Being a person: The second thing to always uphold

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A friend went to work at an educational institution some time ago and had their worldview completely shattered. **Provincial-level certificates cost over ten thousand yuan each, while provincial-level certificates cost a few thousand yuan each. There are people who will write papers on behalf of others, and there are those who leak questions for written tests and interviews. My friend was very angry: How can this affect us who once worked so hard to study and obtain certificates? But at the same time, he accepted it as inevitable: such phenomena are common in today’s society. Once, we believed that knowledge could change one’s fate; that as long as we studied hard, we could change our social background and achieve a remarkable turnaround in our lives! Now it turns out that money, relationships, family background, and status are all forms of capital for a person. There are opportunities that require great effort to obtain, while others are predetermined through distant connections and a few red envelopes. If it is known that effort and reward are not proportional, then what is the point of learning? At the very least, those with genuine skills are more perceptive when looking at issues and employ more effective approaches to handle them. The same point is instantly understood by those who are knowledgeable, but those who just muddle through need to do various searches to grasp its meaning. Just this alone means that true skills give an advantage from the start. I really like this passage: We strive to learn hard so that, even if we end up dealing with tedious tasks, we can approach the same work with a different mindset ； The same family, yet a different atmosphere ； The same offspring, yet with different qualities. A life spent reading must be different! You have to believe.