First of all, I want to make it clear that I didn't bring my speech, because I am a person who likes to play freely. The origin of "self-improvement star" is relatively simple, because I think people always need someone to push them at some stage. I think there are two concepts of self-improvement. The first thing is to be strong. Tsinghua University's school motto is self-improvement, which means strength. Secondly, at the same time of self-strengthening, someone should help you at the critical moment and be strong with you. This is also the original intention of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League to set up the "New Oriental Self-improvement Fund" with 50 million yuan.
As we all know, a person can walk very fast, but not necessarily very far, because when a person reaches a certain level, he is too lonely to walk any further, and no one may see you, so it is easy to stop. If a group of people go together, there are two advantages. At first, they will be willing to go on because everyone else is moving forward. If you don't go, you will fall behind. It will be lonely after falling behind. People are social animals, willing to stay among a group of people. This group of people are going far away, and it will be very uncomfortable for you not to go alone. The second kind will be encouraged, because the role of the team is to help you move forward together when you find someone left behind.
There is such an activity in New Oriental. All teachers and employees in New Oriental will take part in a 50-kilometer hiking activity. I started walking in the afternoon on the first day and walked until evening. I held a bonfire party and lived in a tent. I walked on the next day. The first day was very exciting, and the second day was very hard, but few people left behind. No one will stay unless I am really injured or can't walk with knee problems. I am a runaway. Even if my feet bubble on the road, I will let the water come out of the bubble and keep walking. As long as the person who reaches the finish line finally has two feelings. First, he never thought he could walk so far, because 50 kilometers is not a short distance. Second, he never thought he had such a sense of accomplishment.
A person's job, in a sense, is to gain dignity and self-esteem. Dignity is to be respected by others, and self-esteem is to respect yourself. If you really do things well by yourself, you will feel a sense of self-esteem. But sometimes you feel good, others don't necessarily feel good. You play games first, and others don't necessarily value you. According to social evaluation standards and social value system, everyone says that you can win respect only if you do well. Chen Jingrun, for example, stayed at home to study math all his life and bumped into a telephone pole as soon as he went out. Because of his high myopia, he is respected all over the world. Even if a person works alone, he should consider whether what he does is valuable to himself and society. Considering social value is sometimes a standard for us to do things.
Once we choose to do something, we must do it in principle, because if we can't do it, it will eventually lead to failure and loss, depression and pain, and even inferiority. Of course, we can choose to live a comfortable life. No one forced you to take the Tsinghua exam, and no one forced you to get high marks. The world always has a choice. (inspirational quotations http://)
It will be painful to move forward. No one said that the college entrance examination was painful, but why did you choose to go ahead? Because people are willing to pay for a certain point in the future, which may be a point of happiness or an achievement. This is where we are different from animals. For the future, we are willing to work harder today. Why are we willing to endure today's pain? Because we know that if we don't pay, our future life will be more painful. Happiness is always a point, and struggle and pain are a line. Only by taking that line can we get to that point.
For example, climbing a mountain, the process from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain is actually a painful process, because you will be very tired, and you will feel very happy when you climb to the top of the mountain to see the scenery below. When you stand at the top of the mountain and see higher mountains in the distance, you can't fly. You must go through a painful process of falling and rising again. There are two entrepreneurs in China who like mountain climbing who have climbed Mount Everest. One is Wang Shi, and the other is my alumnus Huang Nubo. Every time they come back from the mountain, they make up their minds that they will never climb the mountain again in their lives. But after a period of rest, they will definitely climb again. This is not the mountain they conquered. Whether people come or not, mountains or mountains. This mountain has its own dignity and no one needs to conquer it. Why do people conquer mountains? In fact, it is not the mountain that has been conquered, but people are conquering themselves. Only by conquering ourselves can we have a sense of self-confidence and pride that we are born as human beings and born to win.
I often take New Oriental people to walk 50 kilometers around uninhabited places. People don't want to leave after walking 25 kilometers. At this time, there are three choices. The first is to walk back to the starting point, 25 kilometers; The second is to sit there and not walk. No one within 25 kilometers of Fiona Fang, Fiona Fang died of hunger, thirst or confusion. The third is that you can choose to go to the finish line, which is also 25 kilometers, and there are delicious roast whole sheep waiting for you, so the best choice in life is to go to the finish line.
When did the 25 kilometers of life appear? At this time of yours. At this time, you struggle until you are admitted to the university, and you can't go back. You can't help making progress in college. The only choice is to move forward. Everyone has different goals in life. What is your goal in life? It is very important that your life is hard, you enjoy yourself and you are satisfied. With regard to the future, you can hope to earn money, become famous and do business, even if you want to become a monk, you can become your own ambition. It's great to become a monk like Master Hongyi. He enjoyed secular life in the first half of his life and became a vegetarian in the second half, becoming one of the greatest religious figures in China.
In fact, this is also a standard for us to judge self-improvement. Disabled people like Jin Jing can spread the torch of China to the world and show the indomitable side of China people with the most heroic image. This is called self-improvement. What people fear most is mental disability, and life will be terrible. For example, I am in good health, but sitting next to Ye Qiaobo, Kim Jong-hwa, I feel ashamed. Compared with them, my mind may not be as sound as theirs. Physical health, but mental disability, mental disability, is the most tragic time
The judgment of the result of self-improvement is not how high our future social status is and how comfortable our life is, but the significance of our chosen career to ourselves and society behind all this. What you do is spiritual satisfaction, worthy of social conscience and universal values of society. This is spiritual satisfaction and affirmation of the meaning of one's existence. From the social judgment standard, being at least harmless to society and the most useful person is the minimum standard. Being a hero for a long time needs practice. We can at least try to make ourselves better, which should be something that everyone can do.
When we have achieved certain success in society, we must have a willing attitude, whether in wealth or in other aspects. Everyone has read the story that a billionaire went to church to donate1100,000 yuan to heaven, but was blocked by God. An old lady donated a dime and went to heaven. The billionaire is very angry. Why can't I go to heaven if I donate100000? Why is God so unfair? God said, if you donate 1 million, it's 1% of you, and the old lady donates 10 cents, it's 1% of her, so you can't go to heaven, but she can. That's only fair. I don't think I will go to the grave with my wealth. I will give this money to the people who need it most in society. When I want to go to heaven, I hope God will say that you didn't take out 100%, but you took out 90%. That's enough. Go inside.
Thank you!