Chapter 27 be an active person

Think about the most successful people in the world today, how many of them are obedient and waiting for orders from others? --Kai-fu Lee Kai-fu Lee once said that when he faced the eager eyes of Chinese students, the first advice he could think of was, "Be a proactive person."Later, he further wrote in a letter to Chinese college students: Thirty years ago, an engineer's dream goal was to enter IBM, the most technologically advanced company.At that time, IBM's definition of talent was: a person with professional knowledge and hard work.Today, people's perception of talent has gradually changed.Many companies are looking for people who are proactive, enthusiastic, flexible and confident.

Think about the most successful people in the world today, how many of them are obedient and waiting for orders from others?As a new generation of college students in China, you should no longer just passively wait for others to tell you what to do, but should take the initiative to understand what you want to do, plan them, and then go all out to complete them.When dealing with your own academic and research projects, you need to devote yourself to continuous efforts with the sense of responsibility and love that a mother has for her children.If so, there is no goal that cannot be attained.

He also tells a story of how one's own initiative can have some unexpected impact: Once I received a very special job application.Unlike most job applicants in the past, this applicant's job application profile includes his self-introduction, his yearning for Microsoft Research, and why he thinks he is a suitable candidate, in addition to his published papers, The teacher's recommendation letter and the topic he hopes to do at Microsoft.Although the school he graduated from is not the most famous school in China, his self-promotion has worked.I saw his enthusiasm and seriousness in these documents.When I interviewed him, he submitted a fuller profile.Finally, when I asked him if he had any questions to ask me, he asked me back: "Do you have any reservations about me?" At that time, I did have doubts about whether he could enter the new research field, so I asked further asked him some questions about this.He cited two convincing examples to dispel my concerns.In the end, we hired this candidate.He's doing really well right now.

I was bad until then and never cared.The change in my heart happened when my parents let me choose. It can be said that it was a coincidence. ——Wu Feng Wu Feng is not tall, has a round face, is fair and clean, and wears a pair of deep glasses with white plastic frames. He has sharp edges and corners, speaks calmly, without sharpness, and looks like a scholar.He is a leader among the younger generation of researchers at Microsoft Asia Research Institute - the third of the "Microsoft Four".His research results are influential all over the world.Before that, he studied for 22 years, from elementary school to doctorate, all in domestic schools.When people say that our country can also cultivate outstanding talents, they often mention him.Such a person actually said that he was "the prodigal son turned back", which can't help but make people extremely surprised.

This is real. In 1984, on the day when Wu Feng's junior high school graduation examination report card was issued, neither his parents, teachers nor himself would have thought that his future would be like this today.The mathematics on the report card is 32 points, and the English score is 28 points. He was born in the Jianghan Plain, by the Hanshui River.That place is called Yuekou, a picturesque town, more than 20 kilometers away from the nearest county town, Tianmen. The years from elementary school to junior high school coincided with the first wave of reform in China. Young people were doubting the values ​​instilled in them by the older generation. Whenever something new appeared, it would stir up a gust of wind among them. Like an epidemic, it spreads outward from the big cities.The small town where Wu Feng lives is no longer a paradise. Bell-bottom pants are popular on the street, and Teresa Teng's delicate and tactful love songs are also popular.At the age of nine, Wu Feng was fascinated by these things. He gathered with a few friends and wandered the streets after school every day, or entrenched by the river, wearing a pair of flared trousers, carrying a tape recorder, and singing "Don't Pick the Wild Flowers by the Roadside", no one thought of textbooks, schoolbags, classrooms, teachers, and no one thought of going home to finish the day's homework.

Dad has been working outside for a long time, and my mother has nothing to do with this son. If she doesn't say no, she ignores it if it is light, and if it is serious, she runs out and never comes back.Grandma always looked at her grandson and sighed: "Oh, how wonderful this child is. He takes a bench and a small stool every day, and sits at the door to do homework. Now... oh... now, what's wrong? " He lived like this for 6 years.When he graduated from junior high school, my father came back and looked at his son's test results: he failed one test and another. He didn't beat him, but asked him what he planned to do.

