In the book "Tearing Down the Wall of Thinking", the author tells a story in a classic way:

Yangmei, a former human resource manager of a well-known enterprise, has a successful career and high income. Be a housewife wholeheartedly after marriage.

Every night, what Yangmei expects most is to see her husband come home. In order to cook dinner for my husband, I study recipes every day and prepare for an afternoon. But the husband made a phone call: "honey, you can't go home at night." Please eat first. " Yang Mei said bitterly, "If you don't come back, I won't eat!" The husband thinks it's anger. When I got home at ten o'clock in the evening, I saw a cold meal and a woman who had been hungry for five hours and was full of grievances. A fierce battle is inevitable. This has happened more than once. Yang Mei felt very wronged and even suspected that her husband was cheating. The husband's considerate wife is gone.

There are many women who are the opposite of Yangmei. Their economic conditions are also very good. They don't need to make money to support their families, but they still work hard to make money in the workplace. Making money enables them to achieve economic independence and dignity, make them have a better position in the family and make their married life happier.

Some women don't work to earn money to support their families. They give more meaning to making money: for a better life and a happier marriage. Making money can keep a woman as she should be in marriage.

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An old teacher, who graduated from a key university, later founded many schools and worked in education for most of his life. He remained uncorrupted all his life, lived a simple life, dressed simply, and liked Harley motorcycles. His most valuable possession is that Harley motorcycle. In others' eyes, he can retire and spend his old age at home, but he still enjoys commuting between schools every day.

He doesn't need to work to earn money to support his family. Obviously, he has not only regarded lifelong education as a way to support his family, but this job has become his interest, his hobby and an inseparable part of his life. If he brought home the bacon, he might have more ways to earn more money, but he chose the way he was most interested in.

Just like Luo Yonghao, if he wants to support his family, he can make a lot of money by doing talk shows, but he chose the hard road of making a hammer mobile phone, because this is his interest.

There is a kind of people who have many ways to make money, but they don't necessarily choose the one that makes the most money, but choose what they are most interested in. They don't want to earn money to support their families, but take work as a lifelong interest and devote themselves wholeheartedly to it. And they work to make money, and they can always keep what they expect.

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"What's the use of money?" Ma Yun said in the "Let's Talk" program hosted by Sa Beining. What is the use of wealth? Wealth like ours is entrusted to us by society. Let's manage it better.

I've never touched money, and I'm not interested in it ... money is a resource to me. The more money you have, the more things you have to do.

If it was to earn money to support his family, Ma Yun, the richest man in China, should have stopped long ago. However, he bears social responsibility, and he knows that his career can bring value to society. In order to fulfill the responsibilities entrusted to him by society and promote the wealth progress of the whole society, he still has to work.

Maybe we ordinary people will never understand Ma Yun's feelings, nor will we reach Ma Yun's realm, but there are really some people in this world who work and earn money not to support their families, but out of a sense of social responsibility and for social progress. And they work to earn money, which can keep them in society and in people's minds.

Abraham maslow, an American psychologist, put forward Maslow's demand theory in 1943, which divides people's needs from low to high like a ladder, namely, physiological needs, security needs, social needs, respect needs and self-realization needs. In fact, people work to make money to meet different needs. Some people earn money to survive, others earn money to support their families, and some people hope to gain people's respect and social recognition by earning money to improve their economic strength, which should be the demand of the highest class-self-realization.

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We ordinary people can't regard work as a lifelong interest like old teachers, and we can't reach the height that Ma Yun regards work as social responsibility. If you ask me why I work to earn money, my answer is simple: for myself and for my parents to live a better life.

When you see beautiful clothes, you won't put them back just because you see the price tag; The course you want to take doesn't need to consider the price; Go wherever you want; You don't have to take a long green leather car when traveling, saving money.

What my parents want to buy will not be given up to save me money; I can take my parents anywhere they want. Mothers who like playing cards will not feel distressed because they lost dozens of dollars; Dad who likes all kinds of electronic products will not be reluctant because of the price. I hope I don't wronged myself because of money, and I hope I don't wronged my parents because of money.

Women with good family conditions are still trying to make money in the workplace, in order to make their marriage life happier and keep what women in marriage should look like; People who should have enjoyed their old age continue to work and regard work as a hobby in order to keep what they expect; Ma Yun has money at home and is still running a business, because he has assumed this social responsibility, in order to keep what people should look like in society.

There is a saying in the movie "The Melting Pot" that we strive not to change the world, but to prevent the world from changing us.

Whether we are old teachers, Ma Yun or ordinary people, we all work to meet our different needs and make money, but our purpose is the same, that is, to keep ourselves as we are in the pace of world progress and not to be changed by the world.