Name: 重新定義 "F "字 (Redefining the "F" word)
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委婉語氣表達希望、渴望

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that you are going to hear me say  the s-word a lot.

to 不定詞

And you are going to hear me say the f-word a lot, too.

So, if some of you are sensitive about these words,

Okay, I'm going to talk to you  about success and failure.

What is failure? What is this f-word that people talk about all the time?

I would like you to clap twice if you think the things I'm about to say

would be a failure in your own lives or in those around you.

Clap twice if you think being expelled from school

Clap twice if you think studying for three years a doctoral exam

Clap twice if you think learning a foreign language for five years

but still can't speak  complete sentences a failure.

Okay, the first person that you might have clapped for was Albert Einstein.

He is known for his success, not for his mistakes.

But today, I am not going to talk to you about famous people that we all know.

I'm going to talk to you  about Gary Green,

and me, who you just met a few minutes ago.

So when I was little, Gary Green went to my school

and he delivered a speech about failures.

He is the guy who first introduced me to look at failures differently.

He said that he failed  at his doctoral exam

after studying three years of special education.

his wife and he had planned a party to celebrate his passing of the exam,

and needed to complete an additional year of graduate school.

As you are thinking about "what is he going to do about the party?"

well, I emailed him  and asked him just that.

He answered by saying it would be cathartic to have a failure party

where everyone celebrated various failures in their lives

After hearing about this story, my mindset completely changed.

I thought to myself not passing exams were not the end of the world.

So now, I would like you to all think back to our clap twice exercise.

The person who failed at learning a foreign language for five years was me.

So would you all look at me right now and call me a failure?

When I first went to Argentina, a Spanish-speaking country,

I could not speak Spanish, nor English for that matter.

I don't know how many of you had the same experience as I did

when I first started to learn a new language.

I needed to do a little Google translate in my mind

my first few friends here were very patient waiting for what I wanted to say.

My friend will ask me  what did I eat yesterday?

Asking about food is the hardest question ever,

than the question, "what is the meaning of life?"

How am I supposed to know this little green mini-sized tree

I would have to translate beans,  fried chicken and steamed broccoli

It's actually a wonder that we're still friends after all that food talk.

Anyway, beyond that, I see native speakers strolling through the halls

saying complete sentences and reading a text out loud

as if they have practiced in front of the mirror the whole afternoon,

while I have first have to search up all the exotic words

and repeat the word several times to remember.

I remember for an oral assignment  for school

the things I was about to say just couldn't come out of my mouth.

I remember how people couldn't understand what I wanted to say

So there I was spelling, "h-o-w-a-r-e-y-o-u, how are you?"

Well that kind of conversation would take forever,

so I asked my friends to correct me whenever I sounded weird.

Gradually, people just stopped asking  me simple words like chicken or rice.

Maybe I was just not able  to speak in public.

But now when I look my language learning, I look at all the experiences I had,

In fact, I was quite successful in not giving up

Here's a bit of an odd transition, so just go with me here.

Never I did I think that I would be talking about my langauge learning

Sarah Blakely was talking  to Forbes Magazine

but I tried extremely hard  to learn English.

did a TED talk about his so-called "moonshot factory"

where his team and he needed to come up with solutions

But then what did he do? He celebrated his failures.

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重新定義 "F "字 (Redefining the "F" word)

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