No one cares more about your future than you.

What should a university learn and how should it be learned? This is a gift from Li Kaifu to college students, providing you with some sincere and effective advice to help you better plan your life. Of course, you must know that the most important of these is yourself, because no one cares more about your future than you.

If you are confused about the future, I hope you can grasp the time and find your talent and interest. In this way, when you graduate from college, you will truly have a confident sky.

I really like the work of the British novelist Dickens. He wrote a short story called "Christmas Carols". The story is about a kind nature, but because of the influence of the environment, he became a very small, sly, mean businessman. He was taken by the three elves on Christmas Eve. I have come to my own past, present and future life scenes, and I have seen myself in the future, and I am completely awake, understand the meaning of life, and resolve to rehabilitate.

This story tells us that if you can see what you might become in the future, many people may not live the way they do today. After four years, some of you may be confused like this, you may be confused, or you may find that you have many shortcomings from your goals. If you want to avoid confusion and confusion after four years, you must plan your own university life from now on and work hard to improve yourself.

Look for interest and talent to avoid being confused and confused.

For four years in college, you must recognize yourself and figure out what kind of person you want to be, especially know where your interests are and where your talents are.

You have to abandon some of the wrong understandings of the past: what kind of person you want to be, it doesn't matter to anyone who thinks you are who you are or who you want to be. No matter who classmates, teachers, or parents, they can't decide what kind of person you want to be; or, they want you to be someone, probably not the person you really want to be.

Why is it so important to recognize your talents? Imagine if we had to turn Bill Gates into a musician, how much music can he achieve? If he had to turn Beethoven into a programmer, he might become Bill Gates? Certainly not. Naturally, my materials will be useful, and everyone has their own talents. Only by finding the talents can you bring your potential to the limit.

In addition, finding your own interests is equally important and even more important. If doing things is your favorite thing, then you will be thinking about it when you eat, sleep, or even take a bath. It is difficult to succeed. How do college students look for interest and talent? My advice is very simple: try more! Try something you might be interested in: whether it is an elective course or an internship.

Of course, seeking knowledge can't be too utilitarian. Don't just learn the skills that are “useful and helpful” because of one of your career plans, and give up areas that you may be interested in or have talented. Otherwise, you may miss something that your heart really loves. Steve Jobs once said: "Our life is faced with various choices and should follow our hearts." Steve Jobs also said: "You are not able to accumulate the previous accumulations in the future." Connected together, you can only connect them together when you look back. So you have to believe that the current accumulation of bits and pieces will be connected in one day in the future. You must believe in something - yours Courage, purpose, life, karma, etc. - I believe that they will connect your life in tandem, which will allow you to follow your heart more confidently. Even this will guide you to take the unusual path and make your life different."

Learn to learn and think, avoid becoming a test machine.

Don't be trained as a machine by exam-oriented education. I hope that you can get rid of all the constraints and start to really learn and think. How do you really learn to learn and think? During college, you must learn three kinds of abilities to learn and think. These three abilities can help you get rid of the constraints of exam-oriented education.

The first and most important ability is the ability to learn by yourself. When you are in high school, the teacher will repeat the textbook content again and again, but after entering the university, the teacher can only act as a guide, and students must actively explore, learn and practice. In the four years of college, you must learn to change from a person who is filled with knowledge to a person who is self-learning. It can't be memorized, but it must also have the ability to understand—this includes the ability to do the opposite, knowing the ability to do so, and the ability to be self-taught.

How to cultivate self-learning ability? It is very simple, you must learn to ask "why". In the exam-oriented education system, as long as you learn "what", you can pass the exam, but in college, you must learn "why." When you really understand why something is so, you can make a difference, no teacher.

The second ability is the ability from theory to practice. Don't just know what the formula is, what the theory is, and how to use it in actual work. Many people have entered the society to know that the accounting, statistics, philosophy, literature and the like that were studied before may not be the knowledge that your boss asks you to master. Some people say that the really useful knowledge that is actually learned in college is only 5% that is used in a lifetime. Therefore, it is more important to know how to apply what you have learned.

The third ability is critical thinking, which is the ability of critical thinking. Everything has a multi-faceted view, not just a black and white answer. Different people have different opinions, and each opinion is worth knowing and cherishing. Don't be bound by dogma, learn to look at things from different perspectives. How to cultivate critical thinking ability? It is recommended that when you encounter a knowledge point, you should not only learn to ask "why" but also learn to ask "why not." Why is this so, why can't it be? This will give you a deeper understanding of the nature of the problem.

Develop emotional intelligence and avoid being a lonely, passive person.

This phenomenon is very natural. Growing up in an atmosphere of exam-oriented education, you may have little time to develop relationships outside of your studies. I suggest that you use the university for four years and work hard to improve your emotional intelligence.

The so-called emotional intelligence is the ability to communicate with others, the ability to compare hearts and the ability to gain the trust of others. After entering the industry, you will find that these abilities are very important, especially the ability to gain the trust of others, because trust takes a lot of time to cultivate, but if you make a mistake, you may destroy it.

The first step in developing emotional intelligence is to foster friendship. When you are in college, you must make a few good friends. Friendship of the university is not easy to deteriorate, and often can benefit for life. I hope that you can compare your heart, treat your good friends like good friends, become good friends of your good friends, and share your joys and sorrows with your friends.

Second, we must cultivate our own expressive ability, which is eloquence. Don't think that you are smart and able to think is enough. The Greek philosophers have said that a person who is good at thinking, if not good at expression, is actually a person who is not good at thinking.

