Yu Minhong: Life is a process business is a result

Yu Minhong: Life is a process business is a result

——Yu Minhong’s speech to all employees

If you have done your best for a career goal, even if there is no result, the richness of life itself is the best result. If you work hard but fail in the end, it is not your fault; if you have not worked hard and finally failed, that is your fault...
The most important thing in life is to understand what is going on in our lives and our cause. There is a saying that "Life is a process and career is a result."
"Life is a process", which means that we have to live happily every day, because each day we add up is the whole of our lives. If you are not happy every day, it is unhappy to add up. If you are happy every day, it is happy to add up. But on the other hand, "business is a result," which means that when you start doing something, you have to make very harsh demands on the outcome of the matter, because people only care about the results of your work, not Care about the process of doing things. If New Oriental is gone, people will only say that Yu Minhong is a loser. He will not say that Yu Minhong’s process of doing New Oriental is very happy. No matter what position you are in, you will find that people care about what you can hand over at the end of the year. People don't say that although this person didn't make anything at the end of the year, the process he did was painful or very happy, so we should forgive him. People only pay attention to the results of their careers, so no matter how hard Mao Zedong created when he founded New China, he was tired and white, and died in pain. When people talk about Mao Zedong, they mainly judged his shortcomings and mistakes. Although we recognize that Mao Zedong is a great man, in the end he still has to separate his mistakes from his merits, because he did not lead the people of the whole country to the path of prosperity, did not make the Chinese people happier, and his lifelong wish was not fulfilled.
If one can perfectly combine "life is a process, career is a result", then it reaches the highest realm of life. This kind of realm is - your career itself is your happiness, and this happiness can bring good results. In fact, no one can fully reach this realm. My process of doing New Oriental is very happy, but when I think of New Oriental, I find myself very painful, because I don't even know what kind of result will happen to our New Oriental career. This result requires you to work hard every day to create, and the results created by daily efforts may be unsatisfactory, but we can't do it because of this. People's careers are big and small. You also have your career in your own position. If you can combine the two and find happiness in your work while achieving the results you want, your life will change. It is getting bigger and bigger.
Human life lies in the process. There is a story in Western mythology: Sisyph was originally a god, but due to a mistake, Zeus was sent to the world to be a prisoner. Every day he was asked to push a stone up the mountain, and then the stone rolled down the mountain automatically, the next day. He has to push it back up the mountain. He works there day after day, much like our eight hours of work a day. Sisyph just started to feel very painful and very desperate, but later, he pushed and began to appreciate the whole process. He found himself pushing the spring, summer, autumn and winter, pushing the wind and thunder and lightning, pushing the moon and stars in the sky. Pushing the surrounding birds and flowers, pushing the sounds and singing of all animals. So he found that pushing the stone itself was a meaning, so he became more and more happy, and finally moved Zeus, and then transferred him to heaven and became the god of heaven. This is a good metaphor for "life is a process."
However, we can never only focus on the process in life and not on the results. The world cannot just arrange the process for you and not arrange the results for you. If your life has no results, it is a tree that only blossoms, and although your life itself will be very happy, there are regrets. Because when you think about your life, you find that your life is happy, but it is blank, leaving no traces, and you will feel bad at this time. Even the people who broke into the empty door like Master Hongyi finally created the miracle of the Buddhist world, leaving behind endless imaginations, wisdom and role models, leaving people with songs still sung today—especially his The first "Farewell" was written after the monk became a monk.
In the end, everyone should understand that if you have done your best for a career goal, even if there is no result, the richness of life itself is the best result. If you work hard but fail in the end, it is not your fault; if you do not work hard and finally fail, that is your fault.