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Recently, I watched a video of 3 girls who graduated from Peking University and reunited to chat after ten years.
The 3 people just chatted, reviewed the experience and mental journey of the past 10 years after leaving Peking University, and rushed to the hot search.
At the beginning of the video, they first revealed their names, ages and income .
The three people, named Xi Xi, Jia Jia, and Shi Zhong, were all thirty-two or three years old. Two of the girls are married and have children and one is married and childless.
How much money do they have in their cards?
They are: 7 digits, 7 digits, 7 digits.
7 figures, or millions of dollars. At the age of 30, Peking University graduated, and there were more than one million deposits in the bank card, which showed that the graduation of famous schools and high incomes were equal.
But what is shown in the video is not only that. The 3 people revealed in the homely chat:
Peking University is the starting point, in addition to bringing them a rich economic foundation, but also an interesting soul, a light and free concept, and a state of free enjoyment of life.
The more than 20-minute video allows us to see that the 3 girls have all lived out their own wonderful, and the video also clearly shows:
What can going to college and entering a prestigious school bring to children? How do these things affect a child's life?
Diplomas give children the freedom to wander the workplace
and stable economic resources
10 years after graduation, what did the 3 Peking University girls do?
Xi Xi graduated from Peking University and went to Hong Kong for graduate school.
In middle school, she set herself early on to become a journalist. So after graduation, she returned to Beijing to join the media industry. Later joined a startup and has been doing it ever since.
For 6 years, Xi Xi has been doing different things every year in this startup, trying more and more boldly, and Xi Xi finds it very interesting. It can be said that she has been working in the field she loves, and the more she works, the more energetic she is.
Jiajia Peking University graduated and went to the United Kingdom for graduate school. After graduating, she stayed in the UK and joined Rolls-Royce.
Her life is oriented to stage interests, so she specifically picks things that she finds interesting to do and goes to interesting countries to live.
After working in England for a while, Jiajia went to Germany; later, to Nissan in Japan.
Two years later, he returned to Europe; finally returned to China to join a startup team, responsible for overseas markets.
Her career experience is also the process of following her inner interests.
In the middle of the world, she stayed in School to study for a doctorate after graduating from Peking University. But later, he found that doing academic work was not his real love, so he transferred to a master's degree and graduated and entered the China Post Headquarters.
After working in the system for several years, she felt that her creativity could not be developed, so she resigned decisively and joined an entrepreneurial team, and later went to Vanke for a few years.
She herself studied law, and after doing a few years of work that was not compatible with her profession, Shizhong found that she still liked the old bank, so as a member of the entrepreneurial team, she joined Zhongwei Zhizhi and became an intellectual property lawyer.
The workplace experience of the 3 girls is either to make a volunteer early and have been positioned and accurately cultivated in the "right" industry; or to go around and finally find what they really like when they are about 30 years old.
You will find that the same workplace job-hopping, the same is to explore the possibility of better life, but their starting point, has not been low:
Graduate school in Hong Kong, joining a start-up company; working as a project manager at Rolls-Royce, jumping jobs at Nissan; resigning from China Post Headquarters, to Vanke, to Zhongwei Zhishu...
The trajectory of the workplace of the 3 girls also shows that a diploma with gold content, the first thing for the child is a basic stable state of life, because it is not too difficult to knock on the door of the workplace, so they can have a visible and secure economic foundation.
It is with these that they have the possibility of pursuing more dimensions of life enrichment next.
Freedom of mind to live to be yourself
After Jiajia and Shizhong graduated from Peking University, they were actually a bit "tossed".
But this kind of tossing and turning is not forced to survive, but they have been pursuing the value construction of their hearts.
Jiajia's career spans a very large industry: from the beginning of the aviation manufacturing industry, to the automotive industry, to the later legal services, in the shortest time, she only did a job for half a year.
In the six months after returning to Europe from Japan, she even went to Portugal for a six-month vacation, reading books, making videos, buying vegetables, cooking, walking, working as a translator and so on...
In the eyes of many people, frequent changes of industry do not have a little bonus to the workplace resume. Moreover, as a Peking University graduate, if you don't make some achievements, you have negative expectations.
But Jiajia's life at Peking University made her think about a truth early:
When we look at problems, we can look at them from the perspective of an economist, from a political point of view, or even from a philosophical point of view.
The so-called right and wrong may only be different perspectives. Life is the same, there is no real right or wrong.
This kind of value given to her by Peking University made her understand that her life is not aimed at glory, but is oriented by exploration.
So as long as a very interesting thing can meet her needs for food, housing, and travel, she will explore, even at the expense of changing the life of the country.
In the world, she also read half of her doctorate, and felt that doing academics was not her ultimate direction, so she transferred to a master's degree.
