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Editor’s note: Netflix’s documentary about Bill Gates really attracts the attention of the world, but what is the most important thing we can learn from Gates? To be honest, neither his wealth nor his strategy, nor his idea of saving and changing the world, but the idea of how people think, is to invest enough in the most intimate people in our lives and lives. Time and care. This article is translated from medium, article author Niklas Göke, the original title The Most Important Lesson We Can Learn From Bill Gates.
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Bill Gates has many reasons to attract people: his wealth, his habits, his thoughts, and so on.
Netflix’s new documentary “Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates” covers everything. This documentary tells about his extraordinary life, from promoting the most popular office software to the world, to building one of the world’s most influential companies, to being the richest person, and now leading the foundation. .
But the reason why I am fascinated by Gates has nothing to do with it – not his success, his way of thinking, nor his way of solving the world’s most critical technical problems. The most interesting thing for me is that he teaches us what people are.
In Netflix’s entire documentary, the interviewer continually asked Gates some stupid questions: “What is your favorite food? What is your favorite animal? What do you eat for breakfast?” But from time to time He will also throw some — perhaps to keep Gates off guard, let him change the unchanging answer — a bit of a level problem. Perhaps it was just a documentary clip, and Gates seemed to be accepting an inconsequential torture. But no matter what the situation – even in the interview – we always seem to be asked this question: “Which day is the worst day in your life?”
Gates is a calm person. He is very reserved, but answering various questions can be considered as familiar. But this time it was different – his eyes slanted and then his eyes moved down. He seems to be thinking, but he is not really thinking. He knows what he wants to say – he just doesn’t want to say it, but in the end, he still said it:
“It was the day my mother died.”
In the library of $127 million in luxury homes, sitting on a person who has achieved all the goals that are possible, his life—at least for us outsiders—is by his commercial success. Defined.
But he didn’t say, “It was the day Steve Jobs accused me of stealing his stuff.”
He did not say: “It was the day when I was thrown on the face when I was visiting Belgium. It was a shameful day.”
He did not even say, “It was the day we were forced to pay $1.3 billion in antitrust fines.”
No, the worst day in the life of this Microsoft billionaire was the day his mother died.
No matter who you are, no matter what kind of person you want to be, in the end, life has nothing to do with money, status or power, even with the name of the person behind him.
Life is about people’s lives – the people you meet, the people you miss, and even the people you hate. Most importantly, life is about the life of the person you love. Some people will leave the world before you. Nothing can bring them back to you.
Everyone has limited time, and the time spent with our closest people may be more limited. Gates reminded me of this fact. In my opinion, this is the most important lesson he has given us.
Translator: Xi Tang