Fact:
1. Contest will be held in October, still 4 full months to go.
2. Haishuo will join both.
To do:
1. Finish a Script with purpose first.
2. Add humor.
Strategies:
1. For the prepared speech, be sure you find your personal speciality. The niche that no one can ever replace.
2. Evaluate every single speech in the following meeting as if you are assigned the job.
3. Evaluate your own speech every time after present it and have your evaluation script present on this blog.
4. Finish related modules and patterns of evaluation.
2009年5月26日 星期二
2009年5月22日 星期五
090522 An Insight
Don't blame on others for not giving you the suggestions and comments that you need.
They have perfect rights to say whatever they would love to.
Don't blame on others for not pointing out your weakness and flaws.
They might do so for your own good.
If you still need others to improve, then you are the one that needs to reflect and repent.
Who grants you the right to rely on others for your improvements?
That will be highly irresponsible.
Haishuo.
Don't be a loser.
Be responsible for yourself.
You don't have the right to show the performance that's not up to your standard.
Remember.
Dream. Responsibility. Reputation.
They have perfect rights to say whatever they would love to.
Don't blame on others for not pointing out your weakness and flaws.
They might do so for your own good.
If you still need others to improve, then you are the one that needs to reflect and repent.
Who grants you the right to rely on others for your improvements?
That will be highly irresponsible.
Haishuo.
Don't be a loser.
Be responsible for yourself.
You don't have the right to show the performance that's not up to your standard.
Remember.
Dream. Responsibility. Reputation.
090522 Evaluation on C5
My C5 was evaluated by Justin Wu.
He made suggestions for better time control, clear message, main-purpose and practice more.
Yes, practice more.
I was really glad that he mentioned that to me after the meeting in private.
But to tell the truth, I would be happier if he blasted that out in his evaluation.
It's true that I didn't really practice that much on my C5.
After getting my script done, I had only practiced for 1.5 hours.
Indeed I had to practice more, and I was surely not satisfied with my performance.
To tell the truth, I had no specific purpose or message to deliver on that speech.
Or, maybe I should put it in this way:
My main purpose is to entertain my audience, and that's just what I really wanna do.
I should be myself. Do what I really want to do.
My C5 was an experiment, and the result was exactly what I expected.
I was wondering if I would still get that many praises and encouragements with poor performance.
The answer was yes, and that's not what it should be.
It was good for my self-esteem and proud, but not good for growth and improvement.
I am looking for a place where people will be devil's advocates to my performance.
I don't need that many encouragements.
That's why the time my pen wagging is always the time people talk about suggestions/improvements.
I should practice more, and show genuine improvements.
Am I good now? I might be.
However, if I do not excel myself, then I am nothing but a loser.
Don't be a loser. Haishuo! Outperform myself!
Am I doing something that even surprises myself?
Don't get up to the stage I you find my answers negative.
He made suggestions for better time control, clear message, main-purpose and practice more.
Yes, practice more.
I was really glad that he mentioned that to me after the meeting in private.
But to tell the truth, I would be happier if he blasted that out in his evaluation.
It's true that I didn't really practice that much on my C5.
After getting my script done, I had only practiced for 1.5 hours.
Indeed I had to practice more, and I was surely not satisfied with my performance.
To tell the truth, I had no specific purpose or message to deliver on that speech.
Or, maybe I should put it in this way:
My main purpose is to entertain my audience, and that's just what I really wanna do.
I should be myself. Do what I really want to do.
My C5 was an experiment, and the result was exactly what I expected.
I was wondering if I would still get that many praises and encouragements with poor performance.
The answer was yes, and that's not what it should be.
It was good for my self-esteem and proud, but not good for growth and improvement.
I am looking for a place where people will be devil's advocates to my performance.
I don't need that many encouragements.
That's why the time my pen wagging is always the time people talk about suggestions/improvements.
I should practice more, and show genuine improvements.
Am I good now? I might be.
However, if I do not excel myself, then I am nothing but a loser.
Don't be a loser. Haishuo! Outperform myself!
Am I doing something that even surprises myself?
Don't get up to the stage I you find my answers negative.
C5 delivered on 090519 script
Finally I can be here without talking about being Monk. I am going to share a real supernatural experience today. So if you want to take an early tea break. Please do.