To be successful, an entrepreneur must influence the people around him, such as investors, customers, users, and so on. An eloquent entrepreneur can better lead employees, allow employees to understand their vision, and motivate their enthusiasm and potential. Although only eloquence is not enough, every successful entrepreneur I have seen has excellent expressive ability. Oral eloquence is not something that can be learned in a school. You must work hard on your own.

Third, during the school period, we must strive for more opportunities for internship and practice. For four years in college, if you want to be a person who is liked and attractive, you need to learn more about teamwork. After entering the society, teamwork represents everything, but in the classroom, it is usually less encouraging teamwork. Does teamwork during the exam not be cheating? Therefore, you must make full use of the internship and practice when you study. Opportunity to learn and develop teamwork skills.

Many college graduates said to me: "Mr. Li, I feel very lonely and very passive." One of my classmates said: "My interpersonal skills are not strong, the interpersonal circle is small, and there is no special strength that attracts the attention of others, even in The community doesn't know how to connect with others.” I worked at Google for four years and worked at the Innovation Workshop for two years. During these six years, I have not hired a graduate who has no internship experience. Therefore, when the summer vacation arrives next year, you should not go home to play a summer vacation, but to find an internship opportunity, because the summer vacation is a rare opportunity to control all your time.

No student who has never had an internship can enter Google or an innovative workshop. The school’s teachers and school programs don’t really understand what the business needs. The only way to master practical work experience is to go to a business internship. If you can't find a good company like Innovation Workshop, Google, Baidu, etc., you can go to any company. It is best to be able to go to a counterpart company, and it can't be no problem. If you can't find a technology company, look for the service industry, even if it is a dish in the restaurant. Although you don't want to have a plate for a lifetime, when you have a plate, you have the opportunity to get in touch with the people around you, which will make you a higher emotional intelligence person.

In addition to internships, student clubs are also a great place to learn to deal with relationships. The community is actually a microscopic society. Participating in the community is a very good way to learn into society.

In short, three good ways to improve emotional intelligence are: foster friendship, exercise eloquence, and strive for internship opportunities.

What should I do if I make a mistake in a club event? What should I do when I am hitting a job? What if I go to Baidu to be rejected? What if they laugh at me? If you find yourself incapable, the people around you What are you doing better than me? It’s normal to have these confusions. Be sure to be proactive and don't be afraid of failure.

From the first day of college, you have to move from passive to active. To be your own master, actively manage your own academic and even future plans. Only if you can manage your own future, no one cares more about what you want to be in the future. In today's society, only one who is proactive and not afraid of failure can succeed in a rapidly changing competitive environment. Only those who are good at showing themselves can get the most opportunities in their work. When you encounter setbacks, you must never give up or even give up. Your passiveness is actually a waiver. If you don't solve the problem, it is also a solution; you don't make decisions, you are also making decisions - it will only make you a passive, passive, unsuccessful person.

When it comes to making mistakes, this society often does not encourage mistakes. But think about it, each of us has failed many times. You may not remember that when you first tried to walk, you must have fallen. When you first talked, you must say that you missed it. You may have drowned when you first started swimming. Your first shot is definitely not there. Invest in? But now you will do these things, because you have not been defeated by failure, learned more from failure. In my personal career, the biggest lessons and best experiences I have learned come from failure, not from success.

Steve Jobs has a word that makes me particularly moved: "'Remember that you are going to die' is the most important rumor I have encountered in my life. It helps me identify important choices in life. Because almost everything , including all honors, all pride, all fear of embarrassment and failure, which will disappear in the face of death. What I see is the really important thing left. Sometimes people worry that they will lose something. Remember that you are going to die, this is the best way I know to avoid this idea. You are already worried, there is no reason not to follow your heart."

Be down to earth and avoid being an impetuous, greedy person.

Impetuousness and greed, these two negative attitudes towards life, I see again and again in young people. This is more caused by environmental factors. In your environment, there are too many unfairness, and some people who are dishonest are getting rich quickly. They are unfortunately become idols that some young people follow.

Young people should struggle, but don't take luck as a motivation. In today's society, entrepreneurship is good, and employment is good. We must be down-to-earth and achieve goals through hard work.

There is a book called "Different" telling us that every great master has finally succeeded after almost 10,000 hours of practice. Mozart practiced about 10,000 hours to become an outstanding musician, and Bill Gates practiced about 10,000 hours of programming to succeed. Don't be impetuous, don't think you can be lucky. Even if the lucky success is obtained, it may be short-lived; even if it is not short-lived, it is not worth it.

Share the words of Jack Welch: "Integrity is just a ticket to the game. If you don't have it in your bones, you shouldn't be allowed on the field."

Students who want to start a business must not be too impetuous. When you graduate from a business, the chance of failure is too great. Even if you have internship experience, you will not have an in-depth understanding of finance, legal affairs, operations, marketing, technology, products, users... you can't become a versatile person so quickly. Give yourself at least a few years to start a business. The best way to learn and learn is to join a startup company and gradually build up your strengths and connections. When you feel that you have accumulated enough, start your business again.

On the down-to-earth topic, I want to share a motto of Steve Jobs: If you are hungry, you are humble. This sentence is not what he said, it was written by a person named Kevin Kelly, a famous American technology prophet and technology writer, and a very respectable friend of mine. I asked him last year: "Steve Jobs learned the motto of life from you, stay hungry, stay foolish, how do you understand this sentence? Can you use the simplest and most understandable language? Explain and interpret these four English words?" He said: "We must understand our own smallness. If we don't learn, the speed of technology development will make all of us empty after five years. So we must Embrace the knowledge of the future with the modest self-consciousness of the beginners and the desire for knowledge of the hungry." I hope everyone can remember this sentence.

Modest, eager, down-to-earth learning, so you can avoid being an impetuous, greedy person.