On the evening of March 17^th, “Believing in  your future”, a public lecture about planning of college life was held in  South Campus, GDUFS. The keynote speaker was Yu Minghong, the founder of New  Oriental, an educational and professional training center.

Overcome your fear, keep exploring the next step

Yu Minghong  started the lecture from the movie American  Dreams in China.

When he looked back on his own experience from zero to  hero, he said frankly that he felt himself inferior and dare to try nothing  when entering into college. Then he quoted the words by Jack Ma “A man’s  achievement tends to turn out opposite to his appearance”, kidding himself as  well as encouraging the students presents not to limit themselves by their  fear and the imaginary “terrible future”.

In addition to courage, Yu thought that university students  are supposed to cultivate themselves entrepreneurial spirit, which means not  being content to stand still and keeping trying forward to the “unknown”. Only  in this way can they make a progress and achieve success.

Make friends with mentors and promote  yourself

Yu believed that who one makes friends with affects a  lot how one grows.

A good friend and mentor can make a difference. In his  college life, he formed the habit of reading under the influence of his  monitor Wangqiang, which led to his large reading volume of 800 books at  college. He also emphasized that students are supposed to have the courage to  make friends with excellent peers and mentors, even when it seemed not easy  to approach them.