Chapter 18 Part Three: And Repetition Creates Successful People

Dear Teacher Xu: I studied marketing in college.A few days ago, a talent recruitment fair was held in our school. I went in and walked around, and found that the employment situation of marketing majors is indeed very good. Almost every company is looking for ten or eight marketing majors.But if you ask carefully, most of them are salesmen, and some supermarkets recruit sales staff who move goods and store shelves. The monthly salary is generally around 700 yuan.Many places clearly state that girls are not allowed.The former senior brothers and sisters have been in the society for many years, that is, to be the business leaders of a certain department, which is too far away from their dreams.

Now, many people in the school are preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination.A few days ago, a provincial tutoring class started enrolling students in our city. Before 4:30 in the morning, the gate was already full of people.The school's postgraduate entrance examination tutoring class starts at 8:30, and many people have already occupied seats by 6:00.Even so, only one-fifth of the people passed the exam, and many people had to choose the path of employment in the end, or wait a year, and then take the exam again. I started to find it boring what everyone was doing, but after thinking about it, maybe the postgraduate entrance examination is a shortcut.The background of the school and my own undergraduate experience seem to be far away from going abroad.We have some students who are preparing for IELTS and plan to spend more than 200,000 yuan to go to the UK to study for a master's degree for a year. If the opportunity is good, they can stay and work there.I don't agree with this kind of thinking. New Oriental made me realize clearly that I can't go abroad and shouldn't go abroad.

I have already signed up for the remedial class in Beijing this summer, and I may have to go through the postgraduate entrance examination to the end, and I plan to take the entrance examination for schools in Beijing.I will choose a more practical major, such as business management, but I may not be able to get into a good school: In fact, I know in my heart that this is a road of no return. The hope of success in the postgraduate entrance examination is only 50%, and everything is up to me. hands. Mr. Xu, you said to get a job first and work for a few years, but the standard work makes many people complain. Instead, they go to graduate school or go abroad. Once the diploma is in hand, everything will be solved.Now that I am a junior, I have made up my mind that finding a job is the easiest thing to do. I can relax, learn some English, and read professional books.But now, I have to gnaw at the mathematics I hate, and wait for a transfer of Chen Wendeng's class certificate.I don't want to take the postgraduate entrance examination, and I don't want to participate in this life-and-death competition.But, I can't help it.Teacher Xu, I don't want to go abroad now, I can only get admitted to a graduate student, and I will talk about it later.Making up your mind to get a job now is undoubtedly giving up an opportunity.

In fact, I feel that I know everything and everything should go according to plan, but I always feel that my words are not right and my way is blocked.Excuse me for pointing out the way, the students are being polite here. Love your students, Chongfu Dear Chongfang: The reason why I wrote to you is because your letter exposed a spiritual weakness: I despise labor, and despise the humble labor of the starting point. You say that routine work makes people "sick and miserable."In fact, this may be the most serious psychological misunderstanding everyone faces in employment.The so-called patterned work, to put it bluntly, is simple labor and repetitive labor.However, if there is no simplicity in the world, how can there be complexity?How can there be accumulation without repetition?How can there be an end without a beginning?How can there be a tower without fine sand?

——If you don’t accumulate steps, how can you travel thousands of miles?Without the straw sandals of the Red Army, how could we go to Yan'an and liberate the whole country?Let me say so many slang words that I feel mentally retarded! Let me talk about the example of Yu Minhong that everyone is familiar with—sorry because I am too familiar with Yu Minhong, and I want to promote the spirit of New Oriental, so I always use him as an example—he was in the process of founding New Oriental , I don’t know how many repetitive and patterned jobs there are—for example, the lectures of New Oriental that everyone thinks is the most amazing. It is said that he has taught a total of 400 rounds in the history of New Oriental!What is the concept of four hundred rounds?If a round is 20 lessons, he taught a total of 8,000 lessons!

360 days a year, 3600 days ten years, that is to say, Yu Minhong taught at least two classes every day in ten years! As you all know, New Oriental's class lasts two and a half hours, and because of the New Oriental's teaching method created by Yu Minhong himself, these classes are all shouted out at the top of his lungs—passion is the basic style of New Oriental. This is the history of New Oriental.This is the power of patterned labor and repetitive work. Engels said: "Labor creates man". "Repetition creates successful people!" Teacher Xu said. Young friends all over the world who want to succeed in the workplace, I beg you here, find a job worthy of you, and start your great process of "repetition" as soon as possible!

Repetition has its own golden house, repetition has its own Yan Ruyu-in this way, there is probably no gender discrimination, because the famous beautiful man Song Yu and the good man Jia Baoyu in history are also jade. Translating the above words into modern Chinese, it is: if you persist in doing one thing well repeatedly, you can achieve a career; if you persist in doing one thing well repeatedly, you can also obtain happiness and love. Repeatedly making hamburgers is McDonald's; repeating making coffee is Starbucks; repeating TOEFL teaching is Yu Minhong; repeating doing good deeds is living Lei Feng.

It is Xu Xiaoping who does repeated consultations. What a person does repeatedly is what he is.Therefore, excellence is a habit, not an action.This famous saying was neither said by Engels nor Teacher Xu—it was said by Aristotle, and it is also a wise saying repeated by countless teachers and remembered by countless students in New Oriental. This is an abstract language, and it's boring to talk too much.What I want to say is: If I were you, I would not take the postgraduate entrance examination.At least, I will not take the postgraduate entrance examination to avoid work. I will use the energy and time of the postgraduate entrance examination to find a job and devote it to this job. No matter how boring and simple the job is, boring and simple, I will Do it carefully.In my opinion, doing so is much more meaningful than taking the postgraduate entrance examination without a purpose, or taking the postgraduate entrance examination to avoid work!Just look at those students who have completed their master's degree. How many of them are not engaged in "repetitive" labor?

this is life.It was also a success. Anyone, including artists who are engaged in creative activities and whose work is the least "repetitive", has times when they feel bored and don't want to be "repetitive".But in the vast world, apart from repeating the things you are good at repeating, where is there any livelihood that can fill your rice bowl, enrich your soul, and reflect your value-if there is, it must be repeated! So, we wiped off the envious saliva at the corners of our mouths, rubbed our lustful eyes on our foreheads, held down the heartbeat of our chest, sighed, shrugged our shoulders, even if we were not so willing, we habitually re-entered our "recurring" cycle of life Go back and forth...

Let me "repeat" a hateful saying and never mention it again: tall buildings rise from the ground!If you want to build the building of your life, the starting point must be the ground under your feet - a job.Repetitive labor is like the bricks or slabs that are built up one by one.Repeat the construction for one year, two years, three years, and look up.Wow!You've created your own successful mansion! Xu Xiaoping