Because Yu is a true portrayal of moving from the countryside to the peak of life with his own efforts.
From three failures in the college entrance examination, to being admitted to Peking University unexpectedly, staying in school to teach after graduation, and then leaving Peking University to start New Oriental from scratch, Yu's life struggle is full of inspirational colors.
There is no shortcut to success. If you have to say yes, it is reading.
Reading can broaden your horizons and get in touch with more ideas. After these ideas collide, you will form your own world outlook, outlook on life and values through your own independent thinking, and you will become a master of excellent ideas in the world.
Some people may say that I am very busy at work every day, and I have no time to study for the sake of living. Speaking of time, isn't Teacher Yu busy? As a busy man with precious time, Mr. Yu Can still read 60 books in three Harle, with an average of one book every 1.5 days.
The fact tells you that it's not that you don't have time, but that you can't manage time. You are making excuses for your laziness.
Yu insisted that "reading is the fastest and safest way to change your destiny".
As the saying goes, "I'm not afraid that you don't work hard, but I'm afraid that people who are stronger than you will work harder."
At the same time, in this era of promoting reading for all, I recommend an extra book, Walking Life, which will help you understand the meaning of life more deeply.
As teacher Yu said: There is no longer road than a dream. Measure the length of life with your feet!
There is a good saying:
Reading thousands of books is not as good as Wan Li Road, and Wan Li Road is not as good as countless people, overlapping the footsteps of successful people.
Through reading and traveling, Mr. Yu constantly iterates his own cognition and explores more unknown worlds.
From Yu, we can find that people's success is not accidental. They are all born with curiosity, competitiveness and sense of responsibility, which pushes them to constantly understand the unknown world, increase their life experience and enrich their life sentiment.
In the book "Walking Life", I recorded my travel experience and feelings in the process of traveling, and learned about the cultural differences and historical civilizations between different parts of the world. For Yu, there are many ways to travel, such as hiking, self-driving, joining a group and visiting.
Yu believes that reading is a walk of thought and traveling is a walk of life. They are different.
A little time.
When it comes to reading, we have to mention time management. Efficiency is a hot topic in the era of information explosion. Faced with the information that comes to your door every day, you are at a loss, and you don't have a whole block of time to use, but fragmented time is the best way for you to open the gap.
Similarly, take Yu as an example: whenever you travel, you will never forget to bring a book. For example, flying and taking a car are all available fragmented time, which is more rewarding than chatting on WeChat, brushing friends circle, visiting Tik Tok and Taobao. Even if you only spend 10 minutes reading an article every day, there are 365 articles accumulated in a year, and the precipitation of knowledge cannot be ignored.
Yu said that his work is really busy, only a few days a year, and he can fully understand it. So he only uses fragmentation time to read, and it is estimated that about 100 books are read in fragmentation time every year. If it is troublesome to take paper books out, it is to read e-books and spend all the fragmented time on reading.
Books are the spiritual food of human beings.
My young friends use their spare time to read as much as possible to improve their thoughts, realm, mind, feelings and temperament. Combining reading with social practice, a person will certainly become better.
On the other side of the world, there are always too many unknowns and mysteries. As long as you have enough patience and perseverance to keep exploring, life will give you miracles and surprises. On the contrary, you are always making excuses for your laziness, and your life is doomed to mediocrity.
Yu said: There are only two kinds of animals that can climb to the top of the pyramid in this world. One is the eagle, which flies with its own talent and wings. Another animal is a snail, which slowly climbs to the top of the pyramid by its own efforts. Although the process is tortuous, you will succeed as long as you don't give up. Once the snail climbs to the top, the world it sees and its achievements are exactly the same as those of the eagle.
Therefore, the starting point of life is not your choice, and the end point of life is your own decision.
Yu mentioned in "Walking Life" that people's life is always short and they miss too many opportunities inadvertently. Many people don't understand the importance of time and life until a certain stage. When you stop and look back, you will find what you don't want and what you didn't get. When you try to save something, you will find that you can't do it.
Teacher Yu told us in the book, don't let material things become the only belief in your life, you should have a pair of eyes that are good at discovering the beauty in life and find value and happiness from every little thing.
It is not difficult to find around you that many people live for money and always cheat for a little profit. For example, there are two colleagues in a company, and they have a good relationship on weekdays. When they face a promoted position together, the relationship between them has changed from the original cooperative relationship to the current competitive relationship, and the relationship has become worthless in the face of interests.
Everyone is the creator of life. When you are full of resentment and think that the whole world is sorry for yourself, then your life will not be happy, and it will definitely bring negative emotions to people around you.
On the contrary, when you think that life is beautiful everywhere, people around you will also feel your optimistic mood, which is how I shine to illuminate others.
Expand the field of life
Open the book "Walking Life" and you will feel the love for life. Following Yu Xiansheng's words, you can feel the brand-new cognition and love for life brought by his travel, and enrich the life map of Yu Xiansheng through travel.
The book records his footprints in foreign countries, such as a small town, a castle, the location of a classic movie and so on. He didn't come here to take pictures of online celebrities, but to do his homework and go to the scene to see, so as to gain thinking and understanding.
Therefore, his travels are not simple records, but have cultural significance and charm.
