[M5] About Prediction that I Have Ever Made

1. What was the most important right prediction that you have ever made? Why was it so important?

In 2009 I predicted that I was bound to be admitted to the postgraduate shcool in several years. This prediction actually provided a chance to witness or prove the effect of accumulation by action. At that time, it was more of a belief than a prediction. It offered me a hope that I could or should be able to go beyond what I had set as the ultimate goal, or limit, when I was in middle school―to be adimitted to a universtiy, whatever level. The fact turned out that I was admitted in no more than two years. One thing to be added, I also predicted that in the interview to come for admssion test there would be no need to be neverous and that I could manage my emotion by thinking and behaving naturally in those critical minutes. The rusult proved right. I cannot tell the difference between prediction and belief. They appear as a mixture.

2. Of all your predictions, which was the greatest one while you did not benefit from it in the end? Why was it the greatest one and why did you fail to benefit from it?

Maybe when I was a junior high school student I had predicted that the future world would have much to do with the computer skills. At that time I had already bought 《电脑报》 for years. I could feel the bright future of IT. However, those years I was made to lose the confidence and interest in maths and decided to abandon the subjects of natural science in high school, if I could be adimitted to a high school. However, the essentiakl problem was that I did not truly understand the importance of IT, just as those who do not understand or believe at the bottom of their mind the importance of English. That resulted in the abscence of action. For example, in my vague memory of that time, I skipped almost all the software section of 《电脑报》, for the contents about software were all Greek to me.

3. In the last ten or twenty years, you must know "Kowlege is power", "Knowledge is money", but why did not you think much of this principle? Where did those problems lie?

As what I have reflected on above, I did not truly believe I could obtain that knowledge and even could not feel anythng wrong without the acquisition of that knowledge. On the other hand, I did not or could not distinguish the true knowledge. I once thought that what I had experienced as an undergraduate student was absolutely enough for a normal university student to be a middle school teacher. In addition, I had long been influenced by the idea or ideology that money is not that important in life so that my motivation to make money at that moment was rather weak and did not form the right idea about how to make money in a scientific way either.

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Those questions above come from an article of Li Xiaolai's column in the App "Get it" and now I give my tentative answers.