Editor's note: Is this a Douban netizen? Uncle Jack? His diary tells about the outstanding young people he met in recent years and their characteristics, which is worth reading carefully.
An excellent young man
I have met some excellent young people, which makes me feel that there are always some people in human beings who are worth learning.
This young man is two years older than me and is a fund manager of a hedge fund. When I first met him four years ago, I wanted to ask him how to choose a career.
At the beginning of the conversation, he asked me what I thought of most internet companies. I met several such investors and felt a little bored, but I also patiently said my views on these companies one by one, mostly in general terms. Some investors will listen to you, but there is no response, and some will interrupt and start to talk about their own ideas. He was quiet and listened carefully. He agreed with me in some places and refused to comment on most other views. ( 1。 He is flexible in thinking and has his own opinions, but he always considers other people's ideas.
The only thing that impressed me was Baidu. I asked him if he could short it. He thought it over carefully and gave some reasons, saying that the possibility of shorting is actually far less than the possibility of going long. Because he made a lot of money from Baidu, I guess he may be thinking in inertia and didn't care. (2。 Later, Baidu rose many times, from 400 yuan to the present 1600 yuan. He is one of the few people who make the most money in Baidu's megatrend. )
Later, I started talking to him about his career choices. He described his own experience, how he came to China from Wall Street, the setbacks he encountered, and so on. I asked if an MBA was necessary, and his answer was simple but affirmative. It doesn't matter whether you have an MBA or not, but being young is very important. (3。 Different people have different views on the role of MBA, but denying the role of MBA requires more wisdom in the financial industry.
This chat is very shallow, so I won't talk when I come back. Then listen to friends talk about his achievements again and again, which makes people admire more and more:
4。 Optimistic about focus rather than aviation beauty (focus led discussion one by one, there are barriers, aviation beauty depends on big customers, there are no barriers).
5。 I am optimistic about Sina, but not completely optimistic (because I think Sina is not Facebook and lacks advertising capacity, 150 yuan quits).
6。 Optimistic about JD.COM Mall, becoming the largest shareholder, earning 5 times (through the study of management, it is found that the management of JD.COM Mall is more executive, and Dangdang should pursue scale rather than profit in the early stage).
His logic has always been simple, others can understand it, and he has made a lot of money from it again and again. Many people like to talk about logic and thinking, but they are often too complicated to understand. There are also many excellent young people who are keen to argue with others and think they are better than others. In fact, there is no point in arguing.
What motivates me most is that he is good at listening. How to keep the flexibility of thinking, at the same time have your own position, can clearly hear what others are saying, and seriously consider, this is the smart start.
A wise man never covers his ears.
The second outstanding young man
In fact, Excellence has nothing to do with money. The second young man is an ordinary person who can no longer be ordinary.
Eight years ago, when I started my business, I was depressed and hid in school to study for a master's degree.
At the beginning of school, I met a round young man. He is really round, with big ears, thick nose and wide forehead, like a little Maitreya, carrying a small schoolbag, like a high school student in the past. I started talking, listened to you carefully, and then answered you seriously.
I often don't care too much about people who are too honest. I just think he is easy-going, so we often eat and chat together. His life is simple but irregular, sleeping, reading and playing games. Play games day and night, you have to go through customs once, and then sleep and read.
I didn't have any money at that time, so I consulted and pounded to see if he had nothing to do, and sometimes I helped him work for me and gave him some money. Although a few thousand dollars is not much, he is very happy and gradually becomes interested in PPT, and often does PPT without sleeping. I often fly around to do projects, and he helps me get the PPT out at the back.
After half a year, I found that his PPT was very fast and good. What I often say in the evening will be finished the next morning. This surprised me. I asked him why he did it so fast. He thought about it and said that he didn't know why, because he thought it was interesting and kept doing it.
The Spring Festival is coming. He returned to his hometown in Hunan. When he came back, he gave me a big document. Open it and see, it is more than 2000 pages of PPT. Then he told me that there was nothing to do in the countryside, so he made a PPT of professional research content. Sleep during the day and turn on the computer to do PPT at night.
I finally understand that I met a stranger.
Come to think of it carefully, he is not a diligent person (who seldom exercises) and is not good at job hunting, but the simplicity of the country and the persistence and seriousness beyond ordinary people make it difficult for him to do things.
When I was about to graduate, I asked him where to work. He said he hadn't considered it yet, and his eyes were calm. After the school issued the certificate, he packed his things and went to Hunan Satellite TV for an internship. The next year, he called me and said that he had become a full member. The next year, he talked to me about it, saying that he was so impressed that he wrote all the speeches. I just smiled and asked if PPT was also given to you.
This process may not be experienced by many graduates, but everything is natural to him.
Such people naturally believe in Buddhism. He writes poems and often sends me short messages to introduce his long poems. He always says that reincarnation is impermanent, but nothingness seems to have nothing to do with him. He has been seriously studying his relationship with Buddha.
