Chapter 17 Book Review: Planning Your Life

After returning from overseas, Xu Xiaoping, who has rich life experience, participated in the establishment of New Oriental School, opened the New Oriental Study Abroad Consultation Office, and created a set of unique ideas and methods for overseas study consultation and life consultation, which became the "New Oriental Spirit".During several years of consulting practice, Xu Xiaoping has planned and designed life for many young people who can't find their orientation in life, so that many young people who are at a loss can find their direction and achieve success.Its influence is great, as many people have said, just like young people who want to learn English, take TOEFL, and GRE, all young people who want to study abroad do not know about New Oriental School, and there are people who want to go abroad who do not know Xu Xiaoping.This book is very likely to make everyone who wants to carefully design, plan and spend their lives know Xu Xiaoping.

The central idea presented in the book is how to increase personal value to the greatest extent and fastest under the conditions of globalization and market economy.Xu Xiaoping tried to guide the youth's pursuit of ideals to the track of the market economy era, and let the youth pursue them in accordance with the value laws of the market economy. As a result, a large number of outstanding world-class talents who will have a decisive impact on the future have been born from New Oriental.It's a creation. Life design is crucial to everyone's growth and development.A person will make countless plans in his life, but if the biggest plan—the life plan is not done well, it will be the biggest failure.According to Xu Xiaoping's thinking, the first problem in planning life should be to implement goal management in life.The key points of life planning are: carefully summarize your yesterday, clarify your today and tomorrow, find out the bright spots in your life, use the disturbing events in life as a good medicine to stimulate your talents and adjust your mentality, and use the harsh advice as a guide to action .

Among the cases he consulted, the unique experiences of ordinary people who changed their destiny after consultation vividly demonstrated the colorful scenes of contemporary young people's journey from confusion to success.From Xu Xiaoping's consulting practice, we can see his life planning thinking: people with plans and goals are always fulfilled every day, because the goal is always calling, and the future always opens a smiling face to him.Life needs planning, and life lies in planning.With scientific planning, there will be a strong driving force in life, and there will be an indomitable will.Life planning is based on self-knowledge and self-examination.Know yourself, understand the environment, this is the law of success.After knowing yourself and the enemy, you need to position yourself reasonably.Man is not a god, he has many deficiencies and flaws, too low or too high expectations of himself are not conducive to growth.Everyone has their own style, and the design of life cannot be forced to be consistent.The essence of life planning is to describe an overall structure for one's own development.Only by planning yourself can you grasp the future.

Xu Xiaoping's idea of ​​life planning is based on the type of individual wisdom, guided by personal interests and ideals, and based on personal social environment and economic foundation, scientifically predicts and plans your life, in order to maximize your life. Your wisdom, potential, in order to realize your due life value.Xu Xiaoping's life planning thought emphasizes that you should manage your own strengths, determine your development strategy through planning; determine your life management methods through organizational planning; and achieve your life management scope through planning and governance.Managing your own strengths is tantamount to managing your own life.The method of life management should be based on how to build self-esteem to build one's own social prestige, from building self-improvement to building one's own achievements, from learning knowledge to building one's own integrated wisdom, from creating achievements to expanding one's social popularity, from finding partners To create your own social category.Xu Xiaoping's life planning fully demonstrates his extraordinary wisdom and strategy, and shows his foresight.

"Tuqiong Dialogues" presents vivid life guidance courses for readers without any preaching, especially Xu Xiaoping's thought shown between the lines: a wrong choice can lead to a difficult journey and future failure, and a successful choice Will lead to a bright and happy future.Xu Xiaoping can be called the "Military Advisor" for the life development of contemporary youth.However, the publication of "Tuqiong Dialogue Record" has spread Xu Xiaoping's thoughts more widely, which should be a good thing with infinite merit.