Hello, classmate, it's the first time to communicate with classmates like this, because there is nothing standing in front, which is called public loneliness in terms of performance. But just now, the enthusiastic introduction of the host and the enthusiastic response of the students seemed to make me two years younger. I thought about when I was younger than you, about forty-five years ago. I was only a teenager at that time, and I was thinking about what to do in the future just like you.
Influenced by Sherlock Holmes, I especially want to be a detective. I want to be an explorer, just like Robinson Crusoe, influenced by two Wan Li under the sea and traveling around the world in 80 days. I am good at math. When I was in primary school, I could skip a grade, but my Chinese was not good, so I failed to skip a grade.
I have been a soldier, a worker, an engineer and an official, so I am 32 years old this year. I was in the foreign trade department of Guangdong. In the eyes of others, this career is very, very good, but I have seen where my life will eventually go. I was the deputy section chief at that time. I saw it. I can be a section chief, deputy director, director and deputy director step by step. Now I have seen how my life will be spent and how my memorial service will be held. I can imagine how my friends came to bow and mourn for me when I was lying there. I've thought it over. I don't think I want to live like this. This is my original intention to start a business in Shenzhen.
I have no strict life plan to be an entrepreneur. Even then, I hated being a businessman.
I just wanted to change a new way of life, so I went. I don't like doing business, and I don't like doing business. I have publicly said that I don't like real estate, so that now Vanke CEO Yu Liang tells me privately: "Chairman, if you don't like it, you don't like it, but you don't want to say it publicly. How can we educate the team to like and love this industry? " I said yes, I won't say it.
But standing here today, I want to tell my classmates that I like real estate very much, and I like the real estate industry very much, because it involves urban construction and urban planning and benefits consumers and people. I suddenly found that I was engaged in a career that I never dreamed of, and I sincerely liked the job I didn't like at all.
Students, what I want to say here is that you should not rush to find a career that will make you rich and accompany you for life as soon as you graduate from college. Don't worry. When you are uncertain, you should do your job well and do your unwanted business well. Maybe the salary doesn't follow your heart, maybe the salary doesn't follow your heart, maybe the environment you are in, those people don't follow your heart, but you should have a calm heart. The so-called free choice of life itself is not free. In the process of not being free, you still have to do it well, as an experience and a life accumulation. Experience itself is a kind of wealth.
The first story I want to tell is that in 2009, on the 25th anniversary of Southern Weekend, I made a selection of Chinese Dreamers, and I was honored to be selected. Interestingly, I gave me three labels to choose from. The first label is entrepreneur, the second label is mountaineering explorer, and the third label is non-briber. So, class, guess which one I will choose? I choose not to bribe. I remember when I won this honor, I said, "No bribery is the bottom line of my business, but I didn't expect this bottom line to become my label. It's ridiculous." The most basic bottom line, many people think it is impossible. A long-term persistence and minimum personality requirements will become your most competitive thing. I have to say with regret that our society needs reform.
My body is not very strong. Students may wonder, how is that possible? How did you climb Mount Everest when you were not strong? I said that it was because I climbed Mount Everest that my body became strong. I tried to overcome one mountain after another. This process makes my mental endurance stronger than before and my physical strength stronger and stronger, not because I have a strong body. Actually, I had a migraine for four or five days. My five senses include otitis media, retinitis, sinus and pharyngitis. What I fear most is 1995. I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my left leg. The doctor made it very clear that there is an hemangioma between your lumbar vertebrae. You must reduce your movements immediately, preferably in a wheelchair, or you may be paralyzed at any time. I was in a daze. It never occurred to me that at the age of 44, when I was in my prime, the doctor announced that I might be paralyzed. So I thought, anyway, before I was paralyzed, I would go to Tibet and Everest.