Peking University has a lot of entrepreneurs, which makes me very proud. I often wonder why there are so many entrepreneurs at Peking University. After so many years of life, I understand.
Take the 32nd floor of Peking University, for example. At that time, Yu Minhong and I lived on the second floor of the building as young professors at Peking University. Later, Yu Minhong founded New Oriental and became a famous businessman.
On the third floor lived a Shanxi boy Li Yanhong, who would bathe naked in the cold water in the water room every day, singing "Look for him a thousand times at night, where are you?" Say "Baidu" every day. One word, and then Baidu was born. In terms of knowledge reserves, Robin Li is not a company in any way, and he specializes in the cataloguing of classical documents in the library department.
On the fourth floor lives Huang Nubo, an angry poet of the Peking University Chinese Department. Over the years, Huang Nubo has been impressive and became the founder of Zhongkun Group.
Department of English, Department of Libraries, Department of Chinese
Departments are all professions that have nothing to do with finance, finance, or management, but how can people who study these professions create successful companies? I think it's because Peking University has given us something about how to shape our lives and make our thirst for knowledge transcend everything.
My motto is "Read Only First-Class Books" ——。 This book really deserves my wisdom and energy. I think you have to read first-class books to read, you have to be first-class people. I think the biggest shortcut in life is to spend time and life reading and embracing world-class books.
It is reading classics and books that can change the trajectory of our lives and become a guarantee that Peking University students can go a little further than others and drop out of school no matter which field they go to next. For those books are not words, but life, and these lives are a guide to the reader's life.
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The reading choice is: I will never read a bestseller. It's not that I belittled bestsellers, it's that I know that life is limited and that I can only read the works of the Great Waves of Human History. I look at works that are being created earlier and earlier, because I think the sooner people are, the more lives they write about.
First of all, do you want to study religion? I think you should. Only by reading such works can we understand what is beyond human beings and reach the realm of transcendence.
Second, we must read philosophy. Philosophy, in a sense, is the search for people as the source of human existence. As a human being, we have to ask ourselves where we come from and where we are going.
Third, we must read history. History describes all the scenarios in human life that are by far the closest to reality. Human life is limited, and if you want to experience the ups and downs, successes and failures, life and death experienced by human beings, you can only look at stories.
Fourth, you have to read psychology. Psychologists such as Freud dismantled the existence of human consciousness, explored how human consciousness and mind work in harmony, and how to maintain the inner essence of human beings.
Fifth, literature must be read. Writers challenge people's imaginations through language, which is a fundamental function of literature. For example, Haruki Murakami, his subject matter and style are strange and seductive, but I think he does not lack depth at all. He tries to capture the essence and expression of modern people floating in modern civilization.
Sixth, you should also read first-rate books in science. I firmly believe that scientific thought and humanistic thought develop in a sense in parallel.
In terms of the end goal, reading is a process of constructing your own spiritual world. The more people read, the less the external environment will bother them.