Mr Yu Do not sell yourself short

[Source: New Oriental of: Michael Yu]

Do not underestimate yourself
- Mr Yu May 2010 at the Communication University of China School of Speech wide

South Canton Academy students, good afternoon!

very happy to be Pu Shulin, Chairman of the invitation to be here. I know that today is Sunday, the students should be pleasant to go outside, and are here to listen to my lecture, a little embarrassed. I also know there are many students the purpose of impurity, not to listen to my lecture, is to see me look like, and I will stand here, you can easily see. I just came in, some students told me: I have been alive and well, despite the very difficult life, but also live a happy life.

Do not underestimate yourself not belittle others

me from the eyes of students to see that you look forward to the future, to see their hopes for the future, to see her own future career, achievements and the pursuit of happiness. I hope the students have such a confidence, that confidence as I have said, as the title of talk, never use your situation to determine your future. Human life is sometimes guilty of two errors: The first error is that you will conclude that no Offer yourself, you will say that I am a bad family background, parents are farmers, or I go to university is not good, not as good as Peking University, Harvard University, I have grown too ugly or that people did not even see me, and so on, thereby to determine their own basically not get anything in this life. When I'm at the university, basically so determined to own, and concluded that in the end, almost to kill himself. Because they concluded that their good for nothing, have become very depressed, and finally got a TB. The second error is it? Students, we often judge others mistakes, for example, someone you see around, seems like quite stiff, this is not how human performance, and no one like you to conclude that this guy is no breath in this life. Therefore, we in this life most likely to commit two errors: one is felt in this life may not have as big; the other was convinced that others will not be there as well.

the future, there are usually two kinds of people: one person is something they want, and firmly believe that their future will be as; and one is not from the heart believe that they will be as people. Students think about what the future will be a successful person? Must be in front of a person. Why? The reason is very simple, because people are like animals, that is, how much heart, you can go far. If you want to walk out of the auditorium, as long as a minute; you want out of the Guang College South Campus, is also less than half an hour's time; you want to get out of Nanjing, which is two hours. However, if you want all over the world, your heart must go to the world. Why do I stand here today, and everyone can speak it? Because I grew up had a feeling, this feeling is over the horizon, a desire to distance, I hope I can continue to pass through. Like the famous Chinese entrepreneurs, Vanke Group, Wang, he wants to continue to climb the world's highest peak, climbing once, want to climb the second time. He knows that each bring their own conquest gave a new height, is the feeling. I know that none of the students here will be no dream, no one will be no desire, no one will say Forget I ever went to farm the land, no one will say so. People always want to become a great artist, hoping to become a great cause at home, or the great entrepreneurs and so on. But why some people do, some people did not do? Because to do, he must from the heart, believe that they can make some things in this life. While at the university, when I compare self-esteem, inferiority complex, but behind this, I still believe, as a farmer's son from his struggle as Beijing University student, I was able to fight from the north to a higher level, my heart of hearts where I believe he can do, so I did. Of course, this trust is not blind confidence, not arrogance, not to say that someone else thinks you're not human, you still feel like quite a kind man, but a rational self-confidence, self-confidence is behind the ongoing efforts .

second error I have just said you'd better not commit, you commit the second error will be even more dangerous. Why? You will lose a possible future business cooperation with your partners. For example, you see the students around, you may feel that the last few classes are basically the future will not amount to anything, but the facts prove the contrary. Peking University had the top five students of the class and the class the last five students graduated two years later did a survey result is the class not inferior to the achievements of the last five of the top five students. Class achievements of the top five general is to teach students or scientists, of course, this can not be considered small, but many entrepreneurs, social activists and even politicians are not very good from the classroom, the students in the ranking. So, you do not underestimate the importance of the students in your class, particularly those students with poor academic performance, students in our class had to waking up in the North made this mistake me.

