preface
In the early morning of Chinese New Year's Eve 2012, in Flushing, New York, USA, "Toto" was running down the street wearing only small shorts and sneakers.
In the ice and snow of minus ten degrees, the four-year-old "Duoduo" is bidding farewell to the past in his unique way and greeting the new year.
But there was no smile on "Duoduo's face", only to see him running to the camera, his thin body was frozen red, and at first he could still hold on, but after five minutes he kept begging his father who recorded the video:
"Hug."
But his father did not reach out to help him, but only encouraged him to continue...
As soon as the video was posted on the Internet, it triggered a heated discussion among netizens, "Duoduo" got the title of "naked running brother", and his father He Liesheng was vividly called "Eagle Dad" by netizens.
So, what's going on here? Let's take a look!
A high degree of self-awareness
Let's start with the story of "Eagle Daddy" Liu Liesheng. Born in Nanjing, Liu Liesheng is an entrepreneur who is currently the executive committee member of the Nanjing Federation of Industry and Commerce, a director of the Nanjing Guangcai Career Star Promotion Association and a deputy to the National People's Congress.
Liu Liesheng's father was a cadre and his mother was a worker, and both of them were busy with their work and had no time to take care of Liu Liesheng's education. Despite this, Liu Liesheng has been strict with himself since he was a child and has set long-term goals for his own learning. He always believed:
"Only you can change your life, and the means of change is hard work!"
As a result, Liu Liesheng began his "eagle-like" life in this way, and "flying higher and flying in the front" became his code of conduct. And liu Liesheng, who strictly demanded himself, naturally had good results, and he was admitted to Nanjing Normal University in the year of the college entrance examination.
Liu Liesheng in college still maintained the momentum of his previous time, and before the matter was finished, he refused to rest...
Such a high degree of self-consciousness enabled Liu Liesheng to live a life like "opening and hanging", and after graduation, he became a physics teacher, but the teaching life was not what he imagined.
Liu Liesheng is dissatisfied with China's cramming education, he sees that Chinese students lack that curiosity, he sees that Chinese students often passively learn, all of which makes him very distressed.
At the same time, he deeply understands that this is not the problem of individual students, but the problem of most Chinese students, and the root of the problem lies in China's education system. Such an education system made Liu Liesheng feel dissatisfied, but he was powerless to change, which made him fall into despair. So in 1994, He Liesheng made up his mind and quit his job as a physics teacher.
Go to the sea to do business, and don't stop going up
He Liesheng, who quit his job, decided to go to the sea to do business and bring his mind to the operation of the enterprise. At the beginning, He Liesheng repeatedly hit a wall, almost to the point of exhaustion, and there were creditors collecting debts every day. But in the face of this pressure, He Liesheng still persevered, once again proving his perseverance and determination.
And the hardest winter has survived, so will spring be far away? Heaven saw He Liesheng's passion and hard work, and after a difficult period, He Liesheng's enterprise finally stabilized.
Everyone thought that He Liesheng's career was successful, and he could finally relax a little. But He Liesheng did not think so, he believed that he always had room to rise, and the meaning of life was to constantly reach the next high point.
As a result, He Liesheng in the company was still strict with himself, compared to before. At the same time, He Liesheng is not only strict with himself, but also strict with his employees. He Liesheng set goals for the employees in the enterprise, and then fully supervised the employees to complete, and when the task could not be completed, He Liesheng was also punished with the employees in the company.
Under the influence of He Liesheng's "more authentic" attitude, all employees of the company have cultivated a style of willingness to endure hardships and be good at hard work, and the company's performance has also risen year by year with this trend.
In this way, He Liesheng quickly saved a lot of savings, but he did not use this savings to enjoy life, his eyes were focused on the people who suffered.
He Liesheng donated 7.5 million yuan in supplies during the Wenchuan earthquake, and he donated 3.5 million yuan during the Yushu earthquake.
At the same time, he also has his presence in various public welfare activities, and over the years, he has made no small contribution to public welfare undertakings.
Such a diligent and caring entrepreneur quickly won the hearts of the people, and in 2008, He Liesheng also ushered in another stage of his life - he had a son!
A new chapter in life
On February 12, 2008, the Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University ushered in a new life, that is, He Liesheng's son He Yide, nicknamed "Duoduo", but this time production is facing a huge crisis.
It turned out that He Liesheng's wife's birth was more than three months earlier than expected, which made He Liesheng very worried! The nervous He Liesheng kept pacing in front of the delivery room, countless thoughts swirling in his mind, constantly torturing him.
