After working out in the gym for a long time, I will meet all kinds of interesting friends. An aunt who doesn't exercise and just takes two steps to take a bath; A muscular man who yells during exercise; Pay special attention to the image. Girls with heavy make-up for fitness... Can't see, only can't think of.
One of them, after each exercise, immediately weighed himself to see the effect of his exercise that day. He usually exercises for 20 minutes each time, weighs himself and finds that he has not succeeded in losing weight, which is very painful. He complains that he has worked hard and still can't lose weight. Then he went out to have a big meal. The next day, I took a short exercise and weighed myself, but it didn't work, so I went to eat haisai.
In fact, this is a sign of impetuosity. We often want to get a reward immediately after we pay, and ask for success immediately after we work hard. Once there is no return, they will complain and abandon themselves. These people always miscalculate the cost behind success and always want to find a shortcut and quick rule for success.
In fact, almost every successful person has a quiet time of hard work, in which there are hard sweat and countless tears of failure. Many people admit defeat at the moment before dawn. Only those who can walk through the darkness can finally achieve real success.
In 2011, when I decided to stay in Beijing for development, I had a particularly difficult time. But at that time, my department required that all teachers should not substitute for others, and only the salary for the shift. That salary was really difficult for a Beipiao. In addition, I have to raise my mother and sister, so I am even more short of money. It is inevitable that "a penny can't defeat a hero". That is why I am very angry when my roommate says that he wants to share the electricity bill equally.
Although it's only a matter of tens of dollars, I feel that I go out early and return late every day. Sometimes I work all night in the company. I seldom use electricity at home and let me share it equally. It's too unfair. The stinginess revealed under the indignation and the pain hidden behind it are all due to the economic constraints.
However, the economic difficulties did not make me a money oriented person for my livelihood. In my embarrassment, I thought that if I want to be invincible in the future, I must sharpen a competitiveness that really belongs to me and make me irreplaceable because of this competitiveness.
At that time, my English level was good. Considering that I had accumulated some advantages in my speech from childhood, I wanted to combine the two to form my core competitiveness. But "how to achieve" is another problem I face. After all, classes and speeches are different, and there are many restrictions.
During that time, I thought hard and finally got a flash of inspiration. I thought of a talk show I liked very much. The host liked to comment on current events in a humorous way. If we do this in the form of English classes, what effect will it have on the Internet?
In november2011, I recorded online teaching videos for the first time. The recording equipment was a simple DV. I set up a white board at home and began to work. In that year, there was a hot topic, "ordinary youth, literary and art youth and special second-year youth". The idea of recording at that time was to tell you how to say these three online hot words in English. At the end of the video, I also used my own photos to explain what the ordinary me, the literary me and the very second me are like.
In order to save money and time, I looked in the mirror to cut my hair. I didn't expect that the scissors would lose their shape. I simply went out of my way to have another cut. As a result, my hairstyle became more ugly. Although my hairstyle is weird and my body is slightly fat, I still insisted on finishing this video.
The point I want to express is: ordinary youth, literary youth and special second-class youth are three different states of human beings. No matter how good they are, there will be two times. No matter how good they are, they may one day be incomparable. Therefore, they should learn to respect others.
The number of network hits of this program is 5000. I can't think that in just two years, my video hits will exceed 50million. At that time, I said that "a person with two can become a cow". I didn't expect to take my own example. Persistence has indeed brought gratifying results. Two years, from 50million to 50million, is not a small progress, but behind this figure, it is also an equivalent effort and hardship.
In order to save the video editor from spending too much time editing, I usually tell the video many times in advance until there is no slip of tongue from beginning to end, so that he can edit it without wasting his time. This means that without a teleprompter and a prompt board, I need 10 hours of preparation time for every 5-minute course recording, practice and PPT.
There are very few people like me who record only for the purpose of recording courses at no cost at all. Until now, some people think that this is a project of our department, because I can insist on recording it because of the class fee. But in fact, so far, I haven't directly received class fees for this program. The purpose of this is very simple: after recording, everyone is willing to watch it, and they are very happy; If you can't record it well, you can record it more times. Anyway, it is an improvement of your ability.
In a dream of Red Mansions, it is said that "knowledge is everything that is clear", and there is knowledge in everything. Knowledge can be spoken in both Chinese and English. Since we have spoken so much in Chinese, why not in English? Therefore, in my videos, there are "learning English by playing games", which is popular with male students, and "learning English by watching Korean dramas", which is of interest to female students.
Later, I continued to explore and develop new forms. For example, I invited some great people to my program to share their experiences, invited some people who had seen the program to participate in video recording, and gave myself a chance to practice oral English by speaking in the program. These explorations have achieved good results.
If I had given up this program because of my busy work at that time, if I had given up this program because of no pay at that time, I would not be who I am today.
No one can do anything just for immediate short-term interests. Only when he learns not to seek short-term interests, can he go further on the road of long-term success. For me, this is the key to success. With this key, I will open countless doors.
The meaning of life, if only lies in success, won't get much happiness, because success is like fireworks, just a moment, more often, the night sky is dark. A man can not succeed, but he can not grow up. There is always something more important than success.