我放弃Toastmasters演讲俱乐部的原因 | 大赛冠军
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| 0:00 | I became a district Toastmasters champion, and yet I quit. | 我成为了分区土司大师赛的冠军 但我还是退出了 |
| 0:04 | I haven't been to a Toastmasters meeting in over 15 years. | 我已经15年没参加土司大师会了 |
| 0:08 | And today I want to tell you the reasons why I left. | 今天我想告诉你我离开的原因。 |
| 0:12 | Now, before we begin, my name is Jon. | 在开始之前 我叫乔恩 |
| 0:14 | If you're subscribed to this channel, it's probably because of this video | 如果你是这个频道的订户 可能是因为这个视频 |
| 0:17 | up here on speech evaluation. | 上面是演讲评价 |
| 0:20 | I myself am the past district 85 evaluation champion. | 我本人是过去的85区评价冠军. |
| 0:24 | I also was an officer, past president and VPM. | 我也曾是一名军官 前任总统 和副总统 |
| 0:28 | And I'm very proud to say that when I was president, our club did receive | 我很自豪地说 当我当上总统的时候 我们的俱乐部确实收到了 |
| 0:33 | the President's Distinguished Club Award. | 总统杰出俱乐部奖. |
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| 1 | I became a district Toastmasters champion, and yet I quit. | 我成为了分区土司大师赛的冠军 但我还是退出了 |
| 2 | I haven't been to a Toastmasters meeting in over 15 years. | 我已经15年没参加土司大师会了 |
| 3 | And today I want to tell you the reasons why I left. | 今天我想告诉你我离开的原因。 |
| 4 | Now, before we begin, my name is Jon. | 在开始之前 我叫乔恩 |
| 5 | If you're subscribed to this channel, it's probably because of this video | 如果你是这个频道的订户 可能是因为这个视频 |
| 6 | up here on speech evaluation. | 上面是演讲评价 |
| 7 | I myself am the past district 85 evaluation champion. | 我本人是过去的85区评价冠军. |
| 8 | I also was an officer, past president and VPM. | 我也曾是一名军官 前任总统 和副总统 |
| 9 | And I'm very proud to say that when I was president, our club did receive | 我很自豪地说 当我当上总统的时候 我们的俱乐部确实收到了 |
| 10 | the President's Distinguished Club Award. | 总统杰出俱乐部奖. |
| 11 | So before I begin telling you the reasons why I quit and haven't been back, | 所以在我开始告诉你我退出的原因之前 我还没回来 |
| 12 | I want to tell you some of the good things. | 我想告诉你一些好事 |
| 13 | First of all, I am not tearing Toastmasters down. | 首先,我不会撕掉烤面包师。 |
| 14 | All of my success as a speaker, as a communicator, as a businessman, | 作为演说家、通讯员和商人 |
| 15 | as a content creator with currently over 10 million followers worldwide. | 作为内容创作者,目前全世界有1 000多万追随者。 |
| 16 | I owe all of that to all the skills and the chances and opportunities I got | 所有这一切,我欠所有的技能和机会 |
| 17 | from being a part of Toastmasters. | 从成为土司大师的一部分。 |
| 18 | Don't get me wrong, but I'm also sure there are people out there just like | 别误会,我还相信外面有人 |
| 19 | me that eventually did fall out of love with Toastmasters. | 我最终爱上了土司大师 |
| 20 | So with that said, let's talk about the reasons why I left. | 因此,让我们谈谈我离开的原因。 |
| 21 | First of all, Toastmasters is a part-time, full-time job. | 首先,土司司是兼职,全职的工作. |
| 22 | And I don't only mean as an officer, I also mean as a member as well. | 我不仅指身为军官,我还指身为成员 |
| 23 | So I think for a lot of us when we first joined Toastmasters, it was like one | 所以我想当我们第一次加入烤面包师的时候, 对我们很多人来说,就像一个 |
| 24 | of the best experiences of your life. | 这是你一生中最好的经历 |
| 25 | For me, I was really looking for something having to do with leadership | 对我来说,我真的在寻找 与领导力有关的东西 |
| 26 | and development, and that's actually what the advertisement said. | 和开发, 实际上,这是广告所说的。 |
| 27 | And when I arrived there, I said, wait, what is a Toastmaster? | 当我到达那里,我说,等等,什么是烤面包师? |
| 28 | This isn't leadership and development. | 这不是领导和发展。 |
| 29 | Is this some sort of drinking club? | 这是酒吧吗? |
| 30 | And of course, I was lied to, and they hooked me in, and I eventually | 当然,我被骗了, 他们迷上我,我最终 |
| 31 | ended up loving it. | 终于喜欢上了 |
| 32 | But I will say again, when I first joined Toastmasters, I absolutely got into it, | 但我会再说一遍,当我第一次加入土司大师队时, 我绝对是进入了其中, |
