Some time ago, I had a phone call with my dad. When chatting, he casually asked me a question: "Son. I don't regret studying now, do I? " I smiled and replied, "Of course not."

A simple conversation alluded to my long and short life experience. Why not regret it? Because judging from the achievements I have made now, I believe no one will say regret. However, I once doubted whether reading is really useful. Looking back at myself, I have traveled a lot, met many people and experienced many things. Now I really understand what reading has brought me!

Some people will say that if you study hard, you can get out of the countryside, meet more people, have more opportunities and have more possibilities in life. There is nothing wrong with this statement. For those of us who come from ordinary backgrounds and have no connections and backgrounds, reading is the only way out of the mountains. What about after walking out of the mountain? What should we strive for? I believe that few people have real and powerful answers. My answer is simple. I think reading can wake us up and find the dream and direction of life!

In this article, I divide my long and short life experience into three stages, and tell you how I found the direction for my life through reading.

If I remember correctly, the first setback in my life was in junior high school. In order to go to the key junior high school in the county, I took two joint exams and failed. Because there is no money at home, I can only go to school in a notorious junior high school in my hometown. In this junior high school, gangsters are bullying, and studying hard will be despised. I don't know why the first day passed in a daze. I remember when I was in the second grade, my teacher asked me which high school I wanted to enter. I said I'd take the first one, and then someone gave me a sarcastic look. I'm thinking, really not? I'm sad, but I'm not convinced. With the encouragement of the head teacher, I didn't choose to give up my studies. I began to bid farewell to online games and some friends who love to play, chose to study more attentively, and made up my worst subjects through a semester's efforts. As a result, I became one of the few students admitted to the county key high school in this junior high school.

After entering high school, I gained freshness and vanity, but this happiness was short-lived. I thought I could spend my freshman year carefree, but it didn't take long for me to encounter the second setback in my life. In a physics exam, I was distracted in the first hour, and I found that I could no longer concentrate on the topic. After the exam, as soon as the results came out, it is conceivable that the physics results were terrible. I thought it was just an accident, because before that, I could 100% concentrate on any study and exam without external interference. Unexpectedly, from that time on, I could no longer concentrate on my studies. Every time I come to class or take an exam, I can only pinch my thigh and force myself to concentrate on listening to the class and doing problems. The second setback is persistent, because for this reason, my grades are always at a medium level, which brings me test anxiety again and again and insomnia again and again. My inner loneliness and anxiety made my high school days full of helplessness. At that time, the college entrance examination was no longer a springboard for me to go to college, but an anniversary of my inner liberation.

After the official announcement of the results of the college entrance examination, it is not surprising that I missed the key undergraduate course. Although there were some shortcomings, my inner voice told me at that time that it was really not easy at home. My parents have done too much for me, so I can't be a burden to my parents. I must move on and prove myself in other ways! The summer after the college entrance examination, I worked hard and finally earned my first income of 4000 yuan. I was very happy when I gave this money to my mother.

After I came to the university, I actively participated in various activities of the school, and also managed my own online shoe store to earn some living expenses. It's comfortable to live a small life. But at this time, I fell in love with a girl in my class. Because of my inner inferiority, I dare not say anything, and I have been stuck in the stage of unrequited love. However, I really want to prove myself to her. So from then on, I was more free. Get up at 5: 30 every day, exercise, keep a diary by memorizing words, and learn guitar! Let yourself be the most outstanding person in any occasion where she is present, and try every means to bring her some surprises every day. And the end result is no result. The third failure plunged my university into deep confusion.

Where should my university go? Where will my next stop be? I don't know anything. Fortunately, at the end of my freshman year, the school held a youth development forum. I listened to a speech by an excellent senior, and I was very excited after listening to it, because she gave me a direction-to get out of school and grow through experience.

Through rational thinking and judgment on my major and myself, I gave up the idea of taking the postgraduate entrance examination and working in this major, and decided to focus on the sales work I might be engaged in in in the future. I understand that if I want to be an excellent salesman, I must have a good eloquence. So, in the summer vacation of my freshman year, by chance, I signed up for an employment and entrepreneurship training camp. I spent more than 30 thousand in this institution, which overdrawn my tuition and living expenses at the university. It is precisely because of the urgent desire for self-growth and exercise that I joined this training company without hesitation and became an enrollment leader.

