Becoming a Dark Horse excerpt 1 preface and preface .

In the past few days, I read "Becoming a Dark Horse", which mainly introduces the stories of those who do not follow the conventional routine to achieve success in different fields. For the average person to become an expert in a certain field, it is not only necessary to receive traditional education, but also to practice for a certain period of time, and first become a qualified novice. Then continue to practice to improve your skills and eventually become an expert.

In other words, if you want to work in a certain industry, starting from the basics is a necessary link.

But dark horses don't grow up in this way, they may be engaged in irrelevant work at first, but then they accidentally find that they have a strong interest in some things, and because of their interest, they gradually deepen and finally become experts.

Most people want to become experts in their industry and succeed, but chances are they don't know if they have the skills to do so, and they may only get started with a lifetime of hard work. There is not much difference between ordinary people in terms of IQ, but they have different talents in different fields, and if you can discover your talents and cultivate them in this area, it will be easier to succeed than to do something you don't like.

This concept is very challenging for modern education, which has always cultivated people as distinctions, as if it is difficult for people to make choices that they really like, universities train people as parts for different purposes, and students who have graduated from different universities are engaged in the work related to the university.

Of course, this inhibits human autonomy to a certain extent, but for society, society needs such screws. The whole society is like a machine, different people are embedded in the society as different parts, but some parts can be modified into other parts, but the society is not very happy that all the parts do to change themselves, so that the society machine will be difficult to operate.

Of course, for everyone, they have the right to make their own decisions, but in the final analysis, only a few people can make changes in the end, first of all, we need to solve the problem of survival first, and then we have the leisure to explore. The biggest significance of this book for us is that we are often confined to our own imagination, and once we have formed a fixed understanding of ourselves, we will be complacent and difficult to make a determination to change. But many times it is not impossible for us to make some changes when conditions allow, but such changes need to be made in a situation that is acceptable in life.