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“我要成为最厉害的人”……“我要成为第一名”，这样的念头经常出现在我们的头脑里，我也不例外。当我2013年刚来学堂时，我立志成为班内第一名，并进入天狮小组，但这些目标却一直没有实现。相信大家也有同样的情况。而这就引起了我的一个疑问，为什么许多人都想变得卓越，但最终成功的只有少部分人？
“I want to be the best!”……“I want to be No.1!”, this idea often appears in our mind, and I am no exception. When I came to Today Academy at 2013, I am determined to be the NO. one in our class, and become the member of the Tiens Group. But none of these goals had been accomplished by now. And I believe that this situation had happened on everyone before. So this got me wondering, why there is so many people who wanted to become eminent, yet there’s only few succeed.
这个问题对于我们来说都至关重要，因为我们都想成为新教育界，乃至全球教育界中最卓越的人。而对于这个问题，我在这个学期找到了答案。而今天，我想把这些内容与大家分享。因此在接下来的十分钟内我会让大家了解：如何变得卓越？
This question is important for all of us. Because we all want to become the most eminent people in new education field, or even more, we want to become the best in the global education field. So, I found the answer of this question during this semester. And today, I want to share them with you. During the next ten minute or so, I would tell you how to become eminent.
我相信每个人都想变得卓越，那我们该如何成为这些人呢？事实是，我们对于达成目标的方法都存在一定的思维误区，而这些就是让我们失败的原因。
I believe that everyone would want to be eminent, so how to achieve that? In fact, we often had a few misconceptions about achieving our dreams, and these misconceptions are the reason why we always failed.
我们经常出现的第一个问题就是，很多人都想变得更卓越，但他们从来不思考如何达成这些目标，这样就是幻想。因为这些人只想享受成为冠军之后的荣誉，却不想努力，因此他们的幻想在该行动时就会被打破。而这些人会打着梦想的旗号，但实际上只在混日子。那么…什么是混日子呢？混日子的意思就是过一天算一天，只要开心就行，根本不会思考如何达成目标。
The first problem that we always have is that many people wanted to become eminent, but they never think about how to achieve those dreams, so the dreams become fantasy. Because these people only want to enjoy the glory of becoming a champion, but they don’t want to take actions. So their fantasy would be broken when it’s time to take actions. These people would actually dawdle along all their days under the banner of dream. So…what is dawdle along? Dawdle along means to live for the moment, day by day, only to be happy. They won’t consider how to achieve their dreams at all.
而我的表哥就是这样的一个人，他的目标是考上清华和北大。而要达成这个目标，勤奋是必须的，甚至挑灯夜战也不为过。但我表哥非常懒，因此他放弃了学业，每天在房间里打游戏。最后连高考都不及格的他，只能去军队服役四年，然后跟着他的父亲一起经营他家的店铺，成为了一个社会上的普通人。
My elder cousin is such a person. His goal was to be admitted to Qinghua or Beida. To achieve this goal, hard working is an indispensable quality, stay up all night to learn is even within reason. But my elder cousin is a slacker, so he gave up his school work and stay inside his room for whole day to play game. At last, my elder brother didn’t even pass the college entrance examination, so he can only be enlisted in the army. After that, he rans the shop of the family with his dad, and became a normal person in a normal society.
