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my definition of success
by chen heng 陈恒 上海外国语大学
获得第五届全国英语演讲比赛冠军)
专家点评:演讲开头用了一个寓言故事，十分生动，最后点出对成功的看法，达到了点题的效果。

why aren't we tired of something so fanciful,  so unrealistic, and, i would say, so unimaginative?  how can a story like that endure generations of repetition`? because, i think, it is a typical success story. it is highly philosophical and symbolic. by implication, we see a 4-step definition of success: 1 ) a goal to be set. as represented by the beautiful princess; 2 ) challenges to be met, as represented by the three tasks; 3 ) the process of surmounting difficulties, as represented by the ordeals the youth goes through; and 4 ) the reward of success, as represented by the happy marriage.

the story not only caters to everyone's inward yearning for success,  but also emphasizes the inseparability of the process and the result. the reward of success will be much amplified if the path leading towards it is treacherous,  and vice versa. if a person inherits his father's millions and leads an easy life, he is not a successful person even in material terms,  because there are no difficulties involved in his achieving affluence. the term "success",  to be sure. will not sit still for easy definition. but as i understand it, the true meaning of success entails a combination of both the process and the satisfactory result of an endeavor. to clarify my view, let me give another analogy.

if we changed the rules of football,  greatly enlarged the goal and sent away david seaman or any other goal keeper,  so that another david, namely david beckham, could score easily, then scoring would not give him the thrill of accomplishment and the joy that it brings.  if we further changed the rules by not allowing arsenal's defenders to defend, so that beckham needed only to lift a finger, actually a toe, to score, then there would be no game at all,  because the meaning of winning would have disa

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