--- title: "Yu Minhong's Daily Schedule: Those Smarter Than You Are Also More Diligent" description: "My IQ is quite average; I just work harder than others. My diligence is hard to match—I work 16 to 18 hours a day on average, and if there are no social engagements, my three meals total less than half an hour. I prefer working from home, waking at 6:30 AM and sleeping at midnight. My first task each morning is to run 1 to 2 kilometers at full speed." author: "New Distribution" publisher: "New Distribution" email: "zhaobo258@gmail.com" telephone: "+8615854817671" published: "2015-11-02" language: "en" canonical: "https://xinjignxiao.com/en/articles/yu-minhong-s-daily-schedule-those-smarter-than-you-are-also-more-diligen-679b982c/" markdown: "https://xinjignxiao.com/en/articles/yu-minhong-s-daily-schedule-those-smarter-than-you-are-also-more-diligen-679b982c.md" original_source: "https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/N-b3ANWJes7n01VxIHuAgQ" translation: "https://xinjignxiao.com/zh/articles/%E4%BF%9E%E6%95%8F%E6%B4%AA%E7%9A%84%E4%BD%9C%E6%81%AF%E8%A1%A8-%E6%AF%94%E4%BD%A0%E8%81%AA%E6%98%8E%E7%9A%84%E4%BA%BA%E9%83%BD%E6%AF%94%E4%BD%A0%E5%8B%A4%E5%A5%8B-679b982c.md" attribution: "New Distribution — https://xinjignxiao.com/en/articles/yu-minhong-s-daily-schedule-those-smarter-than-you-are-also-more-diligen-679b982c/" usage_policy: "https://xinjignxiao.com/ai-policy.txt" --- # Yu Minhong's Daily Schedule: Those Smarter Than You Are Also More Diligent > My IQ is quite average; I just work harder than others. My diligence is hard to match—I work 16 to 18 hours a day on average, and if there are no social engagements, my three meals total less than half an hour. I prefer working from home, waking at 6:30 AM and sleeping at midnight. My first task each morning is to run 1 to 2 kilometers at full speed. My IQ is quite average; I just work harder than others. My diligence is hard to match—I work 16 to 18 hours a day on average. If there are no social engagements, my three meals total less than half an hour. I prefer working from home. I wake up at 6:30 AM and go to bed at midnight. Previously, I used to sleep at 2 AM and wake at 8 AM, but I found that schedule was not good for my health, so I decided to sleep earlier; either way, I get six hours of sleep. My first task each morning is to run 1 to 2 kilometers at full speed, so I end up drenched in sweat. However, I usually don't shower before bed because it makes me too excited to sleep. After exercising, I start work at around 7:30 AM and continue until noon. My work includes handling emails, assigning tasks, and thinking about New Oriental's development. I also provide entrepreneurial guidance to young people. For lunch, 90% of the time I eat a boxed meal. If someone comes to chat, we each have a boxed meal, with at most a bottle of red wine. But I also take care of my health; after eating, I take a 10-minute walk. Additionally, I swim or hike once or twice a week. At 11 PM, I turn off my phone, and outside matters no longer concern me. I turn it back on at 7 AM to handle those issues. I love traveling. Each year, I set aside one or two months specifically for travel, usually to places with few people, to give myself a quiet private space. Because my brain consumes so much energy, I don't worry about gaining weight. If I do gain weight, a 15-day hiking trip will slim me down. I spend about one-third of the year at work. One-third of the evenings I go home for dinner to spend time with my children. The remaining third is for social engagements, including business trips, which total about 100 days a year. Even now, I can't say I've grasped the essence of life, but at least I have more diligence than young people. My diligence nourishes my daily thinking and lectures. For example, when reading, I consciously or unconsciously jot down new viewpoints and ideas. I flip through many books, but truly reading a book carefully is sometimes hard. By careful reading, I mean spending a whole day on one book; that way, I read about 20 to 30 books seriously a year. By casual reading, I mean finishing a book in one or two hours. If I count all of these, I read over 100 books a year. Time on planes and in cars is my reading time. Even on bumpy rides, I can work on my computer, read, or watch videos in the car, just like in the office. Throughout my life, I've never cared much about money. When I was at Peking University, I was happy with 60 yuan a month. Now, my monthly personal expenses are usually two to three thousand yuan, including books. Three or four years after stepping onto the podium, I gradually developed a sense of achievement from teaching, especially when students really enjoyed my classes. But this sense didn't come immediately; it came through continuous refinement and improvement of each lesson. The first two years were frustrating. At the beginning, some students would daydream, some would sneak out with their backpacks, and eventually the classroom would have fewer and fewer people. Also, no matter how I taught, I felt my knowledge was insufficient, and I envied teachers who taught well, but I couldn't imitate them no matter how hard I tried. After two or three years of exploration, I found that students from other classes started coming to my lectures. It was a process. Being a teacher is a process of understanding and integrating knowledge. It requires depth and breadth, and the ability to draw inferences. Add to that your eloquence, your understanding of students, and your ability to read their reactions. Teaching is a comprehensive skill. So I always tell college students: after graduation, no matter where you go, being a teacher for two or three years will benefit you for life—you'll learn how to express yourself and how to gauge whether the audience is willing to listen. Now I tell young people: you must go out, strive, and work hard. As long as you don't do bad things and keep a clear conscience, you can do anything else. Young people shouldn't resign themselves to fate, saying things like birth, aging, sickness, and death are inevitable—that's meaningless. Unlike the diligence of young people, my diligence now is a different concept—thinking. I often write notes and reflections. My current feeling is: the mind retreats, but the person advances. "Mind retreat" means broadening your horizons; "body advance" means knowing that if you don't move forward, you fall behind. But I can't tell young people these things, because no one can transplant their own experiences into others. The current Yu Minhong is a state of abundance after experiencing life's storms, a soul within the flesh supported by spirit. So I want to say to young people: go for it! Do what you most want to do! Don't fear failure, don't fear hardship! **●****●****●********** Welcome authors to contact us. **-END-** Featured Content Click the title below to read directly: [Line Sales Representative Practical Operation Guide (with full PPT download)] --- ## Copyright and AI use This article is sourced from New Distribution. Search, quotation, summarization, and model training are permitted, but every use must credit New Distribution and retain the canonical source URL. Contact: zhaobo258@gmail.com · +86 158 5481 7671