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1、英语演讲稿你希望未来成为什么的人Raise your hand if youve ever been asked the question What do you want to be when yougrow up?Now if you had to guess, how old would you say you were when you were first asked thisquestion?You can just hold up fingers. Three. Five. Three. Five. Five. OK.Now, raise yourhand if the ques
2、tionWhat do you want to be when you grow up? has ever caused you anyanxiety.Any anxiety at all.Im someone whos never been able to answer the question What do you want to be when yougrow up?See, the problem wasnt that I didnt have any interests - its that I had too many. In high school,I liked Englis
3、h and math and art and I built websites and I played guitar in a punk band calledFrustrated Telephone Operator. Maybe youve heard of us.This continued after high school, and at a certain point, I began to notice this pattern inmyself where I would become interested in an area and I would dive in, be
4、come all-consumed, and Id get to be pretty good at whatever it was, and then I would hit this point whereId start to get bored. And usually I would try and persist anyway, because I had already devotedso much time and energy and sometimes money into this field. Buteventually this sense ofboredom, th
5、is feeling of, like, yeah, I got this, this isnt challenging anymore - it would get to betoo much. And I would have to let it go.But then I would become interested in something else, something totally unrelated, and I woulddive into that, and become all-consumed, and Id be like, Yes! I found my thin
6、g, and then Iwould hit this point again where Id start to get bored. And eventually, I would letit go. But then Iwould discover something new and totally different, and I would dive into that.This pattern caused me a lot of anxiety, for two reasons. The first was that I wasnt sure how Iwas going to
7、turn any of this into a career. I thought that I would eventually have to pick onething, deny all of my other passions, and just resign myself to being bored. The other reason itcaused me so much anxiety was a little bit more personal. I worried that there was somethingwrong with this, and something
8、 wrong with me for being unable to stick with anything. I worriedthat I was afraid of commitment, or that I was scattered, or that I was self-sabotaging, afraid ofmy own success.If you can relate to my story and to these feelings, Id like you to ask yourself a question that Iwish I had asked myself
9、back then. Ask yourself where you learned to assign the meaning ofwrong or abnormal to doing many things. Ill tell you where you learned it:you learned it fromthe culture.We are first asked the question What do you want to be when you grow up? when were aboutfive years old. And the truth is that no
10、one really cares what you say when youre that age.Its considered an innocuous question, posed to little kids to elicit cute replies, like, I want to bean astronaut, or I want to be a ballerina, or I want tobe a pirate. Insert Halloween costumehere.But this question gets asked of us again and again a
11、s we get older in various forms - forinstance, high school students might get asked what major theyre going to pick in college. Andat some point, What do you want to be when you grow up? goes from being the cute exerciseit once was to the thing that keeps us up at night. Why?See, while this question
12、 inspires kids to dream about what they could be, it does not inspirethem to dream about all that they could be. In fact, it does justthe opposite, because whensomeone asks you what you want to be, you cant reply with 20 different things, though well-meaning adults will likely chuckle and be like, O
13、h,how cute, but you cant be a violin maker anda psychologist. You have to choose.This is Dr. Bob Childs -and hes a luthier and psychotherapist. And this is Amy Ng, a magazine editor turnedillustrator,entrepreneur, teacher and creative director. But most kids dont hear about people like this. Allthey
14、 hear is that theyre going to have to choose. But its more than that. The notion of thenarrowly focused life is highly romanticized in our culture. Its this idea of destiny or the one truecalling, the idea that we each have one great thing we are meant to do during our time on thisearth, and you nee
15、d to figure out what that thing is and devote your life to it.But what if youre someone who isnt wired this way? What if there are a lot of different subjectsthat youre curious about, and many different things you want to do? Well, there is no room forsomeone like you in this framework. And so you m
16、ight feel alone. You might feel like you donthave a purpose. And you might feel like theres something wrong with you. Theres nothingwrong with you. What you are is a multipotentialite.A multipotentialite is someone with many interests and creative pursuits. Its a mouthful to say. Itmight help if you
17、 break it up into three parts: multi, potential, and ite. You can also use one ofthe other terms that connote the same idea, such as polymath, the Renaissanceperson. Actually, during the Renaissance period, it was considered the ideal to be well-versedin multiple disciplines. Barbara Sher refers to
18、us as scanners. Use whichever term you like, orinvent your own. I have to say I find it sort of fitting that as a community, we cannot agree on asingle identity.Its easy to see your multipotentiality as a limitation or an affliction that you need toovercome. But what Ive learned through speaking wit
19、h people and writing about these ideas onmy website, is that there are some tremendous strengths to being this way. Here arethree multipotentialite super powers.One: idea synthesis. That is, combining two or more fields and creating something new at theintersection. Sha Hwang and Rachel Binx drew fr
20、om their shared interests in cartography, datavisualization, travel, mathematics and design, when they founded Meshu. Meshu is a companythat creates custom geographically-inspired jewelry. Sha and Rachel came up with this uniqueidea not despite, but because of their eclectic mix of skills and experi
21、ences. Innovation happensat the intersections.Thats where the new ideas come from. And multipotentialites, with all oftheir backgrounds, are able to access a lot of these points of intersection.The second multipotentialite superpower is rapid learning. When multipotentialites becomeinterested in som
22、ething, we go hard. We observe everything we can get our hands on. Werealso used to being beginners, because weve been beginners so many times in the past, andthis means that were less afraid of trying new things and stepping out of our comfortzones. Whats more, many skills are transferable across d
23、isciplines, and we bring everythingweve learned to every new area we pursue,so were rarely starting from scratch.Nora Dunn is a full-time traveler and freelancewriter. As a child concert pianist, she honedanincredible ability to develop muscle memory. Now, shesthe fastest typist she knows.08:48Befor
24、e becoming a writer, Nora was a financial planner. She had to learn the finer mechanics ofsaleswhen she was starting her practice, and this skill now helps her write compelling pitches toeditors. It is rarely a waste of time to pursue something youre drawn to, even if you end upquitting. You might a
25、pply that knowledge in a different field entirely, in a way that you couldnthave anticipated.The third multipotentialite superpower is adaptability; that is, the ability to morph into whateveryou need to be in a given situation. Abe Cajudo is sometimes a video director, sometimes a webdesigner,sometimes a Kickstarter consultant, sometimes a teacher, and sometimes, apparently,James Bond.