Oct 10, 2024
Inspiration
Jack Ma's life-changing advice for young people
Summary
Career Development
Find a good boss who can discipline and guide you in your 20s and 30s, then work independently in your 40s and 50s, and finally support young people in your 50s and 60s.
Success requires a combination of hard work, luck, and learning from mistakes, as exemplified by Jack Ma's 70-hour workdays for 18 years and 867 hours of travel in a single year.
Mindset and Perseverance
Stay foolish to your dreams, continue fighting, and never give up, as these traits are crucial for overcoming challenges and achieving long-term success.
Recognize that complaints often signal opportunities, and embrace the chance to make mistakes while maintaining the resilience to keep pushing forward.
Youth and Innovation
Young people are the solutions for tomorrow and a source of energy, making it essential to stay connected with them and support their growth and development.
Timestamps
00:00 Young people hold the key to the future, but success requires hard work and sacrifice.
00:58 Alibaba's success was earned through 18 years of hard work and dedication.
02:01 Innovation means being different, even if it goes against the norm.
02:27 Work hard and face challenges to succeed in life.
03:40 Learn from a good boss in your 20s-30s, try something new in your 30s-40s, do what you're good at in your 40s-50s, support young people in your 50s-60s, and enjoy time with your grandchildren when you're over 60.
04:33 Find a good boss, make mistakes, and don't aim to be the next Bill Gates - just find a good company and partner.
Transcript
00:00 I think if you succeed every mistakes become a legendary if you feel that's just a garbage so stay full stay foolish to your dream and continue to fight and young people are the solutions for tomorrow. Young people are the solutions for all the worries and young people. If you stay with them you will be full of but the advice I give to the young people is that also the advice. I give to myself that nothing is easy. Nothing is free. If you want to be successful.
00:58 You have to pay the price alibaba 18 years to today's size yeah. We are lucky but we work much harder than most of the people. We never sleep well and sound in the evening. I traveled last year 867 hours a year in the plane. I'm working hard. My team worked very hard 18 years. We worked like a normal company 70 years day and night nothing is free. Nothing is easy easy beings you have to think different. You have to do different early days in my company when some ideas come to my desk jack.
02:01 This is a great idea and I look at everybody everybody say it is a good idea. I normally throw into the rubbish because everybody said it's good. Then all the other people think of if everybody say this is going to be very tough. I'm very interested in that tough question and I pick up and say how can we do in a different way. This is to be unique to be different.
02:27 Today is very tough. Tomorrow is more tougher. The day of tomorrow is beautiful but most people die tomorrow evening you have to work very hard every tough days every tough situations problems you meet that is the training of yourself when you graduated your school graduate. From this school you just started your career of learning when you got a phd diploma or bachelor diploma. This is just a certificate your. Parents pay the tuition for four years your real challenge is when you leave the college. The real life stats the real exam stats. The real test stats that's life so one thing you are lucky as I said if students cannot survive 99.9 percent of people in the world cannot survive only you have this confidence you will be able to face the challenge of future.
03:40 If you uh 20 to 30 years old. Please find a good boss not not necessarily. A good company learn from the boss learn how to do it when you are 30 to 40 years old try to do something yourself if you really want to try it. When you're 40 to 50 years old. Do things that you are good at after 20 years of learning you should do something you're good at when you're 50 to 60 years. Old spend your time supporting young people when you are six over 60 years old spend time with your grandchildren that is normally a lot of people like that.
04:33 So when you are graduate when you just in the university don't think about. I want to resign from the school and be another bill gates because bill gates left harvard. There's only one bill gates in the world when you graduate find a company. Most important find a good boss that can clean you discipline you and tell you what is good and right. It's more important than a good company of course. A good company a good boss even better and then continue your life. It's all about the partner so the thing I learned is that don't give up. My opportunity has not come yet when everybody complain that is the opportunity. If we want to be successful. We should make a lot of mistakes and never give up a lot of people. They make mistake their problem they give up. We never give up you.