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Chapter 33 Correct understanding of dropping out of school (4)
Be careful when leaving school

Seeing the above examples of successful dropouts, are you excited and eager to try?Whether you are a college student, high school student, junior high school student, elementary school student, or even a child in kindergarten, you can’t help but want to go through the withdrawal procedures at the speed of light, and then invest in the business world to create a Chinese version of the Bill Gates myth.

If you have such thoughts, here are a few tests before you drop out:

1. Family background test
Bill Gates' father is a well-known lawyer who once served as the chairman of the Washington State Bar Association and the chairman of the National Bar Association.My mother is an excellent teacher, has a wide social circle, and has been a director of IMB company.

Michael Dell's father is a dentist in a famous hospital, and his mother is also a stockbroker.

Li Xiang's father is a teacher at an art college in Shijiazhuang, and his mother is an excellent employee.

Mao Kankan's parents were both very successful businessmen.

Having said that, let's look at question 1: What do your parents do?

Although your background and the occupation of your parents do not have a decisive effect on your life, but if your parents are relatively educated and the family environment is good, at least they can provide you with better educational conditions, and you can be educated from an early age. Use the right philosophy of life to influence you.Even if the children's business fails, the parents don't have to bear the burden of their lives, and even the parents can afford to support them.If you have these conditions, you are destined to be much easier than others when you start running.

2. Computer ability test
Bill Gates read almost the entire set of "World Book Encyclopedia" when he was 8 years old.

In 1967, when Gates was only 12 years old, he came into contact with computers for the first time and was crazy about computers (there were not many adults who had seen computers in mainland China at that time).

At the age of 13, he became the most famous hacker in the school, set up a programming team, and was recruited by the computer center as a program inspector in exchange for unlimited time to play with the computer.

At the age of 14, he began to write software programs for the purpose of playing three in a row, and soon designed a computer game with the purpose of ruling the world.

When Michael Dell was 7 years old, he owned a computer and had a fanatical interest in it.When I was in high school, I kept upgrading all kinds of computers, and I also assembled computers myself and sold them to customers. Sometimes, my monthly income was even higher than that of specialty stores.When he was in college, he became a well-known computer wizard in the school, and all the professors and computer enthusiasts in the school consulted him.

Li Xiang first came into contact with computers when he was 12 years old, and he became crazily obsessed with computers. He never let go of a piece of paper about computers. He even ran all over Shijiazhuang to buy a computer magazine!He started to contribute a lot of articles to major computer magazines when he was in junior high school. At the age of 15, he owned his own computer and became a special writer for many magazines with a capped price.

When Mao Kankan was 11 years old, he owned a personal computer his father brought back from the United States, and became obsessed with it. At the age of 17, he obtained the computer certification qualifications of Microsoft and Cisco (only two 18-year-olds in Asia have obtained these two certificates). In the same year, he worked as a network administrator in a large company in Zhongguancun. Kankan actually changed 17 jobs in two or three years.

Next, question 2: At what age were you exposed to computers?How good are you at computers, or what other extraordinary talents do you have?

If you have a correct understanding of this issue and have extraordinary talents, it means that you at least know what you will do after dropping out of school. 3. Business experience and brains
When Bill Gates was 16 years old, McGowan and Nixon ran for president. Bill Gates thought that McGowan would lose the election, so he saw business opportunities and thought that those souvenirs must be very valuable for collection, so he decided to He bought 5 useless campaign badges and stickers of McGowan and Eagleton for 5000 cents, and soon he sold them at a high price, and some even sold them for 25 dollars each. Make Bill Gates $10+!
When Bill Gates was 17, he sold his first piece of computer programming, a timetable system, to his high school for $4200.

When Michael Dell was 12 years old, he opened a stamp auction by himself, collected the stamps in the hands of neighbors, relatives and friends, and then published the advertisement of "Dell Philatelic Club" in the "Lin's Stamp Magazine" at that time, and made a The 12-page catalog was handed out, and it was this business that made 12-year-old Michael Dell earn a full $2000!