my time at the university, performance has not been very good, and the rural origin, had long compared to today's far worse. Students, the longer the attractive man, must be more and more of promise. So, when I was young, as a child in rural areas, it is soil that way, everyone should be able to imagine. In particular, female students in our class, I basically did not Zhengyan Qiao. When I entered Beijing University, our grade 25 boys and 25 girls, I heard the figure, quite happy. Why? With over 24 pairs, and the rest that is my all in all a me a ah. But did not expect to recover her boyfriend when female students are chasing them look handsome, suave romantic figure to go, sometimes by several people chasing a man. Looks like me, plain, ordinary, the future has great potential, not a fancy girl.

we can expect a lot of things from happening. For example, we can expect a small poplar after 10 years later grow into a large poplar, we can expect a small pine tree is a hundred years after the big pine tree, we see a dog in the road where to go, can be expected after 10 years have become? Become an old dog. But you absolutely can not be expected that the puppy will become 10 years later a tiger, or poplar tree after 10 years will become a pine tree. We can also expect that they will go from 20 years old 30 years old, went to 50 years old, went to 80 years old. Now the computer is accurate to such an extent that as long as your head into the computer, you can calculate the 90-year-old face. I have seen my 90-year-old face, a appalling even I do not recognize the old man, but full of wrinkles of wisdom, of course, at that time to live to be counted. However, no matter how powerful the computer, whether computer or human, one thing is always not predict is that the people have to grow up and grow old away, or to the growth of animals. Growth of the students know what is it? Growth is the growth of your wisdom, ability to grow, the growth of mind, and the achievement of growth, no one can expect in the end you can do in this life, including your own must not expected.

my life to a series of things, not in the scope of my expectations. I believe our Pu Shulin, Chairman, and now have such a beautiful university campus, nor in his own within the expected. I especially admire Pu Shulin, Chairman, and he looks a little more than I want to look good, but I'm not jealous of his looks. But today I walked into the school after the incomparably jealousy for him. 5 years ago, a slurry of land, how can he create such a beautiful campus to? I have a dream for 20 years, wants to build a university campus, up to now has not made out. So you can see, life is unpredictable. You never expect yourself to do what this life in the end, as long as you grow, as long as you have the courage to move forward, you are bound to make you imagine things to.

is a lifelong process of struggle in life
open all year round

life like flowers, and some spent the spring opening, and some flowers to open before the summer, and some took to be the fall before opening, and some spend the winter before going to open. Cherry blossoms in spring, summer flowers may be open, to be opened after the fall chrysanthemums, in the winter, there is the famous Nanjing bloom like flowers. Open to life is the same, some people filled out in glory during their youth, some people reached middle age when it is shining, and some people only after going to the old age, like as the time bomb exploded out. Of course there are such people, youth, middle age, old age is very powerful, the famous Professor CN Yang for example, when the youth of the famous universities in the United States to study, to middle age, when the Nobel Prize, to the 82-year-old When they married, so that people life incomparably envy. I had to feel life was 40 years old is doubt age, so slowly since then over it, but heard the news of Professor Yang Chen married that night I started to modify their own life plan, has been modified to a 83-year-old . Students, life is a lifelong process of struggle. For example, Mr. Qi was still 50 years old, carpentry, carpentry,GUCCI Sunglasses, he is not a good carpenter, said as long as he plays up a chair to sit on the rickety. But he drew the picture in the furniture is so beautiful, that every family asked him to draw up their own furniture. It was just like he suggested just go ahead and paint it. The results have been drawn to the age of 70, he began the famous painting, his most valuable paintings really are between the ages of 80 -90 years of age drawn.

students, you now have to talk about their success too early. Life is not a hundred meters, if the hundred meters, you're better than I had run a second or two, I might catch up with you, because the total to one hundred meters. Life is a marathon not see the head, you away for a hundred years away. Now we just pay attention to healthy, happy, usually pay attention to develop good habits, basically live to a hundred is not a problem. Mao Zedong once said: The process of which a hundred years to fight what is it? Students, the fight is endurance, to fight is to focus, to fight a sustained fight is these things. That is, you now have the number of gap with other students, is completely trivial. I have a saying that life can not help you choose the starting point. The reason is very simple, because what family you were born can not help you choose. But why have two legs, the students think? Is to allow you to run, and why people's legs, long legs than many animals is to make you run faster, as long as you keep running down, you'll run out of your own from the unexpected. Therefore, we remember that we do is from now on, from this point we began to run.

