▲What will your 30-year-old look like?
is also an entrepreneurial venture, some people are in the winter of capital, and some people have been in the midst of two years of trial and error. Some people are still confused in the workplace.
is also chatting, some have global business vision, and some people can only rely on celebrity gossip to deal with the scene
. What is it that widens the gap between each other?
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What are the characteristics of successful people?
For example, the young man in the picture at the beginning of the article is the latest "new entrepreneur under 30 in 2019" selected by Entrepreneur State, of which has 8 people With overseas study or work background, 11 people are consecutive entrepreneurs with two or more times, 18 are in the capital winter, and have obtained financing with disruptive technology, products and business models, and 10 of them have received 100 million yuan And above financing.
The Internet education, corporate services, financial technology, new retail, etc. they are in are not new tracks, but they can find innovative breakthroughs.
So, how can we improve ourselves and discover new possibilities?
There are two types of talents in the world:
is a type I talent, in one field for a lifetime, all friends, colleagues, and new ideas are in this field;
is a T type talent, who likes to be with different ages and different cultures People in the background communicate and dare to step out of the comfort zone and explore the new world.
Former Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles and Fortune 500 CEO Headhunter Chen Yu: After interviewed more than 4,000 successful people, I found that T-shaped talents are best at discovering new opportunities. They can connect new people and new ones. Doctrine makes many impossible things become reality.
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True T-shaped talents, in the subtleties make great things
Let’s look at a life resume:
is 24 years old, starting as a printer, and becoming the project assistant of the nation’s most prestigious real estate development company;
, 31 years old , Became the deputy mayor of Los Angeles and became the first Chinese female mayor in the United States in 50 years;
was 35 years old and became a CEO headhunter of the world’s top corporate elites;
42 years old, published "Don’t Get Married Before 30", 48 years old published "30 Take Advantage of the Situation" For", became a best-selling author...
This is Chen Yu’s personal experience: Printer-Real Estate Developer Project Assistant-Los Angeles Deputy Mayor-CEO Headhunter-Best-selling Author/Famous New Media people.
How did Chen Yu become a T-shaped talent and start a successful life?
Keyword 1: Dilapidated work, small work, and tiring work are also opportunities.
Although Chen Yu graduated from Duke University in the United States, it is very difficult for Chinese to enter the upper class of the United States.
In 1993, her first job was as a printer in a well-known real estate company. The bosses talk about the information needed for cooperation, and they will take a small tape recorder, record the words to be printed, and hand them to Chen Yu to print.
Chen Yu said, "Since I have done this job, I must use this opportunity to become the best printer in the company's history." So she tried every means to optimize the printing process and personalize each company employee Printing customization.
Her word "opportunity" interprets a single point of any ordinary job, which can be your chance to stand out. And the more mediocre the job, the easier it is for you to improve. Because of the contrast, the shock is greater.
Keyword 2: Become a person of value to others and broaden your circle of opportunities
Only doing your own job is the most basic, but it is often difficult to obtain additional opportunities. So, how to break this obstacle?
Chen Yu’s method is not limited to his own job, but to help other departmentsThe person at the door, such as helping finance with financial settlement and data analysis, the financial staff also hope that she can help, and she will do her best to teach her when she leaves work earlier.
Others will train you because you can help others.
The more departments she helped, the more she learned, and the deeper her knowledge of the industry. Chen Yu said, "At that time, there were only two people in the company paying attention to different people and different departments. One is the CEO and the other is me.”
As she becomes more capable and can help more, she naturally gets more opportunities to become a project assistant.
Keyword 3: Helping others without asking for rewards, but getting a chance to be interested in
When Chen Yu was doing real estate, he spent five years and spent 15 hours a week helping the government oversee the charity new housing project in Los Angeles. Seeing that the houses are built one by one, even if there is no monetary gain, she feels very satisfied.
However, it is precisely such an unrequited contribution that brought her a turning point of opportunity.
Someone in Los Angeles suggested to the mayor that a business person was needed to be the deputy mayor to assist in economic management. At that time, the candidates were mostly successful middle-aged men. Only Chen Yu was a young Chinese woman, and her success was the benefit. Yu insisted on public welfare projects for five years.
that year, she was 31 years old and became the first Chinese female mayor of the United States in 50 years.
▲Chen Yu became the first Chinese female mayor
When we pursue inner happiness and forget those utilitarian goals, we can reach an unprecedented height.
Keyword 4: At the most glorious time, everything is cleared and set off again
During her tenure, she initiated the college admissions plan, which changed the fate of more than 100,000 children from lower-level families.
The then star California Governor Schwarzenegger marveled at the changes she made to society, and even wrote this enrollment plan into American law.
However, in the most glorious time, she cleared everything. After stepped down as the deputy mayor, she moved to the headhunting world and became a CEO headhunter.
faced the world’s top 500 CEOs. She was still confident and full of aura. She interviewed 4,000 successful people in 7 years.
At the same time, she is an internationally well-known Chinese writer. She has written "Don't Get Married Before 30" (500,000 sales, many times the title of personal growth book list), "30 Take the Advantage of the Situation" and so on. How does
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become a T-shaped talent, and
wins the open life?
Someone once asked Chen Yu to summarize in one sentence how to live her successful life step by step.
Chen Yu replied: "If you can pursue what you want at all costs, the entire universe will give in for you."
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