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Chapter 107 What can I say?

mental gymnastics 刘心武 1360Words 2018-03-18
It just occurred to me that in the courtyard where I lived in my youth, there was a jujube tree over a hundred years old. Every autumn, its branches were always full of jujubes.There is always a day every year when the children in the courtyard gather to beat dates with bamboo poles. It is a joyful moment!The big white dates fell to the ground one after another. We excitedly picked up the dates into the big baskets and distributed them to each family. Of course, we could also wipe the picked dates on the sleeves and taste them immediately. Hey, they are really sweet and delicious fragrant!However, the few jujubes on the tallest branch of the jujube tree can't be removed no matter what.Hit with the longest bamboo pole, but you can't hit it; let the most daring partner climb up the tree, sit on the branch where you can pass the body, hug the trunk with that branch and shake, it still doesn't work; let the partner who climbed the tree Let's hit again with the bamboo pole handed over, the center of gravity of the body is difficult to control, and he almost had an accident a few times, so he dare not try again.In this way, jujubes are harvested every year, and top-notch jujubes are not eaten every year.The old people in the courtyard said that the fruits on high places are the sweetest, but we can't always appreciate the taste of those sweetest fruits.I also hoped that the northwest wind at the end of autumn would blow the sweetest fruits from high places to the ground, and let us pick them up for nothing, but when the northwest wind really blows, everyone hides in the house, and when they come out to look up, those sweet fruits The jujubes are all gone, and when I look down at the ground, there are no traces. It is said that the gophers moved them into the nest in time for winter food.

As for the high-altitude fruit, it is not like the fox in the west who asserts that it is sour because it cannot eat it, but firmly believes that "the high-altitude fruit is the sweetest". This is one of the virtues of our nation.I think that the Chinese men's football team rushing out of Asia and going to the world is like a "high fruit". We can't just say "it's sour and not worth tasting" just because we haven't tasted it for more than ten years. Instead of becoming a promising fox, we should try our best to pick the sweet fruit from the high place at the beginning of the next century.Looking back on our youth, the children in our compound still did not try their best, let alone display their full wisdom. Otherwise, the taste of the sweet fruit on the height of the jujube tree has already become a proud memory in our growth process!

That's as much as I can tell.May people forget the article "May 19 Long Shot" and remember the motto "The fruit on the high places is the sweetest". The "90-second speech system" at the Fortune Global Forum Shanghai Conference at the end of the 20th century has given us a good inspiration: Chinese people entering the 21st century should work hard to exercise their ability to express their opinions concisely to others, especially to the public .This first requires us to have a unique and distinctive point of view. If we have not yet formed a unique and distinctive point of view, then we should not rush to express it to others or the public; Redundant words, straight to the point, point directly to the topic, do not leave any gap for "thinking impurities" and "linguistic garbage"; if you can express it in a language with personality, it will be even more exciting!

The author has participated in the shooting of some interview TV programs.In the studio, a "section" that is broadcast for only a quarter of an hour often needs to be recorded for more than an hour.When the program was broadcast, I watched it at home, and found that many of the words I said were cut out by the director, and what remained was only two or three minutes, or even 90 seconds in total.I was not very happy in my heart, I worked so hard to talk for a long time, how come there is only such a little thing left in the end?Of course, in all fairness, sometimes what the editor and director delete is indeed a pity, but what is left behind may not be wonderful.But in most cases, after the show aired, I would get calls from acquaintances, telling me that they saw me on TV, and some even quoted some of my arguments in the TV show, or expressed empathy, or argue with me.This made me realize that 90 seconds is actually enough for what I want to express through the media, and within 90 seconds, a person can really express a complete and clear point of view.

In the new century, people will gradually get used to the "90-second speech system". This is not only a matter of saving time, but also a new civilization that makes interpersonal communication in the new century more conducive to showing the dignity of individuality and the beauty of communication. symbols of. I give you 90 seconds, try it, can you tell me what you want to express the most right now?
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