Some students said: the future, not to mention what school you go. You look in the middle of Chinese entrepreneurs, and successful people do not go to school: wow ha ha Group Zong and Li Shufu, Geely Automotive Group never went to college, do not still come up with Zong, China's largest beverage company? Mr. Li is not still came up with one of China's largest automotive groups, Geely Auto to buy Volvo again now, and you say how he would do such a success? Focus on their own, by their own efforts, on their own like, on their own love. Therefore, we have learned on their own, are engaged in occupations like, love and attention than your degree, more important than you in college how many times I do not know. Because I like to be able to unconsciously take you very far realm, and I stood together with Mr. Li side of the road watching car, he saw cars, can see exactly when the car is probably made of, what brand, What factory produced, is produced domestically or abroad, the factory made engine which ... ... was it strange if he is unsuccessful. Therefore, the students understand what love will bring results, right? That why I say we should focus on what life? Yuan Longping, a little like what we know. Yuan Longping is the world's leading experts in high-yield rice hybrids, if they engage in rice in his life, but also engage in wheat, and potatoes out, and he affirmed that he is a potato, making it impossible for the great contribution to the world. Through decades of efforts with the rice completely irrelevant to the two things together, into a hybrid rice, the yield per mu increased from 800 kg to 1,600 kg, and more to feed the number of people ah. For decades he was walking on to the field, in addition to rice, failing to appreciate other things, this is the focus on the consequences. So, do not care how high your degree. Of course, in the present society, we can get a good degree is required. Such as the South Canton College, now teaching quality is good, our future after graduation, are college graduates. China's college graduates can get the certificate to be all over the world, there is this enough. As this card is that you or the Nanjing University, Peking University, or any other school. Longer important. Why? Because the university four years you just laid the foundation of learning in school, which laid the basis for part of your career, it is not the cause of all of you. I am a graduate of Beijing University, but Ma graduated from Hangzhou Normal College, Hangzhou Normal College is basically a little-known school. I have a lot of similarities with the experience of Ma: I college entrance exam three years, admitted to the third year, Ma is also a college entrance exam three years, admitted to the third year; I test the English major, he is also the English exam professional; the third year I went to Beijing University, he went to Hangzhou Teachers College. But it was twenty years later, New Oriental market, and Alibaba also listed, the market value of Alibaba is listed after the five times New Oriental, which means five times to be successful than I am Ma.

