They say they built the train tracks over the Alps before there was a train that could make the trip. They built it anyway. They knew one day the train would come.
UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN
Let’s start with one simple question, “What drives your life”? You may already had some answers in mind: Dreams, Family, Social Impact, Wealth, or even some intuition feeling etc. Without a purpose, life is a motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.
“Go exploring and question the motivation” is my life Motto, it is just like one lighthouse, drives me from a timid, ignorant girl to one confident, powerful woman; turns me from blind social follower to independent-thinker and finally brings me from China to Germany.
Inspired by Gloria(https://doctorgloria.wordpress.com/), I decided to use this space to record my stories and hope to give something helpful or interesting if you pass by occasionally.
The blog mainly includes THREE parts:
- Learning Part: Facing with “massive information”, the biggest challenge is how to transfer them to personal knowledge, and finally guide on actions. The original resources will come from my EMBA course, European and Chinese Start-ups, Automotive and consulting industry and the books I am reading. Based on the input, try to use my own way to understand, summarize and add-on additional insights.
- Skills Part: As lifelong learning practitioner, some skills need to be practiced for long time, such as speaking foreign languages, Ink painting, presentation etc. As the saying “Rome was not built in one day”, start from small steps, and give plenty time to accumulate and improvement. Besides, one of the important skills- “Personal Growth” is to learn how to know myself better, maintain and operate the relationships in sociality, family, marriage and parent-child.
- Beauty of life: One of my friends told me before, “Wendy, you have a good sense to find the beauty of life”. I am surprised to get such “praise” and happy to convey the beauty from my personal view via photography, video, text. Although I am not aiming to become a popular social media influencer, I still believe that “there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people’s eyes” and want to contribute my perspectives as well.
FAQ
Below is some basic introduction of me in case you want to know.
1. Why you want to come to Germany?
In 2007, When I was a university student in China, I hope go aboard to study for some years. It didn’t realize in the end due to family economic status. However, the seed is growing in my heart after the graduation. After several business travels in Germany, experience the environment and lifestyle personally. I decide to find a job opportunity to move to Germany.
2. What do you do?
6+ management consultant in Shanghai and Beijing, then joined one German Automotive company worked as Product-/Project Manager. “Making Impact” is my career target, if I couldn’t achieve in big corporate, I am willing to jump outside the comfort zone anytime. At the same time, I am studying EMBA program in the area of business creation. It’s a precious opportunity for me to learn business systematically, from strategy & organization, company financing to innovation and entrepreneurships. Hope in the near future, I could be one part of the “bridge” to connect the technology/product between China and Europe.
3. What is your dream?
One far away dream which I wrote in the primary school classmates records- “I want to go to Africa and help the people there”. Another dream is to give one speech in Ted/TedX someday, regarding education and believe.