Chapter 3 preface i sing electrified thoughts

——The Birth of New Oriental Study Abroad Theory Writer's Perplexity and Questions I have a friend who is a famous writer and I consider him one of my best friends, although whether he thinks the other way around I don't know.I will not mention the author's name for the time being—because it is not important to the subject of my preface, and at the same time, I am afraid that after writing his name, readers will think: "Famous? Why haven't I heard of it?" Then I was furious, not condemning myself for being ignorant, but hating me for being false. It is said that after listening to one of my lectures on studying abroad, this writer asked me suspiciously: "Xiaoping, I see that you are facing so many students, and you are able to answer those important life and complicated questions about studying abroad that determine their future and destiny. You are decisive and extremely confident. I don’t understand: aren’t you afraid that your point of view may not be in line with the actual situation of others, aren’t you afraid that the plans and suggestions you put forward may delay other people’s future?”

After the writer asked, he smiled and waited for my answer, hiding a knife in his smile.I know this is a very challenging question.So I replied: "I have never been afraid! So far no students have come to me to complain that I have delayed their future. On the contrary, students often come to New Oriental to express their gratitude to me with chocolates and fake wine. I am a little confident in my work. It’s nothing, because studying abroad consulting, career consulting and life consulting are just like doctors and lawyers. In the final analysis, it’s just a professional job. Accidentally came up with a nickname, that's all." "Doctor, lawyer? That's all?" The writer was very disappointed.

In order to comfort him, I thought for a while and said: "Maybe more than that. My consultation may indeed have something special. The special thing is that what I give students in New Oriental is not just specific study abroad programs and learning. Planning, what I am really proud of and what earns the reverence of my students, is that it gives students a useful value and a valuable asset." "What is this?" the writer asked urgently. "This is the value of life and the principle of studying abroad. This is the theory of studying abroad in New Oriental that I have always followed in the consulting process of New Oriental. Based on this basic theory, we can provide effective consultation for students."

Seeing the writer's eyes becoming more and more confused, I said: "Life has colorful values, but once a value is recognized by you, you may pursue this value for the rest of your life without regret or complaint; the world has colorful thoughts, But as long as you accept one of them, you can believe in it for the rest of your life. Human beings live for beliefs. However, different values ​​and thoughts determine people’s awareness of happiness, the degree of happiness, and the quality of life; It determines our definition and interpretation of 'success', 'failure', 'hope' and 'despair', which are crucial goals for contemporary Chinese people.

"Facing the students who come to me for advice, my strongest desire is to give them the values ​​and ideas related to their goals of studying abroad to obtain real happiness—rather than false happiness. The complex knowledge and skills of scholarship, but it is not these knowledge and skills that determine a person’s fate of studying abroad and the quality of life, but the values ​​and guiding ideology of choosing the direction of studying abroad and life. This thing is as important as the soul, but unfortunately it is just the most It is often inadvertently ignored by contemporary strugglers, resulting in a huge gap in the field of studying abroad and the field of life struggle.

"A student can disagree with my ideas, and it is his freedom and joy to choose failure; but if a student follows my advice, even if he is unlucky, he can save the day and turn defeat into victory. Thought——I face countless students, never I don’t feel guilty. Because what I provide Chinese students in New Oriental is an idea of ​​studying abroad that is recognized by the times, approved by the society, and proven to be effective by the struggle of countless students. The application of this idea is The life consultation I provided. This historic task fell on me, and I just represent the precious value of New Oriental Communication!"