to fight for their fair chance

our own path of growth to our own election, nothing to do with your college. Some students said that no resources around me, what my classmates were sons of ministers, next door to the party secretary's daughter, has separated the two of them flirting with me, that is not my business. Students also said that the world, this society so unfair, and some other things I have not, you see him wearing designer clothes, I did not, he uses a Mac, I did not, he is iPhone, I can not afford even the phone. This is not you can complain about, and why? Because the community did not fair before, from the history of mankind has, as long as soon as the remaining items, the fair has never before. Even in primitive societies, the remaining items gave the most powerful of the old monkey. The flow of the world's resources, it is not static. What is the flow of resources? For example, I was a farmer's son, my parents are not literate, I'm broke, I went to Beijing University, I am literate, and cultural resource flows to me. Into the North, I also have this feeling that my classmates some ministers children, professors of children who have it all. Every Friday, the Minister of the children were extended to Mercedes-Benz 280 car to take home, Sunday evening, Mercedes-Benz 280 then send the child to come back, we stop next to the car, shiny shiny, can illuminate our shadow to come, but even a bicycle wheel that we can not afford. Someone you work hard you will never be fair, only you worked hard, with resources, have the right to speak later, you can only fight for their fair chance. As I said earlier, the resources are mobile. Pu Shulin, Chairman and I are sons of farmers, we have no resources, and now we can build the campus, we can do listed companies, we can have an impact on so many students, it is how come? Is through efforts to bring an unfair distribution of resources, to your side of the tilt. Resources to what we need to do your pocket? Redistribution of resources. After the national income as the tax to be redistributed to support the building in poor areas and people's lives. If we have to pay the tax the pockets of corrupt officials, called unfair distribution of resources; if by then it is the final transfer revenue to pay the hands of the people assigned to the poor, for example, kids can read for free from the first-year junior high school graduation This is called the fair distribution of resources. Social entrepreneurs need to do charity events, such as New Oriental is now funding a year for students from poverty in rural areas, so that they can complete their studies at the university, such as earthquake, New Oriental twenty million donation, the new Yushu Eastern donated three million, the new East Hope Primary School year reconstruction and so on, these are the redistribution of resources.

redistribution of resources you first need to succeed. If you yourself are not successful, you assign what ah? You wait for someone assigned to you. Assigned to a wait for others is not worth your life you live. Why? You do not have the autonomy of their lives. However, you do not think this life can only be assigned to others, can only wait for the boss gave me wages, I can only wait for time to give me unemployment benefits, completely not the case. You will never think of, like I said, you can do in this life in the end? When I was in college 22 dollars a month rely on state grants to live, but also the remaining half of the money to buy books, borrow books from libraries because it was particularly difficult to Peking, I prefer reading, I took the 22 dollar cost of living in two, half for books, the other half to buy a meal ticket. I reckon a 11 dollar meal ticket, spent almost 4 cents per day, which can persist in a month, was 4 cents, in fact, can eat good. A full pot of goulash less than a five cents, a large bread is two or three cents. The book was also particularly cheap, I remember very clearly, qian's We little think about the average is 4 cents for each book, I was 11 how much money you can buy the book ah? Can buy more than 20 book. So, I bought a full four years at the university more than 800 books, 200 books on average each year, and I put more than 800 of the more or less finished. Therefore, poverty has also brought a better life.

learn to cherish gratitude

students now often have a wrong, too much money, too many choices, so I do not cherish. Do you find that you play for a month to play a cell phone, the Nokia N95 boring, then the Nokia N97 is a drag, iPhone came out, iPhone has not run out of other out there, so you change the old, so you will have something on hand you do not cherish, because it is not you earned.

The second is that you parents do not value your money, you feel it is easy to spend, or your parents, sometimes you have to deliberate connivance, that is what you want what your parents give you, so that The result is devastating. We present the students, no matter how rich your family, remember Do not ask the parents for money, there must be a limit. For example, you tell the parents that I was a total of how much money each month, on this basis,new era hats, you to calculate how to spend this money, think of ways to squeeze money to buy a cell phone, you need to buy a tape recorder, etc., practice English Spoken like device, that when you know that life is actually more interesting, more cherished, every penny spent meaningful. The greatest happiness of life, a sense of accomplishment is created on their own. Therefore, the future as it is now looking for some rich woman's boy, do not even think; a lot of girls want to marry the rich man, do not even think about. Why? The most happy life, that is, with people both poor and lowly, the last struggle of wealth, so much the better. Because your life is worth recalling at this time, you did something memorable. Students, life is a process, is not a result, you look to get that result, little significance is not, you want to get the iPhone on iPhone, you want a house there a house, a little sense at all.