September 2001, I was in a club which specialized in mountain-climbing and summer-camp organizing. My active and sometime hyper character made me president for event-organizing. At that time the whole club was trying to organize an event to welcome freshmen of the year. I had an inspiration. I took out a map and marked all the locations where people had ghost-spotting experience in these two universities, TsingHua and ChiaoTung. As I speculated, it could form a loop. The activity went like this. We put candles and a story on every stop that we would make. As we arrived, we lit up the candle, read the story, and let the audience feel the atmosphere for one to two minutes, blew out the candle, then left. We decided to hold this activity for two days in a row, so that more people may join.
The first day was quite a success. More than 30 people joined. We even had to split the group into two teams for better effect. Things were different on the second day. The sky was cloudy. The moon could only be seen from time to time. As we arrived the rally point for departure, we found there were only 8 freshmen students waiting for us. 8, that’s a small team. We decided to lead them with only 3 club members, Jack, John, and Roy. I took the lead, John by their side, and Jack took care of the back to ensure no one got lost.
Before I continue; another piece of information. According to the 8-character Chinese fortune-telling technique, every person has different weight of spirit. The scale goes from
We set forth from
Darkness fell around us, John led the team ahead. In no time I sensed something staring at me from behind. I tried to turn my head and found out, but I just couldn’t. The team was getting further, and I could only try to catch up. Suddenly, I felt something cold crawling up from my left leg, all the way up through my thigh, my back, to my shoulder. As it reached my shoulder, it became heavier and heavier, made each step of mine more and more difficult. I tried to turn my head, but again I couldn’t. I could only see a dark shadow lingering by my left shoulder with the corner of my eye. Until we approached the end of the path, suddenly, the weight was lifted. I turned my head, only seeing Jack’s blank look. He looked at me and said: “It’s gone, right?”
We finished the activity as soon as we can and rushed to the temple in front of ChiaoTung university. We could only exchange our experience after some cans of beer. However, we were even more scared after we shared our experience. For I felt it all the way up from my left side, and Jack was the opposite, the right. We concluded we might have run into something pretty tired and decided to crawl all the way up and rest between us for a while.
2009 Prepared speech contest: Question to ask yourself
感想那類的東西請到這邊
這篇是準備比賽時被提點的問題
這兩個問題是Jim Key問我的
1. If you had to sum up the message of your speech in one or two brief sentences, what would it be?
2. What will the audience be compelled to think, feel, or do differently after they've heard your speech?
這三個問題則是Jock Elliot在比賽之後問我的
這五個問題對我有很大的幫助
上面的兩個問題讓我重新思考了我演講的目的
也點出演講中最重要的重點：你想傳達什麼？
下面的三個問題則讓我調整了我的心態
這篇是準備比賽時被提點的問題
這兩個問題是Jim Key問我的
1. If you had to sum up the message of your speech in one or two brief sentences, what would it be?
2. What will the audience be compelled to think, feel, or do differently after they've heard your speech?
這三個問題則是Jock Elliot在比賽之後問我的
1. Were you happy with your speech and the way you delivered it?
2. Is this the highest level that you have achieved?
3. Was it a fair result in your opinion and the opinion of your friends?
這五個問題對我有很大的幫助
上面的兩個問題讓我重新思考了我演講的目的
也點出演講中最重要的重點：你想傳達什麼？
下面的三個問題則讓我調整了我的心態
2009 Prepared speech contest: script
The 11th Edition
小修正不成一版，大修正(改超過一百字以上)就另存新檔，大修正共十次。
Hoping for Uncertainty
- Haishuo Lee-
“Certainty is beautiful, (pause) but uncertainty is more beautiful still.” (pause) The quote was by 1996 Nobel Prize winner, the Polish poet, Wislawa Szymborska. I did not understand the meaning of it at that time, no, not until I fell into desperation from predicted certainty, and found hope again in future’s uncertainty.
Mr Contest Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, 2 years ago, I met an old, wise-looking man in my friends’ house. He said he was a Master of the ancient art of Chinese fortune telling, Chiwei. To my surprise, the Master began to state many secret facts about me. As I was still amazed, he offered to tell me more. So, I told him the exact date and time I was born, and he closed his eyes and started to calculate. Moments later, he frowned and muttered: “No good, no good.” I stared at him in nervous anticipation, receiving nothing but silence. Suddenly he opened his eyes and proclaimed with authority: “For the next thirteen years, your life will be miserable, you will fail at everything, and great misfortune will be yours.”
Desperately destroyed by his prediction, I began to shout, “What can I do?”, “What can I do?” Again he closed his eyes. Again the answer came. “To change your fateful fortune you must become a monk, in a temple, until you are forty. Then, great fortune will be yours.”
