Introduction: Everyone should know Yan Ning, a world-famous scholar, who was published softly at the top of the press, but unfortunately was not selected for the list of academicians, and later returned to Teach at Princeton University and became a tenured chair professor at Princeton University. But the protagonist of today's story is Li Yinuo, the best girlfriend who was admitted to Tsinghua University with her, and they were once called the most cattle girlfriends in history for four years. Many people may not have heard of Li Yinuo, in fact, Li Yinuo is also very strong, and now he is dedicated to spending money on the world's richest man, but he gave up scientific research that year, and the two girls have different lives after graduation, but they are wonderful!
01 The father is an alcoholic, and the mother is living in the house
In 1977, Li Yinuo was born in a rural family in Jinan, Shandong Province, and his family could not be poorer, and he could only drink some white rice porridge and eat pickles to fill his stomach every day.
But what makes Li Yinuo more uncomfortable is that since she can remember, her childhood has been accompanied by endless quarrels between her parents.
Family life is very discordant, and repeated quarrels have hurt the feelings between family members.
Li Yinuo's father was an alcoholic, not only unwilling to work, but also drunk every day when he came back, and beat her mother when he drank too much.
But Li Yinuo's mother did not want Li Yinuo to live in an incomplete family, so she could only bear all this silently.
Later, Li Yinuo was older, and he also knew that his mother had suffered a lot of grievances, so he persuaded his mother to divorce his father decisively, and with the support of his daughter, his mother wanted to end the marriage more decisively.
So when Li Yinuo was 12 years old, his mother took Li Yinuo out of the house, ending the long quarrel.
It is also these unforgettable times that have honed Li Yinuo's tenacious personality.
02 Mother herding education, daughter successfully escorted to Tsinghua University
After the divorce of his parents, Li Yinuo and his mother depended on each other, and it was particularly difficult to live during that time, but fortunately there was no quarrel, so it was still relatively happy.
Li Yinuo is not an ordinary woman, 16 years old became a young man, and then went to college from school, you know, in that era, it was not simple to produce a college student.
Mother's education method is very special, she will never force Li Yinuo to do what she does not want to do, it can be said that "sheep herding" education.
But the mother is not unprincipled to spoil Li Yinuo, if Li Yinuo does anything wrong, the mother will educate her very harshly.
Once Li Yinuo only scored 80 points in the math test, which was actually not a big deal, because at that time, the test paper teachers asked to go home and find their parents to sign.
When Li Yinuo took the test paper to his mother to sign, he saw that Li Yinuo lost 20 points all because of carelessness and insisted on not signing for Li Yinuo.
The mother told her daughter: "If you can't do it, I don't blame you, but if you do it wrong because of carelessness, I certainly can't sign it for you, which will only make you develop the habit of carelessness, and when you grow up and enter the society in the future, a mistake may cause irreparable losses." If you lose points later because of carelessness, I will not sign for you. ”
So the next day in class, when the other students' test papers were signed by their parents, only Li Yinuo did not, and this incident also taught Li Yinuo a great lesson.
At the age of 18, Li Yinuobao was sent to Tsinghua University, and the admission was still the hot biology department of Tsinghua at that time.
This incident should be the best news that her mother has heard in so many years, and it is also Li Yinuo's reward for her mother's hard work in raising herself.
03 The university met Yan Ning, whose personalities are completely complementary
In order to take better care of her daughter, her mother followed Li Yinuo to Tsinghua University.
Li Yinuo has been very frugal since he was a child, once went for a walk in the park with his mother, and happened to meet a person to buy kiwifruit, at that time kiwi fruit was very expensive because it was not much, and it cost 10 yuan a pound.
Yinuo knew that his mother was working hard for life and it was not easy to make money, so he just glanced at it, and deliberately accelerated his pace and left to go far.
Li Yinuo and his mother
The mother saw that her daughter wanted to eat, so she called out to her and decisively ran to the vendor to buy 5 for her daughter.
Yinuo ate very happily, like a small child who had not yet grown up.
During the college years, Li Yinuo and his classmate Yan Ning became the best girlfriends, and at that time, the two agreed to be a big scientist together in the future.
Li Yinuo still remembers the summer vacation of his freshman year, because the high number test is not very good, but Yan Ning test is very good, so he took the initiative to help Yinuo learn high numbers, and the two became good friends over time.
Yan Ning also knew in the chat that the girl in front of her was completely complementary to her, and the personalities of the two people were different, but it did not affect the emotions between them.
In 1990, Yan Ning was admitted to Zhangqiu No. 1 Middle School, a famous school in Henan, with almost full marks, and then easily admitted to Tsinghua University, becoming a "child of others" in the eyes of a generation of parents.
Yan Ning
Li Yinuo of a single-parent family did not have his parents hold him in the palm of his hand like Yan Ning since he was a child, because his mother had done her best for life, and she really did not have the extra strength to take care of Li Yinuo's little temper.
Fortunately, Li Yinuo has never been a petite woman, and life has taught her to be independent and strong.
In terms of doing things, Li Yinuo is very assertive, what clothes to wear, what to do, as well as study plans and daily routines, Li Yinuo all arranged himself like a small adult, and there was no need for his mother to worry about it.
On the contrary, Yan Ning's life was like a mess, so the clever Yan Ning knew how to follow Yinuo to learn how to organize himself.
