陈冠希老师纽约大学演讲（口语超级赞）

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uh hey guys um actually today I don't I

don't even really know why I'm here

right now but uh I kept getting messages

from Jesse telling me to come and talk

to you guys so um I was supposed to come

last year so I'm actually in New York

right now doing a music performance

tonight so I decided to take some time

and speak with you guys um I don't have

a PowerPoint presentation I think a few

things I wanted to speak to you guys

about is the importance of you know the

the experience of what I've had in

working in the Chinese market I can see

that most of us here are Asian hopefully

most of us are Chinese I think so what

Jesse told me so you know I think one

common mistake that a lot of people do

is saying it's good for China it's good

for China so people watch a movie that's

Chinese and they say oh that was a good

movie for a Chinese movie and for me

that doesn't cut it that doesn't that

doesn't make sense to me

do you understand a movie is a movie it

shouldn't be all because it's a Chinese

movie there's lower standards so what I

think is most important especially for

all of us you know we're we're lucky

enough to have a you know a Western

education or a Western upbringing is to

understand that the level of quality of

work does not differ in different

countries whenever I do something I

don't think about I'm doing this for

China so what is good for China I

believe everything that I do even if

it's a Chinese song I try to think of it

as if my friends in America or a person

that worked at a radio station they

listen to my song what would they think

of this song now I'm not thinking I'm

not saying that the Chinese market is

unimportant it's just that we cannot say

to ourselves that okay so

I want to work in China and these are

the these visa the the guidelines or the

the status of what is good because the

problem is with that is that a lot of us

may be already thinking everyone's like

China is the next market China is the

next superpower China is this and China

is that okay there's a lot of money to

be made there okay sure but you cannot

lose the integrity of what you do and

what you represent for money and at the

same time if China is going to become

the next superpower or the next place to

make business happen then we cannot be

working at a barometer of saying this is

good for China this everything has to be

good on an international level and only

then will we be able to be standing

proud and say this is Chinese made the

reason why I'm saying this is because

when I started clot in I don't even

remember man 15 years ago I remember

something very very very very alarming

to me is I said were made in China and

everyone's like oh my god that's

horrible I said what do you mean why why

is made in China bad like all these

products are getting recalled in America

and there's baby products have LED in

them or bla bla bla bla bla so

everything that I've been doing I've

been trying to be made in China

creatively designed in China everything

is from a Chinese perspective people ask

me hey what are you I'm actually born in

Canada but I tell people I'm Chinese

because you can't deny the fact that I'm

Chinese look at me I mean so I say I'm

born in Canada but I'm Chinese so when

people think I say made in China or this

work were based in China and it gives

them a bad stigmatism I have to be very

aware of everything that I do and

everything that I say so that if someone

from an international level is looking

at the product that we're making or

looking at the creative designs or the

the the ideas that were coming out of we

can be proud to say that yeah this is

made in China the first time I have

went to Nike I told them hey we need to

shoot we need to make a shoe and they're

like oh well it's you're a Hong

kong-based company we've never done

products from Hong Kong and I said half

your shoes are made in China

like what are you talking about like how

can you not give us a voice in the

international market when you rely on

our people to make half of your product

it took me three years to keep showing

them what we do showing them that we're

not you know we're not at a lower level

than other creatives so now 10 years

later we're still making Nike shoes

we've made six pairs of Nike shoes and

you know our company is now signed to a

Nike deal and that's so perseverance and

that's a really really really really

hard work and quite honestly every time

we make something although 70% of the

people that buy it are Chinese we don't

think of it that way we think of making

a good product now good product it

doesn't matter where you go it doesn't

matter if you're in Brazil it doesn't

matter if you're in Russia it doesn't

matter if you're an Ethiopian a good

product will sell itself it doesn't have

to be it doesn't have to say made we're

made we're made we're so I think the

importance of all of you guys is to

understand that everything that we do we

should be doing it for an international

level I know that a lot of you might

return back to China and work and you

might start following under that same

stigmatism but that is wrong I'm telling

you right now it's wrong because you

know I hate it when people say oh yo

look these rappers are the hip hop is

really big in China right now and

they're like oh this Chinese rap album

is good for China and it's like what

what do you actually mean by that you

know like oh well the beat sounds like

it's six years old but you know if you

actually listen to hip-hop and I go then

that's wrong and that's not good and I'm

not trying to disrespect these people

but I'm trying to say that we live in a

very small world now you know like we

can take a plane I'm taking a plane

tonight I'm going to Shanghai and I'll

be there in ten hours and I'm doing

another job but it doesn't make make mic

my sense of quality level change at all

we have to keep knowing what's good

and keep bringing what's good so that in

China in 10 15 20 50 years whenever it