I could remember nothing later said on that day. The only thing that I could remember was: “be a monk”, “in the temple”, “until 40”. 27 to 40! They’re the golden years of my life. I should be making money, chasing girls, and starting a great family. But now, someone’s telling me to be a monk! Me, monk? NO!
I was preparing for my graduate school entrance exam back then, and his words certainly crushed my confidence. I went home about midnight with all those “being a monk” sentences echoing in my head. I could not fall asleep, let alone study. I dragged my tired body and mind to the living room, sitting on the sofa, turning on the TV, hoping to find some comfort. To my great surprise, I found the solution to my miserable fortune on television. Where did I find it? “HBO, your home movie theater.”
A movie called “Paycheck” was playing on HBO. It’s a story about a scientist inventing a machine that could foresee the future. There were some lines in the movie that truly blew my mind and shone a whole new light. They went: “Knowing future would take away all other possibilities. You may think it’s good in the beginning for it provides such a sense of security, but you are wrong. Because if there are no other possibilities, there is no hope, and hope, is what we humankind can truly rely on!”
Like the spring wind that gently replaces winter chill, those lines took away my desperation at the thought of finding myself trapped in the predicted certainty. I stood up from the sofa and looked out of the window. I saw lights from many buildings glimmering in the darkness of the night. There seemed to be so many uncertainties should I choose my own destiny, and face the possibility of failing at everything before forty. However, those lines reminded me: as there were possibilities, so was hope, and hope, would be what I can rely on!
Starting from the very next day, I studied in the library from 8 in the morning to 10 in the evening. 2 months later, I not only passed the graduate school entrance examination, I championed all test-takers. Starting from that moment, I lay the compass of my destiny not on others, but on my own hand. Step by step, my destiny has led me here today, heading toward higher dimension. Whatever the result is, it’s not failure nor desperation, but success and glory!
I am not saying that being a monk is bad. Some girls like bald men. (Pause) But it’s just not for me right now. I am not telling you that “HBO” can always give you the answer, because I may have become a monk if the movie I saw had been “7 years in Tibet”. When we set our goals and strive for them, somehow the light of hope shall lead us to good fortune. “Certainty is beautiful, but uncertainly is more beautiful still.” Why? Because in those uncertainties, we can still hold fast to hopes! Yes! Uncertainly is more beautiful! Join me in embracing uncertainty and meeting the challenges and opportunities of this unpredictable world. Contest chair!
小修正不成一版，大修正(改超過一百字以上)就另存新檔，大修正共十次。
Hoping for Uncertainty
- Haishuo Lee-
“Certainty is beautiful, (pause) but uncertainty is more beautiful still.” (pause) The quote was by 1996 Nobel Prize winner, the Polish poet, Wislawa Szymborska. I did not understand the meaning of it at that time, no, not until I fell into desperation from predicted certainty, and found hope again in future’s uncertainty.
Mr Contest Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, 2 years ago, I met an old, wise-looking man in my friends’ house. He said he was a Master of the ancient art of Chinese fortune telling, Chiwei. To my surprise, the Master began to state many secret facts about me. As I was still amazed, he offered to tell me more. So, I told him the exact date and time I was born, and he closed his eyes and started to calculate. Moments later, he frowned and muttered: “No good, no good.” I stared at him in nervous anticipation, receiving nothing but silence. Suddenly he opened his eyes and proclaimed with authority: “For the next thirteen years, your life will be miserable, you will fail at everything, and great misfortune will be yours.”
Desperately destroyed by his prediction, I began to shout, “What can I do?”, “What can I do?” Again he closed his eyes. Again the answer came. “To change your fateful fortune you must become a monk, in a temple, until you are forty. Then, great fortune will be yours.”
I could remember nothing later said on that day. The only thing that I could remember was: “be a monk”, “in the temple”, “until 40”. 27 to 40! They’re the golden years of my life. I should be making money, chasing girls, and starting a great family. But now, someone’s telling me to be a monk! Me, monk? NO!
I was preparing for my graduate school entrance exam back then, and his words certainly crushed my confidence. I went home about midnight with all those “being a monk” sentences echoing in my head. I could not fall asleep, let alone study. I dragged my tired body and mind to the living room, sitting on the sofa, turning on the TV, hoping to find some comfort. To my great surprise, I found the solution to my miserable fortune on television. Where did I find it? “HBO, your home movie theater.”
