Although there were many extracurricular activities at school for my fourth, fifth, and sixth grade elementary school, I was bored to death at home because my mother didn’t push me particularly, and she didn’t ask me to attend many classes or tutoring. I went to Taekwondo once a week, and I swam in the pool at home. I would practice the violin when I was bored at home. I was also very lazy and couldn’t study at home, so I did all my studying at school. It’s all about playing at home. Do you have a lot of things to play with? No, it is quite boring at home. My mother is not at home a lot of the time. Sometimes my brother is here, but he plays video games or reads books by himself. I am extremely bored, so I watch a lot of TV, because my mother has no control over my TV viewing, and sometimes TV is boring. Do I often watch “Women’s New Look”?
Curiosity is the beginning of learning
During the most boring hours, I would go into the kitchen to watch what the workers were cooking and how they prepared the food, so I knew a little bit about cooking at that time (I also cooked when I was studying in the United States). Around the fourth or fifth grade, I liked to drink a soup, which was Jinbao’s chicken and corn soup. It may be during the growth period. Sometimes I feel hungry around ten o’clock in the evening. I will turn on the stove by myself and cook this chicken and corn soup. I also add two eggs to make egg drop. In the last fifteen seconds, I beat the eggs and add them. There will be a big bowl. I have to put half of it in the refrigerator and save it for drinking tomorrow. My mother didn’t stop me from entering the kitchen. Will today’s parents over-protect their children and prevent them from entering the kitchen? In fact, it is not a big problem for fourth and fifth graders to move into a cooking room.
Boring exploration in childhood is also part of the learning process
Sometimes I would go into the worker’s room to watch what she was doing. She would help us shine our shoes, so I would also shine shoes (but I don’t understand “shoe shine” in real life). I would also read through the books that the house owner had, which were also very casual, such as “The Weakness of Human Nature”. When the fax machine came out, I had one at home, and I would click on it to play with it. I didn’t know who the fax machine was for. , I might fax it to a friend, and the friend would fax it back with a large page of paper. My mother would say that I was wasting paper, because paper was very expensive at that time. I would also look through the video tapes. I often looked at “The Rich Young Master of the Lang Family”. I already liked Zheng Xiuwen at that time, and I thought Hacken Lee would be good in TV series. , their love story is also well written, and I have read “God of Gamblers” two or thirty times (laughs). Another entertainment is the “research” phone. When I was a child, the phone was a bit shortcut, “1083” asked for the weather, “1000” asked for the restaurant’s phone number, and I knew the “line” and “Do not disturb” You can also adjust the time switch and when it will stop ringing. You can also read Hong Kong Telecom’s books and try out all the functions available on the phone. It’s really boring to the point! But in fact, I also learned something in the boring process. It is a very important process to digest and understand the operation of something by yourself ~
The enlightenment of a business mind begins with a magazine?
There is also a magazine that has a profound impact on me. I always have a stack of “Hong Kong TV” magazine at home. I can go home after boarding on Fridays. Later, when I was in fifth grade, I had “One Weekly”, which was very rich in content. Of course, I read BOOK B first, then BOOK A, BOOK There is a section in A called “One Plate of Business”. The best thing is that it will list the P&L of a business, and it will list the sales amount, expenses, labor, how much money you earn, etc. Don’t underestimate this table, it will definitely affect my concept of doing business in the future. I also like to look at tables. As for newspapers, of course, I first read the entertainment section and the supplement section, but because it was too boring, I read the business and economics, and also the financial and economics. The more I read, the more I read.
Moving frequently gave me a basic understanding of real estate
My mother liked to make money by “speculating in properties”, and she lived on the same floor, so I moved around a lot when I was a child, mainly in that area, Jardine’s Hill and Shiu Fai Terrace. When I was in primary school, I lived in Jardine’s Park Park. I would take the 14M minibus, which would pass by many residences, starting from Lowood Road. (It’s better to get up later than Wah Lee Hill.) We passed through Le Tao Garden, Le Jing Terrace, and went to Tai Hang Road, where there is Ruisen Garden, and then went up to Tai Hang Terrace, Hui Jing Garden, Jiayuntai, and Parkland. When I took the minibus, I would hear different people yelling to get off. I would also recognize the location of different housing estates. It turns out that I can see the prices of all housing estates by looking at the Industrial Economics. , in disguise, I know what kind of units there are in those housing estates, how many square feet there are, and what kind, some are 1,200 square feet, some are 1,500 square feet, and then look at their prices and square feet, so I already have an idea when I study the Industrial Economics.
Digging deep is an important part of training your brain
In addition to looking at it, I will also establish some indicators myself, “Oh, so 10,000 yuan is more expensive.” But in fact, the most important thing is not these data, but the trend. When I look at it every week, I will find that the price of Jiayuntai, for example, has increased. I will also compare it: “Why is Jiayuntai so much more expensive in the isolation area where I live?” I happen to have a friend who lives in Jiayuntai, and I often go there. , I found that there are many buildings in this housing estate. When you or someone enters, the administrator will ask you which floor you go to and your last name. There is also a club where some ladies can dance or hold birthday parties. There is a swimming pool. It has more facilities than Parkside Gardens where I live, so I understand its value. I have to discover all the above by myself, and it also taught me how to memorize many numbers at the same time!
In addition to Sankei, I was most interested in the exchange rate in the financial section. At that time, there was a table of exchange rates. The Hong Kong dollar was exchanged against many other currencies, including the French franc, the Swiss franc, the Swiss franc, the British pound, and the Japanese yen. It took some time to understand the table. Which currency was more expensive at 1.7? It is troublesome to sort out the thoughts to understand the whole thing. For example, the Japanese dollar has different multiples. I think this has a great impact on me, because I also speculate in foreign currencies now, and my mother also speculates in foreign currencies, Australian paper, etc. At that time, the concept was established invisibly.
Children should be exposed to both “not interested” and “interested” things!
One time I was having dinner with my father, and I told him that I had read this. He asked me how much the French franc was to the Hong Kong dollar, and I answered him about 1.1 or 1.2. He was really impressed! I must have been in fourth grade at the time, and he never thought that I could answer it. My father was in business, and he probably hoped that his children would have these numerical concepts. If I hadn’t been bored out of my mind and exposed myself to things that I thought had nothing to do with me, I probably wouldn’t have been able to discover where I have more potential. Nowadays, everyone is looking at the iPad, and children only choose what they like to watch, and in disguise they do not touch on things that they feel have nothing to do with them. This is not good in the long run. It is best for everyone to be exposed to things that seem to have nothing to do with them. In this way, you can explore where you have more potential. It is not just the knowledge provided by the school, such as cooking, shining shoes with workers, and handling fax machines. It is some life-style education that does not necessarily need to be taught by someone. Let the child be alone, tell him that he can play by himself, or let him read the instructions. , let him study by himself, or give him a task to try to use this machine to do something. This is some self-discovery, and he also has a sense of accomplishment!
