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When Alibaba founder and CEO Jack Ma was a young adult, he applied to over 30 jobs and got rejected by all of them. Today, the 53-year-old\u2019s e-commerce company is valued at $519 billion, although Ma didn\u2019t start achieving career success until his 30s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn life, it\u2019s not how much we achieved, it\u2019s how much we\u2019ve gone through the tough days and mistakes,\u201d Ma recently said to a group of young leaders invited to the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. \u201cIf you want to be successful, learn from the other people\u2019s mistakes, don\u2019t learn from the successful stories.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As an alum of the Young Global Leaders network, Ma shed light on what the room of young adults should focus on within the next 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen you are 20 to 30 years old, you should follow a good boss [and] join a good company to learn how to do things properly,\u201d Ma said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen you are 30 to 40 years old, if you want to do something yourself, just do it. You still can afford to lose, to fail,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Soon thereafter, though, Ma recommended that people start prioritizing stability, family and the future generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Instead of diving into a new field or subject toward the later years in your career, he said, \u201cwhen you\u2019re 40 to 50 years old, my suggestion is you should do things you are good at.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen you are 50 to 60 years old, spend time training and developing young people, the next generation,\u201d Ma added. \u201cWhen you are over 60 years old, you better stay with your grandchildren.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ma said people in their 20s and 30s are \u201cthe luckiest\u201d because they still have so much to learn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Instead of setting your goals and aspirations based on others\u2019 success stories, Ma recommended making yourself your own competition. You can do this by imagining what you hope to succeed in 10 years, a method that worked for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs a young boy \u2014 even today \u2014 I never thought I would be here,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen I look back, every problem I met when I was a kid benefited me,\u201d Ma said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI failed so many times, people probably know that I applied for so many jobs, over 30 jobs, all rejected, not even got a chance: 24 of us interviewed for a KFC job, 23 got accepted, I was the only guy rejected,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ma also discussed the time he applied for a \u201cpolice job\u201d with five other people. He was the only person from the group to be rejected. Another time, he and his cousin applied for jobs as servers at a four-star hotel. \u201cWe waited [in a] long queue for two hours,\u201d Ma said. Although his cousin got the job, he received a rejection yet again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While he said his mother shook her head at him, he refused to feel discouraged, thinking, \u201cI know this is a training course for me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Though he says he felt like a failure before reaching his 30s, Ma never gave up. He made himself his own competition, pictured what he hoped to accomplish in 10 years and did everything he could to accomplish that goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNo matter how smart you are, you will encounter mistakes,\u201d Ma said. \u201cYou learn from mistakes not because you will be able to avoid mistakes when these mistakes come, [when] these suffers come, you learn how to deal with it, how to face it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Source : www.cnbc.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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