On March 24, 2025, Lei Jun, founder of Xiaomi Group, returned to his alma mater, Wuhan University, to participate in the theme class meeting of the Lei Jun Class of 2024.

Lei Jun not only presented 10 students with the Lei Jun Excellence Scholarship of 100,000 RMB each, which is known as the “nation’s highest scholarship” program, but also shared with Lei Jun’s class his own insights on growth and philosophy of success spanning 38 years.

The following are the most condensed 5 sentences in Lei Jun’s speech, which contains Lei Jun’s expectations and wisdom for the new generation of college students and reveals the law of survival across the ages.

Lei Jun emphasized that learning how to learn and mastering efficient learning methods is the most important thing today.

Lei Jun bluntly said that in the era of hard-core technology wave sweeping the world, the speed of knowledge iteration is far beyond imagination. Learning how to learn and mastering efficient learning methods is the most important thing today.

He believes that true competitiveness lies not in the amount of existing knowledge, but in the ability to quickly adapt to changes and efficiently absorb new skills. To this end, he encourages students to “maintain curiosity and the spirit of exploration, and take the initiative to learn unfamiliar areas”, and regards this ability as the core to cope with the disruptive challenges of the future.

Lei Jun emphasizes: look for five years, think for three years, and work seriously for one or two years.

This is Lei Jun’s vivid interpretation of long-termism and pragmatic action. He recalled that when he first went to college, he sought advice from his senior and first-year students.

Lei Jun said, “Don’t be a brute force, ask more professionals. Spend a little more time to think about it, look at it more, ask more questions, and you’ll take a lot fewer detours. In the process of asking professionals, you may have found your own way.”

Lei Jun emphasized: high goal traction, high aspirations to break through the limit.

Only extreme goals can stimulate the desire to win. Lei Jun recalled that when Xiaomi decided to build a car before, he and his engineers set the goal: first, to be the world’s top five car manufacturers. Second, to rival Porsche and Tesla, and to dare to challenge the world’s strongest rivals.

There is a saying by Confucius, “If you take the top, you will get the bottom, if you take the middle, you will get the bottom. Only by setting high goals can you be inspired to work hard for them. “As long as we start catching up, we are on the way to win.”

Lei Jun emphasized: learn to dismantle goals, so that high goals become one achievable goal.

Lei Jun took his fitness as an example, “Last year I started to work out, and I set a goal that is achievable as long as I work hard, clocking in 100 times. We do not necessarily want to develop eight-pack abs, let’s first complete 100 times punch card, this goal it can be realized. Just like running a marathon, set your goal at 42 kilometers, you may easily despair. You can make every goal be the next kilometer.”

If the goal you set is unachievable, you may not stick with it. Be sure to set all of your goals after high goal hauling to a goal that you can get to with your efforts. Like running a marathon, you may be every goal is the next kilometer, the next kilometer is the milestone, do not set it directly at 42 kilometers, you may easily despair.

Lei Jun emphasized: love is the source of all things.

When asked how young people can cope with the disruptive changes in the technology industry, Lei Jun gave the most simple but profound answer: “Only if you know and love, can you do well.”

Lei Jun to build a car as an example, put forward the “universal formula”: “know the car, love the car, in order to build a good car.” This “bow into the game” love, so that he from human-computer interaction design to automotive aesthetics are personally involved, and even for the study of the color scheme “to the design of the University of Wuhan design books all over”. In his opinion, only love can withstand the difficulties of entrepreneurship and support the persistence of long-termism.

Lei Jun’s speech is not only an incentive for students, but also the inheritance of the spirit of the alma mater.

From the establishment of scholarships to the formation of “Lei Jun class”, he has always practiced the promise of “a thousand times ten thousand times back to the alma mater”. His interpretation of learning ability, goal management and love is just like the cherry blossoms on Luoga Mountain, which are rooted in the soil of reality and blossom with future-oriented vitality. As he said, “The world can only be better when one generation is stronger than the other.” –This is perhaps the most memorable motto for young people in the wave of technology.

The following is the full text of the speech.