Since childhood, teachers and parents may have whispered to you countless times: 'Study hard, make progress every day, go to a good university in the future, and find a good job.' 😁
After hearing so much, you may already feel numb, even doubting whether these statements are reliable.
But have you ever thought about why these words can be repeated by generation after generation?
The real question is: Why do we study?
To be honest, very few people can really clarify the meaning and value of learning. This is not because they don't care about you, but because many people themselves have not figured it out. They may never have stepped out of their original circle—teachers graduate from normal universities and teach within the system, parents struggle in fixed jobs, and the previous generation may not even have had complete educational opportunities. What they can impart are often fragmented experiences rather than a complete cognitive map.
The reality is that the value of learning is never just for exams and diplomas.
So where is the real value of learning? I have seen many people ultimately regret not studying hard back then because their rebellious youth ended up with the ruthless lessons of society. However, even if I write this article, very few people will ultimately understand and recognize it, because that is the weakness of human nature. It is difficult to break through the limitations of cognition; a good university may subtly improve your cognitive range. A good high school, to some extent, increases your chances of getting into a good university. So what is the true value of learning?
1. Increase your tolerance for mistakes and flexibility, as well as the difficulty of obtaining quality connections.
During your student years, you may not realize the true value of prestigious schools. You might feel that attending classes, doing exercises, and taking exams is just boring and stressful. But these 'tedious' processes actually open a door for you—it determines whether you can enter a relatively high-quality circle. When your learning transforms into a prestigious school during your student years, you may not realize what your classmates and the teachers and predecessors you encounter can bring.
Good schools not only certify your basic abilities but, more importantly, you will meet a group of people who will walk a long way with you in the future.
They are the future product managers, scientists, entrepreneurs, investors, civil servants, doctors... They will enter different tracks, possessing different resources and experiences. When you stay in touch with them, exchange information, and grow together, you will realize that the gap between people is never something that erupts at a certain moment but is continuously widened through the accumulation of information, resources, and cognition.
After you have been in society for a few years, if you are still in the same field, the higher quality classmates you have, the higher the core areas they are exposed to and the quality of companies and institutions they interact with. This can provide you with increasingly valuable feedback in terms of knowledge and information quality, thereby positively enhancing your cognitive and judgment abilities.
This is something that general schools find hard to compare with, which is why better schools pay more attention to the sustainability and mutual assistance of alumni networks. It is easier to find your helping partners in key positions, and if you don't have that, you have to rely on yourself to expand from scratch; it is very difficult for non-exceptional individuals to build from zero, and you might find it hard to take that first step.
2. It can free you from constraints, turning you into a talent with independent thinking abilities, capable of navigating the AI era.
We are currently in a rapidly changing era; AI, Web3, biotechnology, new energy... Each term may represent an industry that changes the world. If you don’t have a basic cognitive framework and thinking ability, no amount of information will be useful to you.
Learning gives you the ability to build models and shape your way of thinking.
True learning is not about rote memorization but about:
Knowing how to break down problems;
Understanding how to judge the authenticity of information;
Understanding the connections between different disciplines;
More importantly, you will start to ask your own questions instead of just accepting others' conclusions.
Only those who possess this ability can coexist with AI in the future, rather than being replaced by it. They can even navigate the wars of the AI era because current AI lacks the ability to make mistakes; it only has the ability to organize and gather information.
Good thinking abilities also allow you to absorb the knowledge required by the times, such as financial knowledge, updated popular science knowledge, and even cultural knowledge like the Book of Changes. You can supplement and improve your knowledge system according to your needs to become more powerful.
3. Learning can help you break free from the preset of 'fate' and gain greater choices.
Have you noticed that many people are obviously not stupid and work hard, but ultimately can only roll around in a certain industry, with their annual salary stuck at a ceiling? While some people, even if they fail several times, can quickly adjust, switch tracks to start over, and ultimately go further?
This is the underlying difference that learning brings. It is not a short-term benefit but a long-term accumulated 'potential'. What you read, solve problems, and understand abstract knowledge today may not yield immediate returns, but it will become your cognitive capital when making decisions, switching tracks, and understanding a complex world in the future.
This capital will determine whether you can stand at a higher position in the future and see a broader landscape.
4. Break through class constraints, enter quality enterprises, and achieve class and asset leaps.
In this era, many family backgrounds determine your starting point in life, but not your endpoint. You cannot choose the family you are born into, but you can strive to enter better platforms and pools of opportunities through learning, breaking the original path dependence of class. Currently, it is still a relatively fair competitive era; relying solely on exams can allow you to enter prestigious institutions and companies to enrich yourself.
A good university can introduce you to a higher-level talent selection system.
An excellent enterprise is a key springboard for class leap—many large companies filter candidates based on school qualifications, so the earlier you realize this, the better you can seize hard-won opportunities. Of course, if you are reading this article and are about to graduate without meeting the admission threshold, it doesn't matter. There are other paths you can take, including providing creativity, producing work, offering long-term vision, and participating in serendipitous competitions, all of which can showcase and monetize your long-term value through your learning ability.
If you feel that your life has no hope and you are stuck in every direction, then adjust your mindset, strive to understand yourself, and quietly wait for a breakthrough opportunity. Just like before 2008, no one realized that BTC would be born; century-level opportunities often appear suddenly, but you don’t know when. You need enough awareness and learning ability to seize them. ✨✨✨💰
And the general entry thresholds for these platforms are still your learning ability, educational background, and thinking structure.
To put it bluntly: learning is one of the fairest means for you to achieve class leap.
It is your strongest weapon to 'win against the strong' and break the shackles of fate with knowledge.
Conclusion:
I know that many people, even after reading this article, will still feel 'nothing special'. Because this is human nature—only when you are truly hit by reality will you realize the value of learning.
But I hope you don't wait for that day to awaken. Just like many girls who have been hurt by bad relationships many times, wasting many good people, but there is no chance to start over, their mindset is already broken.
All your current efforts are not to please teachers and parents, not to show off high scores, but for the day in the future when you can stand in a more free and decent position to decide the direction of your life.
Not everyone can understand this sentence, but I hope you can be the one who understands it early.
After all, just like the ideal balanced state of the innate eight trigrams is hard to find, most people will still miss out.
Of course, these are also my experiences and understanding within my cognitive framework; there may be shortcomings, and you need to add your own adaptive parts. If it helps, then it counts as a contribution, and maybe years or even decades later, you will receive some surprising letters or interesting experiences.
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