Not hard enough, please keep trying and stop complaining

Recently, an outstanding piece of news from my alma mater has attracted widespread attention and has been admired by many young students. The 28-year-old Huake undergraduate alumnus obtained a professorship in civil engineering at Hunan University. When he graduated at the age of 24, he studied in the United States for a Ph.D. After graduating three years later, he went to Mobil to work as a senior engineer. Later, as part of the National Thousand Talents Youth Project, he returned to China and achieved this extraordinary achievement. Generally speaking, young professors at domestic first-class universities (top 20) are generally over 35 years old, and many university teachers over 40 years old only have the title of associate professor. Although this alumnus' achievement is directly related to the top academic papers he published while studying in the United States, this strength relies on his undergraduate accumulation and consistent fighting spirit.

He himself wrote in his diary: "I attribute my achievements in college to my hard work. Now I can say with certainty that the time I spent studying and thinking at that time was more than 99%. "There are more classmates." I go to the study room at 7 a.m. every day and often leave the study room at 10 p.m., even on weekends. Are there many students like this in Huake? From my personal experience, this is a very common phenomenon, and it is also the academic style of Chinese Engineering that I am proud of as an alumnus who is lagging behind! If business elites, scientific research experts, and academic masters from all walks of life can uphold this spirit of hard work, China will definitely develop sustainably like Germany, and will not suffer from a slowdown in economic growth due to the hollowing out of the real economy. To the point of stagnation.

Based on a Wall Street movie series I watched yesterday, I would like to talk about my feelings here, which is also a kind of reflection, teaching and encouragement for myself. Successful people must have the same factors, the most important of which must be diligence and hard work; if you don't work hard enough, you shouldn't complain. Even if your destiny and luck (or luck in terms of cause and effect) are not good enough, if you work hard enough, you will definitely get something. Furthermore, anyone who is ill-fated can have the hardworking spirit of this 28-year-old alumnus, and your wealth, status, and gains in all aspects will definitely be the same! When you think you are working hard, please look at people who work harder; when you feel that your fate is unfair and your boss is mean, do your abilities in all aspects surpass your competitors? If not, there must be room for improvement.

1. Planning is more important than hard work. The same efforts may lead to very different results. Some people study very hard but end up finding very ordinary jobs. Conversely, as described in yesterday's movie, a 23-year-old undergraduate graduate can receive an annual salary of US$250,000 in an investment bank. Apart from luck, planning is also very important. Just like myself, I think I am quite lucky. In Huake, college students like me who have accumulated less than 10 hours of self-study time in four years, accounting for less than 3.70%, must have at least 10 hours of self-study time every week. On the one hand, it is an issue of a professional nature, and on the other hand, it is a learning attitude. But fortunately, the job I found should rank among the top three among the thousands of people who graduated that year in terms of income and long-term career development. This has a lot to do with personal planning and direction selection. If you go in the wrong direction, the effort expended will inevitably be wasted to a certain extent. This is also the purpose of me often persuading peers around me, hoping to provide more internship opportunities for junior students, and to establish internship alliances and other programs.

2. Don’t think that you are already working very hard. Since current projects are basically cooperating with foreign investment banks, you will gradually feel that you are doing badly. As described in the movie, a person who graduates at the age of 23 earns an annual salary of US$250,000 and works for 10 years to earn US$2.5 million. The company boss, as the highest wage earner, often earns an annual income of more than US$100 million. Is it true? As far as I know, if our investment banking clients in Hong Kong are recent graduates, if they are lucky and their projects can be launched quickly, their annual income will not be less than US$200,000. In this environment, even though I am doing very poorly, I will gradually feel that the Fortune 500 and consulting companies are just clouds.

