Shu Shuye
Zoran was the luckiest woman I knew. When she graduated from master's degree, she joined a semiconductor start-up company. The company went public several years ago. The stock price soared and she retired at a young age. In addition to playing on the weekdays, it is a museum. Will pull me up.
In the early summer evening, we left the Deyang Museum in Golden Gate Park and went to the street to find a rice cooker. There was an Italian pizzeria along the road. I walked in and took her inside. The room was huge, the lights were dim and there was a shiny bar. The clerk greeted, the Italian-style laughter on the typical Italian face spilled over to the beard. At a glance, the price was high.
Zoran's fingers swiped on the drink list, 'Too fancy,' she muttered. 'Would you like to hear my advice?' After passing the prestige, a middle-aged man waved to us. 'Mr. Xing, how are you here? "Zhuoyun was full of surprises and greeted us in the past. 'This is my friend Shu Ye,' she turned. 'This is the manager of my company, Xing Zhengren!' The hall of the trio set us up to a large dining table. 'The owner and chef of this store, Giovanni, is my old friend. Every time I come to San Francisco, I have dinner here. ' Mr. Xing said.
I widened my horizons, dragged east, and the atmosphere warmed up. Together with the role of alcohol, Mr. Xing opened his voice.
'I was born in Shanghai in 1959. My parents are both water conservancy experts. When I was eight years old, it was the Cultural Revolution. They went to support the construction of the mainland. I lived with my grandmother. The parents are not around. No matter what I do, my grandmother is When we say it, we really live in a free atmosphere. In those days, my family couldn't open the pot, but I had friends in groups. We used wood to make kites, models of airplanes and boats, and there were more games to play and slingshots. Brawls, gang fights, next war chess, chess, go. '
When I was at school, I was reading a book like a mirror. It was the opposite, and it was not only the opposite. There was no order. Others saw things from left to right, or from top to bottom, reading word by word. And I was one. A large area sweeping past, into the eyes are geometric shapes, not words. Of course, I have always been the so-called backward students, teachers and classmates say I am stupid, but I know I am not stupid, because the teacher in the classroom Physics and mathematics, I can understand, answer questions in class, I am not worse than classmates, even better than them, I always want to prove that I am not stupid, but time and time again test results really hit the face. 'Mr Xing Putting his hand on his face, exaggerated facial expressions made me and Zhuo Yun rejoice.
After attending high school, I was selected to swim in a sports school and trained for half a day. For my “stupid” children, the sports school became life-saving straw. I often feel self-comfortable, I can't read literate, it doesn’t matter, my goal in life. When I was 16 years old, my parents returned to Shanghai and found that I couldn’t even read the newspapers. My mother immediately gave me tutors and taught me to read one by one. I just knew a few words. The school said that my heart beats fast, swimming has no future, I will be fired. '
"I thought the sky was falling, and I was sad to die. After graduating from high school, I went to a technical school to learn the mechanics and locksmiths. In the spring of 1978, the college entrance examination resumed. At that time, Shanghai's admission score was 300 points. I took the exam. More than 300 points, but because of my student status, I must be recommended by the recommendation letter of my school. But my performance in the technical school is not good, coupled with complicated overseas relationships and poor family composition. The door of the university was closed in front of me. '
After graduating from the technical school, I was assigned to the workshop of the Shanghai Textile Machinery Research Institute to make lathes and fitters. At that time, I was suddenly fascinated by mathematics, and did not work every day. I was engrossed in solving various problems in mathematics. Later I participated in the RTVU exam. The admission scores, I went to the unit to open the letter of introduction, the secretary said, you are usually too casual, work can not be completed, I do not give you a letter of introduction is responsible to you. From now on, you correct attitude, do a good job, next year I Approve you to power up.'
'You're not angry?' Zhuoran took a sip of wine.
“Didn't you? In 1979, the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States made me miserable for a lifetime of overseas relations. For me, my aunt in the United States helped me apply to study in the United States. In the early summer of 1981, I came to San Francisco and lived at my aunt’s house. The family is an ivy-graded, old-fashioned intellectual, with a lot of family rules. When I was young, I was a wild child who didn’t have the rules. I didn’t live with her for a few days and left her home. In the summer, the school is not in school. I wandered all my family and walked on the streets of San Francisco. I had only 30 US dollars. I couldn’t speak the language. I was desperate. Fortunately, when the weather was not cold, I followed a group of homeless people and I slept at night in the Golden Gate Park. . '
I let the hall go for a new pot of tea. Mr. Xing gently shook the tea cup, and the tea was rippling in the dim light.
