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Without a life plan, you are only three days away from starvation.

Oral/Xu Xiaoping Finishing/Chen Min

Xu Xiaoping, director of New Oriental Education Technology Group and president of New Oriental Culture Development Research Institute, was praised as a "life designer" by the younger generation in China in 2003.

Winning survival by one's own labor is success.

There are generally three kinds of young people who find it difficult to find a job: one is those who lack job-hunting skills; Second, people who lack employment competitiveness; I think the third kind of people are the worst-they think it is shameful to work only for survival, and it is shameful for college students to be housekeepers, clean toilets and sell meat ... "This shameful feeling is just the most shameful!

Survival is always before success, in other words, winning survival by one's own labor is success in itself. If God doesn't give you many opportunities to clean the toilet for the time being, then you must face the reality and clean the toilet well. I clean toilets in America. Nowadays, the competition in the workplace is fierce, and people must establish the most basic employment values: surviving on their own labor is always the most basic pursuit! Only by filling your stomach can you have the opportunity to enrich your mind and improve yourself.

Greatness comes from the ordinary, and glory comes from the humble. Microsoft is only half a year away from bankruptcy forever, and you may be only three days away from starvation. First of all, we must survive in order to better pursue other dreams.

I have a relative who just graduated from college and moved a computer. I said congratulations, so I started as a porter. Which hotel president didn't start by serving food and cleaning the room? The founder of Wal-Mart started from a small grocery store. The famous American movie stars Stallone and Schwarzenegger both worked as nude models before they became famous. 14 years old, Li Ka-shing shouldered the heavy responsibility of bringing home the bacon, thinking about what to eat for the next meal every day ... At that time, I was a teacher at Peking University and wanted to be a musician or philosopher, but when I arrived in the United States, I found it difficult to survive. I wash dishes and sweep the floor, deliver takeout to Pizza Hut, and all I have to do is wander around the street. It has become my only artistic pursuit to deliver hot pizza to customers before it is cold and hard-my colleagues laugh at me: it is so passionate to send a pizza! But I am proud, passion is not impetuous, not fantasy, passion is persistent in the present, devoted, passion is a quality to do things well in front of me.

I admit that impetuousness is the necessity of the times. People with the same education, some earn tens of thousands of RMB per month, and some 1000 RMB, can't be impetuous. However, you must do a good job at hand to truly enter the realm of success. The so-called winner, not only refers to millionaires, but also includes people who complete a job perfectly and then complete every job.

The big goal of life is to support oneself, to survive and to pursue dreams, which is the basic meaning of starting from humble work.

People who ride donkeys to find horses should not abuse donkeys.

Everyone should have professionalism, and those who can do small things well have a greater chance of success. Never complain about how boring and insignificant work is. As long as you start working, you will have the opportunity to upgrade, upgrade and expand yourself. For example, if you recite 1000 words a day, you will definitely not recite them, and you will have a nervous breakdown. However, if you recite dozens of words a day, you can do it easily, so you will accumulate more. On the other hand, if you want to be Bill Gates from the beginning, people who study philosophy will try to surpass Hegel from the beginning and ignore the work at hand, and may eventually achieve nothing.

You can ride a donkey to find a horse, but don't abuse the donkey. Either give up this donkey, and since you want it, take it seriously as your traveling companion and lover.

Let's go back and clean the toilet. You can make the toilet you are responsible for clean and bright, and the sanitary standard will be improved by one or two stars, which means the promotion of position and the increase of salary. In the early days of the development of New Oriental, everything was covered from the podium to the stove, from the classroom to the toilet. He also invented a "vinegar fumigation therapy" to remove the unpleasant smell in the toilet. Today, "I will clean the toilet" is still talked about by the elders of New Oriental.

New Oriental also has the famous "Sweeping King" Zhang. He comes from a poor rural area. He studied informal English for two years at New Oriental Practical English College. After graduation, he watched the classroom cleaning in New Oriental, but vowed that "sweeping the floor should also sweep out the promise and sweep out the future!" While doing his job well, he set the goal of teaching in New Oriental, hanging a small blackboard at home, simulating the classroom, and speaking and writing over and over again for more than a year. At the beginning of 2002, he came to the New Oriental Building with this small blackboard and gave a mock lecture directly to the recruitment supervisor, which was a success in one fell swoop. Now, Zhang has become one of the best lecturers in New Oriental School.