The writer, who is famous for his social criticism, nodded half-understood and smiled politely, still hiding a knife in his smile.I must admit that he will always be my teacher in terms of social thinking; but in terms of studying abroad, I can be his coach. The writer's name is Lu Yuegang.His "Oriental Carriage-Legend from Peking University to New Oriental" ruthlessly shattered the myth of New Oriental, and became an unforgettable and soul-penetrating acquaintance with New Oriental. Wang Qiang's "dry goods" and Panasonic's "tap water" "Tuqiong Dialogue" is out!This is the brainchild of my six years of counseling students at New Oriental.It is the solidification and fusion of the life of New Oriental students in the moment when they stay in the New Oriental Consulting Office.It is a fascinating story of countless youth dreams floating, kneading, tearing, sticking, reorganizing, and melting into the morning glow and rainbow around me.At the same time, as one of the representative teachers of New Oriental, this is my reward for the friendship and knowledge of the veterans of New Oriental, such as Min Hong and Wang Qiang, as well as all the young brothers, as well as my dedication to our common cause and dream-New Oriental.

As the vice president of New Oriental in charge of student counseling, my daily work is mainly to give lectures, consultations and dialogues for students.Facing this group of lives and souls full of joys, sorrows, joys, joys and sorrows, condensed joys and sorrows, and surging desires and longings, I often torture myself: what else should New Oriental do and can do for them?How can New Oriental Consulting inspire more fresh and vigorous power and inspiration in their hearts?Those lovely boys and girls who came all the way to New Oriental to meet me (some girls are as young as forty years old!), after meeting me, can their lives really change in a way that would not happen without me?And it can't be a change in a more tragic direction!New Oriental's reputation, my own vanity, are there any elements of foam and water?How should we face the surging life needs of students and provide them with what they need on a large scale and in an all-round way—I would like to use a favorite word used by my entrepreneurial partner Wang Qiang in New Oriental—“dry goods” ".

Wang Qiang is an outstanding scholar who has read thousands of volumes and is a famous English master all over the world, but he likes to use the agricultural and animal husbandry vocabulary of "dry goods" to ask what substance education and consultation can bring to the clients (this may It is because he is from the Inner Mongolia area, to be tested).Dry goods are things without moisture and foam.New Oriental should, must, can, and must develop rapidly, and truly provide students with more, better, and more fulfilling "dry goods" for their lives and futures like containers.

These questions have always excited me and tortured me in the middle of the night.I have never been more frustrated than when I was confronted by an even more frustrated student, who flew in from the Northeast or Southwest to see me, but I had to rush away because of other work arrangements, and I couldn't give him enough time for a "diagnosis" and "Therapy" moment.Those who don't know me think I'm in a hurry, those who know me know that I want to hit the wall.Because of guilt, because of feeling guilty. New Oriental's training industry, under the leadership of Min Hong, has become a high-quality and large-scale supply of "tap water" as Konosuke Matsushita called it, and can meet the learning needs of hundreds of thousands or more students every year.This is the most brilliant achievement of New Oriental in the past eight years.However, New Oriental's consulting industry has not yet allowed her students to turn on the "tap water" faucet. When they are hungry, desperate, or helpless, they can "turn it on" and rush out. Come out, water the fiery heart of the fighter, and spray the scorched skin of the trekker.New Oriental has the responsibility to provide contemporary youth with such services - high-quality and large number of study abroad consulting and life design services.So that every student who comes to New Oriental to pursue ideals and find a future can not only get language training and guidance on examination skills, but also get a "prescription" for his own future and a blueprint for life, and return with a full reward.Let the sweet spring of life thoughts flow to eager students through the channel of personalized consultation; let the good rain of New Oriental spirit come leisurely when spring comes, and sneak into the night with the wind, moistening things silently.You know, what we nourish are thousands of outstanding students who symbolize the future of China... New Oriental will have to respond to the needs of society in this regard.I firmly believe that New Oriental will make an outstanding contribution similar to English training in terms of overseas study consultation and life guidance for students.

