to take me in.Even so, they never put pressure on me and always let me develop freely.My father often cut out the white paper, nailed it neatly, and made a picture book for me.Later, I often thought, if my parents took me to study like the school teachers did, then I would definitely die.

When I observe people, I don't just believe what I see with my own eyes. I often think in the opposite direction of what I see.Seeing a man approaching in a dignified manner, I thought, what would happen to him if I suddenly jumped up and slapped him with a 'slap'?Are you just standing there in a daze?Or mad like crazy?In short, his reaction will definitely not be the same as what I see in my eyes.For a while, passers-by on the road would always see a strange boy smiling at himself.

Observing like this was not enough, I started to do some "little experiments", repeatedly ringing someone's doorbell, once, and immediately hid, to see the expression of the person who opened the door, wait for him to go back, and then press again.Compare his series of expressions with my imagination.Imagination is very important to me, and I often live in my imagination.

Studying film is not my choice, it is the result of being assigned to study, but I feel pretty good after reading it, because I have been a "TV kid" since I was a child, and I am a typical image-based thinking, so it is more appropriate to study film.Of course, I never stopped drawing. Gradually, the media continued to set up comic columns for me.Later, it also entered one of the largest newspapers in Taiwan - "China Times".Compared with movies, comics can give full play to their preferences and strengths.Because movies are for groups, and comics are very personal, as long as you concentrate on it, and also combine multiple functions such as director and screenwriter. For example, choosing characters and actions is like a director choosing actors, and designing plots and dialogues Like a screenwriter's job.Moreover, besides being restricted by the layout, drawing can avoid other interference to the greatest extent.

I started to become famous in Taiwan in 1985.At that time, just as I was graduating from university and going to serve in the military, "China Times" asked me for a draft. I immersed myself in painting for a month, handed over a set of "Double Ring Cannon" to the newspaper office, and went to a very closed island. Participate in training. Three months later, my father wrote to say that the Times started publishing it three times a week.

Half a year later, when I returned to Taipei, I realized that my painting "Double Cannon" was already very popular in Taiwan.I heard from many people that when they got the newspaper, they read Zhu Deyong's cartoon column first, and then read other content.Because there is very little information about the author of the manga, there are many speculations in the society that it is drawn by foreigners.

Although I became famous, I was always hesitant and hesitant for four or five years, because I was not sure whether I wanted to make painting a career. Before that, there was never a full-time cartoonist in Taiwan.Although I liked painting since I was a child, I just took painting as a hobby. Fame may be "a blind cat meets a dead mouse".

For a while, while I was painting, I wondered if I could be engaged in other professions, or I might be more suitable for other professions.In this way, I rode a donkey to find a horse. As the time spent drawing comics grew, I realized the essence of comics more deeply, and became more and more sure of myself.My wife also encouraged me: 'If Taiwan can produce a professional cartoonist, it must be you. ’ So I made up my mind: I was born to draw.Later, I quit my job at the newspaper office to draw cartoons full-time.

In Taiwan, I was the first to use cartoon characters as public service advertisements. The main character of Taiwan’s smoking cessation public service advertisements was pasted on the door of every taxi; the first to use cartoons to make product advertisements; the first to use cartoon images I made credit cards; I was the first to make the sculptures of shopping malls with cartoon images; there is a famous mural in Singapore, three walls are full of cartoons, that's what I did.As long as it is beneficial to spread comics, I will do it.Because the charm of comics is too great, there are too many places available.

After arriving in the mainland, I found that the Chinese comic market is still immature. Mickey Mouse represents American comics. The Japanese have long had their own comics, and they have developed for more than 60 years. No, it is very easy for foreign comics to come in, and the impact will be huge.

I didn't set too many practical goals for myself, I only had a vague dream: there are so many Chinese people, there should be their own comics, their own comic market, and I want to create something Chinese. "

Gates: I don't like college, I like computers
比尔·盖茨是知名的全球首富，是美国非常有名企业家、慈善家，微软公司的董事长。他与保罗一起创建了微软公司。1995~2007年的《福布斯》全球亿万有钱人排行榜中，比尔·盖茨连续13年蝉联世界首富。2008年6月27日正式退出微软公司，并把580亿美元的财产尽数捐到比尔与美琳达·盖茨基金会。《福布斯》杂志2009年3月12日公布全球富豪排名，比尔·盖茨以400亿美元资产重登榜首。

He recently spoke before the US Congress to emphasize the importance of improving the US education system.

"Too many students leave high school without some of the fundamental skills they need to succeed in the 21st century economy, let alone be prepared for the hardships they will encounter in college and careers," Gates said. gone."

Bill Gates
There are other benefits of school, such as the people you meet. In 2000, Billionaire Steve Ballmer took over as CEO of Microsoft from Gates.When the two men attended Harvard, they both lived in the same dormitory building.

Some people say that Gates dropped out of university to start a business, which shows that learning and success are irrelevant.In fact, Gates has always been a studious teenager.Not going to college doesn't mean you don't love learning.

When Gates was a teenager, with the help and guidance of his grandmother, he became a reader with a wide range of interests and forgot to eat and sleep—reading became a good way for him to pass his energy.He adored the summer reading contest held at a library not far from his house, and he always came first among the boys, occasionally winning the overall title.Grandma was aware of Bill Gates' potential in thinking and memory, and she always activated Bill's potential in this regard without losing the opportunity.Sometimes the grandparents and grandchildren go for a walk in the park, and the grandmother often exchanges chess playing skills with Bill Gates or reads a certain masterpiece, so that Bill can find new ways to play or express more unique and incisive insights.

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