Jay Chou: There Is No Accident On The Way To Success.

Full name: Jay Chou

Birth: January 18, 1979

Education: Music Department of light River middle school

Expertise: writing songs, writing words and playing ball games

Specialized instruments: Piano, cello, guitar, jazz drum.

Music type: R&B

Biggest advantage: strong music creation by E generation.

Biggest shortcoming: shyness, thinking too much.

The biggest wish: everywhere in the world

Favorite items: cap and sneakers

Before he became famous, he could not afford satin sheets, Ducati motorcycles, and no star racing screams in his concert, and no more girls were pilgrims, just to feel the piano seats he had been sitting on; only the small piece of space from the leather sofa to the golden blue floor between the blue green walls was located in the grey studio of Dongtai, the recording studio of Alfa records.

This is Jay Chou's only small world. A narrow gap that allows him to sleep in a nap. He dreams of melody and lyrics here, and when the pieces of the song come up like the vocal cords of sleepwalking, he gets up, stumbles toward the keyboard, writes music like night scenes into music or records. For two years, Jay Chou compose a song by Yue, and each song can get a reward of 20 thousand yuan. He rarely leaves the sound insulation room of the seven floor, and focuses on writing songs for singers of mediocre talent.

The success of Jay Chou, 24, is a miracle in this heavily packaged idol fast track. Other male and female singers in Hong Kong and Taiwan are mostly from rich performing arts families. How do we replace Nicholas Tse, Andy Lau or Jacky Cheung, who are overly clasped with their upper and lower incisors, with a hooked nose and a shrinking jaw, and become the most popular pop singer in Asia? Jay Chou said, "most of my female fans do not tell me that I am handsome. Instead, they tell me that they like my music and are attracted by my music."

When I was young, Jay Chou was a little bit autistic and stupid. The high school English teacher thought Jay Chou had a learning disability: "his face is very wooden. I thought he was stupid." This kid can't concentrate on math and science, and even his English homework is wasted. But Zhou mother Ye Huimei noticed that the quiet and shy child was very sensitive to western pop music or classical music from an early age.

"Before he learned to walk, he was very keen on music." She thought back. At the age of four, Zhou mother sent him to the piano class to learn piano, and he played very well, like a piano maniac. High school piano teacher said that when Jay Chou was in his teens, he could improvise. Out of the piano room, Jay Chou is a more ordinary teenager. When other students are playing basketball nearby, he keeps watching kung fu movies and playing games repeatedly. Everyone else was busy preparing for the college entrance examination, but he skipped classes and doubled his piano lessons, and his life was aimless.

The music saved him and brought him luck. A young girl helped him sign up for the "super new king" idol in Taiwan. The program producer later contacted Jay Chou, who was amazed by his surprise, to give him a performance. But Jay Chou dared not solo. Finally, he helped a friend who wanted to be a singer to accompany the piano. The performance was poor. At that time, the host Jacky Wu was always looking for new people. He looked at the nervous piano accompaniment and the singer who was singing like a crow, and thought, "forget it!" Jacky Wu said, "I don't feel good at all. The singer sings really rotten." But he looked at the music: "I looked at the music from behind the shoulders of the referee, and I was surprised by the music. It's very complicated and well done. " After recording the movie, Jacky Wu went to the backstage to find Jay Chou, who was wearing a baseball cap and almost covered the whole eye. Jacky Wu recalled, "my first impression of him is that he is very quiet and shy. I thought he was autistic.

Jacky Wu signed him and wrote full-time songs. A year and a half later, Jacky Wu decided to hand over the rights of Alfa's record to Yang Junrong, who was also a singer. Jay Chou went from behind the curtain to become an idol singer. Within 3 months, Jay Chou completed his first album.

Today, Jay Chou sits quietly on the leather sofa, wearing a gray wool hat, covering his slightly brown brown eyes and wearing a black velvet track suit. Overnight, he transformed himself from a studio freak into a pop singer. It was almost too fast for him to bear the pressure of fame and success. He spoke succinctly, with short answers, and often avoided others' eyes. Where is the mature male charm that gives the song's depth and emotion?

What is on Jay Chou's body? the things one excels in And what can be applied to our own? Career development Up? {page_break}

　　 Career training: he is a mediocre person who focuses on his musical talent.

