There are many starting lines in life

When he was 9, his parents divorced. He came to Chengdu from Shanghai to live with his grandparents. When I transferred to another school, I dropped one grade because of my poor test scores.

At school, he did not understand the thick Sichuan cavity, "Shanghai old table" and "parents divorced" became the butt of classmates laughing at him, he was angry and distressed. But the habit of running twice a day on the playground and playing basketball diluted his mental pain.

When he was 16, he failed the college entrance examination. His parents sent him to the graduating class of Michelle High School in Oregon, USA. The town has only 350 people, one shop, two restaurants, one post office, and one school, with fewer than 50 students, which is far from the country. In addition to the environment of unfamiliar, language barriers, and the failure of the college entrance examination, he is silent every day.

In one physics class, when Mr. Jackson asked a question, he missed the question and gave an incoherent answer, causing the whole class to burst into laughter.

He was so ashamed that he rushed out of the classroom after class, ran to a small wood near the school, threw himself down on the grass, tears welling up in his eyes...

At some point, Miss Jackson came to him and gently stroked his head. At his feet there was a snail, thin and transparent, crawling slowly and laboriously forward.

Miss Jackson suddenly asked him, "Do you know where the snail is going?"

He shook his head, and Jackson pointed ahead and said, "Look there. The front is a mountain, the snail climbs to the top of the mountain, and can reach the top of the pyramid only the eagle and the snail are these two animals. Snails also like to stand tall. I believe that as long as it works hard, it will eventually climb to the top of the mountain, where the scenery and the eagle are the same!"

After a few words, he was enlightened. He made many friends and loved sports. Become the main force of the school basketball team, as the fastest student progress award; After a few months, I mastered American English pronunciation and could easily listen to lectures and speak. Mowing the grass, repairing the iron fence, grazing cattle on horseback, car maintenance, and driving to the desert......

This seems to have nothing to do with the study of "rough work" but little by little to exercise his mind. His grades have skyrocketed.

A year later, when he spoke at the graduation ceremony on behalf of the Outstanding student group, the principal told him in private that he would have forgotten he was a Chinese student if he hadn't said "thank you all" in Chinese at the end.

Tenacity, tenacity, self-confidence, independent thinking, team spirit, and other soft strength, he grew up little by little, he sang at Eastern Oregon University, and later transferred to Michigan State University and won the title of "best student".

He dreamed of getting into Harvard Business School, after failing the first two GMAT tests. He didn't give up, adjusted his attitude, and passed the exam easily the third time. In 2006 he became Dell's youngest global supply manager.

The 2008 U.S. financial crisis. Thirty percent of the students at Harvard Business School didn't find satisfactory jobs, but he suddenly got offers from Citigroup, Samsung, LG Electronics, Apple Computer, and the National Basketball League.

In 2009, he graduated from Harvard and decided to work for Citibank. Although the salary of Citibank was the lowest compared with the other four companies, he thought that the ability to exercise and learn in the work was several times that of the other four companies.

He was stationed in Brazil and successfully established the first financial team dedicated to Chinese enterprises in the South American banking industry. He was named the best New employee by the headquarters and was one of the top 10 "Global Leadership Program Members" of Citibank.

In 2010, however, he decided that many people found unthinkable: he gave up a promising career at Citi and returned to China to join Lenovo.

The Harvard boy who lost at the starting line is Yu Zhibo, 29 years old, senior assistant to the president of Lenovo Group, a Fortune 500 company.

"There are many starting lines in life," he said. "Maybe I am behind others, but I will not always be behind others. Finding the best match for myself is the most important thing."

To prove that life has more than one starting line?