那什么才是真正的梦想呢？真正的梦想，是清晰的知道如何达成，并且愿意为了达成目标而努力。有一位好莱坞动作大片的电影明星非常值得我们学习，他就是阿诺德.施瓦辛格。施瓦辛格从小在奥地利长大，但他立志成为美国总统，而他对这个目标进行了非常精细的规划。他知道如果自己要成为总统自己需要先成为州长；要成为州长需要有足够的经济支持；要拥有经济支持他就需要娶一位千金小姐；要娶到这样的女孩他就要成为电影明星；要成为电影明星他必须要一个好身材；拥有好身材的方式就是成为健美冠军。所以每当施瓦辛格举他手中的哑铃一次，他就知道自己正在向美国总统迈进一步。
So what is real dream? Real dream is that you know how to achieve it and willing to work for it. There’s a movie star in Hollywood that we should all learn from him, and he is Arnold Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger grew up in Austria when he was young, but he is determined to become the president of The United States. And he is very careful on planing his goal. He knew that if he wants to become the president, he must becomes the governor of a state first. And if he wants to become the governor of a state he must has enough economic support. The best way to get the support is to marry with a rich young lady who is the member of a big family. The fastest way to marry with a girl like this, is to become a movie star. The way to become the movie star is to be in good shape. And the way to be in good shape is to become a bodybuilding champion. So when Schwarzenegger pulled the dumb bell each time, he knew that he is one step forward to The President of United States.
而我以前就是一个幻想者，所以我希望通过我以前的故事来给你们讲述混日子的惨痛教训。在混日子期间，我只关心一时的开心和刺激，所以我在学堂内打起了玩游戏的主意，我以为我聪明的作案方式肯定不会被老师发现。但事实并非如此，老师的确没发现，但我的同伙儿揭发了我。在班会上被全班同学质问时，尴尬得我恨不得找个地洞钻进去。但这并非全部，经过同学的投票，他们正式宣布我被流放隔离，这个过程持续了整整两个月，半个学期不能和同学接触的寂寞是非常可怕的。不仅如此，我的父母即刻将我逐出家庭，不再给我提供经济支持。虽然我以前是这样一个人，我现在对此做出了改变，我对目标实现过程也更加清晰，进步的程度也比较明显，从以前班级倒数，达到了班内还不错的水平。
I am also a dreamer before, so I want to use my own story to tell you the painful lesson that I learned from muddling along. During the period, I only cared about the happiness and excitement that every moment given me. So I decided to play computer games in school, and I thought my clever way of committing the crime will certainly not be found out. But this was not the case, teachers surely didn’t found out, but my roommate brought my secret to light. Being accused by classmates on class meeting was such embarrassed that I wished I could find a crack to crawl into it. But this is not over, after vote had finished, they officially announced that I am exiled. This process went on for two whole months, the loneliness that can’t contacted with friends for half a semester is horrible. Not only did this happened, my parents immediately expelled me from my family, and no longer gave me any economic support. Although I used to be such kind person, I made a change. I am more clear about how to achieve my goal. And the speed of my progress is pretty fast, I had become pretty good in our class, instead of being the last.
接下来让我们来谈谈我们经常出现的第二个问题。有许多人想变得卓越，但他们认为变得卓越的方式就是不断的努力努力再努力，而这其实是错误的。因为方向错误下的勤奋毫无目的，就比如一只苍蝇每天辛勤地飞来飞去，飞到窗户上看一看，飞到你身上烦一烦，但这有什么价值呢？。而这样的人就好比苍蝇，辛勤耕作却毫无成效。
Next, lets talk about the second problem that often occurred. There’s a lot of people who wanted to become eminent, but they think the way to become eminent is to work hard and harder and harder. And this concept is actually wrong. Because the diligence under the wrong direction is nothing. Just like a fly, it flies diligently everyday, flies on the window to take a look, flies on human to search food. But what’s the value? Nothing! The people I’ve talked about were just like those flies, working hard but no effect.
打个比方。如果我们的目标是要从云南前往北京，那些认为勤奋就是一切的人，认为只要一刻不停的走就行了。最终说不定就走到了广州。
For example, if our destination is to walk from Yunnan to Beijing, those who believe hardworking is everything will think that they will arrive at the destination just as they don’t stop walking. But as last, they might walk to Shenzhen or Guangzhou.
那么…成为卓越的人的正确方式到底是什么呢？我们习惯性认为它非常复杂，但事实上，方法非常简单。今天，我想通过分析运动冠军来讲解这些方法，因为运动是对这些方法的最好体现，虽然我们所处的领域不同，但他们也有值得我们学习的地方。
So…what is the best way to become an eminent person? We used to think that it is very complicated. But in fact, the method is very easy. Today, I want to walk with you through these methods by analyzing the champions in sports, because sports is the best way to embody these methods. Although our territory is not the same with them, but they are worthy for us to learn.
