April 6 - 10, 2022
Remove the two days of Qingming Festival, and the time of the week is actually only five days. These five days went to three days of work, and the weekend rested for two days, and it passed in a hurry.
Nothing major happened in New Oriental. One of the things that has attracted attention is that New Oriental has carried out a share merger, 10 shares have become 1 share, so that on the surface, New Oriental's stock price will look better, but the actual value has not changed. Some friends can't understand, sent me WeChat to express warm congratulations, and said that they regretted not buying New Oriental stocks, I quickly explained the reason and comforted their wounded hearts. In New Oriental, this matter will not cause any waves, everyone should adjust the adjustment, should work hard, continue daily work. After such a long period of precipitation, everyone's mood has been quieted, and the employees and managers who stay behind are seriously doing business that can be done, and strive to explore new development opportunities and directions.
Another thing is that the New Oriental Branch in Shanghai has conducted an online international education exhibition. The main content of the education exhibition is to let families and individuals with international education intentions more clearly understand the trend of international education and make full preparations for children to go international. I was supposed to fly to Shanghai to attend this event and give a speech, but due to the epidemic, the education exhibition was all transferred online. This is convenient for me, I don't have to toss back and forth, just make a speech through video. The theme of my speech was "International Education Choices in the Existing Environment", which mainly analyzed how parents and children should make rational choices under the premise of the existing international situation and the global epidemic, and analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of universities at home and abroad. In the future, I will also put the content of the speech into the gossip of Lao Yu.
I also got into trouble myself. In last week's weekly notebook, I wrote a paragraph: "I have always suspected that my efforts to bow down for New Oriental may actually be counterproductive and have become an obstacle to New Oriental to the next stage." If you are worried about fame and fortune and a leaf obstacle, life really has more to lose than it loses, and if you miss the past, you will never come back. ”
This sentence caused some friends and New Orientals to think that I was about to quit New Oriental. Many people sent WeChat and wrote emails to ask me, which also caused some investors to have doubts, so that I had to explain: I am not about to leave New Oriental, nor do I leave New Oriental alone, but hope to stand at a higher level to examine New Oriental and bring New Oriental to a better development direction.
Although New Oriental is the place where my soul is haunted, I really prefer to stay away from New Oriental, at least I hope that I am far away from the more trivial things of New Oriental, take the pulse in the general direction, and concentrate everyone's wisdom to do a good job in New Oriental. Whether it is in terms of age or mentality, I prefer to do reading, writing, traveling.
Spring days, from the rise of the first rays of sunshine to the fragrance of flowers blowing in the evening wind, are constantly calling me to nature, into the fusion of people's hearts and heaven and earth. It is very strange that I have been doing New Oriental for decades, and I hardly remember that I have any appreciation and nostalgia for the spring in Beijing, and I always feel that there is no spring in Beijing. But since the beginning of the epidemic in 2020, I suddenly found that the spring in Beijing is beautiful and beautiful, low-key and warm. Low-key, is almost unaware of the spring coming, in fact, spring has been like a nocturnal cat, taking inaudible steps to your side; warm, is the overnight spring wind blowing the earth, ice and snow melting, green grass, flowers blooming. The spring before 2020 is almost always the busiest season for my business trips. Wind meals and camping, through various cities. In the past three years, I have accompanied Beijing through the spring, and there is a kind of joy of "not knowing the king all my life, and suddenly shocking people".
On the first day after the festival, I went to work in the office, just not much, looking at the sun outside the window, willow green and red, full of spring, suddenly moved my heart, wanted to go around the Summer Palace. The Summer Palace is not far from New Oriental, ten minutes by car. So I set off. When I arrived at the Summer Palace, I asked the waiter if he wanted to buy a ticket for the 62-year-old man, and the waiter said that the old comrade did not need to buy it. A swipe of the ID card was indeed successfully passed. Last time in Xiangshan, the access control reminded me that the elderly did not need to buy tickets, and it made me really sad for a while. This time there was no sadness, even a little bit of complacency. It seems that people are easily used to and numb, and now someone reminds me that I am old and I don't care anymore. Complacent, because the ticket of the Summer Palace is more expensive, 30 yuan a piece, free, feel that they have taken advantage of the big advantage, the heart is actually a little happy. But what made me even happier was that I decided that I could often come to the Summer Palace for walks and runs in the future. Running in the green water and green mountains and the most beautiful garden, what a pleasure it is. I have always envied that Hangzhou people can run around the West Lake for free every day, and now I can also run around Kunming Lake.
I entered from the South Ruyi Gate, crossed the Xiuyi Bridge, and went along the west embankment to the Jingming Tower, the lake on both sides of the river was rippling with blue waves, and the Yuquan Mountain Pagoda in the distance stood with the peak. I headed all the way north, over the Jade Belt Bridge, running and walking alternately. Some tourists on the road recognized me and greeted me, and I did not stop and waved greetings. Run to the North Ruyi Gate, bend east along the lake, and follow the promenade all the way forward. On one side is the vast lake of smoke and the cascading Buddhist Pavilion complex, where history and nature shine together. When you reach the East Gate, go all the way south through Wenchang Pavilion. The willows on the shore are yiyi. This road is the best place to see the panoramic view of the Summer Palace. Seventeen Hole Bridge, Copper Bull and South Lake Island are all on this road. When Wang Guowei threw himself into the lake here, it was a sad past.
Running south, I returned to the South Ruyi Gate and completed a circle around the lake, sharing an hour and taking eight thousand steps. As I ran, I thought that today's Summer Palace was originally built by Cixi with military funds from the navy. This behavior directly led to the defeat of the Qing navy in the Sino-Japanese War because it had no money and backward equipment. Of course, there are deeper reasons for the real failure, and the institutional corruption and backwardness of the Qing Dynasty are the root causes. With the passage of time, today's China has become more and more powerful, and the Summer Palace has become a beautiful place where people can freely enter and swim. But even so, the memory and reflection of history can not be forgotten. In the history of mankind, the difficulties of progress and the rapid pace of regression are almost innumerable.