told me years ago, I encountered a story, true story. Ten years ago, a rural children want to go abroad, want to hear New Oriental GRE TOEFL classes and classes, these two classes together more than two thousand dollars to Renminbi, but he did not even the money. He came to me, not that I give him free lectures, the rural children are naive, and he said: When will the summer recruiting class administrator, can you let me be the classroom administrators (classroom manager is to check Tingke Zheng, sweeping, sorting desks and chairs)? I finished the living room after the administrator, you can not let I walked into the classroom lectures for free,Red Bull Hats, I do not affect my work. He said: problem, as long as you do good. notes in class, because he did note the most serious. Why? Because he knew this thing easy. After the end of the summer he came to me, and I gave him a thousand dollars in wages, he Na Zhaoqian ran out. After a half an hour back, holding a Sony Walkman, in front of me open the box, put the machine out, put the tape into them, then put the headset over your ears to listen to English. I saw his tears fall down, I was moved to his mess. At that time, I knew this child future will amount to anything. Sure enough, after two years the children to prestigious universities in the United States, Dr. read the.

So I said, life is your own break out. Why did he himself moved to tears to it? Actually very simple, the pursuit of our life is this realm. You look at the Olympic podium when the winner,Oakley Sunglasses, the first time must be tears rushing down stream. Students, who at that time what the tears tears? Was moved to tears and tears of happiness. You have to analyze the composition of tears, then moved and happy 80%, 20% of the past in order to get the title experienced the pain and memories. I once asked why the tears of these titles, they said: mind, all of which are for the seconds, if not reach this second, our life will be life-long regret. reached, the tears we shed tears of happiness.

Yesterday, I even told my friend, three consecutive Paralympic high jump champion Hou Bin together. As a single leg jump, high jump when he was the kind of fly in that action, I see that photo, like eagle wings, as he simply can not see a disabled person. However, he is actually just one leg, his other leg when they were in the old train to the pressure out. He can begin to sink, he could stand up, he finally stood up. Students, the miracle of life really is to create our own.

decision of life over the next three elements: intelligence quotient, emotional quotient, adversity quotient

the world can decide your future has three elements: the first major factor is called the intelligence, the second element is called EQ, is called the inverse of the third major factor in business.
What is the concept of IQ

it? Normal IQ is within normal range in mind. What is normal range? Is in addition to low-level super-genius and idiot, are within the normal range, who can understand my speech today, the students are part of the normal range. In the normal range, there will be high and low IQ, but this would not worry about it, because the level of intelligence within the normal range, as the same height within the normal range, can not decide you are not successful. For example, former U.S. President George W. Bush, even the Americans say his relatively low IQ, World War, the Gulf War appeared in his office, his father began to fight, to continue to play him here also, finally the Pro also get a step down the world financial crisis. But now the president, you have a look that is relatively high IQ, you see Obama, eyed, handsome, speech leak took office, virtually no errors, a little bit in solving the problems inherited from the past. In fact, I want to say not that high and low IQ of both the consequences of the president, I would say is regardless of their high or low IQ, they have become U.S. president, which means struggle and efforts to achieve your own expectations position. Of course, a person's intelligence, natural talent for the future success of the importance of a person to a maximum of only one third of the weight. In school, intelligence is more important, but the future direction of society, there are two other

one of which we call it emotional intelligence. What is EQ? EQ is that you in this society live in harmony with others, and use your abilities and wisdom, combined with the power of others, the ability to create a career, this is called emotional intelligence. I grew up, I found my emotional intelligence has occupied the position of comparative advantage, intelligence has repeatedly proved inadequate, for example, from primary to secondary school I have never won the top 20 class, of course, does not matter in the rural secondary schools, But I was admitted to the college entrance exam three years, which has seen little intelligence issues. English was my first year exam, 33 points, second year English exam, 55 points for three consecutive years of effort in my English exam, 90 multisection, which also proved hard to make up for lack of intelligence. Into college, I discovered my IQ is really not enough, the reason is very simple, Peking University is the country coming in every province of the top students, and most of them graduates. So I found the students than with the North, my IQ is over, but the. When I study at the university extremely hard, very hard, very seriously, but in the end when they graduate, is the bottom fifth graduating class. However, I still stand here today, because the result of ongoing efforts.

have said so two stories: the first is referred to horses and camels, I have a friend who told me: distance may be the horse more than doubled. horse likes to run,monster hats, but it ran for some time, tired, tired horse will play, turning in circles, or grazing, do not move. But once you start the camel walk, a walk is, one day, for example, into the desert after it realized that it will die if you do not walk the middle of the desert, do not walk in front of the oasis to find, so it must go. efforts.