Yan Ning later recalled: "My Tsinghua years were colorful because of Yinuo, and I was running in her direction all the way. ”
Yinuo's four years at Tsinghua were very happy, not only with the company of his mother, but also found a good girlfriend Yan Ning.
04 After graduation, Dr. Yinuo gave up scientific research and went to work at McKinsey with an annual salary of one million
After graduating from Tsinghua University, Yan Ning and Li Yinuo both chose to pursue doctorates, so one went to Princeton University and the other went to UCLA.
During the doctorate, Li Yinuo met his current husband Shen Huazhang, the two fell in love at first sight, and in less than a year, the two of them received the license.
Later, Yan Ning's story was known to everyone, and she became a famous female scientist in the field, and she was still single and unmarried until now.
After graduating with a doctorate, Yinuo did not abide by the agreement at that time to continue to engage in scientific research, but chose to work at McKinsey, the most famous consulting company at that time.
Yan Ning was also stunned when she knew, and she told Yinuo, "I worked hard while following your shadow, and now you suddenly change lanes, which makes me alone." ”
But no matter what path her daughter chooses, her mother has been silently supporting her behind her back.
From engaging in scientific research to entering business, Li Yinuo did not have such a smooth life at the beginning, and everything on his body seemed to be not very compatible with the workplace elite.
However, Xueba is still a Xueba after all, and Li Yinuo uses his spare time to frantically make up for business knowledge.
Every day is the last to leave work, and the company is the most diligent.
In less than a year, Li Yinuo became the backbone of the company. In 2009, Yinuo was competing globally
When I was in the position of deputy director, I did not expect to be pregnant, but I could not bear to beat the child off, so I was busy working while giving birth to a child, which was very hard.
Within five years, Yinuo was invited to become a partner at McKinsey because of his excellent work ability.
In the next three years, Li Yinuo gave birth to a son and a daughter, and in this way, three children were born in four years.
Successful career and happy family can be said to be the life of everyone's dream.
Li Yinuo and his family
05 Persuaded by Bill Gates to give up his million annual salary to engage in charity
Just when everyone thought that Li Yinuo would do his own business at McKinsey and spend the rest of his life in peace, Li Yinuo made the decision to resign.
What is the reason for this?
In 2015, at a conference, Li Yinuo met Bill Gates, the world's richest man, and the two talked for a long time. Bill Gates told Li Yinuo how to take care of money, which greatly touched Li Yinuo's thinking.
And what made Li Yinuo firm that he might join the Gates Foundation in the future was the word malaria that Bill Gates said.
Bill Gates said that malaria is a very common infectious disease, 400,000 people die every year because of this disease, and 70% of them are children, but because there is no money for drug research and development, the disease has always been a problem in the world, and now my foundation wants to contribute to this matter, I hope you can join in.
After going back, Li Yinuosi thought about it and made a decision the next day.
Voluntarily gave up McKinsey's 1.5 million yuan salary, submitted a resignation letter, and jumped to Bill and Melinda, the Gates Foundation's Beijing representative office, as the chief head of the China office, but the salary was less than two-thirds of McKinsey's.
In the three years since joining the Gates Foundation, Li Yinuo has been doing a good job, and the core budget of the Beijing representative office has increased fourfold, and he has begun to support China's poverty alleviation, support the reform of the China Food and Drug Administration, and China's agricultural experience to support Africa's development.
Some of McKinsey's former colleagues expressed envy for her, they said, Yinuo, we are tired and tired to make money, but you are thinking about how to help the world's richest man "spend money", compared to it, you are still happy.
06 Establish a school in a local area for more children to get an education
Later, Li Yinuo accidentally brushed a Weibo post, a rich man can spend 6.5 million yuan to buy his own children to buy the opportunity to study in aristocratic colleges and universities, while the annual tuition of rural children is less than 3,000 yuan.
In other words, the annual tuition fee for the children of the rich can provide for 21,700 rural children to go to school.
At this moment, Li Yinuo felt that he should do something for education.
Therefore, on April 1, 2016, Li Yinuo updated an article signed by Yinuo in the slave society, and soon after Yinuo and her husband founded the "One Soil School" in Beijing, dedicated to exploring the innovation of basic education from a global perspective.
In an interview, the host asked: From McKinsey to the Gates Foundation, why did you make such a career change?
Li Yinuo said:
Working at McKinsey for many years, I've always felt meaningful and never lost interest. Because what fascinates me most about work, and the ultimate core of it, is to identify problems, solve problems, and often complex and meaningful problems. It's just that every problem solved at that time has meaning for the customer, and at the heart of the Gates Foundation's work is solving larger, more complex, globally focused problems.
At the same time, based on schools, they hope to accumulate social consensus and resources through a social innovation around education, promote the improvement of the current education ecology, and especially strive to achieve educational equity.
From business to charity, and then cross-border to education, but also to take care of the family, Li-Nuo has encountered far more difficulties than imagined, but every time he closes his eyes and imagines the children running happily on the grass, the strength of the whole body seems to be ignited: because of the children, good days, must still be ahead.
Conclusion: Yinuo once said: "At any time, in any environment, we have the right to choose for ourselves." "You need to work hard to put your ideas at the center, regardless of what others think, and you will gain the specificity necessary for success. Why Li Yinuo can be so powerful, because she will never be bound by the labels on her body, and she will never set limits on herself.