"Choose by yourself." Dad said to his son, "If you don't like studying, you can take over mother's class and work as a salesman in a supply and marketing cooperative. It's good to support your family in the future; Study for another year in the third year of junior high school, and take the high school entrance examination next year." Some people always want to be different, and some people just want to be normal.In the eyes of the father, this is a good thing, as long as the son is willing. But Wu Feng had never thought about these things until then.He was afraid that his father would beat him up, but now his father not only didn't beat him, but let him choose by himself. This gave him a sense of responsibility in his heart, and made himself think like an adult for the first time.

"I want to continue studying." He said to his father. "Understood?" Dad asked. "I suddenly want to study," he replied. "I think I've had enough fun. I don't want to spend my whole life playing in this small town." "Well," my father said, "although the family doesn't have much money, as long as you choose to study, we will support you no matter what." He started to re-read the third year of junior high school, in fact, he was re-learning the entire junior high school curriculum.He was in a desperate mood, and he couldn't wait until the start of school. During the summer vacation, he went to his cousin to help him with English tutoring.My cousin is an English teacher, and I was surprised and delighted to see him "turn the prodigal son back".Ask him to read a few words on the spot, but he can't read all of them.My cousin was not discouraged and taught him from scratch.By the end of the summer vacation, he had learned the phonetic alphabet.

From the first day of school, the child was no longer seen on the streets of the town.Those partners still came to him.He shook his head: "I don't play anymore." The second "third year of junior high school" is an experience he will never forget in his life.In the eyes of his teachers and classmates, he is just a repeat student, but he doesn't care what others think of him.He really didn't leave any time for himself to play.The people around were amazed at the child's change, and they couldn't believe it until many years later, asking, "How can a teenage child suddenly become a completely different person?"

It was already 9:40 when the evening self-study ended. He returned home, took 20 minutes to eat something, sat down again at 10 o'clock, studied until 12 o'clock, and then went to bed.Get up at 6 in the morning, start early self-study on time after 45 minutes, and then go to class.Back home at 12 noon.After lunch is the most sleepy time of the day for him, but he can't rest and has to go to class.It takes more than ten minutes to walk from home to school. He closes his eyes and walks a few steps, and then opens his eyes for a few steps, feeling that he can take a little rest this way.He later recalled the day like this:

This is all done on my own initiative, no one forced me.I can't tell now, where did the energy come from at that time, and there was an impulse.In fact, I had always been poor before that, and I never cared about it. It was expected that the results of the junior high school graduation examination were so bad, and it didn't give me much stimulation.The change in my heart happened when my parents asked me to choose by myself. It can be said that it was a coincidence, so I chose this path.If they forced me to continue studying at that time, maybe I would have a rebellious mentality, and instead broke the pot and fell. During this year, he relearned all the courses in the third grade of junior high school.He never thought of what standard he was going to reach, or what kind of high school he could get into. After all, his starting point was too low, and no one had high expectations of him, not even himself.He was very tired from studying, but seeing his academic performance improving little by little, he was very happy, and he was not tired or bitter. When the final exam came, he surprised everyone again.Not only did he pass all his exams, but he performed so well that three out of a class of 70 students were admitted to the best high school in the county.This repeat student is one of them. "Before I got the test scores, I was very worried. I couldn't eat well, and I couldn't sleep." He said, "After getting the scores, I relaxed a lot. This year's hard study was not in vain. I didn't think about anything else. Just waiting for school to start and go to high school." On the first day when he entered a key middle school, Wu Feng was still wondering if he was having a beautiful dream.He never thought that he would still be able to go to college in his life, but everyone told him that entering this high school was like stepping on the threshold of college with one foot. By the time he was in his third year of high school, everyone no longer doubted that his "college dream" was about to come true. But in the spring of 1988, a word from a doctor woke him up from his dream. It was a terrible day for him and his family.He remembered very clearly that that day was 4 months away from the college entrance examination, and it was an afternoon self-study class.He explained a chemistry problem to his classmates, and while he was talking, he felt that there was a black spot in the lower right corner of his eye, blocking his sight.He took off his glasses and wiped them off, but he couldn't wipe them off. Only then did he realize that the black spot was on his own eyes, so he went to the county hospital to see a doctor. The doctor only took one look and immediately said, "This is a detachment of the retina." The whole family was taken aback.His father didn't believe it, so he took him to a hospital in the provincial capital, but the result was the same.The doctor in the provincial capital added: "Surgery is necessary." There is no doubt that if the operation is performed immediately, the college entrance examination will be missed; if the operation is not performed, it may be more difficult to treat if it is delayed, and it may cause a large area of ​​retinal detachment at any time. "That's blinding." The doctor said to his father. The father came home with his son in fear, silent all the way, not knowing what to do.Looking at his son, the father noticed for the first time that the boy had grown taller again.He's 19, he's grown up, and most importantly, he's changed dramatically inside. The son's rebirth is vividly remembered by the father.The school is in the county seat, far away from home, so he wants to live in the school.Just like the "second third grade of junior high school", the study plan occupies all of my time, and I don't even go home on weekends.His father came to see him at school on weekends, with clean clothes in one hand and a can of soup in the other. It was bone soup, sometimes boiled with kelp and sometimes with lotus root.My mother said: "This soup is nutritious." So I asked my father to give it every week. When he first entered high school, his grades were ranked in the bottom 10, and by the end of the first year of high school, he was ranked in the top 10.He received a progress award from the school.The teacher said to him: "With your grades, you can be admitted to university." He thought he would be happy, but like all students, desires are endless: when he is not sure about the university entrance exam, he hopes to be admitted to the university; When I was in college, I hoped to be admitted to a prestigious university.They are always stressed and never satisfied.Now, Wu Feng also has this mentality.He calculated with his fingers that as long as he entered the top 6 in the class, he had the hope of going to Tsinghua University and Peking University, and he was immediately excited. The greater the hope, the greater the pressure.His pressure comes from inside him.He has two years of hard study and believes that he can persevere.In his third year of high school, he was already in the top 3.Those classmates who he admired in the past fell behind him one by one.He felt that the problems in front of him became easier and easier, and he became more and more confident in himself. "For the first time, I feel that attitude is a very important factor in your success, sometimes more important than your intelligence." He believed he was invincible.But now, after returning home from the hospital in the provincial capital, Wu Feng felt hopeless.He heard what the doctor said to his father and knew what a detached retina meant: Maybe he was destined not to go to college in this life? The father has always advocated letting his son choose his own destiny, but this time the matter is too big, and he wants to choose for his son himself. "Take the college entrance examination first, and then do the surgery." My father said. Immediately there was light in the son's eyes. My father added: "I can't work as hard as I used to. Just listen to the lectures with your ears, don't look with your eyes, don't do any homework, and don't take any mock exams." The son obeyed.He goes back to school.The college entrance examination review has reached the final sprint stage, the classroom training is very strict, a bunch of papers are handed out every day, they are all mock exams, and they are said to be training for the battle.None of the candidates dared to take it lightly, but Wu Feng was unable to participate in these trainings.He looked relaxed on the surface, but his heart was heavy. It was the most difficult 4 months in his career so far: he was always worried that the black spot on his eyes would expand, and he felt that he was getting worse and worse about the test questions, but there was a way nor. The "Dream of Tsinghua University" just fell through.His grades could have been admitted to Wuhan University, but he has bad eyesight and worried that others would not accept him.When he was hesitating, the teacher at Xidian University was willing to accept him and promised to let him study in an electronics department he liked.He went to Xidian University in this way.This is also a very good university, but he still feels that he has experienced "a big setback": "After all, it is far behind Tsinghua University and Peking University, and even worse than Wuhan University." Ten years ago, he was a naughty boy who roamed the streets, but now he is a young man who is about to enter university.However, the saddest part has not yet begun.Exams are over and he goes for surgery.He is very fortunate that the black spot on his right eye did not expand and the operation went well.However, the doctor told him to stay in bed for a week, unable to move his whole body, turn over, talk, sneeze, eat with his mouth, or drink with his face, otherwise his retina might fall off and he would become blind. It is the midsummer season, and Wuhan is also known as the "Three Great Stoves".The heat in the ward was unbearable. The 19-year-old boy gritted his teeth, thinking that if he moved, his eyes might be damaged. If his eyes were damaged, he would not even be able to go to Xidian University. persisted for a week.When the doctor allowed him to turn over and get out of bed, he felt that his eyes had recovered, but his legs were no longer his own, and he could no longer walk. He had to spend a long time recovering the function of walking. Before we get into the most emotional part of the story, let's listen to a passage from Li Shipeng. Nothing is more important than "attitude" A lot of kids have come this way.They can also get high marks and not really learn anything.They said, "After the exam, return those things to the teacher."