Parents' knowledge is the starting line for children.

On my way to work, I heard Dr. Wu Jun say in the column Letter from Silicon Valley (signal 19 1):

The middle class rarely has the opportunity to complete the advanced stage, which is the actual situation in all countries of the world. However, the more important reason why it is difficult for the middle class to complete this step is that their way of thinking limits the development of themselves and their children. Generally speaking, I don't agree with the "starting line", but if there is any starting line, it is my parents' knowledge. Of course, it is difficult to ask parents to be knowledgeable, but parents' continuous learning is very beneficial to their children.

"Parents' knowledge is the starting line for children. "This sentence freed me from the anxiety about children's education.

It seems that since kindergarten, most parents respect the concept that children can't lose at the starting line. Therefore, parents should not only enjoy the best education in kindergarten, but also start with prenatal education. They try their best to enroll their children in various interest classes and cram schools, so that they can bear the unfulfilled wishes from childhood to adulthood. So the child began to suffer and the parents began to be anxious.

But Dr. Wu Jun told us that education is a lifelong matter, and we don't have to worry about losing at the starting line.

Wu Jun studied in Tsinghua University, the highest institution in China, and then in Johns Hopkins University, the top institution in the United States. College education gave him a higher starting point in life.

After graduation, as one of Google's early employees, Wu Jun participated in the establishment of Google's anti-cheating research field-China, Japan and Korea Search Department, and designed the current Google China, Japan and Korea search algorithm as the main designer.

From 2065438+00 to 2065438+02, Wu Jun joined Tencent as the vice president in charge of search and search advertising, and also served as the general manager of the national major project "New Generation Search Engine and Browser".

In 20 12, Wu Jun returned to Google and took charge of Google's automatic question answering system, which was regarded as "the next generation search".

In the same year, as a founding partner, he founded Fengyuan Venture Capital Fund and invested in more than 90 start-ups in Silicon Valley.

Counting Wu Jun's resume, we have to be impressed by his single-minded "height", which also directly affects his attitude of cultivating the next generation.

The height of parents is a visible role model for children. Parents' knowledge and pattern directly define the starting line for children to stand.

It's hard to imagine that parents are playing mahjong and children can concentrate on their studies.

In cultivating her daughter's interest in learning, Wu Jun is more willing to let her daughter's interest lead her to study and do what she likes. Sometimes, reading is just for enjoyment. When his daughter wanted to read a novel, he asked her to read it for a while. Anything will do.

But slowly, Wu Jun will also guide her daughter to read something deeper, instead of just watching Harry Potter every day.

Looking back on my student days, I had to consider my livelihood when I received education and chose my major. Wu Jun hopes that when I reach my daughter's generation, I can think more about how to be a better and more useful person when I receive education, and regard education as a process of realizing my dreams, not just studying for my future livelihood.

Since her daughter entered high school, Mr. and Mrs. Wu Jun have taken her to visit many famous schools in Britain and America, hoping to make her feel about those schools.

Interestingly, Wu Jun thinks that Columbia University is the most suitable school for her daughter, and her daughter finally chose MIT based on her own feelings.

Later, based on the field investigation and research of these famous universities, Wu Jun wrote The Road to Universities. There are many illustrations of my daughter in this set of books.

In fact, as early as Wu Jun's parents' generation, it also provided him with an advantage starting line.

Although his father didn't have the opportunity to attend a full-time regular university, he took advantage of the opportunity of working in a university to make up one university course after another, worked hard in scientific research, won many national invention awards and scientific and technological progress awards, and finally was promoted to a professor-level researcher in a university with a heavy diploma.

In Wu Jun's impression, parents never take part in entertainment activities at night, or even watch any TV series, but always study regularly. Her mother, even though she is over eighty now, still insists on studying every day.

Wu Jun and his younger brother were subtly influenced by their parents' behavior, which made them consciously accept the view that "reading is very important" at an early age and kept the habit of lifelong learning.

Wu Jun's younger brother is also high flyers of Tsinghua, and later studied for a doctorate at Stanford University.

Failure is not the mother of success, but success is.

As a computer scientist and a trendsetter in the Internet "wave", Wu Jun is not only proficient in his own field, but also has written many bestsellers, such as Top of the Wave, Mystery of Silicon Valley, Light of Civilization, Beauty of Mathematics and Intelligent Age.

Kai-fu Lee once commented on Wu Jun: "I know many engineers, but excellent engineers with strong narrative ability are rare, and Wu Jun is one of them."

The existence of Wu Jun broke the stereotype of programmers, and all his creations were spiritual and beautiful. And all this is due to his lifelong learning.

