The first: the first acquaintance with Lao Luo
I believe that Lao Luo appeared in my life is no accident. His appearance also changed my life in a sense, enriched and wonderful my life. He is the only stranger that I have been able to continue to like for 8 years and still determined to continue to like.
A long time ago, I had the idea of writing something, but I always did not know how to write, because there are too many shiny places on the body of Lao Luo, and I was always afraid that it would lead to misunderstandings because I did not write comprehensively enough. However, recently I have seen many negative comments about Smartisan T1 (Hammer phone is what most people call it, but I think such an elegant product called Smartisan T1 is more in line with its identity) on the Internet, my heart is very bad, so I had to come forward to say what I see Lao Luo. I guarantee with my rational life, Lao Luo such a hardworking, great love, dreams, feelings, sincerity, integrity, perseverance, responsibility of a real being is impossible to do a good product, is not deserving of so many people's vilification, is impossible not to become the next Steve Jobs!
In 2006, I was in my junior year of college, like most people, because of the Lao Luo quotes to understand that there is such a person, just think it's fun to listen to, and the values set out in the recording are exactly what I am looking for. That's when I knew we were on the same page. But I didn't pay attention to him for a long time after that, and I don't even know what he looks like. But in fact, my values have been unconsciously influenced by some of his.
In 2008, two years later, one day, one of my graduate students told me every day how Luo how, but also hard to take away my USB flash drive to give me a copy of Luo quotes, I re-listened to the quotes, the fire in my heart finally ignited once again, when the Internet is also easy to start searching for some of the introduction of him online, a look at the picture, the original is a fat man, the heart a little bit of a loss, but with my more understanding of his story. After learning more about his story, the feeling of reverence in my heart rose.
Second: the old Luo person
From the Internet know that he is the second year of high school dropped out of school, the reason is that the school teaches things are excerpts and words, these are difficult to satisfy his desire to know, at the same time, the school teaches students to speculate on the meaning of the author of the method also makes him extremely disgusted, there may be some other reasons for his character, he chose to drop out of school at home, read by himself, a book, an original book to read. At one time, he wanted to become a poet, although he did not succeed, but at least he accumulated a lot of poetry in his belly. Tried a lot of occupations, sifted sand, set up stalls, selling goods, and even smuggled cars, did stainless steel spot welding workers, did a pyramid scheme, went to night college, training courses, watched more than 600 movies to learn English. But all "failed", but for him, these are just the accumulation of the road to success. Insert a paragraph, Lao Luo is a fat, he had exhausted diet, exercise, qigong and other ways to lose weight, there was a period of time, he strictly control the diet, every day run with more than an hour to run 10,000 meters, pay the price of the ordinary people can not imagine, such efforts to let him use 58 days to lose 48 pounds, such perseverance is really extraordinary.
Until one time, a friend told him to be a teacher in New Oriental can be paid in sacks of money, he was moved. For the sake of his dream, for the responsibility to his family, he resolutely set foot in Kyoto, attended the GRE training course of New Oriental, rented a small remote private room by himself, bought 50 kilograms of inspirational books, declined all the friends' gatherings and banquets, and insisted on a year of hard work. He was also nearsighted as a result, but he finally conquered the stronghold of the GRE, came up with a set of vocabulary and fill-in-the-blanks classroom materials (the choice of fill-in-the-blanks is also due to a teacher's guidebook is full of errors), and alone in front of the mirror to try to speak N times, and can even be a lesson time in seconds to count so accurate.
So he went to New Oriental with confidence, and of course wrote one of the longest and most realistic cover letters in history, according to the requirements of the recruitment process, but he was given a chance. Just when Lao Yu was about to give up on him, he fought for a third chance, and it just so happened that there was an even worse teacher in front of him, so he entered New Oriental. After stumbling around for a while, he jumped to become the most popular GRE teacher at New Oriental, bar none!
After 5 years of work, I decided to quit because I couldn't stand the evil status quo of some education.