"Tuqiong Dialogue Records" may be a form of supply of "tap water" that everyone in New Oriental calls for.This is a theoretical work about the choice of study abroad plans and the prospect of life design.But it is written based on the consulting stories I personally experienced. It is a classic case analysis textbook for readers to imitate, simulate, and refer to.I hope that its publication will bring timely spring rain to the hearts of New Oriental students who are struggling for their future, and provide a means of large-scale reproduction and dissemination of the wisdom and experience of New Oriental Consulting. I admit that it is such a noble motive and sacred mission that drives me to write day and night.This is how in the past few months, even when New Oriental's reform progressed to an extremely difficult moment, and I myself paid a heavy price for the reform, I was able to sing with passion, triumphantly all the way, and finally put "Figure "Poor Dialogues" delivered the real impetus to the readers.Chinese society and family created New Oriental, and also created me and my life consultation thoughts.Contributing myself to Chinese students is the only way for me to gain myself, find myself, and realize myself. The writing process of "Tuqiong Dialogues" may be used as one of the poems to inspire my readers! The "dry goods" proposition put forward by Wang Qiang refers to the valuable ideas that New Oriental Consulting should provide.The "tap water" proposed by Panasonic means that this valuable idea needs to be disseminated on a large scale. (I drank Coke, but what I squeezed out was water. Compared with Lu Xun and his old man, it is really shameful) To make this kind of "dry goods" like "tap water" so that everyone can get married and benefit for life is New Oriental Consulting Greatest dream ever! At my request, brother Wang Qiang readily agreed to write a preface for "Tuqiong Dialogue Record".Therefore, the article "Conquering Happiness" became a wall of bright white jade inlaid on the thick brick of "Tuqiong Dialogue Record".One man guards the gate, and ten thousand men cannot open it; one sequence of paperweights, ten thousand words are superfluous.Even if readers only read this article by Brother Wang Qiang and truly understand the thoughts he is trying to clarify, I think all my goals when I wrote "Tuqiong Dialogue" have been successfully achieved-conquering happiness, obtaining happiness, and striving for happiness , Struggling with a happy attitude is my only prayer and eternal theme when I give speeches and consultations to all students in New Oriental. Min Hong's Pain and Joy After the completion of "Tuqiong Dialogue", I couldn't wait to meet Minhong.Like Ah Q returning to Weichuang from the city and "taking out handfuls of silver and copper from his pocket", I handed the thick manuscript to Minhong.It is said that Minhong is an "attempted poet".Attempted poets can always add a little rhyme to "Tuqiong Dialogue Record".What's more, it was Min Hong who flew to the beautiful and lonely Vancouver at the end of 1995 and sent New Oriental to me.The clock of my life suddenly turned back from the afternoon of my life to eight or nine o'clock in the morning. Since then, my passionate stopwatch has been walking vigorously around this moment forever!Min Hong turned a few pages, first read excitedly, and then thought silently. Ten minutes later, he opened his excited hands and clumsily embraced me.My warmest congratulations on my creation.Two heterosexual men actually cry relative to each other.He said many words of praise to me, but unfortunately I forgot them all, otherwise I would have piled them here to praise myself and sell this book.But his last few words aroused a strong shock in the depths of my heart.He said: He once again experienced the passion when he first met me at Peking University in 1983, felt the inspiration of reuniting with me after a long absence in Vancouver in 1995, and foresaw the great joy of the New Oriental spirit flying to a new cloud layer! As Min Hong's friend, colleague, brother for 20 years, and his entrepreneurial partner who has been with New Oriental for the past six years, I can understand what Min Hong means.I understand that the "83 Peking University Passion" he mentioned should be the spiritual lightning of the next generation of intellectuals who want to be the first in the world under the pinch of poverty and idealism; the "95 Vancouver inspiration" he said should be the loneliness and entrepreneurial pressure. A century of lonely souls shaking hands across the Pacific Ocean; and what is the "New Oriental Joy" in Minhong's heart?I know that the "New Oriental Joy" in his mind refers to the fact that our friends who have the same ideals and pursuits can continue to be together with the friendship that has been cherished for twenty years after