When writing "Light of Civilization", Wu Jun went to a biological law class; When he started to study the company, he studied financial statements professionally.

Life in Wu Jun has always been in a state of continuous cross-border. Travel, photography, music, badminton, opera, wine and even gardening are all his interests.

In the column "Letter from Silicon Valley", when it comes to one day in new york, Wu Jun talks about everything from travel strategy to photography experience.

Wu Jun didn't neglect the poetry and distance in life because of his busy work. It is those poems and distant places that make him richer and more attractive.

But when it comes to cross-border, Wu Jun didn't change to another because he was unsuccessful in one industry, but he did well in one industry.

"Failure is not the mother of success. 100 failure does not mean that 10 1 failure will succeed. Success is the mother of success. "

Therefore, cross-border needs to have a corresponding foundation. Only by laying a good foundation and extending a little beyond your own knowledge system can we achieve successful cross-border.

In lifelong learning, Wu Jun's way is not only reading and attending lectures, but also attaches great importance to learning from experts around him.

When Wu Jun was studying in Tsinghua, he studied with his teachers and classmates. When he was studying in the United States and working at Google, his early colleagues, as well as people with higher academic level who later participated in the activities at the conference, including Nobel Prize winners, were all his learning objects.

In the process of communicating with outstanding people, Wu Jun gained their knowledge and way of thinking. Sometimes, they will share their own process of making these great contributions, which made Wu Jun evolve into a better person.

He agrees with johnny newman's book The Idea of University: "When many smart, curious, compassionate and discerning young people get together, they can learn from each other even if no one teaches them. They communicate with each other, learn new ideas and opinions, see new things and learn unique behavioral judgments. "

With the advent of the era of artificial intelligence, people are no longer limited to human beings. Wu Jun once predicted that only 2% of people can make the leap, and the remaining 98% people may fall into the worry of being replaced by artificial intelligence sooner or later.

However, while artificial intelligence brings crisis to human beings, it cannot be ignored that AI can actually become the learning object of human beings. When you can make good use of it, it can do more.

"If you must fight against the tools of the future and say that I want to compete with AI, you will be hit hard." To this, Wu Jun made an easy-to-understand analogy. "After you have a car, you should learn how to be a driver instead of practicing sprinting and racing."

Don't be fooled by the "10,000-hour law".

Lifelong learning is a good thing, but in learning, many people will inevitably go astray.

Some people don't practice optics and have theoretical knowledge, but they are just literati who have lost their books, and their lives are still a mess. In this regard, Wu Jun said: "Apply what you have learned. Only when you taste a little sweetness can you have the motivation to continue learning. Otherwise, I read the whole book and finally found that my life has not changed. " This is the best explanation of what Confucius said: "Learning while having fun".

Some people are diligent in practice and loyal supporters of the "10,000-hour law", but they just stay at the level of stupid practice without self-thinking, so after 10,000 hours, they are still repeating a simple low-level job. The so-called "learning without thinking is useless."

Based on this, Wu Jun suggested, "Every time I do something, about 1000 hours, I have to ask myself if I can sublimate something, do something bigger on this basis, and have a new requirement for myself."

If you do it blindly, the harder you work, the more dangerous you are.

In the days when the Wright brothers built the plane, many pilots fell dead during the test flight, but the Wright brothers did thousands of experiments on wing lift and joystick, and many experiments on unmanned flight when no one was there. Finally, they went up without fail.

So he didn't fall to death. After the Wright brothers, many pilots were building planes and fell to death after going up.

"Their success is not the success of brute force, they are skillful craftsmen and clever success." Wu Jun summed up the learning method from the Wright brothers' thinking mode of building airplanes.

When our work pressure is increasing and there are more and more things to do, we tend to be in a hurry, which is also a common problem of many modern people, so some people will wonder if there is something wrong with our efficiency.

In fact, Wu Jun said, "In fact, some people do more than they should. So the point is not how many things you have done, but how many things you have closed. How many things can you do well? These things will accumulate if they are done for a long time. "

Only by being good at allocating tasks and time can we get twice the result with half the effort, thus achieving the highest efficiency in study and work.

As a great god in the industry, Wu Jun is often asked: "Can you spare an hour to talk or do me a favor?" But the usual result is that Wu Jun will refuse them, not losing face, but realizing that time is precious. "I really only have a little time. I just ask for an hour, which is actually a part of my life. "

Wu Jun has a clear understanding of himself. His departure from Google and Tencent has puzzled many people, but his answer is simple: there are far more important things on my list.

This is the best time and the worst time. How to be invincible in the tide of the times depends on yourself!