And when the surgeon came out of the delivery room, He Liesheng rushed up like a physiological reaction, and at this time his mind was already chaotic, and he nervously asked the doctor:
"How's my child?"
And the doctor told him:
"The child was born smoothly, but was born with a serious deficiency, with many complications, and may be demented afterwards."
Such news was like five thunderbolts for He Liesheng, but thinking that his wife and son had survived smoothly, he felt a little comfort, he knew that only when people lived could they have everything possible.
But such a condition is a huge torture for a newborn child. And when He Liesheng saw that his child was full of medical tubes and was in pain because of the treatment, he who had always been strong couldn't help but shed tears, the child was so bitter!
Then, after more than two months of hard work by medical staff, He Yide was finally able to be discharged from the hospital, which made He Liesheng see a glimmer of hope. As soon as he arrived home, He Liesheng began to formulate his "eagle-style" education plan, which he explained as follows:
"When the young eagles reach a certain age, the mother eagle will vigorously drive the young eagles off the cliff, and when the young eagles keep falling downwards, they will be stimulated to learn to fly."
He Liesheng thought that the doctor had said that the resistance of premature babies was not as strong as that of normally born children, so he began to study how to enhance the resistance of children. Finally, He Liesheng learned through the information that swimming can improve the child's resistance, so on the same day, he went to the mall to buy an inflatable swimming pool and came back.
After returning home, He Liesheng inflated the pool, put warm water, and encouraged his son to swim. He Yide, who was in the water, "pounced" and slapped the water, looking at his son in the water, He Liesheng thought to himself, we must let him become a normal child!
But that night, He Yide still inevitably started a fever, and his wife also blamed He Liesheng for this incident:
"The child is still so young, what are you going to do?"
But He Liesheng did not think so, he said that children with fever below 38.5 ° can overcome through their own resistance, only need appropriate physical cooling, and this process is also the process of children's resistance. At the same time, he also said:
"If a child can't adapt to a week, he won't be like that anymore."
However, the situation was indeed as Liesheng said, and just five days later, He Yide showed extremely high adaptability to swimming. At the same time, after a series of swimming training, his spirit is much better than before, and the amount of food has also been improved to a certain extent!
It's almost brutal cultivation
Thus, He Liesheng's "eagle-style" plan began. When He Yide was six months old, he had to study and exercise for six hours a day. Early education music, color cards, etc., are all ways for him to learn and exercise.
It turns out that He Liesheng's education has not failed, and he found that He Yide has shown great potential in many aspects, which he believes is common to children, but they are not stimulated.
The child's outstanding performance is the best affirmation of He Liesheng, and after this, he is more convinced that such an education will be successful!
Therefore, at six months, He Liesheng began to exercise He Yide to crawl, and then guided him to walk, and in order to exercise He Yide's walking ability, He Liesheng would sometimes push the child down!
As soon as He Yide learned to walk, He Liesheng asked him to carry out hiking training every day, first more than ten meters, then tens of meters, and then slowly improved to 1 kilometer, 1.5 kilometers!
At this time, the story had just begun, when He Yide was two years old, He Liesheng began to exercise him to climb the mountain. This year, he often took He Yide to the Purple Mountain, no matter how hard and tired the journey was, he never held He Yide, but only encouraged He Yide on the side and led him forward little by little.
At the same time, He Yide's training does not stop at physical strength. By the time He Yide was two years old, he was already able to recognize 3,000 Chinese characters, and he could already perform simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division operations, which was something that ordinary children could not think of!
When He Yide was three years old, He Liesheng decided to move to the United States and let his children enter the Flushing Rainbow Kindergarten in New York.
In the kindergarten, He Yide was even more successful and outstanding, with outstanding ability, he quickly jumped from small class to middle class, and then jumped from middle class to large class, and during an intelligence test, he found that he already had the IQ of the first grade of primary school! Such a He Yide made the kindergarten teachers say that they had never heard of it.
After that, there is a scene at the beginning of the article.
In Chinese New Year's Eve 2012, He Yide appeared on the streets of Flushing, New York, USA. Wearing small shorts and sneakers, he ran in the ice and snow of minus ten degrees...
He Liesheng said that many children in Japan only wear a single piece of clothing in the winter, and their children have no problem.
Subsequently, in this year, He Liesheng took He Yide back to Nanjing and took him to Study at Yushuiwan International Primary School in Baixia District, Nanjing.
"Opened up" life
He Yide, who studied in elementary school, strictly followed the schedule set by his father:
I got up at 6:30 a.m. and went to bed at 8 p.m., filled with a series of cultural and martial arts classes.