Then one night later, I was very hungry. I was looking for a meal in the street. Passing through the restaurant, the boss just came out and asked if I would like to wash dishes here. I could provide food and shelter, and a hot bath. I was almost mad when I was itchy. I heard that I had a hot bath. I had the most leisure time in the Italian restaurant. I was here two or three days a week. Others After working in another bakery for a few days, the boss was very dark. On the pay day, I didn’t even pay me a penny. I got an angry look at his face. He was terrified. With a loss, he gave the money. I am. Of course the work is gone.
I also got a job and cleaned the underground cable. At that time I didn't have any protective equipment. I got to the ground and cleaned the dirt that had been deposited on the cables for decades. The odor, the dust made me breathless until I died. Feelings filled with my brain had to give up. At that time, as a new immigrant of language, in order to survive, what to do, I will do as long as I can earn money.
It was so mixed that I started school in September. At that time, the tuition fee was 1,800 US dollars. I didn’t earn so much money at all. Fortunately, my aunt paid me tuition, and the Italian restaurant owner also gave me more man-hours. I’ll never have to find a job anymore. Now.
After the first semester ended, my cousin came to see me and said that there is an adult language school in the city of Plato, near Stanford University, south of San Francisco. No tuition fees are collected. This can save a lot of money. So I moved there. , Shares an apartment with three Chinese students.
In Plato, my first job was to go to a Japanese restaurant called Fugui Sushi. After one night's tipping, I could earn twenty or thirty. After a few days, when the proprietress knew my student status, Politely settled with me. At the time, Fugui Sushi was a French restaurant. It just needed a closed dish. I had to go to the tablecloth. I went there. The business was very good. Sometimes I could earn seven in one night. Eighty tips. Of course I was very busy. One night it was late. I was very tired. I was not careful. I threw my tip into the trash can and the napkin and I was seen by the boss. He said I wanted to steal the tip. Just let me in. My restaurant experience ends here.
The days of working in restaurants gave me a lot of opportunities to communicate with the guests, to figure out the guests' psychology and to cater to them. This was a very precious experience for me. In 1983 I was already fluent in English and felt that it was time for my own officer. I started knocking on the door from house to house, promoting my sweeping yard service. After some time, my business was upgraded to the sweeping room. I rode my bike, the tools were all lying on the beam and I saved a little, so I changed it. Motorcycles, to expand my range of services. In the past year, I had nearly 30 fixed customers. I had time for myself. The language school was hardly late. I took the TOEFL test at the end of the period and I got almost perfect marks.
By chance, my neighbor built a house, and those workers couldn't read the drawings. I helped them to see. I had an indescribable sense of intimacy in the graphics. The more complex, the three-dimensional, the more I came. According to legend, many foremen came to me to help them look at the drawings and guide them to take the house frame, especially the roof frame. At the same time, in order to maintain student status, I began to go to the nearby Hawthorn Community College.
At that time, compared to five years ago, I was a little rich man. Life was not good, but my heart always felt flaws. Sometimes it felt so strong that I often woke up in the middle of the night. I could only do math problems and see physics. Find calm in the professional book. Gradually, my mind is clear. I want to transfer to a four-year university to study physics and mathematics systematically.
But at that time university tuition was an astronomical figure for me. Although I can speak English fluently, I have always been afraid to read and write. My pen cannot write anything that I want to express. Moreover, in my opinion, The results were not good at the university. When I was tangled, I received a letter from my father. His two classmates taught at Florida State University in central Florida. One was the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and the other was the Director of the Department of Physics. I was encouraged to apply to the University of Florida. After I received the acceptance letter, I hesitated. Should I discard the immediate stable income and familiar environment and go to school across the United States?
One of my clients had a good relationship with me, and we often chatted. One afternoon, I cleaned the yard and he handed me a can of beer. We both started talking about my university. Coincidentally, he and the Natural History Museum of the University of Florida The curator was a classmate of Columbia University. He introduced me to the curator. Soon, I received the letter from the curator. The curator gave me a job to help him take care of the museum. A few days later, The head of the department also called me and told me that it was possible to work in his laboratory. Both jobs were paid for nine knives, which was three times the minimum hourly wage at the time. Is this still hesitant? I decided to go to Florida immediately. Go to college.
The credit I got at Shantung College was recognized, so I began to read in my junior year. It is a solid physics major. I finally stepped into the threshold of the university, and I wanted to put my grades on it. However, apart from physics and mathematics, All other courses related to reading and writing, no matter how hard I work, the results are not good.
At the end of the third year, the professor who taught me the science of quantum physics told me: 'Your idea is very strange. At the time of the exam, those who came in front of them, they need to reason about the relatively simple questions, I sent points, You did all the wrong. But behind the very complicated questions, you need to consider more factors. You can answer correctly. Your thinking is different from that of other students. I suspect that you may have the same 'dreading disorder' as I do. If you have time, go to the hospital psychiatric department.