really is our time to step up to the

plate we already are trained in offering

quality level products or quality level

thinking not judged on the level of

what's good in China now I totally

understand that you know doing business

in China is a total different monster

than doing different business in say

America but the I think one of the the

most important things is in China is

very hard to speak your mind

it's very hard to truly and essentially

be yourself but us being exposed to the

Internet

exposed to the world when we go back we

have to we have to really really really

really stay true to your real roots and

stay true to whatever your real

inspiration and idea is because we are

all global and we are all the same

people even though our skin may be a

different color it doesn't make any

difference so doing something for China

should be doing something for the world

and you should not lower your standards

for that so I feel like that's you know

one of the most important things that I

wanted to tell you guys today now you

know they wanted me to talk to you about

some design elements and stuff and you

know I think you can read all read about

all that on the internet but I think the

most important thing is how to mesh what

you know and try to kind of bring it

into a larger conversation so that

everyone does not have to change what

they want to do I've never changed what

I wanted to do it's been hard really

hard but now people are finally telling

me that they think that I'm talented and

they think that I'm you know a hard

worker I mean I haven't changed my work

ethic in 10 15 years and I think that

that's something that we should all

should take back is you know people

might not understand

what you're talking about or what you're

thinking but if you have a good idea

sooner or later they're gonna jump on

and they're gonna start giving you

praise and I feel like us as the next

voice in generation for China you know

we're being at you guys are being

educated in New York one of the greatest

cities in the world

we she when you go back you should not

forget what you've seen here and not be

like oh I'm back in China and this is

how I should act no you're a part of

this world and you should act the way

that you want to act and represent the

things that you want to represent and um

you know I think that you know like

another good example that is hip-hop

music I've been doing hip-hop music for

10 15 years and now all of a sudden it's

super popular in China so that's an

example of my perseverance and my belief

in my work and you know I think one of

the most important things I've ever

learned is if you find a job that you

love you really don't have to work

anymore because you know every day I

wake up and I'm doing work yeah I'm

doing work I'm consulting for this brand

I'm recording this song I'm designing

the shoe but it's not really work to me

it's something that I love is something

I'm passionate for is something that I

want to tell the world so I think what's

most important also that I wanted to

tell you is you know it might be that

all tech is really in right now or I

don't know basketball or something right

and you're like oh I'm gonna go that

market and try to make some money nine

out of ten times you will lose because

you're only trying to do it for finance

finance is secondary passion is first

because like I said if you have passion

for something no matter how hard it is

it's all worth it but if you're just

trying to look for a dollar bill there's

a lot of places you can find easy money

but if you're trying to do something for

10 to 15 years or for your lifetime if

you go into an industry that is only

because there's money or my mother told

me to go do it I feel sorry for you

because you're gonna have a horrible

life and every day you wake up you're

gonna have to be look at yourself in the

mirror and you're gonna be sad

so I think another thing that I wanted

to tell you guys is to believe in

yourself and believe in your dreams and

really you know find your own groove and

stick to it believe in it and no matter

if you're doing it in America if you're

doing it in China if you're doing it in

Japan just do it at the same quality

level do not do not because other people

are working at a lower standard or a

lower level thinking go down to that

level so that you can I don't know I

don't really know how to explain it it's

it's something that I've never done i've

never bent over for for anybody and I

think you know the willpower of yourself

will be the testament of Chinese people

for the next 50 to 100 years and I think

that we are the most important people

right now in the world because we have a

great chance and we have a we have one

of the largest nations we're becoming

more and more important on the

international level and what is most

important is the next generation because

right now I can I can I can pinpoint so

many things that when I go to China what

I think are wrong

a lot of people say a Edison you can't

change this and I said yeah but I'm

gonna try and even if I don't succeed if

I've like say I've inspired this guy

right there you know and he's the next

guy then I've done my job because it

doesn't have to happen in my lifetime

and it doesn't have to happen on myself

as long as I really believe in something

I hope that in the future it will change

so I believe that us as a people we have

a very very large responsibility to

pinpoint what we think is wrong and to

pinpoint exactly how we're gonna make

those changes now like I said it might

not might not happen in your lifetime

but we are the we are the force to make

that wave to start going you know so I

believe one day we can week eight we

really are we really will be maybe the

the most influential and most powerful

country in the world but it's up to you

guys

I mean I'm 37 I'm old so you guys are

the young ones so hopefully you guys can

really follow your dreams understand

what the level D of call level of

quality is and and keep at it you know