| 33 | man. | 伙计 |
| 34 | I was into it 1,000%, and it kind of took over my life. | 我十分喜欢它,它接管了我的生活。 |
| 35 | It took over so much that actually I had a falling out with my best friend at the time. | 它接管了这么多,实际上我有一个 摔出与我最好的朋友当时。 |
| 36 | He would always say, hey, man, I always want to hang out with you, but you're | 他总是说,嘿,伙计,我总是想 挂出与你,但你 |
| 37 | always going to these dang Toastmasters meetings. | 总是去这些该死的土司大师会议。 |
| 38 | You're talking about it all the time. | 尔时世尊常说 it言. |
| 39 | Every time I want to hang out, you're always preparing for a speech. | 每次我想出去玩 你总是在准备演讲 |
| 40 | Why don't you have time for me? | 你为什么不有时间陪我? |
| 41 | And the answer simply was, well, because I only have time for Toastmasters. | 答案很简单 因为我只有时间吃烤面包 |
| 42 | Can't you see that I'm trying to progress through this speech manual? | 难道你看不出来,我正试图通过这个演讲手册来进步吗? |
| 43 | Can't you see that I'm trying to level up and become a better speaker? | 难道你看不出来吗? 我试图升级 成为一个更好的演讲者? |
| 44 | I found myself not only attending meetings every single week, but also going to other | 我发现自己不仅每周都参加各种会议 而且还去其他的 |
| 45 | clubs meetings as well, and also becoming a speaker at these other clubs as well. | 也成为其他俱乐部的演讲者。 |
| 46 | I wasn't just someone in the audience waiting to speak. | 我不仅仅是在观众 等待发言。 |
| 47 | I was either preparing my own speech or being invited as a speaker or doing some | 我要么自己准备演讲 要么被邀请作演讲 要么做一些 |
| 48 | sort of a workshop, and it was almost like two to three times a week. | 差不多是每周两到三次 |
| 49 | Besides all that, well, I paid for my membership, right? | 除此之外,我付了会费,对吧? |
| 50 | So to me, I was kind of like, well, I can't let this money go to waste. | 所以对我来说,我有点像,嗯,我不能让这些钱浪费。 |
| 51 | Now, besides that, I also became an officer. | 现在,除此之外,我也成为一名军官。 |
| 52 | Initially, I was just a VPM, and that meant that I was in charge of membership. | 起初,我只是一个VPM, 这意味着我负责会员。 |
| 53 | So I was the cool, suave, very charismatic guy trying to get you to become a member, | 所以我是那个酷、有魅力的人 想让你成为会员 |
| 54 | trying to convince you why, telling you about all the great things about our club. | 试着说服你为什么, 告诉你关于我们俱乐部的一切伟大的事情。 |
| 55 | And I essentially became the spokesperson. | 我基本上成了发言人。 |
| 56 | But because of that, I couldn't miss a meeting. | 但是因为这个,我不能错过一个会议. |
| 57 | I was at almost every single meeting making sure I could do the best job possible. | 我几乎每次开会都是为了确保我能做最好的工作 |
| 58 | And then eventually I became the president. | 最后我成为总统 |
| 59 | And that's when I felt all the weight and the responsibility of really | 那时我感受到了一切的重量和责任 |
| 60 | making this club flourish. | 让这个俱乐部蓬勃发展 |
| 61 | How can the president not be at the club? | 总统怎么会不在俱乐部? |
| 62 | I'm essentially the face, right? | 我基本上是脸,对不对? |
| 63 | And so it really did become a part-time job, a full-time part-time job that | 所以它真的变成了一份兼职工作 一份全职兼职工作 |
| 64 | I wasn't even getting paid for. | 我什至没有得到报酬。 |
| 65 | I really did find myself managing every single aspect of the club, as well as | 我真的发现自己管理着俱乐部的每一个方面,以及 |
| 66 | myself as a member and as a speaker. | 本人作为一个成员和发言者。 |
| 67 | And that eventually led me to burn out. | 这最终导致我烧焦。 |
| 68 | The next reason, I didn't feel like I was growing anymore. | 接下来,我不再觉得自己长大了 |
| 69 | I no longer felt challenged. | 我不再感到挑战。 |
| 70 | You see, I'm not going to sit here and be like, I'm the best speaker on the planet. | 你看,我不会坐在这里 像,我是地球上最好的演讲者。 |
| 71 | But I was not bad. | 但我还不错 |
| 72 | I was OK. | 我没事 |
| 73 | I had been used to kind of doing speeches and making presentations for work. | 我习惯于做演讲和作工作介绍。 |
| 74 | So this was naturally a little bit easy for me. | 这对我来说自然是有点容易。 |
| 75 | Not easy, but I was comfortable at it. | 没那么容易 但我很自在 |
