Recently, I have read many stories about my efforts, and I am very emotional. First, Pan Jie, a 25-year-old junior auditor of PricewaterhouseCoopers Shanghai Office and a female master of Jiaotong University, died of viral meningitis. She once revealed in Weibo that she was busy with her work and worked overtime endlessly. Her death triggered netizens' speculation about her karoshi. Then, Yu Juan, a 33-year-old young teacher of Fudan University who touched thousands of people with her diary, finally failed to escape the curse of death and passed away quietly. For these stories, people's ultimate concern is how to pay attention to life, health and happiness. What I want to say is that behind these stories, there is actually a question of how young people rationally plan their lives and careers in today's turbulent and competitive market environment. Your diligent study and work should be based on clear goals and the right direction, and your immediate efforts should be put into the whole career planning, which means that your bullets are limited, so you should learn to use them thrifty, wisely and efficiently. Yu Juan has a profound reflection on this: he risked his life to fight for something he didn't know whether it was his life goal or not, and it can't be said that it was a stupid thing done by a fool. Only when you are sick can you know that people's happiness should be based on sustainable long-term life goals, not just short-term fame and fortune. Learn to run long distances in life. If young people want to escape the pressure, give up the struggle, or find a reason to say that I just want to live an ordinary life in my favorite industry, it is actually not desirable and difficult to do. Because since you entered this workplace, you can't achieve your original goal or even get what you think of as an ordinary life without paying or bearing pressure. The key is how to set this goal, whether it is set by yourself, by others or by the standards of this society. If this goal is set incorrectly, then the long-distance running of life will come to an abrupt end in a tragic way. Look at some other tragedies. Some time ago, the media continuously disclosed a series of abnormal deaths of white-collar and gold-collar professionals: Liu Ying, former chief representative of the City of London and now head of China, committed suicide; Previously, Zhao Lichen, a 33-year-old investment manager of Shen Yin Wanguo Self-operated Department, jumped to his death; Vice President of the Finance Department of Shanghai Pudong Development Bank jumped to his death due to long-term depression; Yuan Jian, a part-time researcher of Peking University Goofy and Dacheng Fund, was dismissed because of the last elimination system during the probation period, and committed suicide by jumping off a building, and so on. Dr. Yu Juan, a returnee, Pan Jie, four white-collar workers, and the financial man who committed suicide because he was overwhelmed, should be said to be typical of outstanding students according to the value judgment standard of this society. However, when they enter a career journey that others think is golden, they can't reach the glorious end in the end. When we were young, it was easy for us to say, fight! Because we think we have a lot of time and energy to spend. At the critical point of life and death, Yu Juan realized that in fact, she didn't have to stay up late to cope with those exams, nor did she have to complete one task after another for an unclear goal. She even felt that her GT certificate was worthless. She said, I strive to get a master's degree in Norway and a doctor's degree in Fudan in three and a half years, just like getting two degrees in three years. However, doctors are not always masters. I worked hard day and night, and finally I didn't accomplish the goal I set for myself. I'm so angry Now I think of it as working hard and dying hard. In the end, I will only graduate one year early. However, who cares if I graduate from PhD one year earlier or one year later? Indeed, there are many young people around us who didn't think much before deciding to fight. What do you want after all this hard work? Others take the postgraduate entrance examination, and I also take the exam; Others study, I also test; Other people take the civil service exam, so do I. Anyway, don't miss any exams while you are young. Although we often say that this society is changing so fast that you can't think at all, it is inevitable to follow the crowd in a hurry, fearing that you can't catch up. If you are lucky enough to catch the first bus, you must stay ahead and try to drive into the fast lane forever. But whether this car can take you where you want to go and how long this speed can last, everyone has no time to think. As a young man in the workplace, sometimes, you might as well stop and take some time to think about these problems. Where will I be in five years? Is this the goal I really need? What did this goal bring me? Will the goal I set now be reliable in five years? Perhaps for a rapidly changing era, the five-year plan may be a bit long for young people, but such a problem really needs to be considered. Before you bury your head in the mud or work hard, think about these questions: Have you decided where you will be in five years? What kind of life do you want to live in five years? What do you want to be in five years? So, what is the value of what you are doing now compared with yourself at present? How will every step you take now affect you in five years? What's your goal this year? I remember a survey before: nearly 80% of people in the workplace are willing to exchange their freedom for high salary, and even 52% are willing to exchange 5 million for their 10 years. On the one hand, it reflects the great pressure of young people in the workplace, but on the other hand, it also shows that everyone has not thought deeply about the significance and value of work. If you need to work all the time to get a high salary, if you work overtime just for overtime pay, if you stay up late just to get a certificate, then you have to calculate whether such hard work is worth it. You should consider the value of every step you are doing in your long-term career planning and give full play to the highest efficiency of every effort, because each of us has the same limited time. Over the years, I have been insisting on long-distance running, and found that long-distance running is not only good for keeping fit, but also conducive to thinking.