CNBC Insight Revealed! This is How Jewish People Are Successful & Rich Entrepreneurs – 3 hours ago

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – A number of studies reveal that the Jewish people have a long historical record of producing successful people. In the 20th century, Jews in the West were noted to have succeeded in becoming intellectual figures and occupying the highest economic classes.

Then quite a few of them won the highest award in science, namely the Nobel. In the period 1901-1962, 16% of science Nobel winners were Jews. For example, the famous physicist of Jewish descent, Albert Einstein, who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1921.

Referring to Paul Burstein’s research in “Jewish Educational and Economic Success in the United States” (2007) in the United States, Jews are recorded to be more successful economically and educationally than other national and racial groups.

So, what is the secret recipe for the Jewish people to be able to “hold the world” to this day?

According to Richard Lynn and Satoshi Kanazawa in “How to explain high Jewish achievement” (2008) there are at least two hypotheses to explain their high achievement.

First, Jews are proven to have above average intelligence. As expressed by Jacobs in his Jewish Contribution to Civilization (1919), “German Jews were at the pinnacle of European success.”

Jacobs’s basis for conveying this was due to an empirical view that saw the success of Jews in Europe at that time. However, due to the lack of measuring instruments in the form of intelligence tests or Intellectual Quotient (IQ) tests, this statement is not necessarily valid.

It was only when IQ tests began to be developed in the mid-20th century that the hypothesis that Jews had high intelligence, one of which was Jacobs’s statement, could be strengthened by the test results. The test results show that it is true that Jews have above average intelligence.

Second, their success is based on strong cultural values. According to Lynn and Kanazawa, the cultural value in question is a work ethic to pursue success.

For Jewish families, success is an absolute thing that must be achieved by every child in every generation. As a result, every parent requires their children to excel. They provide the best nutritional intake and provide motivation to have a hobby of reading.

Because, they believe that literacy is the only way out of ignorance. They have proven this themselves based on cases in the era of the Abbasid Islamic Caliphate (750 AD-1258 AD).

At that time, referring to research entitled The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jews (2012), they experienced a traumatic event in the form of the destruction of a temple. From here, they are then inspired to be able to read and escape the trap of illiteracy.

Long story short, when they had adequate literacy, they left their old jobs in the agricultural sector and focused on the literacy and education sectors. When pursuing this new sector, they believe that these two things are proven to make them prosperous in terms of income. On this basis, in the future Jews were very oriented towards education.

Not only those two reasons, another opinion was also expressed by historian Jerry Z. Muller at Project Syndicate. According to him, the success of Jews is also closely related to the discrimination they have experienced, which has had an impact on two things.

First, they have strong inter-Jewish relations. In the future, this relationship will open up fortune. They get to know each other, can start new jobs and businesses.

Second, they learn to look for new opportunities that not many people are interested in, so they can raise their level. Later, they will pursue work as traders or create new discoveries that have not been thought of before.

Regarding the creation of new discoveries related to creativity, Paul Burstein’s research in “Jewish Educational and Economic Success in the United States” (2007) states that this could happen because they are skeptical of local conventional ideas that are fostered where they live.

So, when they didn’t want to use these ideas, the Jewish immigrant’s brain immediately thought creatively to create new ways that would stimulate creativity and intellectual intelligence. Later, all of this will lead to success in the economic field.

At least those are some of the secret recipes for Jewish success. These methods can actually be imitated by everyone. Because, to achieve success and wealth we need to learn a lot from other people, regardless of race, religion or ethnicity.

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