Later, he entered the Headquarters of China Post, felt that the job was almost creative, and resigned decisively.
She studied law, but after years of work that was not compatible with her profession, she returned to her old profession, and most of her initial classmates became partners, even partners in the industry's top law firms.
From a secular point of view, the world has been going around in circles, but she feels that it is not directly to the destination that is called success.
2 girls, not blindly followed, not coerced by the world, not easily denied themselves, with a diploma from a prestigious school, with real skills, coupled with a free soul, several girls can live so wonderfully.
This spirit of independent thinking is the greatest wealth that universities and famous schools give to children.
I remember that Sun Hong, the director of the documentary "University", said when talking about his creative experience:
For many people, college is the most important stage in life, it will participate in and shape what kind of person you will become, the teachers we meet in college, classmates, opportunities, and thoughts will affect your life.
Children who come from the college entrance examination will inevitably feel that there is only one standard for right and wrong, and there is always a fixed benchmark in life.
But college will make you develop the habit of independent thinking, build values that advocate rationality, and not blindly follow or be afraid of difficulties.
The construction of this kind of thinking is the courage of children to walk freely in the future, and it is also the biggest reason why we want our children to go to college and enter famous schools.
The spirit of eternal upwards
and the ability to continue to learn
In the chat, Xi Xi and ShiZhong both mentioned the same point of view.
Xi Xi said: As a Peking University person, if there is only one thing left in life, Peking University can be said to be the biggest failure in life.
Shizhong said: The biggest requirement I have always had for myself is that I can't let the point of (Peking University) become the highest point in life. I can't spend my whole life bathing in the glory and seclusion of Peking University. I want to do better and make my alma mater proud of me.
It sounds like a bit Versailles, and they are already standing at a very high starting point.
But many famous schools have their own spiritual core, which will nourish children, let children do better, and even pursue self-transcendence.
Tsinghua University once produced an episode of a documentary in which Qian Yi, the daughter of the master of traditional Chinese studies Qian Mu, was recorded.
She is a professor at tsinghua university's school of the environment, and when she was in her 80s, she was still working in the front line, insisting on standing the whole time in every class.
Over the decades, Qian Yi has trained 31 masters and 47 doctors. She has also received numerous scientific and technological awards, and in 1994 she was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
But even if she has achieved great achievements, Qian Yi is very humble, people call her "Qian Lao", she said: Add another word, call me Qian Teacher.
She was asked to give a lecture, but she politely refused, saying that if I really talked, I needed to prepare systematically.
This kind of wind and bone of Teacher Qian Yi is not unique to her alone, but the spiritual inheritance of the entire Tsinghua University.
Tsinghua University held a symposium and wanted the academicians to retire at the age of 80, but these old academicians were reluctant, they wanted to "live to the old, teach to be old", only live one day, they must exert their residual heat.
In universities and famous schools, there are many pure spirits and feelings, and there are endless spiritual sources.
What a child can get from a prestigious school is not only knowledge and diplomas, but more importantly, the implantation of this spiritual fire.
The cultural atmosphere and humanistic incentives of famous schools will make children consciously establish the concept that famous schools are only the starting point of your life.
This kind of continuous cultivation and continuous improvement courage learned from famous schools is the important foundation for a child's lifelong progress.
Solid lifelong friendships
Three girls graduated in the same dormitory, but for 10 years, they rarely contacted each other unless they made major life decisions.
But as soon as they are contacted, even if the other party is very surprising, they will immediately understand and support.
As Hee-hee says: You know, there are a few people in the world who understand why you made this decision the first second, so you don't have to be particularly afraid. It was my friends in college who supported me and kept making thrilling decisions.
3 girls, each with a comfortable self-consistency, they are highly accepting of themselves, know what they want, and firmly and regretlessly embark on this pursuit path.
They are so independent, sober, not entangled, not wandering, but also because of a century-old famous school like Peking University, it is easy to make a group of partners with the same value and ambition, this lifelong friendship, so that they will not be alone.
College is the formation period of a person's important values, and classmates and roommates who have walked together will understand very well how you became you.
In elite schools, because of the cohesion of culture, children's outlook on life will be more consistent, and it is easier to make high-quality life partners.
The support of this friendship will make the child firm and not confused wherever he goes.
In the video, Shizhong said a passage:
Before I was admitted to Peking University, I had only one goal in my life: to enter the university.
After being admitted to Peking University, I embarked on a path of self-construction, knowing what I wanted to do, believing what I believed, and knowing what was right and what was wrong.
Peking University made me understand: do not regret because of wasted years, and do not be ashamed of doing nothing.
College, for a child's whole life, is so important.
It gives children not only a diploma, but also the construction of worldviews and values. And from all aspects, inspire children to pursue lifelong and become a spiritually rich person.
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