| 76 | And I feel like I really progressed through the initial speeches really fast. | 我觉得我通过最初的演讲 进展很快。 |
| 77 | But I probably shouldn't have. | 但我也许不该这么做 |
| 78 | I kind of felt like I could do no wrong. | 我有一种感觉,我不能做错。 |
| 79 | I could never fail. | 我不会失败的 |
| 80 | Nobody really gave me the type of feedback that I needed to really stop | 没有人真正给我的反馈类型 我需要真正停止 |
| 81 | and make some real improvements. | 并做出一些真正的改进。 |
| 82 | I almost felt like I would receive positive feedback, no matter what I did. | 不管我做了什么,我几乎觉得自己会得到积极的反馈。 |
| 83 | And a lot of clubs I went to as well, I kind of felt like this was a common | 我去过很多俱乐部 我觉得这很常见 |
| 84 | thing because I felt that in order to retain membership, in order to have guests | 因为我觉得为了保留会员资格 为了有客人 |
| 85 | not be scared or intimidated, that people generally would give lighter feedback | 不要害怕或恐吓, 人们一般会给予较轻的反馈 |
| 86 | and not be too direct, not really tell the truth because, well, they want them | 不要太直接,不要说实话 因为,他们想要他们 |
| 87 | to come back, they don't want to hurt anybody's feelings. | 他们不想伤害任何人的感情 |
| 88 | And I also think as well, that's really a big reason why I won the | 我也这么认为,这真的是我赢得 |
| 89 | Evaluation Speech Contest, because I really told it like it is, because again, | 评估演讲大赛, 因为我真的告诉它喜欢它, 因为再次, |
| 90 | I believe feedback, it hurts, but it's tough love. | 我相信反馈,这很痛,但爱情很艰难 |
| 91 | It's for your benefit and for you to improve. | 是为利益及修行. |
| 92 | I once made a joke that you could literally be giving a speech at Toastmasters, throw | 我曾经开过个玩笑 你可以在烤面包店演讲 扔 |
| 93 | up during the middle of your speech and continue on and people would still praise you. | 在你演讲的中间 继续,人们仍然会称赞你。 |
| 94 | Now, I don't know if this is necessarily true for your club, but it did kind of | 现在,我不知道这是否一定是你的俱乐部,但它确实有点 |
| 95 | feel like that for me at the clubs I was attending. | 感觉就像我在俱乐部一样 |
| 96 | On top of feeling burnt out and also not feeling challenged, I think a big reason | 除了感觉被烧焦 也没有感觉被挑战之外 我觉得一个大原因 |
| 97 | for this really was because it just felt stagnant. | 这真的是因为它只是感觉停滞。 |
| 98 | I really felt like, well, every week I was going to this club, that club, speaking | 我真的觉得,嗯, 每星期我要去这个俱乐部, 那个俱乐部,说话 |
| 99 | here, speaking there, doing this speech, joining the impromptu speech, and it kind | 在这里,在这里发言, 做这个演讲, 加入即兴演讲, |
| 100 | of felt like I was just doing the same thing over and over and over again. | 感觉就像我只是 做同样的事情 一遍又一遍。 |
| 101 | And to be a bit selfish, I also felt like, well, I don't really want to spend the | 有点自私,我也觉得, 嗯,我真的不想花 |
| 102 | time to sit here and listen to other people speak. | 是时候坐在这里听别人说话了 |
| 103 | I want to speak. | 我想说话。 |
| 104 | I want to become better. | 我想变好 |
| 105 | I need the experience. | 我需要经验。 |
| 106 | So if there was no opportunity for me to actually be on the stage, I kind of felt | 所以,如果我没有机会 实际上在舞台上,我觉得 |
| 107 | like, oh, this is really rough to sit through this for two hours, especially if | 像,哦,这真的很难 坐在这两个小时,特别是如果 |
| 108 | you had some newer speakers. | 你有一些新的扬声器。 |
| 109 | Now, again, of course, it's a great place for them to grow and develop, and I would | 现在,再次,当然,这是一个伟大的地方 他们成长和发展,我会 |
| 110 | try my best to kind of give them some feedback on the side, or if they would | 尽量给他们一些反馈 边上,或者如果他们愿意 |
| 111 | find me, I would definitely give them some feedback and some of my input. | 找到我,我一定会给他们一些反馈 和我的一些投入。 |
| 112 | But if I didn't have that chance, I really feel like, man, this is tough to | 但如果我没有这个机会 我真的觉得 这很难 |
| 113 | get through. | 通过。 |
| 114 | And I think as that started happening over and over again, and I kind of got | 我想当它开始 一遍又一遍, 我有点 |
| 115 | stuck in this repetitive loop, I also started to consider, well, how much of | 我开始考虑,有多少 |
| 116 | this is actually practical? | 这真的很实用吗? |