成为冠军的第一个方法是了解正确的训练方式。如果方法错误，哪怕一天训练十二个小时也是徒劳。我们来看看世界上攀岩界的顶尖选手的训练方法。在参赛前，它们不知道关于赛道的任何情况。而为了应对多样化的检测方式，他们对自己的训练方式就非常精细以及全面。为了更好的锻炼到自己的各种能力，比如腹部肌肉、臂力和指力以及平衡能力等等，攀岩选手对每天运动的种类和数量有着清晰的规划。这样他们才能够在国际竞赛上夺冠。
The first way to become a champion is knowing the right way to train. Even if you practice twelve hours a day, but if the method is wrong, all worth nothing. Lets take a look at some champions of rock climbing in the world. Before racing, they don’t know anything about the racing track. So, in order to practice every ability, like abdominal muscle; arm muscle; finger force and balance etc. The rock climber is very clear about the different kinds of movemenst and the amount they should do. In this way, they can win in the international race.
成为冠军的第二个方法是在懂得正确方法后疯狂的练习，MMA一个著名拳击手有一句经典的话是这样说的“血、汗与尊重，前两者是你所需要的，后者是你所得到的”。我们能从这句话当中看出，冠军的成功都是靠一滴滴的汗水换来的，而这不是件容易事。我们只需要看看世界上拳击运动选手就知道了。大家都知道拳击对参赛选手的肌肉有非常高的要求，因为他们就是将直拳、勾拳和摆拳的力量发挥到极致来取胜的，而这些选手每天的训练时间都不少于八个小时。因为他们只要停止训练，他们的肌肉和身体素质就会下降，因此他们就会一直疯狂的训练。
The second way to become a champion is practicing very hard after you know the correct method. There’s a famous quote by one of the greatest boxer of MMA which says like this “Blood, sweat and respect. The first two are what you required, the last one is what you earned.” What we can see from this sentence is that champion’s success is in return by drops of sweat. We just have to see those champions in boxing. Now everyone knows that boxing has a high requirement about the fighters' muscle, because they just master straight punch; hook and uppercut to succeed. And these fighters never trained less than eight hours. Because if they stop training, their muscles and physical fitness will decline. So they will keep practicing super hard.
如果你仔细思考，你会发现学堂就在教我们如何成为冠军。
If you think carefully, you’ll find out that our school is actually helping us to become the champion.
对于我们的成长，学堂有清晰和明确的规划。从我们现在的语言学习，到清一书院的策论，再到精深的中国古代经典都有明确的安排。并且学堂也给了我们正确的训练方法，对于我们每一项需要提升的能力，山长都安排了最有效的方法。比如我们对语言学习有非常有效和精确的学习方式，而这些方法就能够让我们在四个月的时间内突破外语并拥有进行日常交流的能力。
Our school has a very clear and specific plan, in order to let us grow. From learning language which we are doing right now, to the Questions and themes learning in QingYiShuYuan, then to the profound Chinese ancient classical culture, we all have very specific plans. And our school provides us the correct method to learn. Principal Zhang gives us the most efficient way to learn, for every ability that we need to improve. For example, we have a very accurate and efficient way to learn foreign language, and these method allows us to use four months to break through a completely new language and have the ability to communicate with each other in daily life.
既然学堂已经给我们提供了清晰的梦想和正确的方式，我们只要勤奋努力，成为冠军其实是一件超级简单的事。因此希望大家好好珍惜在学堂所拥有的机会，并成为一个更加卓越的人。
So if our school already provided us a clear dream and the right method, we just need to be more diligent and hard working. So it will be easy for us to become a champion. Because of that, I hope everyone here appreciated the opportunity that we have, and become more and more eminent.
谢谢大家！
Thank you!
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