In this world, it is too difficult to achieve one thing, and most people will eventually do nothing in this life.
However, there is a man who is a doctor, a businessman, a writer, and a poet. He did so many things, not just to play casually, but to do everything successfully, and some of them became the ceiling of the industry.
This person is Feng Tang.
To tell the truth, Mi Sauce did not know who Feng Tang was 2 years ago, the first time I learned that he was in a platform holding a cargo activity in August 2020, I heard that many teachers brought him a book he wrote, "Feng Tang Chengshi Heart Method" sold very hot, I was curious to read his relevant information, knowing that he is a very powerful person.
He is a doctor of medicine, abandoned medicine at the age of 30 to go into business, and everything started from scratch;
Seven years later, he became a global managing partner at McKinsey & Company.
At the age of 40, he jumped to Party A and became the founding CEO of China Resources Medical Group;
Since the age of 44, he has been a senior managing director of CITIC Capital;
During his work, he took the time to write 20 books, and even appeared on the rich list of Chinese writers.
How did Feng Tang succeed across borders?
Now, Mi Sauce will take everyone to understand the secret behind Feng Tang's success.
First, love to read
Feng Tang was born in Beijing in 1971, his original name was Zhang Haipeng.
Feng Tang once said this to the writer Wang Shuo:
"Wang Shuo will have a place in the history of literature, and someone will definitely look at it a hundred years from now." After a hundred years, there will be more people watching Wang Shuo than Lao She, and fewer people than Acheng. Wang Shuo had temperament, insight, and language, but unfortunately, he read too little. ”
As we all know, Wang Shuo is a famous contemporary Chinese writer and screenwriter, who has published many books, won many awards, and naturally read a lot of books.
Feng Tang said that he read too little (after graduating from middle school), and did not mean to belittle, on the contrary, he said from the side that he did not read a lot.
In fact, Feng Tang loves to read.
When he was in elementary school, he read the Complete Works of Lu Xun, and he told himself: "To read a book is to read the best book." ”
At the age of 17, he had already read the Book of Poetry, Chu Ci, Tang poems, Song Ci, Lao Zhuang Kong Meng and other Chinese classics in a planned way, and even the English novels and famous book reviews of Hemingway, Dickens, Austin and others were also included in his plan.
In addition to reading, Feng Tang did not fall behind to study.
He was admitted to Peking Union Medical College with excellent college entrance examination results, and began eight years of undergraduate, master's and doctoral studies, majoring in gynecological oncology.
In 1998, he received his Doctor of Clinical Medicine degree from Peking Union Medical College of China.
At this time, Feng Tang had already walked to the top of the pyramid, and as a medical doctor, his future was immeasurable.
However, he made an unexpected decision.
2. Abandoning medical treatment and engaging in business
The doctor of medicine is already a height that many people cannot reach, but Feng Tang decided to give it up because it was not a job he liked very much, start from scratch, and go back to his own life path.
In the year of his Ph.D., he went to the United States to study for an MBA with a full TOEFL score, and received an MBA from emory University's GOIZUETA School of Business in 2000.
Since then, Feng Tang has begun a brilliant career in business.
He passed six rounds of interviews and entered mcKinsey, a world-renowned management consulting firm.
After several years of hard work, at the age of 37, he became a global managing partner at McKinsey.
Many people think that this is already the peak of Feng Tang's life, but as everyone knows, at the age of 40, he jumped to Party A and became the founding CEO of China Resources Medical Group; 4 years later, he was nearly half a hundred years old and became the senior managing director of CITIC Capital.
"Doctor of Medicine", "Successful Businessman"—both identities put on one person at the same time—have surpassed many.
However, in Feng Tang's body, these identities are only one of them.
He was also a writer and a poet
In high school, some people wasted three years, and some people fought hard for three years. At the age of 17, Feng Tang had already published his first novel, "Joy", and became a young writer.
After that, he always used his spare time to write many literary works.
In 2005, he won the Essay Award for the Third "Moutai Cup" People's Literature Award for "The Mighty Beijing" and the Fourth "Young Writers and Critics Forum" Young Writer of the Year for "Give Me a Girl at Eighteen".
No one thought that the young Feng Tang had already occupied a place in the literary world.
Subsequently, works such as "Beijing, Beijing", "Give Me a Girl at Eighteen", "No Two", "Su Nü Jing", "All Things Grow", "Living and Getting Old" have been published one after another, and the language in the book is fresh, the skills are mature, and they are loved by a group of literary youth and intellectuals.
With many works, Feng Tang has won many awards, won the GQ Columnist of the Year, topped the TOP20 list of "Future 20 People" of "People's Literature", and won the "2013 Eighth China Writers Rich List".
"I'm a good poet, a lot of people don't know."
Although Feng Tang was successful in writing books, he preferred to call himself a "poet".
A book of 100 Poems of Feng Tang, which includes 116 poems he has composed up to 2013, is as pungent as ever and direct in language, such as the following one:
Without my feet, I can still approach you, without my hands, I can still touch you, without a heart, I can still miss you...
Feng Tang is a doctor, a businessman, a writer, and a poet, and he has succeeded in everything he does, so it is no wonder that some people evaluate him as an outlier in the contemporary literary world.
Fourth, how he succeeded across borders
As for how to succeed, in the "Feng Tang Chengshi Heart Method", he has introduced it in more detail.
In the book, he counts his more than 20 years, from a small white to a business executive, who has suffered hardships, stepped on thunder, and interacted with people.
But rice sauce has a different view of this, in summary, I think there are three aspects:
First of all, because he loves to read. Reading is about accumulating experience, like sharpening a sword. Feng Tang said, "You can not slay dragons, but you can't not sharpen your sword, and you must always be prepared for the time to come." ”
Secondly, have a doctorate degree. Whether it is important or not, academic qualifications are a stepping stone. If Feng Tang did not have such a high degree, he would not have been able to enter the world's famous companies such as McKinsey, China Resources Medical Group, and CITIC Capital.
Again, because of self-discipline. Most people are too impetuous to calm down and insist on doing something. And for Feng Tang, it was easy for him to do one thing because he was disciplined enough. For example, in the first year of McKinsey, he used his annual leave time to insist on running 10 kilometers a day, writing 3,000 words, taking a vacation, and writing "All Things Grow".
The above is the secret behind Feng Tang's cross-border success.
In short, reading a good book, having a good education, and doing anything is easier to succeed! If you can still achieve self-discipline, it will not be too difficult to achieve things. Like Feng Tang, you may wish to read his books, harvest more than just growth.