| 117 | All these skills I'm learning, these table topics, these prepared speeches, | 我所学的这些技巧, 这些桌子主题, 这些准备的演讲, |
| 118 | are these really practical for the outside world, or are they really just | 这些对于外界来说是实际的,还是真的 |
| 119 | really suitable for Toastmasters meetings? | 适合土司大师会议吗? |
| 120 | And that's when I kind of decided to kind of branch out a bit. | 这时候我决定 有点分枝。 |
| 121 | I decided to, instead of always being the host of a Toastmasters meeting, well, I | 我决定,而不是总是 主办一个土司大师会议,嗯,我 |
| 122 | would do that for outside events instead, or instead of speaking at this | 而不是在这里发言 |
| 123 | Toastmasters workshop, well, I would try to become a speaker at different events | 敬酒师讲习班,嗯,我会尝试 成为一个演讲人在不同的活动 |
| 124 | for different subjects, different topics, with different people from all walks of | 不同的主题,不同的话题, 不同的人来自各个阶层 |
| 125 | life, because, again, if I'm hosting a Toastmasters meeting, I can do no wrong. | 生活,因为,再次, 如果我主持一个土司大师会议, 我不能做错。 |
| 126 | Even if I was a bad host, well, everybody is there to be a Toastmaster, to support | 就算我是个糟糕的主人 每个人都会有个烤面包师 |
| 127 | fellow Toastmasters, to support the meeting, to have the best meeting possible. | 敬酒师们 为了支持会议 举行最好的会议 |
| 128 | Whereas, if I'm speaking at a outside event, completely unrelated, well, if I | 而,如果我在外边的场合说话, 完全无关,嗯,如果我 |
| 129 | suck, I suck. | 烂透了,我烂透了。 |
| 130 | If I am a bad speaker, if I'm low energy, if I'm boring, the audience would definitely | 如果我讲得不好,如果我没精力,如果我无聊,观众肯定会说 |
| 131 | let me know, because they don't care who I am, they don't care about Toastmasters, | 让我知道,因为他们不在乎我是谁 他们不在乎烤面包师 |
| 132 | and with that, that extra pressure, and how do I say this, the expectations to | 加上这种额外的压力 我怎么说 期望 |
| 133 | succeed became really high risk. | 成功成为真正的高风险。 |
| 134 | That pressure, I felt, was kind of like the next step, the evolution of my public | 压力,我觉得, 有点像下一步, 我的公众进化 |
| 135 | speaking and presentation skills journey. | 演讲和演讲技巧之旅。 |
| 136 | Again, ladies and gentlemen, this is my experience and my story, and I don't want | 女士们先生们,这是我的经历和故事,我不想 |
| 137 | you to think that I'm crapping on Toastmasters, absolutely not. | 认为我在吐司马,绝对不行 |
| 138 | As I said in the beginning of this video, I owe so much to Toastmasters. | 正如我在这段视频的开头所说,我欠了许多土司大师。 |
| 139 | The chance I took that day going to my first meeting, the skills, the | 那天我去参加我第一次见面的机会 技巧 |
| 140 | opportunities, the people I met along the way, all those experiences had led me to | 这些经历使我走到了 |
| 141 | who I am today. | 今天我是谁 |
| 142 | That's just my story of why I quit and why I haven't been back for a long time. | 这就是我为什么退出和为什么我很久没有回来的故事. |
| 143 | I know there are clubs all around the world. | 我知道世界各地都有俱乐部 |
| 144 | I know things are done differently at every single club in every single country. | 我知道每个国家的每个俱乐部都做不同的事 |
| 145 | Again, I bet it's amazing. | 再说一次,我敢打赌,这是惊人的。 |
| 146 | That's just where I'm at right now. | 这就是我现在的状况。 |
| 147 | Now, I know I'm not the only one. | 现在,我知道我不是唯一的一个。 |
| 148 | I can't be the only person that feels this way. | 我不能是唯一有这种感觉的人 |
| 149 | So if this video resonated with you, if you felt similar thoughts, or perhaps you | 因此,如果这段视频与你共鸣, 如果你感觉类似的想法, 或者你也许 |
| 150 | think I'm wrong and you have some suggestions for me, maybe I could go back. | 我想我错了,你有一些建议给我, 也许我可以回去。 |
| 151 | Please let me know your thoughts in the comments. | 请在评论中告诉我您的想法。 |
| 152 | Tell me about your experiences. | 告诉我你的经历 |
| 153 | If you fell in love with Toastmasters, if you're still Toastmasters after X amount | 如果你爱上了土司马, 如果你还是土司马 之后的X量 |
| 154 | of years, tell me about your club's culture and please like and subscribe. | 说说你的俱乐部文化 请喜欢和订阅 |
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