In 2006, he started to run NiuBo.com, the reason why NiuBo.com is praised by everyone is that he never advertised through pornographic games and other advertisement clicks, and he didn't fear to be teared up by his superiors and falsely, hide the reports or delete the posts, and he only spent 2 years to make NiuBo.com more than one million clicks in a completely upright way. NiuBo.com also used its fame to raise funds for the Wenchuan Earthquake, and because it was dissatisfied with the operation of a cross, it personally drove to the disaster area to participate in the rescue; it also handed out New Year's red packets to the mothers' group of the black brick kilns in Shanxi Province and the kiln workers who had been rescued. Then NiuBo.com was ordered to shut down a few times, and then had no choice but to open NiuBo International outside the wall and a castrated cow network inside the wall.
In 2008, I started to do Lao Luo English (Lao Luo and his friends Education Technology Development Co., Ltd, even the name is so draggy!) , which is also when I officially started to pay proper attention to him, I had to study every single one of his speeches over and over again, and I would scrutinize every single poster. The emergence of Lao Luo's English has changed the old status quo of Chinese education. In fact, every time he appears in a different field, he is changing the old status quo of the field, and always makes the world a little bit better in various ways. That's why my heart swells with tears every time I see such a change. The "N-Day School," the "No-No-No School," and the "Magical School" are the ones he puts forward for public criticism, so that English language learners know that they have to keep their feet on the ground. He was the first to create the "eight lessons for one dollar", which was wildly imitated, but Luo's posters were always one step ahead of others, and he used the 3D villain poster for the first time, which was wildly imitated again, and almost every poster since then has been imitated, but of course, it has never been surpassed. I went to Lao Luo English to take IELTS classes, this will be told later. Because of this, the whole culture of the education industry got a big reversal, from the quality of the posters, to the service to the students, to the sincerity and so on have been greatly improved. Here also mentioned a thing is that he got the investment reason, a childhood friend, more than ten years no contact, but ate a meal, said nothing to transfer to him 3 million, he himself is very puzzled, the friend said that because when he was a child, Lao Luo is the only one who did not lie to him on the matter of exchange of "pornography". It's a good thing to know that honesty is such a valuable trait.
2012 was a very important year for Lao Luo, who founded Hammer Technology Development Co. Of course, once established, it caused a huge wave, bigger than every time before the wave, a variety of online disbelief, doubt, denigration, abuse ...... but I except feel a little pity to give up Lao Luo English, Lao Luo's confidence has never wavered, the Bible says: Faith is the solid bottom of the things hoped for, is the confirmation of the things that have not yet been seen. You have seen, it is not called faith, when you have not yet seen the time to believe in him, this is called faith.March 27, 2013, SmartisanOS conference was officially held. On May 20, 2014, Smartisan T1 (hammer phone) was officially released. In the middle, because of some production capacity, selling price, price cuts and other issues, which led to the T1 by the major industry, the major media bad reports and reviews. Lao Luo also had to fight with Wang Ziru about Youku because of Zealer's malicious reviews. In short, as Lao Luo himself said: never has such a wonderful product and brand, suffered such a large-scale misunderstanding, slander and defamation! I y agree.
But even so, T1 also came through, in the Taobao official website tens of thousands of buy the phone after the user's tide of positive feedback, can be seen who have seen the real thing are shocked, those who have not seen the real machine on the rush to comment on the ignorance is really hate and pity.
Since the day the T1 went on sale, there has been a flurry of offline cell phone experience exchanges organized spontaneously across the country. What cell phone, what product has ever had such a big impact, and Lao Luo launch tickets rebate, price reduction refund, double 11 lucky bag activities, these are not enough to say?
There are of course many more stories during this period, such as the smashing of the Siemens refrigerator event organized to defend the rights of users, questioning the Ark's counterfeiting fund event, and seeing Peng Jian blocked is really a great pleasure. In order to defend the rights of employees and blast the chain house incident. I won't list them all here.
The above story is just a simple list based on my recollection, if you want to understand more carefully, you can see his two books "My Struggle", "life is not stopping, more than folding", my struggle on the Internet also has a video speech.
Next I want to tell you how Lao Luo has y and truly influenced my life.