we have pioneered the world and created a great cause. Let's jointly pursue this wonderful state and passionate life of discussing swords in Huashan Mountain, discussing poetry in thatched cottage, cooking wine on a snowy night, watching flowers in Taoyuan, and creating a more brilliant future in the East together! Accidentally, some of the symbols in "New Oriental Joy" come from the accumulation of civilization in the "Three Kingdoms".The "Three Kingdoms" issue has caused fierce debate in New Oriental, and strictly speaking it should be a symbol of "New Oriental's pain"-in the process of New Oriental's corporate transformation, we have all fallen into a crisis of emotional and value shocks. Yes, there are struggles in the Three Kingdoms - but there is more friendship in the Three Kingdoms.The Taoyuan trio is the most fundamental spiritual cornerstone and eternal story of the Three Kingdoms culture.In the Three Kingdoms, the three kingdoms stand together, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan created three brilliant ancient civilizations on their respective lands; the "troika" in the history of New Oriental's entrepreneurship, Min Hong, Wang Qiang, and Xiaoping are in the field of examination training, practical English, and life respectively. The consulting field has created the most brilliant career platform in contemporary China.Both Yu and Wang were born, and Xiaoping was busy beating the gong to consult.We galloped freely, prancing horses and guns, driving the New Oriental carriage to gallop across the land of China, and finally created today's New Oriental. The Three Kingdoms returned to Jin, while New Oriental belonged to the Chinese nation eager to regain its glory in the 21st century.For the cause of studying abroad in China carried on the shoulders of New Oriental, and for the dream of "New Oriental" that we all share, we once again put New Oriental into a far-reaching transformation and reform after achieving brilliant success in our business.Reform is difficult and painful.But the New Oriental people have submitted a noble answer sheet for themselves and the society with their own practical actions.If the pain of reform in New Oriental is different from that in other places, it may be that while we are building a building of life and career, we are also climbing the tower of life and spirit, and the sublimation of the soul is a hundred times more difficult than the purification of the body!After the three armies, we were happy; Minhong's joy was because, when New Oriental reached a new level, we began to dream of a more distant starry sky...a more distant starry sky.Writing "Tuqiong Dialogue Records" is a star I dedicated to the sky of New Oriental's career under the unchanging belief in reform.I firmly believe that "Tuqiong Dialogue" will become a star in the New Oriental Milky Way.But even if it is a shooting star, I am satisfied!As long as this fleeting meteor can trigger the magnificent meteor shower of "the great joy that the spirit of the New East is about to fly to a new cloud layer" for New Oriental partners, let the dark sky of the strugglers sprinkle the fireworks of praise—my life The mission, my appointment to New Oriental, and the part of my expectation for the struggle of contemporary overseas Chinese youth have all been brilliantly realized!This is my great joy, the great joy of Minhong, the great joy of New Oriental, and the great joy of studying abroad in China.The wind and rain of New Oriental's reform has passed, "and that which has passed" has become a kind nostalgia; and that which has been obtained will surely become a bright light in the future! At the end of 1997, Minhong wrote a popular preface to my book "American Visa Philosophy".In that cold winter, when New Oriental was less than one-tenth of today’s size, Minhong wrote: “... In order to pursue the youthful ideals that sprouted by the Weiming Lake, and to honor the youthful Haikou that boasted in the Peking University dormitory, we Gathered together again! In this place called New Oriental, friends show their unique talents and pursue success in their careers. The tree of life is evergreen. The return of these friends and the return of overseas students they symbolize reflect the The changes of the times show the exuberance of spring in the youthful land of China." Stepping on the land of New Oriental, creating and embracing the "spring exuberance of the youthful land of China" is the eternal common spiritual ignition of the students, friends, brothers, partners and colleagues of New Oriental headed by Min Hong.Diamonds are eternal, and ideals remain forever.The torch of the New Oriental spirit, because of this common ignition point, has illuminated and will continue to illuminate the souls of countless New Oriental students who are pursuing their future and yearning for the future.In