story about how I discovered and pursued
my passion there was one scene that
totally changed my life and that he is
becoming a mother you know before I gave
birth to my baby I always think well I
want to do something to change the world
but actually I did nothing but when I
have my baby I think wow I did something
to change the world you see I bring this
little men to the world and i really
want to add give him the best education
because i want to him to be a very happy
however before I practice the education
plan to my baby I was educated by the
real life I know some ladies sitting
here maybe Mother’s already and you may
understand this all the hard work to
raise up her kid especially in the first
year i breastfeed my baby every three or
four hours a day and the worst time is
why go back to work of my maternity
leave all of a sudden I cannot produce
enough milk I’m in breast milk by myself
just because I’m physically exhausted
after all the meetings and the technical
solution discussions with my colleagues
and you know what my baby refused to
drink formula milk anytime I go back
home my parents who were taking care of
my baby at that time tell me you see
your song refused to drink anything to
eat annecy he always cry for mom and now
you know I cried so many times in my
room quietly I just feels so bad I don’t
think I’m a good mom and for the first
time in my life I decided to create my
job and all for something i can
understand some of my friends who have
very good education and who have great
potential in your career the Queen they
become full-time mother I thought it a
waste of talent but actually it’s not I
can durston them now luckily i made this
woman she was the vice president of my
company at that time cisco as a tommy
she traveled from san jose our
headquarter in California to Beijing to
have a business meeting and as a
tradition of or the executive female
executives in my company they will have
some informal gathering with the local
colleagues now share some experience
gave a device I’ll raise up my question
I can’t balance my work and alive I
asked her do did you feel guilty to your
young kid before she said yes but I will
never quit my job when your kid grew up
she or he will be proud of you as a very
good mom the best gift you could give it
to her kid it’s not necessarily the
breast milk or stay with him always the
best gift is the best to you you as a
well I was delighted that’s the first
time in my life I’m thinking of
what is the best me I think the best
myself should be the one who can pursue
the passion who can have a meaningful
life but what is my passion I have to
sink think of it before you know at that
time I’m a system engineering in cisco
this is just a picture I’m working with
my colleagues of them up male I decided
to be an engineer chesapeake horse in
high school my teacher said you can get
very good scores in math and physics you
shouldn’t waste your talent and my mom
said hey telecom and IT is there a hot
these days it can guarantee a very good
job then it becomes a car me doing
system engineer you know very big
company but it is system engineering
networking is my true passion I don’t
think so and this is what the education
I have get has provided me it didn’t
record encouraged me to sink deeply into
my heart instead it teach me a lot of
knowledge it prepared me to get high
scores in standard examinations but it
means the most important thing that is
to discover the pursuit of your true
passion we see 10 years past 20 years
past now our society has a volute
evolved from the industrial society to
internet society and now intelligent the
society and I own my own kid now and I
know my kid will experience the same
education as I did before I needed to do
something but what is my true passion
while I sit down on a deeply sink of
this question
just get out very naturally I just try
to recall the best and the happiest
memory I have ever had and all its
related to human development why was in
high school I established the first news
agency in my school and why was he in
university I go through the drooler area
to teach English for the students there
and why while i was working in cisco we
have a special organization is called
cisco connected women together with all
the colleagues since it didn’t work now
this might be love the colleagues and it
has a core member of this organization
we design a lot of interesting
activities for our female counterparts
in the company we provide them
opportunities to face the leadership
team we also connected them through
video conference to their counterparts
in another city or even another country
with design horses to Train some great
sub skills like how to effectively
communicate with your counterparts in
workspace all these things makes me
happy I pick up after I become a mom i
initiate NGO a very local NGO called mom
app we have a community of the young
professionals and also young mothers we
can gather together to share experience
and we can encourage each other to get
more advanced in our career because of
all the scenes i always award the young
professional leader award in china and
you know at that time a few when was the
engineer i design a system for my
customer which support tens of billion
dollars of their business I didn’t feel
I was accomplished
but one I did a little thing related to
human development I feel so happy have
your so sufficient and yes that should
be my passion but even after I have