I went to the hospital. I remember that the doctor gave me a series of psychological tests. For example, show me geometric shapes, numbers, and other strange patterns. Let me identify and summarize what I have seen. There are other tests, I couldn't remember it. The result of the test made the doctor feel weird. I also had a brain MRI. The last diagnosis was that I had a 'reading disorder'. I was so scared by this diagnosis that I couldn't speak: There is this disease?''
'Yes, listening to the youth story you just talked about, comparing your achievements, I suspect that you have a 'reading disorder', usually expressed as three-dimensional perception and expression, three-dimensional, time axis for them It's very important. Reading disabilities is not learning, it's just different from ordinary people's learning methods. Traditional school education is two-dimensional. Using two-dimensional concepts to judge three-dimensional phenomena is, of course, inconsistent. But there are 'difficult reading' People have extraordinary imagination. Leonardo da Vinci, Newton, Einstein, Rockefeller, and Churchill are all well-known people who have a history of reading disorders. I know a Stanford professor who specializes in this subject. At a dinner, he talked contemptuously. I was entertained at the time. I didn't expect to see one of you today. ' I couldn't help feeling.
“Think carefully, the path between the information I've absorbed and the information I send out seems to be different from that of the average person. The sum total is reversed. Others think that it's simple. When you come to me, it becomes complicated. When others think it’s difficult, I can It's easy to solve. I think this is probably my advantage. It makes me look at the problem more broadly and get a more complete solution. My view of life is mutating at that moment and it's been a doubt and struggle for my life. In a flash of smoke, I was even glad that I actually had this disease. In the last year of college, all of my examination time was twice that of others.
After graduating from college, I applied for a Ph.D. degree in physics. The phrase that my mom and dad used to say is, 'Where did this blind person come from?' I have the courage to prove it to my parents this time. Not stupid, I can read the Ph.D.. Who knows to read less than two years, In 1988, my professor asked me to go to California to do business with him. He also said that after work, I can get a green card. I followed him to California. Our company burned 10 million US dollars a year, and then it went bankrupt. The green card didn't get it, the school couldn't get it back. During that time, the economy was sluggish, and the work was hard to find. It was a pain. A friend introduced me to Supertex as an engineer. The owner of this company is Bao Yugang's nephew.
In Supertex, my job is a semiconductor device engineer, and I'm making 35, 000 jobs a year. I'm doing my own business. I'm doing it at Supertex. I don't think it's anything. I can also start the company. This generation of mainland China came to the United States. The Chinese people are very similar to Americans in their ideology. They are very different from Europeans, Japanese, and even Taiwanese. We are not afraid of fear. We have no frame of thought and we dare to do anything. In 1997, we started with a few friends. Monolithic Power Systems, the main product is to do power management integrated chip.
“Our core source company has been listed for 13 years and the share price has increased 14 times. The industry has said that you are a wonderful person. I never thought that you have such a tortuous life experience, and it is still a patient with 'difficult reading'. Thanks to you for not drinking, otherwise I You must think that you are drunk after drinking! ' A bottle of dry white was drunk by Zhuo Yun, her words began to puff.
"I was very concerned about the 'reading obstacle' later. When Churchill spoke of his frustrating experience, he said, 'The more we fail, the more we can do it!' This is simply my motto. Recently, I often think of the little things that grew up with me. They may also suffer from reading disorders. If these children are able to get timely diagnosis and special education, they are likely to become talented people. Now I think there is a 'reading obstacle' is a gift from my ancestors, long-term and reading. Obstacles have helped me to improve my endurance to failure. Because I have so many failures, I have developed insights and got creative and business solutions that people have never thought of. Whenever I get confused by some inexplicable thoughts When I was unwilling, I drove a stunt plane into the sky, playing several rolls in the sky, and my heart was calm.'
'Now semiconductor is a hot topic in China. What do you think?'
In the next fifteen to twenty years, China’s semiconductor industry must be the world leader. The competition in the country is very fierce now. Ten years ago we began to build a factory in Chengdu. At that time, the employees we sought were top notch. Difficult, like Huawei, etc. are all hot companies and they are grabbing talents from us.
The chauffeur's push came with a sparkling little platformer with a few dishes on it. I chose tiramisu. The rich chocolate accompanied by the rumbling rum stunned every taste bud. Mr. Xing signed the bill and we thanked him. Mr. Xing’s car was waiting outside the door. He proposed to send us home. I pointed to the car not far away and said: 'I'm driving.'