No matter what work you do, one's work can't be replaced by others, even if it is successful. This attitude of riding a donkey, this serious spirit and professionalism will only touch God, and it is also the direct reason why individuals can get the greatest development.

Abandon the "Proch's bed of Ruth"

I put forward an important point in my new book "Lights in the Mailbox" (revised edition of riding a donkey to find a horse): if we design the future solely on the basis of academic qualifications, the road to life will become very narrow; If we consider and measure ourselves by market demand, there will be many opportunities. This idea is put forward in view of the ethos that China society is still blindly pursuing high education, studying abroad and prestigious schools.

In my book, I told a Greek fairy tale "Proch's Bed of Ruth": the demon Proch Ruth has a bed. He is guarding at the crossroads. When he saw pedestrians, he arrested them and put them on the bed to measure them. If it is too long, he will cut off his foot with an axe. If it is short, it will stretch to meet the standards of the bed. As a result, everyone he measured died.

In order to meet many "sacred" but outdated talent standards recognized by society, many people prefer to make themselves longer or shorter. For example, English learners do not take English communication as the standard, but take CET-4 and CET-6 as the standard. The fact is that there are no formulaic standards and models for success. Imagine that if Yao Ming's parents are academic fans and force him to study for a bachelor's degree, a master's degree or a doctor's degree before playing professional basketball, it is equivalent to asking him to accept the standard of "the bed of the academic supervisor Lv Si", so there would be no Yao Ming in the NBA today.

Tell me about specific cases. A was born in a poor family, took the law exam and went to the postgraduate entrance examination. B just graduated from fashuo and is eager to go abroad. They are all degree-centered, not employment-centered, which violates market rules. Nowadays, many young people fall into the blind state of pursuing higher education, thinking that going abroad is the top grade, postgraduate entrance examination is the middle grade, and employment is the inferior grade.

The worship of academic qualifications and going abroad is a bed for the young people in China. This bed threatens the fate of contemporary China youth. The center of striving for a degree is the collective unconscious of a degree, and getting a degree may not necessarily lead to a future; Taking employment qualification as the center is a new rule for market talents. If you are qualified, you can find a job, thus taking the first step to success!

The night gives us black eyes, and we will use them to look for gold.

No matter what job you are engaged in, you should open all the neural antennas with keen eyes and capture the needs related to the work but not commercialized for the time being, just like capturing the eyes of your lover. It is easier to succeed after "employment" and "career expansion".

1996 when I first returned to new oriental, I made a living purely to make money, and there was no sacred mission at all. However, in the process of consulting abroad, I found that many people move blindly, without considering their own conditions at all, let alone what to do after going abroad. Anyway, they just go abroad for the sake of going abroad. In the torture and questioning of their life and goals, I found a new demand for consultation-life design. Later, I put forward "the art of applying for studying abroad" and "American visa philosophy" in New Oriental. Both of them find and solve problems in the consultation process, and eventually become the brand components of New Oriental.

A student once went to New Oriental for consultation. I graduated from geography and couldn't find a job in Beijing. He is particularly anxious, his family is poor, and he wants to go abroad to make a final attempt. I advised him to find a job first. Later, inspired by the success of New Oriental, he thought that his hometown in Guiyang, which was backward in education, also needed English training, so he went back to start a business. In the past five years, his career has flourished and he has become a famous local entrepreneur.

China has not too many talents, but too few. The splendid art of painting in the Forbidden City was developed by Taiwan Province Provincial Company. They use Japan's super antique painting reproduction technology to produce high-priced finished products and then sell them to the mainland. There are still many blank growth points in a market like China, just waiting for talent development. I often joke: "The night has given us black eyes, and we will use them to look for gold". China's professional field is full of "gold", depending on how you dig it.

Wisdom suggestion:

Studying abroad, upgrading, postgraduate entrance examination and employment are all young people's life choices, and there are no rules to follow. The question is: can it make you live a happy life and realize the ultimate value of life? I put forward an important "three industries" theory in the lamp in the mailbox: success is nothing more than work, career and career. One is to get employment, that is, to make a living and solve the problem of food and clothing; If you want a career again, you will feel safe through a stable income; Finally, it is to achieve career and realize the greatest value of life. I appeal to our readers and students, through independent thinking, to break the spiritual shackles, break through the ideological cage, determine the goal of struggle, design their own lives with "employment" as the minimum struggle program, and pursue personal success.