Jay Chou was invited to share his growth story in Peking University Centennial Lecture Hall: He told us with practical experience that skills are more important than academic qualifications. Jay Chou didn't go to college, but he started from the bottom, used piano music he studied since childhood, and finally embarked on the road of being a musician and further became an actor and director. The most important thing is that you have a skill that can be discovered by others, and then you can further develop it with your own eyes and ideas.
During the period of 1995, Kong Xiangyin, who has not yet obtained his master's and doctor's degrees, won a scholarship from the Max Planck Institute in Germany and went to the Max Planck Institute for postdoctoral research. 1997 he heard that there was an urgent need for biological talents in China and decided to return to work. But because his highest degree is undergraduate, almost no unit is willing to accept him. After a few months of "wandering", the head of the Shanghai Bioengineering Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has a unique eye and arranged for him to engage in genetic research.
Kong Xiangyin later proved the short-sightedness of academic scholars with his first-class achievements: in a short period of four or five years, he and his collaborators discovered a series of disease-related genes and published many papers in internationally renowned academic journals. His research was supported by the National Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and the National 863 Program, and his achievements also won many patents and national natural science awards. ?
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Education alone does not necessarily have a solid knowledge base, and people with knowledge have no skills. A skill can make a living, but education is often a qualification to enter a certain field of earning a living.
T-type talents have one skill and a wide range of knowledge, while ∏-type talents have a wide range of knowledge and have more than two professional skills. As far as making a living is concerned, a skill is the most important. But to move towards a higher level, education and knowledge are more important foundations than technology.