跟读练习: Kids Can Be Role Models | Jack Bonneau | TEDxBoulder - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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I am not a role model.
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I am not a role model.
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I'm not paid to be a role model.
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I get paid to wreak havoc on the court.
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Parents should be role models.
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Just because I can dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.
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These are the famous words from the 1993 Nike commercial with NBA Hall of Famer
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and NBA analyst Charles Barkley from 25 years ago.
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Webster's dictionary defines role model as a person whose behavior in a particular role is imitated by others.
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Parents are role models, certainly minor for me, but who can kids look to outside of their parents, teachers and mentors to inspire us,
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to provide a direction to achieve the heights that we hope to?
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Our society has been focused around entertainment, media, sports and political figures as role models.
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stars like LeBron James and Steph Curry are looked up to by millions,
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and icons like Lance Armstrong and Tiger Woods have disappointed millions with professional and personal problems.
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Entertainment stars like Ellen and Oprah aspire to our better selves versus the Harvey Weinsteins and the Bill Cosbys,
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who are examples of those who were once held in high esteem, only to find out some terrible truths.
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Superheroes, you should just be white guys like Spider-Man and Iron Man.
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But now we have Black Panther and Wonder Woman, and it's great that minorities and women are finally being represented in these superhero roles,
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but they are just fictional characters.
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The Kardashians have a huge social media following, over 100 million, and are looked up to by many.
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But their biggest accomplishment is being famous.
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Is this something that a kid like me should aspire to?
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Or should we look to someone, a role model, who is more inspiring, more relatable, that us kids can see ourselves in them?
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I believe that kids can be their own best role models.
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Kids who have no fear to start something that they're interested in or passionate about.
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Kids who have been on amazing experiences and journeys and are examples to all of us.
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Kids like Michaela Ulmer, who when she was four, was stung by a bee twice.
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So she learned about the bees and saw the challenges that they were facing.
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So she took her 1940 Granny Helen's flaxseed lemonade recipe and sweetened it with local honey.
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She went from a simple lemonade stand, and now she's 13, has four different types of lemonade, and has them in hundreds of Whole Foods across the country,
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and donates a percentage of her profits to international organizations working to save the bees.
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Or Australian Jade Hammeister, who by age 16 was the youngest girl
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and the first girl to ski the North Pole and the South Pole and across the largest polar ice cap in Greenland.
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Or Mosiah Bridges, who I know personally.
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Mo wanted to wear bow ties, but didn't like any of the bow ties that he saw.
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So he asked his grandmother how to sew them.
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Started his own business, got on Shark Tank, didn't get a deal, but kept at it and now has a multi-million dollar deal with the NBA.
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Yeah.
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Or the Parkland teenagers like Emma Gonzalez, David Hogg, and others.
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Or Malala, who won the Nobel Priest Prize.
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And all of these kids were teenagers when they achieved these great peaks.
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I could go on, but these are just a few of the examples of kids
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whose lives can serve as role models for other kids and adults to aspire to in their own lives.
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These kids can be great role models for other kids, because they show what is possible as a kid.
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But how does a kid go from being just a normal kid to aspire to their own path, journey and experiences, just like a few of the kids that I just mentioned?
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For me, I would say, just go do it.
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My story started five summers ago when I wanted the Lego Star Wars Death Star.
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I asked my parents if I could get it.
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They said I could, but I would have to pay for it.
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I was eight years old and it cost $400.
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I was like, well, how am I going to make that much money?
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I'm eight years old.
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I couldn't get a paper route, and a lemonade stand at the end of my street would take forever.
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So my dad suggested that I put my own lemonade stand at my local farmer's market.
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I had my parents and farmer's market manager encourage me to treat this like a real business, with proper permits and licenses.
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After one year, I sold $2,000 worth of lemonade, and after expenses, made $900 in profit, and yes, I got my Lego Death Star.
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I had such a great experience that I wanted to share this with other kids, so I created my own business where kids
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and their families could sign up at a website to sign up for a date
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and a time and a location to operate my stands.
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I was getting so many customers that I also reached out to other young entrepreneurs to sell their products at my stands.
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In both cases, I just did it.
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Mo didn't give up on finding the type of bow tie that he liked.
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With the help of his grandmother and his mom, he started designing and making the bow ties that he liked.
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He just went ahead and did it.
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Michaela didn't let you be seen and stop her.
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With the support of her parents, She's a successful social entrepreneur, the ambassador, educator, and student.
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She just did it.
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Jade, when she was 12, made the trek to Everest Base Camp and was inspired by two women she met there to go on her own quest, Jade's Polar Quest.
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These kids had no expectation of being role models to us in the world.
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They just had the courage to just go do it and to just figure it out with the support of their parents, school, and mentor along the way.
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It was a simple effort of having interest, a passion, the needed cause or solving a problem, and the courage to just go do it.
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There are so many kids that we can look to, to see ourselves in their shoes, their journey to inspire us to embark on our own journey, our own path.
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We can see ourselves in them because they are just like us.
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They are us.
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I am inspired by Michaela, Mo, Jade, Emma, and David, and I see myself in them.
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If they can do it, then maybe we can do it, Whatever our it is.
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Thank you.
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