Author: Liu Jiaolian

BTC rebounded to 98k overnight and fell below 97k again. The U.S. stock market seems to have reached a new high again. In the internal reference last night (11.29), Jiaolian said, "Stable growth with low volatility must be a deception."

I saw a post about how Einstein recruits talents, which I found quite interesting and inspiring.

It is said that in 1933, Einstein first arrived at Princeton, the top university in the United States. The first thorny problem he needs to solve is to find a group of talented young people as soon as possible to form a research team.

Friends who have applied for a job or interviewed job seekers in the workplace should have some understanding of recruitment. Usually, a paper is issued to test the job seeker's basic knowledge first. Then through the interview, some questions are asked to make the job seeker think and give solutions, and through direct interaction, we can understand the other party's ability to analyze and solve problems. If these are all passed, it will be handed over to the senior leader and HR to look at aspects such as character and integrity, and then you can prepare an offer.

But the method Einstein used was unexpected. Traditional recruitment methods can only screen out talents who are proficient in existing knowledge, but cannot identify geniuses with pioneering thinking that is different from ordinary people.

For such talents in the traditional sense, to put it bluntly, they are still cost-effective. There is a wonderful joke: Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were dissatisfied with Liu Bei's monthly salary of 3,000, and were ready to switch jobs to Cao Cao to get five times the salary. Liu Bei successfully dissuaded him with his words. What did Liu Bei say? Liu Bei said earnestly: You are talents with a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan here, but if you go to Cao Cao and get 15,000 yuan and do similar work, then you are not considered talents. And if Cao Cao discovers that you are no longer talented, think about what he will do to you?

What Einstein is looking for is not cheap cattle and horses, but truly outstanding talents. What he values ​​is the ability in the following three aspects:

First, critical thinking. Ability to question hypotheses and critically analyze solutions.

Second, creativity. Ability to think outside the traditional box and come up with innovative solutions.

Third, curiosity. Ability to eagerly explore ideas in depth and challenge established norms.

Einstein's research methods often combine learning and discovery, conducting thought experiments and in-depth knowledge seeking on the basic principles of physics.

He believes that true understanding comes from starting at a conceptual level, questioning widely accepted truths, and exploring other perspectives.

So how did Einstein identify talents with these abilities?

He designed an imaginative recruitment process.

First, he prepared some papers with hidden errors in his office in advance.

Then, he first asks the candidate a question and asks him to give the answer.

The key is here. Einstein didn't actually care about the candidates' answers. He took out the paper he had prepared in advance, which of course gave a beautiful but wrong answer.

What Einstein wants to know is that this candidate who was confident in his answer just now will now face this different answer. How to react?

Some people were shocked and carefully studied the answers prepared by Einstein. After that, they discovered the hidden errors in them and shouted them out. Point to Einstein. Teachers can imagine that they will probably say, look, the answer to this paper is obviously wrong, it violates such-and-such a law!

Even after discovering the error in the reference answer, they will be even more proud of their answer, feeling that they have already won the interview!

But I'm sorry. For such people, all Einstein did was politely send them out of the office.

So what kind of person did Einstein want? Let's look at an example.

In 1939, Einstein selected the first candidate he liked. He is John Wheeler (John·Wheeler). Unlike others, Wheeler did not simply reject the wrong reference answer, but spent three hours exploring other possibilities hidden in it.

Another person who caught Einstein's eyes was Robert Oppenheimer, the famous father of the atomic bomb. When he saw Einstein's incorrect reference answer, he couldn't help but say, "This breaks all the rules we know, but, but, it's so beautiful."

Yes, what Einstein is looking for is not those who are always "right", but those who can see the beauty in their mistakes. Such people are fascinated by exploring the so-called impossible ideas until they become possible.

Einstein's philosophy is simple: if an idea is not absurd at first, then it is a hopeless idea.

Since Satoshi Nakamoto proposed the idea of ​​BTC (Bitcoin) in 2008, many people have felt that they Got it in seconds. Not only did he understand it instantly, he also saw through it. Not only did he see through it, but he also saw the unreasonable errors and absurdities in it. So they proudly said:

BTC is a ridiculous idea.

BTC is a Ponzi scheme.

BTC cannot be a currency.

BTC cannot be valuable.

BTC will definitely return to zero.

BTC does not conform to the theories of financial textbooks and economics textbooks.

BTC's decentralized consensus mechanism is impossible because it violates the FLP Impossibility Theorem.

Wait, wait.

These people only see the unconventional mistakes, but lack a pair of eyes to discover the beauty of mistakes.

They cannot see the inherent beauty of BTC.

If viewed from a traditional perspective, beauty is wrong. Then what is wrong is not beauty, but the traditional aesthetic vision.

Maybe they didn't do anything wrong. They are just too old~

Not in terms of physical age, but in terms of psychological age.

The world belongs to both old people and young people, but it will eventually belong to young people.

So these people sent themselves out of the BTC office with their own hands, missing this once-in-a-millennium wealth train.