Third: "Following" Luo
Of course, I didn't really "follow" Luo and become one of his employees, although I strongly thought about it and worked hard, but it hasn't happened yet. Luo doesn't really know me. What I mean by "follow" is to quietly follow, learn, and improve.
I am an afterthought type of person, who only knew how to work hard foolishly at that time, and seldom thought about what to do for, seldom thought about what the dream was. This is why I went to undergraduate school for a plant protection major that I did not like, and graduate school for a pesticide science major that I did not like, happily in my third year of graduate school I partly because of the problem of the experimental reagents and lead to illness, become a very good reason not to engage in the industry in the future. At that time, I also particularly liked English, although I was not good at it, as shown by my experience of failing Grade 4 seven times as an undergraduate and taking Grade 6 six times during graduate school before I just passed. But I never lost my interest and confidence. At that time, it just so happened that Lao Luo was running an English training school, and the lectures he gave on entrepreneurial stories were not only humorous and interesting, but also very practical and useful. So I also privately organized a few friends together to run a small training course, also pirated the poster of the old Luo English, with a dollar to listen to four classes mode for the first time on the recruitment of more than 40 people, held a few periods, I am facing graduation due to the temporary shelved.
I told my parents that I wanted to do English training institutions, and they refused to agree, saying that it was not easy for you to go to graduate school, bite the bullet and get a doctorate, and then find a job in higher education more stable ah. I am a more filial son, so I went to the test, but also on the test, but how on how not good, on the private continue to improve their English level of preparation, I went to enroll in the memory training courses, fast reading training courses, English vocabulary memory training courses.
At the end of 2010, I finally couldn't stand the research and the disease, and left the school in a rage, taking my savings of more than 10,000 yuan, and came to Beijing to attend the IELTS training course of the old Luo English, which was given to me by Mr. License, Mr. Xu Cen, Mr. Deng Keqi, and Mr. Miao Yu. I gained a lot, not only from the content, but also from their personal charisma and the service of Lao Luo English organization. At that time, my habit was to log on to the website of Lao Luo English every day to see if there was any latest news, to listen to any open class, and to read any job posting seriously. I tried to make myself meet the requirements. I bought every book he mentioned in his speech and studied it.
But when I realized I was too far behind, I remembered the story of Lao Luo's own 1-year story, and my motivation came back. But I don't have enough willpower or drive, so I've never had such an opportunity, because I just came to Beijing, in order to quickly find a part-time job and a place to live, but I broke into one with a den of scammers again and again. My parents called me every day, my tutor called me every day, and my friends and relatives called me every day, all urging me to go back and finish my studies. My health was deteriorating, I was in debt outside, and the toughest part was that I couldn't find anyone to talk to at all. So I had to rely on the spirit of Lao Luo to support me. Of course later I found God to support.
I finally jumped out of the den of scammers, found a part-time job in Beijing Jinyi International Cinema, the rest of the time in the 51talk network above to practice speaking, half a year later I feel almost, on the Internet to send a resume, and found the Sailor Education Technology Development Company Ltd., where the Beijing Shida School International Class Branch as an assistant teacher for one year, did one year of Assistant Teacher Supervisor, every day and the foreign teachers together I've been dealing with foreign teachers every day, and I've been able to further improve my speaking skills, but I still feel that it's too slow. In fact, the reason for the slow and Lao Luo went to do cell phones have a certain relationship, that is, their own efforts to go to Lao Luo English has no meaning, because the role model has gone. After that it is day by day, make friends, get married.
However, by mistake, I re-encountered Mr. Permit and Mr. Deng Keqi, and got to know Mr. Kong Hui, and I heard that they had set up an English institution, and not only did they give me a copy of their translations of The Elephant in the Room and Why Can't Dogs Eat Sh*t, but they also invited me to dinner, which was a real shame, and I'd like to be invited back next time. After that, I frequented the Wanna Learn organization, and really rekindled my passion for doing English training.
