2017 ended with a campaign called "My 18 Years Old" where people posted photos to remember their youth.
On the first day of 2018, with a new mood, we began to plan goals, plans, visions, etc. for ourselves, looking forward to harvesting a new version of ourselves in the new year.
Whether it is establishing a new plan or planning a ceremonial New Year's Eve event for yourself, it reflects most people's infinite hope for a better life, and most of the demands behind this hope: how to keep growing.
, remain competitive for a long time?
Before answering this question, let's take a look at a person's resume. Her experience should give everyone a different answer.
Born in a small town in Huangshan, Anhui Province, he studied at China Central University, Peking University, and then entered the Harvard Kennedy School.
From CCTV financial commentator and financial anchor, to World Bank investment consultant, to frequently invited bilingual host at Boao Forum for Asia, Wuzhen Internet Conference, APEC and other high-end financial and intellectual events.
In 2012, he was selected as one of the World Economic Forum's Global Outstanding Young Persons in Boston; in 2016, he was listed among "30 Asians Under 30" in Forbes magazine.
Currently the youngest partner of SAIF Asia Fund Investment; founder of iAsk Media, he is used to produce top dialogues with politicians, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs, and scholars, and talks with more than 150 top figures every year.
These dazzling auras have all been cast on Ai Cheng, who was born in 1987. She has easily achieved the life that others look up to before the age of 30.
Why is there so much honor and halo on this innocent girl who came out of the mountains?
Dare to start and persist. In her view, success is a two-step process: first, start; second, persist.
Ai Cheng believes that the most valuable trait in himself is the courage to start and the courage to persevere.
"Many people ask them why they haven't accomplished what they like. It's because you didn't persist, and you didn't have that fearless persistence." Ai Cheng answered to the point.
In 2014, she resigned from CCTV and started to found iAsk Media. In the early days of starting the business, she often had to go to bed at 2 a.m. and get up before 7 a.m. Although it was difficult, she felt that her life had never been so happy and secure, and that the whole world had never been so happy.
Nothing could be more real and hopeful.
Where you invest your time is where your life lies. We can often see her standing beside many business figures and thought leaders, presiding over high-profile forums and summits. She is in these male-dominated environments.
one of the few female observers and participants in the business world.
"If I have any core competitiveness, it is diligence, uncontrollable diligence." Ai Cheng is known as the "Desperate Thirteenth Mother" in the industry. In November, she was invited to participate in the China-US Youth Leaders Forum. In order to write
After finishing "Common Sense of Entrepreneurship", she could even sleep only two hours a day for four consecutive days.
"When it was two o'clock in the morning in the United States, I told myself that it was two o'clock in the afternoon in Beijing. You'd better not sleep and continue to code. Make struggle the goal of your life. Ai Cheng believes that this world is a world of conservation of energy. Wealth is also a game.
Replace resources, use time, energy, and your special abilities. There is no wealth that appears out of thin air, and there is no destined poverty. For a learner, the terrible thing is not that there are no resources or talent, but that the thinking pattern is too small.
Only seeing the current difficulties, focusing on the immediate, without planning for long-term management, taking action and executing. Growth is an inherent life need that can provide us with lasting competitiveness in her daily work.
To absorb a large amount of new knowledge, she must maintain the spirit of asking others for advice at all times.