After walking around the Summer Palace, I was in a good mood, and I felt a lot of incense when I returned to the company to eat a box lunch. Perhaps, in the tension of work, the joy of life is not particularly difficult to obtain, as long as it can be put down for a while. Let go for a while, walk into nature, and then stimulate the vitality of the body with exercise, and maybe you will be full of vitality.
One morning, I got up and made a senseless determination: the number of steps today must reach more than 30,000 steps. In fact, I have been for a year, and the number of steps has not exceeded 30,000 steps a day. In a year, I didn't actually hike or travel far. Usually walking, the maximum number of steps is more than 10,000 steps. Originally felt that thirty thousand steps is not difficult to achieve, the result of entering the office, is a variety of meetings, plus evening socializing, to 9 pm home, found that the number of steps is only more than ten thousand steps. To fulfill my promise, I still have to take nearly twenty thousand steps by 12 p.m. After a minute of hesitation between giving up and insisting, I changed into my running shoes and started walking wildly around the neighborhood. Fortunately, this is not a waste of time, you can exercise, you can also walk while listening to lectures. By 11:30, I finally exceeded 30,000 steps, ending the day with a small sense of accomplishment. Walking for two hours at night, the biggest gain is that in the quiet night, smelling the refreshing floral fragrance in the air, watching the semi-circular moon in the sky walk, it is so good! "The moon color is more good than the spring color, and the reed wind is like a bamboo wind." It is a state of mind that is getting quieter and quieter, a state of forgetting both things and things, a kind of fluttering away from the hustle and bustle.
I actually spent a lot of time reading this week. The main reason is that he agreed to live connect with Fan Deng. Fan Deng's own works, I need to promote them when I connect with him to broadcast live. To promote his book, I need to read his book. Any book I have not read, I dare not promote. Therefore, I spent a lot of time and read Fan Deng's "Replicable Leadership", "Replicable Leadership 2", "Reproducible Communication", "Are You Still Worried", and "Fan Deng's Analects" and read them all. These books are good on the whole, especially "Fan Deng's Lectures on the Analects", which captures the essence of each sentence in the Analects and uses cases in life and work to state them, which gives people a lot of inspiration. Two books of "Leadership" are suitable for business founders and managers to read, "Communication" is quite suitable for parents to read, and "Are You Still Worried" answers more than 200 questions in the lives and work of netizens.
On Sunday night, Fan Deng and I began a conversation at 8:30 a.m. on the topic of personal growth and reading. There are still many netizens who did not expect to be interested in this topic. We both talked for two and a half hours. The number of netizens online in the same period, my side exceeded 100,000, Fan Deng's side is also tens of thousands. On both sides, more than three million people entered our live room. The two of us also had a good conversation, discussing and exchanging various topics on the growth and development of life. The text of the exchange will also be released to everyone after the subsequent collation is finished.
In addition to Fan Deng's books, I also finished the last two volumes of "The Story of Civilization" that I did not finish last week this week. These four "Stories of Civilization" can be read more easily. From one story after another, to find the context and clues of the development of human civilization, although not systematic, but indeed vivid, and the story does not lose the authenticity of history and the author's finishing evaluation. Last time I said that I didn't know the background of the editor-in-chief Huamu Monk and the New Asia Humanities Academy, they contacted me on WeChat and sent me the link to the small program of the New Asia Humanities Academy. I went up to take a look at the "Sharp Bends of History" taught by Hua Mu Monk, as well as courses such as "Miss Yang Looks at the Forbidden City" and "Ma Yong Explains The History of Qing", which is a knowledge payment platform with history courses as the core. When I have time later, I will listen carefully to the courses in it, and if there is good content, I will recommend it to everyone.
One day, go to a party with friends. The meeting place is near the Forbidden City. I arrived an hour early, and on a whim, asked the driver to drive to Donghua Gate. I walked along the moat to the Noon Gate, from the Noon Gate into the Forbidden City, all the way through the Jinshui Bridge, the Taihe Hall, the Zhonghe Hall, the Bohol Hall, and then into the Qianqing Gate, to the Qianqing Palace, the Jiaotai Palace, the Kunning Palace, through the Royal Garden, and from the Shenwu Gate out of the Forbidden City. It took less than an hour to measure the six hundred years of the Forbidden City and the two dynasties of the Ming and Qing dynasties in a hurry.
History is always presented in a paradoxical manner, and the years can wash away the bloody storms of any change. Inside these magnificent buildings, how many thrilling stories have happened, and now, under the warm sunset, every brick and tile is so peaceful to meet tourists. Once only the emperor could walk the imperial road, today, we ordinary people can also leave footprints for easy walking.
In fact, the things we experience personally, whether personal or worldly, are extremely important or serious in our current state of mind. We will die and live for love and friendship, work and career, and we will also be unable to sleep and beat our chests for some event that happens thousands of miles away. But when time sweeps away everything, the years erase our emotions, and what remains may be a smile or a gentle sigh. Everything that cannot be passed may be that the clouds are light and the wind is light, that is, how many things in ancient and modern times are in the midst of laughter. There is nothing in the world that cannot be passed. Your loss of love, loss, failure, or the epidemic you are paying close attention to or experiencing, the War between Russia and Ukraine, and international relations, cannot withstand the wind and dust of the years, and eventually become a line in the history book. As a song goes: "The years do not know how much sorrow there is in the world, why not go back and forth!" ”
So, with a relaxed attitude, experience yourself and experience history!
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