Chapter 36 6.h Time is not necessarily money.

About time, I once read a parable that impressed me very much.The way we describe an object often limits what we know about that object.Therefore, sometimes, delicate and appropriate metaphors often subvert our views on the same thing just because of different ways of expressing them. If there is such a bank in this world, you will be very happy: as soon as you are born, you will automatically enjoy a VIP account opened for you by this bank.Every day, no more, no less, exactly 86,400 yuan will be automatically deposited into this VIP account.And your task is to spend the 86,400 yuan every day, buy whatever you want.If it is not enough, then you can only reluctantly give up - because there is no way, the bank will tell you, sorry, you can only wait until tomorrow to withdraw the next sum of 86,400 yuan.If you haven’t spent the rest, you have to void it—because there is no way, the bank will tell you, sorry, our bank does not accept deposits, and the balance has to be canceled every day.Anyway, there is a total of 86,400 yuan per day, no more, no less.

If such a bank really exists in this world, everyone will be very happy.But in fact, this bank does exist, but many people are not happy about it.The name of this bank is "Time".Time is the only resource in this world that is fair to everyone.Everyone has only 24 hours in a day, everyone has only 60 minutes in each hour, everyone has only 60 seconds in each minute, and everyone has a total of 86400 seconds in a day-everyone is the same, no matter who you are. Many people love money but not time.Maybe it's because people have a harder time recognizing abstract things.Money is more specific than time.Unlike time, money is tangible.It is often said that time is money.Because it always takes time to make money.If a person can exchange every second of his own for one yuan, he will be very happy-although some people may exchange it for US dollars, and some may exchange it for RMB.Bill Gates is very happy, because from 1986 to 2005, he was able to exchange every second of himself for $36.74.It is said that the gold medal writer of the domestic "Qiandian Chinese Network" can earn 1.2 million yuan a year. In conversion, it means that he can exchange his every second for 0.038 yuan, although it is much less than Bill Gates Too much, but I think he'll still be happy.Because it will take 60 years for more people in China to earn what this writer earns in one year.

Look at how much money you made last year, and you can roughly know how much your every second is worth according to the table below. Annual income value per second 1 million yuan 0.03170979 yuan 600,000 yuan 0.01902587 yuan 200,000 yuan 0.00634195 yuan 100,000 yuan 0.00317097 yuan 80,000 yuan 0.00253678 yuan 50,000 yuan 0.00158549 yuan 30,000 yuan 0.00095129 yuan 20,000 yuan 0.00063419 yuan This is a situation that is bound to generate polarization.The lower the income, the less time-saving the person is - because his time is really worthless, and every second is almost negligible.The higher the income, the more stingy his time is, because every second of him has a definite value, and he is busy making his every second more valuable, so every second All are worth cherishing.The Gospel of Matthew said, "Give him what he has, and make him redundant; what he doesn't have, take it away with what he has." This sentence seems to be inapplicable in the time bank, because Time banks don't give or take away a minute, but, considering that the value of each minute is different for everyone, Matthew's words feel full of wisdom and can't be avoided. of the light.

Everyone's time value is different, sometimes it is the difference between heaven and earth.For example, your classmate finished the experiment in just two hours and wrote the report neatly and cleanly; while you have been fighting for several days, you still have no clue about some things.Newton spent his life building the foundation of classical physics, but some people did not create the perpetual motion machine he wanted; Adam Smith spent his life laying the foundation for the vigorous development of modern economics, while another philosopher wrote Countless works have triggered the largest and most failed social experiment in human history.As we have seen, are seeing or will see, there are always some people who have done countless things in their lives, and more people spend their lives in exchange for only four words- - "Cause of death unknown".

So, time is not necessarily money.After all, not everyone has the ability to convert time into money, and not everyone can convert time into an equally high amount of money.Take out a pen and paper, make a list, and then ask yourself, "How much can I price my time?"--this is the most effective starting point and motivation for a person to decide not to waste time.Only cherishing can generate the motivation to save. In addition, a very important way of thinking that we just learned is: find a way to transform abstract things into concrete things in understanding-in this way, we can better understand abstract things.Because you materialize time into money, you start to cherish time more and start thinking "how should I use my time?" It is important to note that the "cliché" you used to hear-" "Time is money" doesn't actually change your attitude toward time.Because, just such a sentence is still very abstract and very unspecific.However, the metaphors in the above space concretize many details, so that you have a specific perception.This explains why most people are not interested in logic and mathematics, because they cannot perceive what tangible, concrete benefits these intangible, abstract theories will bring them--in fact, the benefits themselves are equally Or maybe something more intangible and abstract.