People who do things well have a solemn heart.
The third outstanding young man
This young man is eight years older than me. I don't know if I should call him young.
Many years ago, I made a project for Microsoft. He's a client. Before I met him, my colleagues warned me that this guy from Taiwan Province Province was difficult to deal with, and I didn't take it seriously. * * * How can the army beat the national army?
When we first met, he changed his business card and began to recite his resume. I graduated from UCLA, first as a consultant at McKinsey, and then at P & amp； G is a product manager and then goes to Ebay? He finished when I fainted, and then he began to look at me.
The project is not easy to do, and he asks a lot, from many details to punctuation, which makes me very suspicious. Is this man the general manager of a department? I feel inferior to a soldier.
I like face saving. Although I met some difficult things and abnormal requirements, I was always embarrassed to refuse, so I improved again and again by torturing myself. Four weeks later, the project was finally completed, and it felt like a long month. Back in the office, I will scold him many times every day.
But on the last day, I was moved by him. He and I read the report from beginning to end to make sure there were no mistakes. Then he taught me how to speak over and over again, what McKinsey would say and how to deal with other people's problems. To be honest, I think the hard work of one month has not been in vain, and it has finally paid off.
Then, he said something to me. I know you have worked hard on the project, but in the future, this hard day should be a day of growth. It's just that the process is difficult. Make up for suffering, embrace change and study enthusiastically. As long as there is positive energy, other technologies can be polished and learned through time.
The next day he invited a lot of heads, and I thought I spoke very well. When I finished speaking, I received an email from him praising my project and attaching many comments.
Later, I joined msn and often harassed him and talked with him about work. First, I went to the sales department as the general manager, then I left my job because of the power failure of win7, and then I returned to Taiwan Province Province. Although his career has been ups and downs, I feel that he has been conscientious and his professional attitude is admirable.
I just talked to him about my work on msn, and his last sentence made me suddenly enlightened.
There must be bottlenecks and pressures when going to work, and the difference is just mentality.
The fourth outstanding young man
In September of that year, I reviewed in Tsinghua and prepared for the postgraduate entrance examination. I met a group of candidates, and there was a girl who was very thin and quiet and had been reviewing.
At lunch, I asked her if she was fresh or on the job. She thought about it and said I was a consultant. I noticed that her eyes lit up when she said this, and then she didn't say anything and looked at my reaction. I am rather old-fashioned. I haven't heard this word before, so I asked reflexively, what does a consultant do?
Later, she learned that there was no postgraduate entrance examination in her senior year. She went to Peking University for half a year and saved enough living expenses to continue her postgraduate entrance examination.
Later, I heard many consulting stories from her, which made me have a good impression on this industry. Now I think that in her eyes, it is consulting, not a real consulting industry.
After the exam, our group of test friends broke up. She was admitted to Guanghua and then went to graduate school. Later, she graduated and went to Guangzhou to work as a consultant in Watson Wyatt. Later, she transferred to another school. I remembered her eyes and felt that people with faith got what they wanted, which was good.
At the end of last year, I went to Shenzhen once and suddenly remembered to give her a call. It happened that she was working on a project in Shenzhen and made an appointment to meet and talk. I haven't seen her for many years. She looks thinner and more fragile, but she is already the consulting director of China District, and she is mature and confident.
After chatting, I talked about the consultation and asked her if she still worked overtime. She said, much better than before. Now I only stay up one day a week.
I was speechless, so I asked her again, do you think it is worth consulting? She said I was different from other consultants. I never fool around. I just promise what I can do and go all out to face my customers. I am a consultant who really helps clients solve problems.
I feel sour in my heart, not the taste.
This is a girl who moved and admired me. She has the same faith in consultation as a missionary. Eight years of consultation, hard and tired, hard? In a place full of. Charlatans and megalomaniacs? Is it worthwhile to stick to your principles in your industry? These questions seem irrelevant to her. Eight years later, her dream doesn't seem to have faded.
People who are successful in business are religious.
The Fifth Outstanding Youth
I met him in a small consulting company in China, 20 1 1 year.
At that time, I was a graduate student and had no money. Working in a consulting company is very hard, and the full-time job is less than 6.5438+0 million yuan. Like me, he is a graduate student and has no money. He works to earn money to support himself.
The essence of consulting companies is to fool, no matter how big or small, which I realized later. At that time, I just thought that many things I did were nonsense, especially the mobile internet, web2. What? I'm often bored. We always chat together, and I find that he is in a good mood and laughs at everything.
I work overtime, but he doesn't. Ask him, he said it was all a bluff anyway. I care about the results of the project and the feedback from customers, but he doesn't care. When I asked him, he said it was all a bluff anyway. I want to go to a better consulting company, but he doesn't want to go. Ask him, he said it was all a bluff anyway. I often think that the management of the company can be improved, but he has no interest in it. Someone asked him, and he said it was all a bluff anyway.
Slowly, I classified him as a man without ambition, and thought that although he was clever, he was not diligent enough to succeed.