For example, Mount St. Michel: above the soul, below the sentient beings.
Saint Michel is one of the few angels mentioned by name in the Bible and the only angel with the title of Archangel. He represents the power of good, so in the final judgment, he can use the balance in his hand to weigh the weight of human good and evil. Evil was brought to hell by Satan, and goodness was brought to heaven by Saint Michel.
The statue of Saint Michel that we see now is usually with a sword and a balance in hand. The sword symbolizes the battle with Satan, and the balance is used to weigh the human soul.
This is the story of St. Michel, which makes readers make up for a blind spot in knowledge.
Regarding Mount St. Michel, he wrote that it is the third holiest place in Catholicism besides Jerusalem and Vatican. How did this position come about? He made a detailed analysis and elaboration, and the contents were obtained by consulting materials and reading books, and then internalized by himself.
He said that it was its story and its patchwork architecture that finally brought people not far from Wan Li to Mount Saint Michel.
But the most attractive thing about the holy mountain is the villages and small streets at the foot of the mountain.
Finally, he said, perhaps, I miss this world more than entering a peaceful paradise. I hurried past various churches, but I couldn't leave in the small street at the foot of the mountain for a long time.
He told the story of St. Michel, the origin and historical vicissitudes of the holy mountain, and his personal feelings, which was eye-opening and thoughtful at the same time.
Tourism is a process of exploring the unknown.
With the improvement of economic level, more and more people like to travel. Some people travel just to see some unknown new things, and the essence of tourism is to explore the unknown world and broaden the territory of life.
I often hear friends around me say that going out to travel is simply spending money to buy guilt. If this is the concept, I believe there will be no new discoveries when I go out. It is nothing more than looking at people's heads and eating local characteristics. After you come back, there will be no other gains except feeling tired.
The reason why travel feels tired is mainly because the purpose is not clear and the cognition is not deep. Just joining in the fun will only make you more tired.
Then why is it that the more places you go, the happier I am?
The answer is simple, all actions without purpose can't feel the harvest and sense of accomplishment.
The same is true of tourism. Before traveling, Mr. Yu will take the time to collect information, understand the local customs and characteristics, and then go to the scene to verify with questions. Travel in this way, the harvest will be more specific, and you will achieve something when you are tired.
Life itself is a one-way trip. If we keep discovering new discoveries and surprises in the unknown world ahead, the territory of life will be more colorful and life will be more meaningful.
I said to:
Life is living in the process, don't be afraid of failure and hardship, do what you want to do most, become the person you want to be and live the life you want most.
Walking on the road of life is both exploration and growth, and this process is painful and happy.
There are two ways of life. The first way is to live like grass. Although you are alive and growing every year, you are a grass after all. You absorb the rain and dew, but you don't grow.
People can step on you, but people won't suffer because of your pain; People won't pity you because you are trampled on, because people don't see yourself.
Therefore, each of us should grow like a tree. Even if we are nothing now, as long as you have the seeds of trees, even if you are trampled in the middle of the soil, you can still absorb the nutrients of the soil and grow on your own.
When you grow into a towering tree, people can see you in distant places; Approaching you can give people a piece of green.
Living is a beautiful scenery, dying is a pillar of talent, and living and dying are all useful.
Teacher Yu's advice to young people: people are great because they have dreams, and don't stop moving forward because they are afraid of difficulties.
No matter how humble you are, as long as you have dreams, you can live a dignified life. The premise is that two conditions must be met: given enough time, the enthusiasm of life will never go out.
In the process of everyone's growth, it is inevitable that they will encounter difficulties, and avoiding them will never solve the problem. If you have time to understand the behind-the-scenes experiences of successful entrepreneurs, there is no one who didn't come out of bullets, such as Ma Yun, Liu and Cao. Perhaps it is because of the baptism of the storm that their fighting spirit and potential will be stimulated.
In the book "Walking Life" by Mr. Yu, I found Yu's spirit of constantly exploring and innovating, not afraid of failure, and bravely facing challenges. As Yu said: people should have the spirit of water! Even if it is polluted, it can be washed by itself; When encountering difficulties, whether crossing or bypassing, we should constantly accumulate strength like water, constantly break through obstacles, and finally flow to the rough sea.
I told the confused young man to remember two things:
First, don't be afraid of failure, but have the courage to find opportunities;
Second, God never shuts one door but he opens another, and no matter how difficult it is, there will be a way out.
As long as you remember these two points, life will gradually get better.
Some people say that Yu is an entrepreneur, some people say that Yu is a teacher, some people say that Yu is an "uncle slash", and some people say that Yu is a life mentor. With so many identities, he prefers to be a life mentor, because it is more meaningful to help more young people realize the value of life.
Everyone has been young, and youth is a person's greatest struggle capital. In order not to leave regrets and regrets in our lives, we should seize every opportunity and change our lives as much as possible.
Expand the territory of life by walking, and life will eventually be broad and beautiful.
Everyone is mortal, but everyone is not willing to be mediocre. But you must believe in yourself. As long as you work hard and make progress, you can find hope in despair, and ordinary life will eventually shine.
Finally, in your life map, you may not be Yu or Ma Yun, but you can be your best self. As Yu said, there is no longer road than a dream. Measure the length of life with your feet!