Brainstorm

I decided to do something without using my brain to think too much after solving the mathematical problems that made my brain overloaded. My rational side told me that I should read some book while the opposite side suggested that it’s okay for the brain to take some “junk food”. It was final week, those decisions that could make me happy always win. So I took out my phone and the next two or three hours would be used on social media. Then the next second my eyes were filled with posts from different people sharing various colorful lives from themselves or others. I was trying to taste others’ sweet lives to make the hardest days in the semester less bitter. Then my attention was attracted by a post of video of a tour in Jeffree Star’s house, it was a grand villa on Beverly Hill, where the celebrities and billionaires live in. 

Jeffree Star is a makeup youtuber, also an entrepreneur who has investments in many industries, a well-known completely self-made billionaire. As a commerce student, I’m really interested in this kind of people’s life, especially the process of primitive accumulation of capital and every step of the development of their business. “How can people be that rich?” my curiosity forced me to think again, I wanted to know her past. She had a unhappy childhood, six years ago she only had $500 in her pocket, now her net worth is 200 million dollars. It looks like a classic experience of a self-made person, which is as dramatic as a good novel.  She has mentioned this tough process many times in her videos. I admire her courage and the ability to restart after the failure of her first career of music.

Now I’m more curious about this specific group of people: the self-made businessmen and businesswomen. Most people usually pay more attention on the numbers after the “$” besides their names on the rich lists, how many people would like to do some researches to know more about their histories of the pioneering days? 

In China, “you cannot have a noble child from a humble family” is a popular saying, but here is a fact: 55.8% of the 2,604 billionaires are self-made. It seems that the saying is opposite against the number of the self-made billionaires among the 2604 billionaires. I always believe that it’s more difficult for a humble family to have a noble child, but at the same time I know that success is not an exclusive item of the upper class. It makes people feel ambitious after reading their early life stories, but later, a frustrated voice would appear: can you be that lucky? are you as smart as them? are you sure that you will not give up if you are really experiencing life like that? These are the successful ones, the small probability events. What about those who failed? you would never know their stories. As a student in commerce, I should not be disturbed by these thoughts, I should learn something from their experience.