英语演讲稿范文：你希望未来成为什么的人_英语演讲稿范文
Raise your hand if you"ve ever been asked the question "What do you want to be when yougrow up?"
Now if you had to guess, how old would you say you were when you were first asked thisquestion?You can just hold up fingers. Three. Five. Three. Five. Five. OK. Now, raise yourhand if the question"What do you want to be when you grow up?" has ever caused you anyanxiety.
Any anxiety at all.
I"m someone who"s never been able to answer the question "What do you want to be when yougrow up?"
See, the problem wasn"t that I didn"t have any interests -- it"s that I had too many. In high school,I liked English and math and art and I built websites and I played guitar in a punk band calledFrustrated Telephone Operator. Maybe you"ve heard of us.
This continued after high school, and at a certain point, I began to notice this pattern inmyself where I would become interested in an area and I would dive in, become all-consumed, and I"d get to be pretty good at whatever it was, and then I would hit this point whereI"d start to get bored. And usually I would try and persist anyway, because I had already devotedso much time and energy and sometimes money into this field. But eventually this sense ofboredom, this feeling of, like, yeah, I got this, this isn"t challenging anymore -- it would get to betoo much. And I would have to let it go.
But then I would become interested in something else, something totally unrelated, and I woulddive into that, and become all-consumed, and I"d be like, "Yes! I found my thing," and then Iwould hit this point again where I"d start to get bored. And eventually, I would let it go. But then Iwould discover something new and totally different, and I would dive into that.
This pattern caused me a lot of anxiety, for two reasons. The first was that I wasn"t sure how Iwas going to turn any of this into a career. I thought that I would eventually have to pick onething, deny all of my other passions, and just resign myself to be