There is also a fable like this: to the top of the pyramid are only two animals, one is the eagle, the other is snail. Eagle is flying up the wings on their own, so it has the talent; snail neither wings nor legs, it must rely on their own to climb a little bit, so the snails climbed to top of the pyramid may spend more than an eagle a few times or several hundred times the effort and time. However, if the snail has reached the top of the pyramid, it has seen an eagle to see the world and the world is exactly the same; it to see the horizon, but also, and saw the same eagle. When the eagle and the snail began to write his memoirs when the eagle can only sigh, because the talent on their own look up, and it is easy, so come to write his memoirs. The snail can write a very rich moving memoir. Because the snail all the way through their own struggle, the bitterness left behind every day, every day the pain left by the top board.

There is a saying, called Whether good or bad results, no effect on life, because whether we be much longer we will die. Whether you have success to die, or do not have success to die, you die the moment, definitely not because you have no accomplishments to determine your own life, but memories of his life will be cost-effective process uneconomical flies . Students, and if that doctor told you that you leave this world tomorrow, you are now re-living memories of the past two decades, you will come to any conclusion, or not worth the cost? If you are a bargain, you're still a meaningful life flies; if not worthwhile, then remember, the next few decades of life you must take it flies cost-effective. What is the cost? Not eat, drink, the most important is that you think this life is fun, meaningful, but also make their own pride, but also to make themselves happy life, this is called As the end you become not a matter, the new bound to the continuous development of the East do it? I am not sure. New Oriental may be even earlier than I might end, right? Few hundred enterprises in China, I will try to do a hundred years of New Oriental, but to a hundred years can not my word. Guangzhou Institute of the South may be able to do a hundred years, because the university campus in a sense, non-profit may ultimately contribute to and support the community. But the new East is to survive in a market economy, market economy is the economic life and death, the new East may be accidentally lost. But no, what relationship? I have enjoyed the New Oriental from scratch, it made a big process. I enjoy this process. Students, if not New Oriental, and I still can do the speech, but it wants to change a title, Is seeking a process of life does not it? So each day get better, is to have a good life. We all have seen a cartoon called , the world will certainly be necessary. For example, what is the cause of climate warming? In the end is not too much carbon dioxide? God had given us such a beautiful planet is billions of years to live, human beings mess up their environment. Even if human beings to destroy themselves, and for the planet, there will be harm? No damage. No matter how many droughts and floods, the earth is just pulling the root hairs. After more than ten billion years, new human again, and then slowly you develop it, the Earth will hurt it? Thirty years ago the Soviet Union Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, nuclear proliferation, a place that no one dare to go, just over thirty years, the wood, grew up, the long grass up, went tiger , the animals went in, that is, no one dares to go, the ecological balance has been restored. Resilience of nature is very powerful, human too small in here. Get out of hand in the environmental destruction, we still caring for the earth to our children and grandchildren a little living space for it. So take good care of every tree, every one grass care, love every drop of water, it becomes our responsibility. Back to our own body, if our lives are a disaster, misery, success, happiness, we are also doing everything, every action the consequences. Mr. Turtle in the cartoon there are still two words This is why The meaning of this sentence contains two layers: one is that only live each day well, you can live a good life; the second is the richness of your yesterday and tomorrow, the great new achievements from your work every day. Why? Any one today, after the sun goes down, it becomes yesterday; any one tomorrow, the sun rises later to become today. How to do it?
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