Of course I am often thinking about how in the end it is possible to **** things together with Lao Luo. 2014, that is, in October this year, I quit this job, and in November I went to a remote mountain village, fasting for 30 days (do not eat anything at all, only drink water), and of course there is a pastor to lead, we collectively come to seek God, seek the soul deep in our lives to open and lead! . It was also a great test of willpower. After that, I was determined to spend half a year to improve myself and study English, but this time my goal was to become the best Chinese English speaker who spreads love in the area of translation, and one of the worst, half a year is just the beginning, and perhaps it will take a lifetime to accomplish this goal. Of course, if there is a chance to **** things up with Lao Luo in the future, I think I'll take the chance.
Fourth: Evaluation of Lao Luo
Lao Luo is an ordinary person. Born in the countryside, dropped out of high school in the second year of high school, looks mediocre, obese, timid ......
Lao Luo is an upright person. Whether it is in life or career, the chest is generous, never speculation. Out of the mud without dyeing, Maundy and not demon. In the middle of the darkness, but try to shine. This also explains his Lao Luo English with all the genuine software, the most difficult time to the staff to send double pay, to the front desk to send the angry bag and nest fee. When I was a kid, I never lied about changing "porn".
Lao Luo is a diligent person. Whether it's his attempts at various businesses when he was a child, or his insistence on losing weight, or his hard work in learning English, or his tireless struggle in defense of fairness in the world, or the fact that he's still tossing and turning at the age of 40 or so, it's clear that he's a hard worker. All of them illustrate this point. I believe that heaven rewards the diligent.
Lao Luo is a man with a big heart. He has done every thing, are from the heart of love, or he will not go to the cattle blog on the fund-raising, will not go to Wenchuan rescue, will not give Shanxi coal kiln rescued employees issued New Year's red packets, will not be in order to protect the rights of Siemens refrigerator smashing, will not go to fight with Ark, will not be ......
Lao Luo is a person who has a dream. He has been for a long or short dream persistent efforts, struggle ......
Lao Luo is a persistent person. Because he has always struggled and never backed down.
Lao Luo is a responsible person. This is why he does things always want to make the world a better place, do Niu Bo network to make the network become cleaner, do Lao Luo English to make the English training industry become healthier, do cell phone to make the cell phone industry to improve some of the wind, and after the death of Steve Jobs, he tried to kinda come up and fight to be the successor, I think no matter whether he can take over the work, are worthy of respect.
Lao Luo is a decent person. Eat robbed to pay, ice bucket challenge in order to let people not forget the original intention, donated 39,500 U.S. dollars, Lao Luo English to listen to eight classes to send a book, the launch of the tickets back to the cash, cell phone price reduction refund, speech postponed to the field to come to the friends please eat and send a book. Each deed is enough to bring you to tears and savor for three years.
Lao Luo is a person who knows his mistakes and is willing to bear them. Whether it is the capacity, or the phone price reduction, or the negative comments on friends, have publicly made an apology on Weibo, and take some practical actions to make up for it.
Lao Luo is a person with guts. He thought of it and then seriously to prepare for it and try to realize it, Niubo.com, Lao Luo English and Hammer Technology each is a good proof.
Lao Luo is a person of influence. His Sina Weibo account alone has close to ten million followers, starting with his quotes, and everything he's done since then has stirred the pulse of China as a whole. Almost all of the books he mentioned or recommended in his speeches have topped the sales charts of major online merchants.
Lao Luo is a person destined to change the world, he wants to make the world become full of love, full of beauty, never a little!
Fifth: Conclusion
Lao Luo came to this world with a mission, Lao Luo's organization came to this world, not a single pore is with blood and dirty things.
Lastly, I still want to quote a few paragraphs that Lao Luo said in his speech, "By making money cleanly let people believe that making money cleanly is possible, by realizing ideals let people believe that realizing ideals is possible, by changing the world let people believe that changing the world is possible, even in China."
"I'm not in it to win or lose, I'm just serious!"
In the end, love will win!
It's time to end this, and I'd like to say one more thing, I've been wanting to buy a T1 but haven't yet because of the telecom phone I've been using, and I haven't really experienced the real thing so I can't really comment on the phone, but after I go back from this fast, I'm going to buy one even if I change my number. By then, I might even write a little bit about the experience of using the phone. At the end of the day, let's love the world together ......
Tan Haoji in Beijing