Jay Chou was born in Taipei in January 18, 1979. My father is a biology teacher and my mother is an art teacher. From childhood, Jay Chou had a special sensitivity to music. When he heard the music, he would shake with the rhythm. Sometimes he would watch TV while he was wearing sunglasses to learn Gao Lingfeng singing. Seeing that he was very talented in music, his mother did not hesitate to take all the savings from his family and bought him a piano. This year, Jay Chou was only 4 years old.

Although it is the son of teachers, Jay Chou's study is not satisfactory. When I was little, my score was more red than blue, and my math test scores were often around 40 points. I could only console myself with "people who are talented in music, as if they were not very good at math." The English teacher even thought he had a learning disability. In the high school entrance examination, Jay Chou's homework was still poor, only more than 100 points. At that time, the first class of music class in light River middle school was enrolled. Jay Chou took the exam mentality and took the exam.

In high school, learning music, Jay Chou is extremely happy, and his music talent and talent have been recognized here. His high school classmates recalled that at that time, Jay Chou played the piano and sang a lot of basketball. Although his parents divorced at the age of 14, Jay Chou, who was hiding in the world of music, was not greatly affected. He recalled: "the age of 12 to 16 is my happiest day. Music has comforted my heart."

Jay Chou's high school piano teacher said that when Jay Chou was more than 10 years old, he had cultivated the ability to improvise far beyond his real age. He changed the solemn music variations in a very interesting way, which sounds like pop songs.

Looking at Jay Chou's career training period, two points are particularly striking. The first is loyalty and devotion to their musical talents. Music is not so much an interest to him as a world. In this world, music helps him resist all the common troubles of adolescence, such as divorced parents, poor grades, and so on, so that he can grow up confidently and healthily. It is no doubt that a person can dance freely in his own talent, which is a blessing against all growing ups and dances. At this age, Einstein is dreaming of running with light, while Fu Cong is living in the middle of violin notes.

Next is the choice of music class in high school. This is a very important career planning. High school is an important period of professional training and exploration. At this time, children have just begun to have social consciousness. If talent is recognized in their small group, it will greatly promote the idea of putting this talent into society in the future. If Jay Chou went to a senior high school, perhaps his musical talent would only become a "trick" for a poor student to console himself. The atmosphere of the music class makes his talent develop smoothly from personal interest to social skill.

　 Career adjustment period: stick to music dreams when serving as waiters in restaurants.

Jay Chou was not admitted to university because of his serious discipline. Is it first to choose jobs or to get jobs first? This question is asked by millions of university graduates today. Jay Chou also faced the classic problem of entering the career adjustment period after leaving school.

If he chooses a career, he must be attracted to be a singer. But how can an ordinary 17 year old child become a singer? Jay Chou, after being knocked down several times, chooses to serve as a waiter in a restaurant.

The work in the restaurant is very simple. The food that the chef has to cook should be given to the waitress, and then the waitress will give it to the guest. Even so, Jay Chou did not leave his music world. He took a Walkman and worked while listening to the song.

The chance has finally come. In order to improve the restaurant's quality, the boss decided to put a piano in the lobby, but he did not feel satisfied with it. Jay Chou secretly tried it in his spare time, and his voice shocked many of his colleagues, including his boss. The boss patted Jay Chou on the back and said, "you can't work in these two hours."

It can be said that choosing to work in a restaurant is Jay Chou's right choice. Good career planning emphasizes the existence and development of students. First, the perfect job is not achieved at once, and requires long-term skills and experience accumulation. This is a long period. How to get through it? First employment is the key to survive. Second, when most students graduate, the most important ability to fill is not professional ability, but a social attitude. This mindset can be learned in any job and is often more important than ability. It can be said that after graduation, the best choice of career planning should be to find a job that you can do and train yourself to adapt to the social mentality. At the same time, pay attention to cultivating the ability to enter the ideal job, and make perfect work as a long-term goal.

Imagine if Jay Chou persists in finding the perfect job he likes: singing. So how long can he persist in his music? Without financial support, there is no way to prove his resume, and there is no definite way and direction. The biggest possibility is that a music dream is broken and can not be repaired. There are also some people in the current university graduates: I want to be a manager, I want to be a director, I refuse to do a job that I don't like. So, he stuck himself in the cracks between reality and dream, and could not move. They forget that the perfect job starts at a never perfect place. {page_break}

　 Career development period: facing setbacks and failure, success after all.