Later, I went to a foreign company, then to an internet company, and then to an investment bank. After graduating from graduate school, he also wanted to go to a foreign company, but he didn't succeed. Finally, he joined an entrepreneurial team and continued to do Internet consulting.
This year, he told me that he went to be a director of a large Internet company and casually told me about his salary. To tell you the truth, I'm surprised. But if you think about it, you will understand that their small research company is now one of the three giants in the industry, and its reputation is slowly coming out, which is very good.
Compared with him, I have met too many McKinsey /BCG consultants in the past two years. They have joined companies like Baidu Tencent and even small companies like Qihoo Youku. Those diligent and outstanding young people can only get tickets to join Baidu Tencent if they work hard at McKinsey for three years or study in the United States. Compared with them, my friend only did one thing, that is, he liked an industry and stayed.
The local consulting company mentioned above has produced many VP directors in the Internet industry, and is called Huangpu Military Academy. When I think of this friend and many friends I know in the industry, I think of Buffett's metaphor about ducks in a pond. In fact, many times, we don't need to do anything, just make the right choice.
The situation is always better than people. It is better to follow the trend than to have wisdom.
Sixth outstanding. young people
The first time I saw her was at a meeting place, sunny, youthful and beautiful. She came to exchange business cards with me, and then made a habitual compliment. She used to be the manager of a local investment bank, and her main business was to be a financial consultant for TMT industry mergers and acquisitions.
Since then, I have always received calls from her asking questions about various industries. Later, knowing that she had just returned from studying abroad and was optimistic about the Internet industry, she jumped in and started from a small company.
Later, she moved to Deloitte's M&A department. She likes to organize industry parties, and I will attend them. At the end of every chat, she will talk about her financial dream and say that she will definitely become a hedge fund in the end. Yes, hedge funds, this is the first time I have heard this word from others. It feels interesting, but think about it, Wall Street is a very distant thing, beyond my imagination.
She knows a lot of people. It seems that she knows people every day, all kinds of people, from bosses and managers in TMT industry to ordinary operators. She always introduced me to all kinds of people, and I began to admire her social skills.
One day, I suddenly got a call from her. On the other end of the phone, she said quietly, Jack, I went to Lazard.
I am very happy for her, Lazard, the number one investment bank in the M&A business on Wall Street, is also the protagonist of The Last Big Brother.
The dream came true, and she began to become a member of the street.
She kept telling me about the dream of hedge funds. I don't know whether I should believe it or not, but there is a big gap between M&A and hedging transactions. I can't give her any advice, I can only listen to her talk about her dreams.
I don't know the ending of the story yet. She jumped to the research department of an investment bank this year and began to become a seller analyst. I think she will buy side one day and become a global hedge fund.
Many friends have been expecting me to write a story about my dream. Okay, now, you have it.
The Seventh Outstanding Youth
The first time I had dinner with him was at a food stall in Qianba restaurant, in 2004. At that time, I was interested in media. He often serves as a consultant for newspapers and TV stations. Everyone called him a doctor and called him a senior. I invited him out to dinner. He doesn't eat much and doesn't talk much. He looks like Stephen Chow and talks like Stephen Chow. He doesn't talk much but he doesn't talk nonsense. I'm a little disappointed by his low profile, which is quite different from the consultants I know at McKinsey.
Later, we cooperated on a project to make strategic planning for a newspaper. At the beginning of the project, we flew to the customer's city. I really opened my eyes. He still doesn't talk much, but every sentence is to the point and deeply touches the customer. The customer was very satisfied and the project was successfully completed. I asked him, why can you impress customers? He thinks about this problem, and you must understand what they are thinking.
What needs to be said is that he is only three years older than me, not a doctor, which does not hinder his reputation in the industry. He writes books, lectures and runs a media research center in a university. I appreciate his talent and introduce him to my tutor. He studied for a doctorate in media studies with my tutor, and now he is a justified doctor.
One day a few years later, he suddenly invited me to a cocktail party, only to know that he had actually started a business. An IT company invested him 50 million yuan in a mobile Internet project. As the founder and CEO, Kan Kan talked about the bright future of mobile Internet. Just like a few years ago, he talked about Japan's innovation, the beautiful vision of new technology and the future of the company. During the dinner, VC investors and various faces shuttled through the Internet. Everyone praised him as a technical expert on mobile internet, which made me die at once. Think of a few years ago, everyone praised him as an expert in media management.
He invited me to say a few words. I said, I have known doctors for many years. He is good at discovering the cutting-edge trends in the industry. His research and analysis over the years have given me a lot of thoughts. He is an expert whom I admire very much.
I mean it from the heart. He's an expert. He always has been. He will do what the times need him to do, and he will do it well. He first achieved the reputation of a doctor, then obtained a doctorate, first established the reputation of a consultant, then became a consultant, first became the CEO of an Internet company, and then became an Internet expert.
Awesome people never need preparation.
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