this spiritual light, people can understand the two-man embrace between Minhong and me that has never happened in twenty years and happened twice in four months.The big logic of life contained in these two hugs is: momentary confusion and conflict are nothing!New Oriental and the cause, ideals, spirits and beliefs it represents are the truly eternal, eternal and eternal life.For the ideals in their hearts, people have "nine deaths" but no regrets; for the great cause of New Oriental, Yu Xu has not many "two hugs". After closing the manuscript of "Tuqiong Dialogue Record", Minhong accepted my request and is willing to comment and analyze every article, every character, and every point of view in this book.I asked him to ask "challenging" questions and analysis.Min Hong added the depth and breadth of the book to "Tuqiong Dialogue Record" with a sable tail and a continuation of the dog (meaning "reverse dog tail continuation of a sable").From the value of Minhong's comments on "Tuqiong Dialogue Record", he has become a well-deserved collaborator of this book.This is the first time Min Hong and I have worked closely together on a book.This is the first and most complete song that New Oriental Consulting flies to readers on the wings of New Oriental spirit. Seeing that Min Hong finished flipping through the manuscript and regained his composure, I said: "I can have time to write quietly. I really want to thank you for untying the chains of daily affairs for me, so that I can chase the phoenix as lightly as a bird. There is no past. After several months of accumulation and meditation, without our more than 20 years of profound understanding and firm ideals, I could not have the tranquility of a loud voice to complete my creation. In New Oriental, I consult, I give speeches, I Laughing, I sing——I sing about charged thoughts, but I just don’t have time to sit down and think and write. But today, this regret is first compensated for me! This compensation is revealed by a personal example in "Tuqiong Dialogue Record" The theory of studying abroad is the electrified thought that New Oriental tries to illuminate, has illuminated and will continue to illuminate the struggling life of contemporary youth." I also said: The poet I most admire is Whitman of the United States. He stood on the vast land of America, naked, and sang loudly "Electrified Human Body".All the various organs of the human body have been sung by him, and I, a latecomer who has no subject to write, can only follow his melody here and sing my own charged thoughts!Whitman's singing is full of American spirit. The theme of his song is a strong and free America; today, the soul of my song is the struggle of a generation of Chinese youth who will realize the dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. By. Theory is gray, but the tree of life is evergreen.New Oriental study abroad theory is not a gray theory, but an evergreen life.Because this is the sublimation and refinement of the green souls of thousands of New Oriental students.The theory here is actually a tree in the forest that is freshly jumping, and a flower in the wind flying gorgeously.When I meditate in front of the computer, a pair of faces with true emotions emerge in my mind. They are like unforgettable songs stored on a CD. Once they appear in my memory, my heart starts to sing.I can't use theoretical gray pen and ink to describe the tree of life that is about to drip.Psalms are the only container I can think of to fill my passion and brew my words. All my life value is to dedicate the fine wine of New Oriental study abroad and life consultation to all friends who have met me or have not met me, who have been to New Oriental and who have not been to New Oriental; I have a great sense of accomplishment in Chinese society and Chinese families.I am not ashamed nor surprised that more flowers and honors are coming.Because, in New Oriental, for the students of New Oriental, for the charged thoughts, my voice is almost hoarse; my hard work is almost exhausted.Although at the same time, another voice, always like tinnitus, torments me all the time: I can do more and better, and New Oriental can do more and better!I am excited about the explosive consulting power that New Oriental is about to release, and I am proud of the coming new era of studying abroad! ... After seeing Min Hong off, in the courtyard of his residence, he suddenly saw a row of cherry blossoms in full bloom.I am amazed at the strange power of nature: after the most severe sandstorm in Beijing in late March 2002, these flowers that were already vulnerable to a single blow were still in full bloom.Perhaps, this is the persistent belief in spring, and this is the eternal dream of the future. I think of the thousands of Chinese students who are working hard for their future. I think of New Oriental.