But thinking about it on the other hand, how can I complain? Others are in top universities in the world, and have top undergraduate and high school degrees, but I am just an ordinary first-class university in China; others listen, read, and write English like Americans, but the reports I write are often laughed at by law firms; others work 7 days a week , work at least 14 hours a day, at least 100 hours a week, and occasionally feel tired after working overtime for a month; others are in the situation of working overtime crazy today and packing up and leaving tomorrow, but I still often receive calls from headhunters, consider Where is more stable? Although people in investment banks also have many shortcomings, such as they do not understand the industry at all, have unclear ideas, and take things for granted, it is undeniable that their background strength, hard work spirit, and ability to withstand pressure are the best! Any young people who are still complaining, if your spare time and the time wasted at work can be fully utilized like them, I think it will be absolutely easy to get an annual salary of more than 200,000 at the age of 25!

The question is, how many people complain like me without ever reflecting on whether they are working hard enough? What do many people spend most of their free time doing? Watching TV, TV series, reading mostly unnutritious Weibo information, going shopping to buy discounted luxury goods, spending the whole afternoon on Taobao, and more boys stay up all night playing online games. To be honest, everyone lives a very tiring life. Playing games and watching TV series without sleep are also very energy-consuming. The same amount of energy and physical effort was expended, but completely different results were achieved. If we haven’t worked hard enough, what else can we complain about?

3. Cherish your blessings. Apart from hard work and planning, there are indeed incredible determinants. You can call this factor luck, opportunity, probability event, etc., but no one can Explain how this factor works because it is supernatural. As a person who advocates Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, I firmly believe that this is the blessing that our ancestors have spoken of throughout the ages. Mr. Chen Lang, a generation of numerologists in Hong Kong, is Li Ka-shing's lifelong consultant and a Feng Shui consultant to a large number of Hong Kong wealthy people. When he told Li Ka-shing's fortune in his early years, he directly said that his treasury was overflowing and his future wealth would be unlimited. But even so, Mr. Li Ka-shing still works more than 8 hours a day to this day and insists on reading at least 1-2 books a week. Let me ask, how many of our young people read more than 10 nutritious books throughout the year? I admit, I don't. Even if they don’t read books, how many young people spend at least 5 hours a week learning professional knowledge and English? I admit, I don't. So, I can't complain about what I have today. In the movie, there is a 28-year-old Ph.D. in power propulsion from MIT. It was he who discovered a model vulnerability that no one in the company had discovered, which triggered the subprime mortgage crisis. A financial analyst who had worked for 20 years spent weeks not discovering a vulnerability that was discovered within a few hours by this MIT missile science Ph.D. Is this a coincidence? This is expertise. The more interesting plot in the film is that when these young people presented the problem report to their leader, the leader said annoyingly that he could not understand it. Because they don’t learn, and because the higher up people go, the more their professional abilities deteriorate.

Of course, there are also many so-called second-generation rich and second-generation officials in this world. Although some of these good-luck young people are outstanding, there are also many prodigal sons. Some people say that this is reincarnation technology, but this can also be summarized as luck and good fortune. No matter how great the blessings are, I believe what the Buddha said: "Blessings in the world are all leakage, and they will eventually be used up." The Buddha once gave an example to his disciples on the spot: "Look at the beggar on the roadside, and the The nobles sitting on the golden elephants are decorated with necklaces, and their fates in the next life will be reversed."

Luck will not always be so good! People who are lucky in life usually must have the necessary factors for successful people.

ps: Add some humble opinion on the definition of success.

Success has different definitions. Not wasting time for yourself, your family and loved ones, or even achievements for social progress and human civilization are all called success.

Facing the success achieved by others through hard work, whether it is wealth accumulation, academic discovery or active participation in charity, it is worth learning and admiring! Those who promote the progress of human science and technology and spiritual civilization, whether they are academic masters, business tycoons, political elites, or eminent monks, are all inseparable from hard work. During the European economic crisis, Germany and Greece are the best comparisons. A nation that does not advocate aggressiveness, diligence and rigor will eventually suffer. This is not Mao Zedong’s warning, but the law of historical development.

Being jealous or dismissive will not make you better, it will only make you more accustomed to living casually and leisurely. This way of living may leave regrets in old age. . Of course, ordinary people have the right to be ordinary people, but if you haven't worked hard yourself, you should first learn to discover the advantages of others. Please respect other people's sweat and possible contributions to society first. Even if there are too many outstanding talents in the world, at least none of us are.