Best Inspirational Lecture of the Year: Spending Meaningful Life (1)

Best Inspirational Lecture of the Year: Spending meaningful life

Inscription: On June 2nd, Yu Minhong, Chairman and CEO of New Oriental Education Technology Group, visited Tongji University to give a lecture on the theme of “Study a meaningful life” for Tongji students.

Good evening, everyone at Tongji University!

In fact, people are alive and well, and there is no point in life. Every day, the sun rises and the sun goes down every day. You can see the morning glow, see the sunset, see the moon rise and fall, and see the stars in the sky, this is the most beautiful meaning of living.

I didn't expect the students of Tongji University to put my "high" image on the big screen. This is the gap between ideal and reality. So I believe that the students will be very disappointed when they see my first sight. In fact, everyone is very ordinary, and we often find that something very important in life does not have much to do with our future happiness and success.

For example, some people think that appearance will have a lot of connections with future success; some people think that their family background will have a certain connection with success; some people think that people who have a good name in college will succeed in college. People with poor academic performance are more likely to succeed? All of these factors may be partially correct, but most of them are basically ineffective, such as appearance.

If a person's appearance is related to success, then there will be no Ma Yun and Alibaba, because if the students present think that Ma Yun looks good, it must be an aesthetic problem.

Of course, this does not mean that people who look good can do nothing, for example, another well-known company boss Baidu boss Li Yanhong. Li Yanhong is very handsome and handsome. All his photos look like movie stars, but he also achieved success. So no matter what the appearance, it can be successful, but when Li Yanhong and Ma Yun sit together to eat, they are usually not willing to sit in the adjacent chair, because the two people's comparison has reached a terrible point, the solution It is to put me in the middle of them and play a transitional role. People like me who have no features can also succeed. Therefore, whether it is a man or a woman, the most important thing is the richness of his inner world, the cultivation of his own demeanor and temperament, the expansion of his own mind and the unwavering pursuit of ideal goals. As you get older, these will slowly become your wisdom, all of which constitute the true essence of your success.

So is there any relationship between success and family background? We can often see people who are rich and wealthy, who are born with a golden key. For example, we may see that some of the students on the left side wear famous costumes, the bags on the right side of the famous brand, the daughter sitting in front of the secretary of the municipal party committee, the son of the central leader behind, and you may be from a family of ordinary workers. College student.

Sometimes you will be dissatisfied, but the world is full of unfairness, and many unfairness often flashes in front of your eyes. You will say, how can this world be like me, why does he have everything, and I have nothing? I have had this very normal mentality in college. For example, my classmates have the son of a minister, a daughter with a university professor, and I am the son of a farmer. After three college entrance examinations, I walked into Peking University and walked in the cloth with a pole. You will find that you can't keep up with their state, it is better to say that they can't keep up with their steps. You will find that even if they stop and do nothing for a lifetime, they have more things than you.

For example, in the first year of college, the child of the minister in the class had a driver who drove the 280 every Friday to pick him up. You think we can't afford a bicycle at that time. He actually sits on the 280, which is what it feels like. You feel that this life is basically finished. But students should remember a truth, life always goes forward, we have to go for a lifetime. We have not only gone through college for four years, or graduate students, we have to go for a lifetime. It may be 80 or 90 years old. Although it is 80 or 90 years old, you don’t know what life is like. The only thing you can do is to stick to it.

So I am very proud to walk from a peasant's son to Peking University and finally to today. My mentality is very balanced, but in fact I have gone a long way. Of course, some students will say that you have been successful in Peking University. Indeed, Peking University has increased many of my success factors. For example, because of the strong reading atmosphere at Peking University, I read a lot of books and my mind became very sensitive.

Peking University is indeed a humanistic environment. The bronze statue of Cai Yuanpei is set up on the edge of the unnamed lake. However, there are thousands of people who go to Peking University every year, and there are thousands of people who go to Peking University. How many successes can you succeed? In fact, the success rate of North University students is no higher than the success rate of any college student.

All success means that you have to work harder after graduating from college. If the university means success, then there is no Ma Yun. I have a lot of the same places with Ma Yun. He took the college entrance examination for 3 years. I also took 3 years. He took the English major. I also took the English major. In the third year, I went to Peking University. He went to Hangzhou. Normal university. I believe that many of my classmates have never heard of this college. Then I think I should be more successful than him in this life, but unfortunately, from today, the market value of Alibaba's listing is three times that of New Oriental, and I am apart. It’s convenient to make a new east.

Not only that, he also has Taobao, Alipay? So, your future success has nothing to do with your university, but it is easier to go abroad for employment. If you can get out of your life for a lifetime, the university will lay the foundation for you, but you can't decide your life. It’s only a quarter of my life at college, what should we do next? The first thing is to stick to it, because if you don't live, you have nothing. Believe that you do not believe in the afterlife, I always believe that this life is our best paradise. So I hate suicide or threaten suicide. I think this is a disrespect for life. There is a concept called "good death is better than living."

Because I have experienced it from my 40 years of life experience, you have been sitting there for a long time, maybe you will really fall off the pie in the sky, of course, you may fall off a rock. But no matter what, don't break yourself, there will be many miracles happening in life. If Professor Yang Zhenning does not live to 82 years old, how can he know that he can still marry a second marriage?

But students, life always has to have expectations, even if there is no hope. Students can think about the many characters in our history. For example, Jiang Taigong is fishing by the river. At the age of 80, Zhou Wenwang walked by him and found that the old man used a straight fishing rod to fish with him. Chatter found that the old man is very intelligent, so he took him back, and the two together laid down the world of Zhou Dynasty. Comrade Qi Baishi was still working as a woodworker at the age of 50. He was not a great painter at all. All his great works were completed between the ages of 80 and 90. Therefore, there is always such a phenomenon in life. Some people have a role in their youth, some people have a role in middle age, and some people have a role in old age. Flowers are always open in different seasons. If all the flowers are open in the spring, when there are no flowers open in summer, autumn and winter, do you think this nature is so beautiful and moving?

So everyone thinks, if all the wonderful things in life are finished in college, the back will always be dull. Do you think this life will be perfect? In other words, it’s not so good in your university, but it’s getting better after graduation. Is it better? As it turns out, many of our classmates are always among the best in college, but after college they can't do anything. Because in society, not the results are working. Achievements can only prove that your IQ is higher than others, but you can't decide that you will have a good life.

Success is not only determined by your achievements. The most important thing is the ability to deal with society and the ability to live. The ability to find opportunities in a variety of confusing relationships, and your ability to lead a group of people to create a business with you. And all of this is not determined by your grades. Of course, I am not saying that I don’t want to study well at university. It is inevitable to get a university diploma, because in the future we will find such a phenomenon. If you don’t even get a college diploma, your life will be full of difficulties. .