One summer vacation at the age of 16, Michael Dell found a job for "Lin's Stamp Magazine" to acquire subscribers.He soon discovered a pattern: newly married people and those who have just moved into a new house are the most likely to subscribe to Lin's Stamp Magazine.Michael Dell immediately hired his best friend to search for the names and addresses of people who were newly married or about to get married in the district courts of 16 counties and cities, and then went to various real estate companies to search for a list of loan applicants. The best phone calls to customers to sell "Lin's Stamp Magazine".Four or five months later, the history teacher assigned a homework: sorting out his own tax returns.As a result, Michael Dell's answer was: annual income of $18000.The teacher immediately found Michael Dell: "Check your homework, you must have missed a decimal point, and correct it quickly." When the history teacher knew that the $18000 income was earned by Michael Dell in only four or five months , the teacher is very frustrated - Dale makes more money than she makes in a year!
Li Xiang has contributed a large number of articles to various computer newspapers since junior high school. At the beginning, he earned one or two hundred yuan a month in manuscript fees.When I was in the third year of high school, I had my own website "The Home of Graphics Card". I got up at 1000 o'clock every day to update the website. I worked more than 2000 hours a day. The first advertising fee was 3 yuan. At the beginning, the average monthly fee was 7~6000 The income of 5 yuan continued to increase. In the last month of the college entrance examination, his income was more than 6 yuan. In this way, 2-year-old Li Xiang earned his first 18 yuan before the college entrance examination!

Mao Kankan started his working career at the age of 17 (as young as China's richest man Huang Guangyu when he debuted in 2005). Mao Kankan joined Zhongguancun, a city full of talents, and became a network administrator of a company, earning a white-collar salary; after playing enough with the technology of the job, Mao Kankan soon went to work in an Internet company; a few months later he went to the government Departmental work... He changed 3 jobs in 17 years, during which he also participated in the production of a TV documentary, and even opened a public relations company with his friends!When MaJoy was established, he actually wrote two books, "MaJoy Business Plan" and "MaJoy Entertainment Guidance White Paper", with a total of more than 20 words.

So, question 3: What business and work experience do you have, and what achievements have you made?
4. A test of resources, opportunities, and vision

Bill Gates dropped out of school in 1975. At that time, there were not many software companies. Bill Gates saw the future of software development with extraordinary vision-software is the core of the computer, and every family in the world should have a computer. PC, and his friend Alan keeps advising him that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
Michael Dell dropped out of school in 1984. At this time, computer hardware was just developing. Dell predicted with keen eyesight that there will be thousands of personal computer users with more computer knowledge in 10 years!I want to make better computers than IMB!
Li Xiang dropped out of school in 1999. At this time, China's Internet was just developing. Li Xiang deeply felt: the portal website has a lot of room for development, and I want to make my website the largest IT website in China!

Mao Kankan dropped out of school in 2000 because he could not even pass the make-up exam in geography. At that time, China was in the period of the Internet bubble, and IT talents were scarce. He also found that his specialty was computers. When he created MaJoy, he also used extraordinary imagination Foresight the future of online games!
Question 4: What is your situation and what is your vision?
Seeing this, can you answer these questions with confidence?
After reading this, you should understand: Dropping out ≠ being more likely to succeed.The prerequisite for easier success is superior strength and background!The excellent people who drop out of school have more excellent environments and conditions behind them, and they are destined to not take the usual path, which is not something ordinary people can have.

Successful dropouts include Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Li Xiang, Dai Zhikang, Mao Kankan, Peng Haitao, etc., but successful graduates include Jack Welch, Sun Zhengyi, Ren Zhengfei, Li Dongsheng, Wang Zhidong, Zhang Chaoyang, Ding Lei, Ma Huateng, Ma Yun and many more.

The reason why the media often exaggerates the achievements of dropouts is because the probability of success with low education is too low, and things are rare and expensive, so they should be reported carefully, or because the life of people with low education is too hard in reality, so Report it frequently so that people with low education can find hope and at least comfort them.

Therefore, whether you drop out of school or not, success will always only belong to those who devote most of their time, energy, brainpower, and material resources to a career and work hard for several years, ten years, or even a lifetime.If you drop out of school just to escape, just to be irresponsible, just to surf the Internet and fall in love, then in the end, nothing will happen.

Work hard, your beauty is ahead!

(End of this chapter)