大家好，我是章永佳，以下是我在Toastmasters世界演讲比赛中国赛区的冠军奖杯。
在正领留学，我主教雅思口语。以下是我的演讲冠军之路，对大家雅思口语备考肯定会带来帮助。
【青葱岁月】
说到演讲，这一切都源于中学的政治课，我们被一个个要求在课前给做一个4分钟左右的演讲，我记得我第一次读稿子，身体颤抖，给砸锅了。那么第二次，我想得自己需要来个爆的. 然后我特意看了下当时很流行的动画片：自古英雄出少年！这不就是我吗？英雄，少年！然后那一次，讲得下面听的同学眉飞色舞，狂笑不止。我突然找到了自信，什么叫做演讲带来的成就感！
【初出茅庐，斩获头角】
打那以后，演讲一直在我脑海中根植着，感觉自己需要在更大的舞台飞翔，让更多人知道章永佳这个大名。完成留学，回国后，我心里就两个念头，1:找一个能够展现自己，造福别人的职业，2: 追逐我的演讲梦，成为一名真正的演说家。我成功地完成了1，找到了雅思口语老师这个高尚的职业。并且找到了2，参加了世界上最专业的培训和磨炼演讲能力的组织— TOASTMASTERS, 短短的半年内就参加了全国范围的比赛，毫无经验的我，竟然凭借自己的天赋加努力，在三个月内，训练了一篇演讲300遍，一跃晋级了决赛，第一次参赛就斩获全国第三的头衔！我自己都惊呆了。
【再战全国演讲比赛】
由于第一次参赛就拿获了全国第三，感觉内心极大的膨胀了，无限的自信，感觉下一次演讲比赛的第一非我莫属，所以我就随意创了一篇演讲，心里想，这次哥我肯定第一。
没想在晋级了俱乐部，小区，中区，到上海大区比赛时竟然被刷了下来，心中那时不是个滋味儿，感觉自己无法再翱翔了。但是是真男人怎能言败！我又站起来了！
胜败之后的感想：
1 、Stay hungry, stay foolish.（求知若渴，虚怀若谷）
That’s a famous quote when Steve Jobs was giving an epic commencement speech to Stanford University graduates.
同学们在口语训练中也要stay hungry, stay foolish不要满足于自己现在的程度，好还有更好，强还有更强，雅思口语就如同我的比赛，你要和你准备充分的竞争对手做比较，永远不要懈怠, 因为别人也有题库，也会准备Part2。
我总结在第二次比赛中就没有stay hungry, stay foolish. 没有做到乔布斯说的，保持求知若渴，虚怀若谷。人自满，则立刻停止进步，所以这造成了第二次的失利。 But there is noactual failure, life is only about feedback. 而打那以后乔布斯的这句话就成为了我的座右铭，他当时演讲的那段话我也读了百遍，熟记于心，给大家分享下这段经典的文字。
When I was young,there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brandnot far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notion
Stewart and histeam put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as yougraduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
2 、 Practicemakes perfect. But sometimes, you should practice for hundreds of times.
我获全国名次的第一次，我一篇演讲在历时3个月，共7轮的比赛中，练习了300多遍，有时候半夜12点到小区中心广场对着数十只夜猫讲1-2小时演讲，吓得保安都以为我是疯人院里放出来的。雅思口语part2练习也是一样，精炼一篇把它练好胜过每篇都草草练习一遍。几遍够呢?一般3遍有感觉，5遍会做到精彩。
给大家举个我自己在准备全国即兴演讲比赛中用到的一个小词，叫做Epic 史诗级的，通常表示非常的令人难忘的，是一个高级的表示“好”的形容词, 而且很短很容易发音。
我记得当时在全国半决赛中评委给了一个很刁钻的题目“Please comment on the movie Titanic, and link it back to your life.”我突然脑子中就浮现出了这个好词，在演讲开头顺着题目就脱口而出，Titainic is really an epic movie. And it’s a huge box office winner，if I can link it back to my life, I’d say......
当我说出Epic这个小词的时候，我瞬间看到了评委的会心一笑，后来我顺利杀入了决赛，得到了全国第二，可能就是因为我做了个epic impromptu speech.
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