Once, at a party I attended, the host asked a little boy: What kind of person do you want to be when you grow up? The children looked at us entrepreneurs and said, Be entrepreneurs. All the people present suddenly smiled and clapped. I clap my hands, too, but it sounds uncomfortable. I thought, how much does this child know about enterprises? Did he say that he wanted to be an entrepreneur because he was in front of us? Is he influenced by adults and thinks that entrepreneurs are rich and want to be entrepreneurs?
All this is of course a mystery. But anyway, as a person's life ambition, I think it doesn't matter what I do; No matter who you are, the most important thing is to be a hard worker from an early age.
When I was a child, someone asked me the same question. My answer was nothing more than being a teacher, a PLA man and a scientist. Time flies for more than 20 years, and the children of that year are now adults in their early forties. But when I think about it, none of the ambitions I expressed in front of adults in those years have really come true. The others around me are almost the same. Some want to be teachers, but later they become self-employed; Some people want to be the People's Liberation Army, but they actually become prisoners. I had two old friends when I was in college. Now they are all outstanding talents in the electronics industry in China. One grew up to be the boss of Konka Group and the other led TCL Group. The three of us suddenly became the operators of national key color TV enterprises, but when we graduated from college, no matter how imaginative we were, we dared not think that we would be like this in more than ten years. Everything is guided by the situation and worked hard step by step in our struggle. We are not so much people with ideals as people who have been working hard.
It's not that we don't attach importance to ideals, but it's easy to be ambitious, but it's difficult to work hard for them. Life has been like this since ancient times. Who would have thought that today, more than ten years ago, I was a man wandering in the street and worried about my survival? At that time, I had nothing and my future was bleak. I really don't know where the road is. However, I did not lose heart. In retrospect, it was my will that supported me through this difficult time. When many people think I can't do it, I'm still trying to get up from the ground. I firmly believe that life is like Diego Diego Maradona playing football. It is often when I am about to fall, and scoring goals saves my life. That's what happened. Just when there was no way to recover the doubt, the collapse of a Hong Kong enterprise gave me a chance to make a comeback, which enabled me to cooperate with British scientific and technological personnel who mastered the latest technology in the world to develop advanced color TV sets and then get out of the predicament in one fell swoop.
Some people say that "hard work" and "possession" are two landscapes of life. But I think the most beautiful scenery in life should be hard work. Hard work is a mental state of life and a childlike love for life. Effort is the mother of possession, and possession is the son of effort. Efforts can be described as all roads lead to Rome, just want to get a narrow road to meet, and heaven remains our neighbourhood. Therefore, instead of stipulating what kind of person you must be and what you will get, it is better to hone yourself to be a hard-working person. No matter how high your ambition is, it is difficult to stick to it without hard work; There is no lofty goal, because of hard work, we will eventually find the direction of struggle. Being a hard-working person can be said to be the most realistic goal in life and the greatest realm in life.
Many people are ashamed because they set too high a goal for themselves and are too utilitarian, because it is difficult to succeed, and eventually they are discouraged. The reason is often because people pay too much attention to what they have and ignore those who make efforts. For today's children, if we only pay attention to what kind of person we should be in the future, and don't put forward the quality of will as the goal of being a man, we can only cultivate narrow, selfish, fragile and low-level people in the end. Regrettably, we have not done well in this regard.