And this year, He Yide continued his "open and hanging" life. In July 2012, He Yide drove the OP-class sailing boat by himself in Jinniu Lake, and while the children around him were asking for help from their parents, He Yide had already started sailing by himself. In August of this year, He Yide also participated in the International OP Class Regatta.
At the same time, in September of that year, He Liesheng took the four-year-old He Yide to Japan and spent fifteen hours climbing Mount Fuji. At this time, Mt. Fuji has been closed for more than a month, but mountaineers can still climb, and in this case, He Liesheng still resolutely took He Yide up the mountain.
Mt. Fuji, unlike many mountains in China, is full of pristine volcanic rocks on the way up the mountain, which is rugged and difficult to navigate, especially for a four-year-old child.
Along the way, He Yide experienced the taste of cold, hunger and exhaustion, but he never gave up, and after fifteen hours of perseverance, he finally climbed to the top of Fuji Mountain.
In August 2013, He Yide won the 7th National Pyramid Abacus Elite Competition. At the end of August, he tried to fly the Bee-3 fixed-wing aircraft over the Beijing Wildlife Park.
At that time, the airport staff learned that He Yide was only five years old and immediately rejected He Liesheng's test flight request. Under the constant request of He Liesheng, he finally agreed to let He Yide try it once.
In the afternoon of the same day, Accompanied by coach Yang Yanwu, He Yide independently operated and piloted the fixed-wing aircraft, which lasted 35 minutes and flew twice over the Beijing Wildlife Park.
Then, in October 2014, He Liesheng brought He Yide to Lop Nur again. Lop Nur has been known as the "Sea of Death" since ancient times, where countless explorers have lost their lives.
But this six-year-old child crossed Lop Nur three times with his father.
A total of 3,000 kilometers of travel, He Yide completed it alone, and the most difficult salt shell road is no exception. On 20 October, He Yide officially completed his trip to Lop Nur and was the youngest of all the explorers.
This is an almost cruel "eagle-style" education, and netizens have mixed praise and criticism of this matter, but this still does not prevent He Yide from continuing his life.
Amazing results
On February 7, 2017, nine-year-old He Yide took the self-examination for sales management majoring at Nanjing University.
After two years of study, he successfully obtained the transcript of sales management major of Nanjing University and successfully obtained the college diploma of Nanjing University.
Subsequently, He Yide moved towards a bachelor's degree, and in October 2020, He Yide successfully obtained a bachelor's degree diploma from Nanjing University.
In September 2021, at the age of 13, He Yide completed 12 courses of MBA at Wukang University in Spain.
On December 19, 2021, He Yide received a doctoral acceptance letter from the University of São Paulo in the Philippines, becoming the youngest doctoral student in the history of the university.
At this moment, He Yide's "legendary" life continues. We are very much aware of Ho Yide's achievements, his intelligence, his use of time have shown us the great potential of human beings.
But we have to doubt the rationality of this kind of life. We are always talking about the meaning of life, but in the face of He Yide, it is difficult for us to talk about the "meaning" that belongs to him, where will such a hard-working life eventually go, and how will the value of life be realized?
postscript
Many people think that He Yide has achieved great success, so that he can be said to have embarked on the "peak of life" and can be regarded as a "successful person", but at this time, we once again have doubts about "success" itself, is our so-called highly educated, high-asset life really successful? Does our life, defined by money, in titles, really meaningful?
And many people only see the brilliance that He Yide has gained, but they have not seen the efforts made by He Yide, and at the same time, they have not noticed what He Yide has lost in the process of growing up.
He Yide's life can be said to be a highly self-disciplined life, and the two words "self-consciousness and self-discipline" have always been implemented in his actions. In an interview with reporters, he said he had never drunk a carbonated drink. And when asked if he wanted to drink, he said:
"I used to want to drink it, but now I can't."
When it comes to the idea of learning, he also said:
"In the past, I didn't like to study, but now I want to learn, and it's not my father who forced me."
Perhaps we can say that He Liesheng stimulated the potential of his child, successfully made him develop countless good habits, became a model and role model among countless people, and became an object of learning for others.
But we still don't know what the real He Yide looks like, we see his title, we see his wonderful performance in all aspects, but can such a life be regarded as a happy and happy life?
And perhaps it will not be until all the time in our hands has slipped away that we will realize that everything in front of us is nothing more than a false illusion? Those money, titles, and all sorts of "successes"?
He Yide's life is thought-provoking, do we want children to become such "successful" children? Is it our hearts that we are concerned with? Is the place we end up in is not a place that calms our hearts, makes us feel happy, and allows us to realize our worth?
Everyone has a different answer to this, and you readers, what are your thoughts? Say what you think in the comments section!