Li Ka-shing's Way of Learning
The ability to learn is more important than academic qualifications, and it is more important than acquired ability and experience. If you stop studying once, you will fail forever. The same is true for enterprises. In the fierce competition, it is often not the strongest and smartest enterprises that survive, but the enterprises that can best adapt to environmental changes.
Liu Yongmei, general manager of Hope Group, said, "The ability to learn is to learn from them whenever and wherever you see them useful to you, your enterprise and your team."
Learning, learning and learning again is not only a slogan, but also should be practiced in work and life. Only those who can learn to practice at work can finally succeed in their careers. Otherwise it will be eliminated by the times. It is no accident that Li Ka-shing can become the world's Chinese business leader. His life is the best portrayal of "learning to change fate".
Li Ka-shing was forced to drop out of school because of his poor family in junior high school. When his father/Kloc-died at the age of 0/5, he supported the whole family. Although he works hard, he knows that without knowledge and study, he can't stand on the society in the future. He works in sales during the day and goes to night school at night. He went to the junkyard to buy old textbooks abandoned by others, practiced calligraphy with old newspapers, and studied knowledge crazily in various ways.
Li Ka-shing recalled: "At that time, I lived in a group of men's apartments, which is now the Jinbao Building in Causeway Bay. Lights out every night 12. Because I went to school last night and went to the factory to listen to orders, I have to take the stairs in the dark every night when I come back. I counted the stairs step by step, and when I counted enough, I knew I was back in the dormitory. "
Li Ka-shing had no formal education when he was young, especially English. He didn't even learn all 26 English letters, but he knew that if he didn't learn English well, he would accomplish nothing. After studying very hard, his English level is even higher than that of ordinary college students. In 1950s, when he was doing plastic flower business, he subscribed to several latest plastic magazines all over the world to keep abreast of the latest situation. In foreign magazines, he noticed a machine for making plastic bottles, but it was too expensive to order from abroad, so he developed this machine in self-taught English, which became one of his very proud things in his early years. He also relied on his English, which was not fluent at that time, to do business with foreigners and explore the international market. In just a few years, he has become a famous "plastic king" in Southeast Asia. Since then, he has constantly challenged himself and never gave up studying. In every era, he can become an outstanding figure who leads the trend. In the 1960s, when the real estate was at a low ebb, Li Ka-shing entered the market on a large scale, changing from a plastic king to a real estate king. In the 1970s, his company went public and became the king of the capital market. In the new economic era, he entered the telecommunications and network industries in one fell swoop. 1999, he sold the British Orange telecom company for1400 million dollars, and then entered the 3G business in Europe on a large scale. His Tom company, with the network as the core, integrates the media industry and establishes a huge media empire. At the age of 70, he still insists on studying. When someone asked him how to make a decision, he said, "You should have a wide range of knowledge and listen to the opinions of experts with an open mind. As the final decision-maker of a company, you must have a deep understanding of the industry. Otherwise, your judgment will definitely be wrong. "From a street salesman to an important business leader today, Li Ka-shing's spirit of loving learning is worth emulating.
Someone summed up five success rules, namely:
Not satisfied with a little knowledge, ask, ask, ask again;
Don't be content to never do what you can't do, study hard;
Don't let what you don't understand, try to understand;
Pay a reasonable price for what you want.
Once you have the results, don't keep them for yourself and share them with people around you;
Among these five rules, three are about learning, from which we can see the importance of learning in our lives.
Not content with a little knowledge. There is a saying: "People who know things only get half the truth." Indeed, "knowing" a lot of things is very important for self-enlightenment. However, it is more important not only to understand, but to further explore what is known. Look again and again, and take practical action is the most important thing.
If you don't understand, don't let go, try to understand. The world is full of infinite unknowns and changes. In practical work, various new working forms and new working methods emerge one after another. Without a teacher, no one can learn these things. If you don't pay attention to your study and just use what you have to cope with your work, you will be at a loss when faced with many things you don't understand. In this case, learning becomes a bridge between you and the world. There is such a proverb: "Asking is a temporary shame, but not asking is a lifelong shame." Don't be ashamed of what you don't understand, but be brave enough to ask questions. As an employee, no matter whether you are old or young, you should put down your short-sighted shame, and you must keep learning and asking questions in your new job to be "knowledgeable". The process of an employee from "ignorance" to "knowledge" is a change from old self to new self.
All employees who want to make progress and study should consider this suggestion: take a notebook with you, write down what they don't understand immediately, and then find out the answer immediately.
When you do the above things, you will find that you have learned a lot gradually.