Honorable judges, ladies and gentlemen, good morning!

Today, my topic is "Changing Ourselves".

At first, I'd like to tell you a little story about an insurance salesman in Tokyo. Even though this man tried very hard to promote the insurance, nobody bought it. One day, he came to a small temple and began to brag about his insurance. After listening to his introduction, the monk said: "Your recommendation of insurance can't arouse any of my interests! When you are communicating with others, you must have the charm to attract others, or you will be unpromising in the future. Young man, try to change yourself!"

The salesman thought deeply about each word. From then on, he invited all his friends to point out his weakness and kept on improving himself bit by bit for all his life. Thirty years later, he became a millionaire. And this man is the famous salesperson in the world: Yuan Yi Ping. His experience reflects one attitude: sometimes, we should change ourselves instead of changing the world.

Human beings always scan others, therefore, lots of people just see the flaws of them, then they will blame and criticize the outside factors, some people will even try to change them! Unfortunately, they ignore the importance of the inner factors.

Everybody in the world needs to examine himself critically, everybody has to learn to be tolerant and generous. You won't think the world is splendid unless you change your attitude first.

Dear friends, we'd better remodel ourselves rather than blame each other. If we do so, we'll find that yesterday's sorrow is today's gratification, yesterday's opponent is today's assistant, and yesterday's failure is today's success! Remember: if we can change ourselves, we can change the whole world!

Thank you!

尊敬的評委、女士們、先生們：早上好！

今天，我演講的題目是：“改變我們自己”.

首先，我很高興與你們一同分享一個(gè)關(guān)于東京的一位保險(xiǎn)公司推銷員的小故事。盡管他十分努力地向別人推銷保險(xiǎn)，沒有人能夠接受，也沒人買他的保險(xiǎn)。有一天，他來到了一個(gè)小寺廟，開始夸起他的保險(xiǎn)來。老和尚仔細(xì)地聽完了他的介紹后，說：“你的介紹絲毫引不起我投保的意愿。人與人之間，像這樣相對而坐的時(shí)候，一定有具備一種強(qiáng)烈吸引對方的魅力，如果你做不到這一點(diǎn)，將來就沒什么前途可言了……小伙子，先努力改造自己吧！”

從寺廟里出來，年輕人一路思索著老和尚的話，若有所悟。接下來，他請了所有的朋友來指出他的缺點(diǎn)與薄弱處，從而改變自己。他整個(gè)一生都堅(jiān)持著一點(diǎn)一點(diǎn)地提高自身。三十年之后，他成了世界著名的百萬富翁。而這位推銷員正是世界上最偉大的推銷大師：原一平。他的例子印證了這句話，那就是：有些時(shí)候，迫切應(yīng)該改變的，或許不是環(huán)境，而是我們自己。

人的眼睛長得朝向外部，總在觀察、審視著別人。因此不少人總是先看到別人的缺點(diǎn)、短處，看到世事的不平。于是動(dòng)輒指責(zé)、批評、埋怨別人和外部世界。甚至有人用了很多心思企圖去改變它們，結(jié)果反倒忽視了改變自身的重要性。每個(gè)人都應(yīng)該仔細(xì)地檢查一下自己，每個(gè)人都應(yīng)該學(xué)著去容忍、寬容別人。除非我們都從改變自己的態(tài)度做起，否則世界將永遠(yuǎn)不會變得美麗。

親愛的朋友們，我們最好改變自己，而不是埋怨別人。如果我們這么做了，我們會發(fā)現(xiàn)：昨天的惆悵會轉(zhuǎn)化為喜悅，昨天的對手今天可能變?yōu)橹?，昨天的失敗會轉(zhuǎn)化為勝利。永遠(yuǎn)記住：如果我們都改變了自己，那么我們就能改變整個(gè)世界！

謝謝！

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