Inspirational speech: Moving forward is the best way for us to achieve happiness and achievement.

Inspirational speech: Moving forward is the best way for us to achieve happiness and achievement.

Yu Minhong

Tsinghua University teachers and classmates, teachers and students from various colleges and universities, good afternoon everyone!

First of all, I want to explain that I didn't bring a lecture because I am a person who likes to play freely. The origin of the "self-strengthening star" is relatively simple, because I think people always need someone to push at a certain stage. I think that there are two concepts of self-improvement. First of all, it is necessary to be strong. The school motto of Tsinghua University is self-improving, and it is to show that you must be strong. Secondly, while self-powerful, at the crucial moment, someone can help you and work together with you. This is also the original intention of the 50 million establishment of the Central Committee of the New Oriental Self-improvement Fund.

Everyone knows that a person can go very fast, but not necessarily far away, because a person is too lonely, and when he reaches a certain level, he is not willing to go any further, and no one can see you, so it is easy to stop. progress. If it is a group of people to go together, there are two advantages, the first will be willing to go on, because others are going forward, if you don't go, you will fall behind. After being left behind, it will be very lonely. People are social groups of animals. They are willing to stay among a group of people. This group of people are going far away. It is very difficult for you to leave alone. The second will be encouraged, because the role of the team is to help you move forward when you find someone falling.

There is such an activity in New Oriental. All teachers and employees of New Oriental must participate in a 50-kilometer walk. I started walking the first day of the afternoon and went to the evening. I held a campfire at the campfire and continued on the next day. The first day was very exciting. The next day went very hard, but few people were left behind. Unless they were really injured or they couldn’t go wrong with their knees, no one would be left behind. I belong to the type of violent walk. If I walk halfway, even if I get out of my feet, I will let the water out of the bubble go. As long as it is the person who has reached the end, there are two feelings in the final talk. The first time I never thought I could go so far, because 50 kilometers is not a short distance, and the second never thought of such a sense of accomplishment.

Working alone, in a sense, is to obtain dignity and self-respect, dignity is respected by others, and self-esteem is worthy of being self-respecting. If you really do things well, you will feel a sense of self-esteem. But sometimes you feel good, others don't feel good, you play the game first, others don't necessarily look at you, according to social evaluation standards, social value system, everyone says that you can do well to win respect. For example, Chen Jingrun spent the rest of his life studying mathematics at home. When he went out, he ran into a telephone pole because his eyes were highly myopic, but he was respected by the whole world. Even when a person is alone, consider whether things to do are valuable to themselves and society, consider social values, and sometimes it is a criterion for us to do things.

Once we choose to do one thing, we must finish it in principle, because we can't finish it, and finally it will lead to a kind of failure and failure, a frustration mentality, and even a feeling of inferiority. Of course, we can choose to live a comfortable life. No one is forcing you to take Tsinghua University. No one is forcing you to take the test scores. The world will always have a choice. Going forward will be painful. No one does not say that the college entrance examination is painful, but why should pain choose to go forward? Because people want a point for the future, this point may be a happy point, or it may be an achievement point, and willing to pay now. This is where we are different from animals. People are willing to work harder for the future. Why are we willing to endure the pain of today? It is because we know that if we don't pay, the future of life will be more painful. Happiness is always a point, and struggle and pain are a line, and only after that line can reach that point.

For example, climbing a mountain and climbing from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain is actually a painful process. Because it will be tired, you will feel happiness when you climb to the top of the mountain to see the scenery under the mountain. When you stand on the top of the mountain and see a higher mountain in the distance, you can't fly. You must go down the mountain and go up the mountain and go through a painful process. Two Chinese entrepreneurs who like mountain climbing have boarded Mount Everest, one is Wang Shi, and the other is my alumnus Huang Nubo. Every time they came back down the mountain, they made up their minds to never climb the mountain again. But after a break, they will definitely climb again. They are not conquering the hills. People come or not, the mountain is still a mountain, the mountain has its own dignity, no need to conquer. Why do people want to conquer mountains? In fact, it is not the mountains that conquer, the people are conquering themselves, and only conquering themselves will produce a sense of self-confidence and pride that is born and born, and wins.

I often take the New Orientals to a place where there is no place to smoke for 50 kilometers. When the average person walks to 25 kilometers, they don't want to leave. There are three choices. The first is to go back to the starting point, which is 25 kilometers. The second is to sit there. If you don't leave, there is no smoke in the 25-kilometer radius. It is not starving to death or thirst, or losing to death. The third is to choose to go to the end. It is also 25 kilometers, and there is a delicious roast whole lamb waiting for you, so life is best. The choice is to go to the end.
When did the 25 kilometers of life appear? It is at your time. At this time, you struggle to get into the university, go back and go back, and you can't make progress in college. The only choice is to go forward. Everyone's life goal is different, what is your life goal, whether your life has worked hard for you, whether you have received spiritual enjoyment, or whether you have received spiritual satisfaction. This is very important. Regarding the future, you can hope to earn money, hope to be famous, and hope to be a business, even if you want to be a monk, you can become your own ambition. It is very remarkable to be a monk like the Master of Hongyi. The first half of the life has enjoyed the secular life. After the rest of his life, he wore vegetables and became one of the greatest figures in Chinese religious circles.

In fact, this is also a standard for us to judge self-improvement. The disability of legs like Jin Jing can also spread the torch of China to the world, showing the tenacious and unyielding side of our Chinese people with the most heroic image. What people are most afraid of is that the soul is crippled, and life will be terrible. For example, I am physically healthy, but sitting on the edge of Jin Jing and Ye Qiaobo, I feel very embarrassed. Compared with them, my heart may not be as healthy as them. When the body is healthy, but the mind is disabled and mentally disabled, it is the most tragic time.

The judgment of self-improvement results is not how high the social status and the comfortable life in the future, but behind all of them, the meaning of our chosen career and its significance to society. What I do is spiritual satisfaction, worthy of social conscience, and worthy of the universal universal value of society. This is the satisfaction of the soul, that is, the affirmation of the meaning of oneself. From the perspective of social judgment standards, it is the minimum standard to be a person who is at least harmless to society and best used. To be a continuous heroic figure is something that needs to be cultivated. We can at least try to make ourselves better. This should be something everyone can do.
When we have achieved some success in society, whether it is wealth or other aspects, we must have a willingness to pay. Everyone has read such a story: a billionaire went to the church to donate one million to heaven, and was blocked by God. An old lady gave a dime to go to heaven. This billionaire is very angry. Why don't I donate one million to heaven? Why is God so unfair? God said that you donate one million is one percent of you, and that the old lady donates one hair is 100% of her, so you can't enter heaven, she can enter heaven, and of course fair. I don't think I will walk into the grave with my wealth. I will give this money to the people who need it most. When I want to go to heaven, I hope that God will say that you have not made 100%, but you have taken out 90%, enough, you go in.

thank you all!

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