realized what he’s my true passion it is
still very hard to quit my job as a
system engineer yea big company until
one day I guess do you remember that is
the two years birthday of my son I was
doing a test testing on customer side
for a whole day and why come out is
already ten o’clock in the evening it’s
a raining day is cold I work along the
way back to home I feel so lonely I’m
trying to sinking of my true passion
again I record once upon a time I have a
talk with my husband I said if I can
only pass on only one suggestion to my
next generation it will be choose your
chase your true passion but if this is a
device I give to them why should I stay
here why shouldn’t I give them actually
instead of words what stopped me after
that I feel so brave nothing to fear and
I at that time I don’t know what I
should do what I should start or restart
my career but it’s quite clear to me
that I should develop myself first I was
trained to be your engineer for seven
years I worked as an engineer for eight
years that’s all together 50 years now I
want to be educational professional I
need more education so I want to
hi is Academy of a size and to pursuit
my second master degree on psychological
developmental and educational science
besides that I decided to travel around
the world to see the most of the monks
educational programs I went to Harvard
to learn the social innovation and
actually this professor is also the
advisor for the President Obama i also
went to MIT d lab experience the makers
education there with the kids there and
i also want to dig her out the hidden
logic behind I’m i TS engineering
education you know there is a magical
university in the world they didn’t have
the chem person as it didn’t have the
classroom all your classes are online
and as a treat the whole world as their
classroom this is the Minerva University
and I’m so curious about university that
I went to San Francisco to meet the
students there and I was incited to find
that they have the curriculum to help
people to redesign your sinking habit
this is so cool and i also want to jab
hers university and this university
actually is established by a lone mask
so i’m really curious about how our
masks teaches the entrepreneurs to
create the innovative ideas and make
them happen to be a very interesting
stat hyper companies i also went to
Mexico to mingle with the students there
to learn how they go back to learn the
history and their traditional culture
you know I am a tad fan I went to San
Diago ye in California to experience the
largest the tightest keys in US
and of course pad conference I bring all
the things back to China and I begin to
design my own educational programs for
the keys and for the young women so this
is a event I designed with the ITU that
is an international telecom unit that
you ladies to pursue a career in IT
industry so we invite the ladies
actually the high school or college
students all female students to the IT
company so you can have what you have to
talk with the female colleagues there
and they will have a video conference
with your counterparts in another
country showing here they see is Beijing
connected to Taiwan you know although
it’s the same country but as they
actually didn’t have too much
communication before this is your first
time to get to know each other well of
the things happened thanks to my husband
why I have something sometimes
questioned myself he encouraged me do
not set limit on yourself and a you know
my little kid he is three years old now
he actually accepts the formula milk
later and now he accepts his new mom
transformed from engineer to an
I think I just skipped one slice that
the but it’s okay so this slicer is the
video conference in connecting Beijing
students to the taiwan students and
another interesting thing i did
connected to TEDx that is ted has kids
at you and Lou this is the first and the
currently own a TEDx keys in China for
this we want to the wants the kids in
China to hear different voices we want
them to have different experience we
encourage them to speak up their own
ideas to the home world and the most
important thing is we wanted their
parents to be together with them to
discover the truths of the education and
they see is one thing we are doing with
our partners now we want to broadcast
our today’s kids events to some students
in the juror error of China they do not
have the opportunity to come to Beijing
but as they actually have the
opportunity to hear the most great ideas
in the world in the end I want to share
with your story this is a beautiful
garden in peking university when we
finish our MBA degree one professor of
our economics as well as a question he
said you invest a lot of money and the
time in your education to pursue mba and
I know many of you will change your job
what job you will change so some
students said I will change to finance
it earns a lot some artists said I will
go to the coop government because is
stable and have very great social status
but my professor said you are wrong you
need to choose the job you have true
passion
because at the end of the day you will
compete with the people who have true
passion on this job and you will never
win passion is a bastard driver for
success and yes this is what I want to
share with you it’s never too late to
discover your own passion today we are
talking about time we everybody of us
are going on a lifetime to discover our
self is never too late thank you [Applause]