Working in the dining room and playing the piano made Jay Chou slowly start playing public opportunities, and slowly began to accumulate his audience. If there was no accident, he might think that this job is good. But opportunities never forget those who are obsessed with dreams.

In September 1997, Jay Chou's cousin deceive him and secretly enrolled him in the entertainment program "super new man king" of Taiwan's famous entertainment director Jacky Wu. Jay Chou was very shy at that time. He didn't even dare to go to the stage to sing his own songs. He had to find a friend to sing and play with him on the piano. The two person's performance was "horrible." But when the host Jacky Wu passed through the piano, he was amazed to find that the young man who had never even raised his head had a very complicated score and copied the whole work. He realized that he was a serious music player. After the program, he asked Jay Chou: are you interested in joining my record company as a music production assistant?

Many people often define this moment as the turning point of Jay Chou's life. Because of his extraordinary talent and Jacky Wu's insight, Jay Chou finally succeeded. I don't think so, because I can't judge whether someone has a musical talent through a few seconds of watching music. What really moves Jacky Wu is the seriousness of this young man's own music score. Moving Jacky Wu is more serious than talent. Many times, no matter how big the ability is, opportunities often choose those who take their work seriously, which is the most important ability in itself.

As a record production assistant, Jay Chou started his own career in the 7 square meter soundroom when he was responsible for the lunch box of everyone in the record company. Six months later, he wrote a lot of songs, but the style is strange, no singer is willing to accept. Including Andy Lau and "two truncate" Sherry, who refused to cry. Of course, two years later, they regret each other.

Jacky Wu was worried. He decided to give the young man some blow. He asked Jay Chou to come to his office and tell him that his songs were so bad that he would knead the music in his face and throw them into the wastebasket. This is Jay Chou's great blow on the road of music. However, when Jacky Wu came into the office on the second morning, he was surprised to see that the young man's new score was on the table, third days, fourth days... Every day, Jacky Wu could see Jay Chou's new song on his desk. He was completely moved by this silent young man.

One day in December 1999, Jacky Wu called Jay Chou to his room and said, if you could take 50 new songs in 10 days. I pick out 10 of them and make them. Since no one likes to sing your songs, you can sing by yourself. 10 days later, Jay Chou quietly took out 50 songs, so he got Jay Chou's JAY. From the beginning of this album, Jay Chou was out of control.

Jay Chou entered the third period of his career: career development. From the experience of many successful people, the beginning of this stage is often linked to the first platform in the industry. Jay Chou was contacted by the then Taiwan entertainment celebrities Jacky Wu; Baoqiang Wang began filming the soldiers' assault at this stage; Einstein contacted Ostwald in science at this stage; the emperor of labor Tang Jun wrote letters to Bill Gate during this period; and Bill Gate was at this stage showing his windows1.0 in front of IBM's board of directors. Almost every successful person has a story behind the first platform of the industry. So this is also an important principle of career planning: enter the first platform in the industry and show yourself.

Jay Chou's professional experience is legendary. Everyone will encounter similar problems when they enter the workplace. The criticism of leaders is not recognized by others. How to treat and deal with these problems is more important than the problem itself. Jay Chou, who had not been overthrown by the irony of his boss, gained recognition by more efforts. The winner does not always win. He can accept the blow and take a more active approach to his career in order to win the final victory.

Taking a comprehensive look at Jay Chou's career development, he has gone through 3 periods: the vocational training period during the school study, the career adjustment period of the restaurant job and the career development period after that, and he has made a good demonstration in every period. In the period of vocational training, he chose to focus on his own talent and not be mediocre by the "big and complete" education mode. In his career adjustment period, he wisely chose to work first and then choose jobs. First, feed himself, slowly develop his ability, and look forward to the opportunity displayed on the highest platform. During his career development, he adjusted his mindset and moved the company with a serious and steadfast spirit and attitude. He also touched all the audience. All of these are simple, but simple is not easy to do. Jay Chou may have some gifts that you and I do not have, but there are no accidents on the way to success.