When I first started this job, I still kept my passion for doing things as before, and the final enrollment result was satisfactory. However, after the delivery of the company's courses, I originally thought that they would, like me, realize the importance of ability growth through the study of a course, and they could go back to school to study harder and exercise to improve themselves. But the end result is the opposite. Many people question me and think I cheated them. The team became less and less confident in this process, and I even began to wonder if I had made the wrong choice. After my own ideological struggle, I made a profound summary and reflection. Now that you have chosen, you must do it well! At that time, there was a book, Wang Yangming, which also inspired me a lot. For the first time, I learned what is the conscience of education. If you want to do this job well, you must really do the service well!

What is a service? Actually, I don't have a clear concept. My cognition at that time was to take good care of every recruited student and team, help them break through their personality, teach them to speak and preside, and live up to their trust in me. When I go on with this sense of service and the belief of never giving up, I find that more and more people around me are willing to trust me, and I feel more and more fulfilled in the process.

Mr kazuo inamori said that work is the best practice. When some special students appeared in my career, I suddenly realized what real service is. The first sophomore from Nanchang Institute of Technology, when he was listening to my speech, I didn't think he was anything special. After the speech, he said that he wanted to talk to me alone. During the chat, he told me that he had depression and he had to take more than 3,000 yuan of antidepressants every month. I was shocked when I heard this. I am not a doctor, and I don't know what depression is. How can I help him? Although there is no plan, I decided to try to help him solve the problem with my educational conscience. I am very happy. Finally, with my efforts and patient communication, I found his real problem and helped him open his heart. At that moment, I was really happy to receive his thank-you letter! The second is a freshman from Jiang Zhong. One night, she sent me a message saying that she was going to collapse and wanted to commit suicide. I didn't react at that time, because it was the first time I encountered such a situation. How can I help her? Similarly, I also communicated with her with the mentality of trying my best to help my classmates solve their problems, and after understanding what she experienced and the reasons for her collapse, I also gave her some practical suggestions and methods, and finally successfully helped her through this difficulty. Besides, on the way to education, I met people who were extremely introverted and confident, who were influenced by their family background and wanted to commit suicide because of academic pressure, and so on. I will go all out to help them solve their problems. What is real service? But everyone you meet is inevitable, and they will teach you something; What is real service? It is a walk that lights up a lamp, and it is one life that illuminates another life; What is real service? It is altruism, conscience, unity of knowledge and action, and serving the people!

In my junior year, with enthusiasm for education, I gave nearly 300 public speeches and discussions and met all kinds of people. On the stage, I established my self-confidence, matured my mind, honed my ability, and found my life dream and direction!

Back to the question my dad asked me, do you regret studying? I really don't regret it, because I really found my dream through reading. In two years of entrepreneurial work experience, I deeply understand and appreciate a truth, that is, "education changes fate!" " "

Some time ago, a doctoral thesis of Chinese Academy of Sciences thanked the Internet, which touched and inspired countless people. This thank-you content tells the story of Huang's 22 years of studying. His relatives died one after another, leaving him alone in the family. It was difficult all the way, but he kept his faith and continued reading. After overcoming many difficulties, I finally got rid of the quagmire of fate and achieved success in my career.

Liu said in "Let's Talk" that he donated10 million to the National People's Congress and wanted to give grants to college students who were admitted to the National People's Congress in rural areas. As a result, the money could not be distributed. Because there are too few children in poor rural areas who can go to college now. In today's education, since kindergarten, urban children have left rural children far behind, not to mention the primary and secondary schools behind.

At the end of last year, we met such a person all over the country. Her name is Zhang Guimei. As an ordinary mountain teacher, Zhang Guimei, who is alone and childless, has set up a free high school for mountain girls to get them out of the mountains! In order to build this school, she raised money everywhere; In order to get the poor girl to go to school, she went from house to house and worked again and again. In order to make them get good grades in the exam, she didn't go to bed until 5 o'clock every morning ... In twelve years, 1804 poor girls who might drop out of school walked out of the mountains and walked into the university gate ... After reading her story, I burst into tears.

The truth of society tells us bit by bit that the chance for us ordinary people to change our destiny is to study, work hard and strengthen ourselves, which is the only key to solve the problem!

I am really proud to be on the road of education. "University" is about "the way of university": self-cultivation, governing the country and leveling the world. Although I am still very young, I am really practicing these principles bit by bit. I always believe that good things will happen if the present is done to the extreme!

Three questions of philosophy: Who am I? Where is the land I come from? where am I going? Now I have the answer. I am a lifelong entrepreneur in the field of culture and education. I am willing to fight for the education in China all my life!