A movie called “Paycheck” was playing on HBO. It’s a story about a scientist inventing a machine that could foresee the future. There were some lines in the movie that truly blew my mind and shone a whole new light. They went: “Knowing future would take away all other possibilities. You may think it’s good in the beginning for it provides such a sense of security, but you are wrong. Because if there are no other possibilities, there is no hope, and hope, is what we humankind can truly rely on!”
Like the spring wind that gently replaces winter chill, those lines took away my desperation at the thought of finding myself trapped in the predicted certainty. I stood up from the sofa and looked out of the window. I saw lights from many buildings glimmering in the darkness of the night. There seemed to be so many uncertainties should I choose my own destiny, and face the possibility of failing at everything before forty. However, those lines reminded me: as there were possibilities, so was hope, and hope, would be what I can rely on!
Starting from the very next day, I studied in the library from 8 in the morning to 10 in the evening. 2 months later, I not only passed the graduate school entrance examination, I championed all test-takers. Starting from that moment, I lay the compass of my destiny not on others, but on my own hand. Step by step, my destiny has led me here today, heading toward higher dimension. Whatever the result is, it’s not failure nor desperation, but success and glory!
I am not saying that being a monk is bad. Some girls like bald men. (Pause) But it’s just not for me right now. I am not telling you that “HBO” can always give you the answer, because I may have become a monk if the movie I saw had been “7 years in Tibet”. When we set our goals and strive for them, somehow the light of hope shall lead us to good fortune. “Certainty is beautiful, but uncertainly is more beautiful still.” Why? Because in those uncertainties, we can still hold fast to hopes! Yes! Uncertainly is more beautiful! Join me in embracing uncertainty and meeting the challenges and opportunities of this unpredictable world. Contest chair!
2009年5月13日 星期三
090514 Lesson from Dwayne Smith: Bringing out the winner in you
First thing: Thanks for someone who invited him.
Think about the time that you win something: feel it.
How do you do? by learning. How do you learn? by doing.
When you want the attention: prepare gifts.
We all are natural born winners.
Children walk, stumble, and walk again.
Positive belief leads to positive results.
Winning is tough but it worth it.
Tiger Woods practices 14 hours a day.
Three things you have to give to win: time, effort, dedication
Two things to give up: comfort zone, idea that it's going to be easy
Never give up: trying, belief, yourself, what you are trying to do
Have small victories to have big ones.
Take small steps then big ones will come.
Taking part is already winning.
The value of failure:
Something doesn't go right: there is a lesson.
My reponsibility to see why it's not working.
To find the lesson within the failure.
Stop blaming on others.
Investigate what the problem is.
Look at inside, then you also find solutions and answers.
It's yourself that is holding everything back.
From how god let this happen
to how we let this happen
to how I let this happen
what could I have done better?
What did the winner do that was different and creative?
Do I really want this job?
Do I really want to win?
Look at all the opponenets, and find the opportunities to learn.
The one who adds that "extra" will win.
Loss=lesson
What did I do wrong, and what others did better?
Adversity=advantage
Always take action!
Free e-book: give evaluaitons to dgs@dwayne
(the power of concentration)
Think about the time that you win something: feel it.
How do you do? by learning. How do you learn? by doing.
When you want the attention: prepare gifts.
We all are natural born winners.
Children walk, stumble, and walk again.
Positive belief leads to positive results.
Winning is tough but it worth it.
Tiger Woods practices 14 hours a day.
Three things you have to give to win: time, effort, dedication
Two things to give up: comfort zone, idea that it's going to be easy
Never give up: trying, belief, yourself, what you are trying to do
Have small victories to have big ones.
Take small steps then big ones will come.
Taking part is already winning.
The value of failure:
Something doesn't go right: there is a lesson.
My reponsibility to see why it's not working.
To find the lesson within the failure.
Stop blaming on others.
Investigate what the problem is.
Look at inside, then you also find solutions and answers.
It's yourself that is holding everything back.
From how god let this happen
to how we let this happen
to how I let this happen
what could I have done better?
What did the winner do that was different and creative?
Do I really want this job?
Do I really want to win?
Look at all the opponenets, and find the opportunities to learn.
The one who adds that "extra" will win.
Loss=lesson
What did I do wrong, and what others did better?
Adversity=advantage
Always take action!
Free e-book: give evaluaitons to dgs@dwayne
(the power of concentration)
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