21世纪杯即兴演讲集
Topic 1 ：Does money equal succe?
Ok , ladies and gentlemen , here I’ve got a question for you.What is succe?Well, I don’t know.But obviously, the profeor hold a simple outlook—money equals succe.Here I don’t want to argue whether it is right or wrong.Because we will never come to an agreement on this question.But one thing for sure is that except for money, our self-content and our feelings of realizing our life value will bring us tremendous happine.Visiting our parents often , sparing some time to date our boyfriend or girlfriend while we are drowned by endle work, having an excursion to explore the world again, Of cause, having an affair is not included .These tiny changes really make us happy, like walking on the cloud, ha? So, why don’t we change the perspective to measure succe just in terms of money? No more money-oriented, but stre equal importance of money and living our life happily.
Some of you may be thinking that: little pumpkin, you just talk big , you never know what the world really look like.The road we have trudged is much more than the salt you have eaten.Chinglish expreion, you know what I mean, right? But I do learn this from my personal experience.
My grandmother used to be a cook in a small local restaurant .During that time, she was very busy, but her salaries really disappointed me.―granny , why don’t you just quit this job, what you have gained from this job is really disproportional with what you have done‖ I asked her.―Well, I don’t think so.You know, when I was cooking for you, I was extremely happy.Thinking that you gradually grow up, being a young lady as you always wanted to be.I cannot help you that much through that way, look at me, I am only a cook.But I can promise you that every dishes you enjoyed is full of tender love.The same goes to others, I hope that everyone who eat here could leave with joy‖, my granny’s answer exactly suggest that the highest reward from work is not only about the money, but also the proce of making others happy.Absolutely as a cook and granny, she was a huge succe, although she earn le.Now my granny has gone, but her spirits live on.In the pursuit of happine, I never walk alone!
Now, what about those millionaires? They are rich, they have many choices, they have high expectations in life.Three strikes against them, fact is that it’s very difficult to elevate their happine index.Let me give you an example.Suppose that you were a millionaire, now you want to buy a piece of evening dre to attend a celebrity party.Your favorite is Chanel, which will undoubtedly make you in the spotlight.But your advisor suggest you to choose Lanvin because it will be unique since everyone’s prior choice is Chanel.Meanwhile your friends prefer that you wear Armani to become the queen of that party.Which one is the best? It should be quite simple that you attend that party, meet your friends and have fun.Now it’s much more complicated.You suffer choice anxiety which deprive your happine index over and over again.You are rich, you can buy anything you want, you have millions options, but the
thing is that you just can’t make your final decision.Because the purpose of attending the party has changed.You lost in the vanity fair, you want to shine, you desire never dies , you become a person who is hard to satisfy.Eventually, your bank account continue to boom, however your soul bank is likely to go bankrupt.Not a single thing can make you happy or satisfied in life.Can we call these guys succeful people? Can we say money equal succe?
Ladies and gentlemen, what do you think? My point of view is that whether we are rich or not, William Faulkner told us : life goes on.A millionaire may buy a Ferrari when he was in deep blue.Then what about a proletarian like me? We just get hangover.But the two have the same effect.Yes, life goes on! Most importantly, be yourself, then you will be invincible.It’s not about succe.It’s not about money.It’s all about you and me.
Thank you very much.
Topic 2: Need for speed drives change
First, I’d like to talk about Andy Groove’s book Only the Paranoid Survive.I was deeply impreed by his thought of 10X change.For Intel, the world’s largest semiconductor chip maker, the speeding up of innovation really matters a lot.Andy Groove focused on the importance of leader’s forward-looking strategy and strong instincts of speeding up information revolution.And that’s exactly what the tech nerds do in the biggest dreamworks –Silicon Valley.It seems that if we don’t drive as fast as we can today, we die tomorrow.So I’ve just heard that some of these nerds who radically change the world don’t date anybody, they don’t have a regular sexual behavior .Why? I gue they are just on the go with full speed to reshape the whole society, no time for those stupid thing.Or as Dr.Sheldon Copper said: It’s just impulse.
Recently, blind date TV shows spread fast and wide.It really provide some left ladies and gentlemen a precious opportunity to search for their soul mate.
What I talked above are not isolated cases, it’s not all about those CEOs CFOs.We college students also follow suit.Take me as an example, I always get suffocated in endle aignments and social activities.I eat quickly, I walk fast, my friends even told me I can defecate in le than one minute.I could read 20 books in 30 days last semester.But after that, I didn’t get it.I’ve no idea what the author are trying to tell us.The only achievement for me is that I’ve added another book in my shit list .Why is that? Obviously, I drive too fast to taste the beauties in book and in life.I realized how long I’ve lost in the ocean of vanity.I tried to be a fast in everything, I force myself to keep busy, still, I feel lonely, empty in my deep soul.
