Luo Pang put the 2020 New Year's Eve speech in Wuhan for a special purpose.
In 2020, the COVID-19 epidemic broke out in Wuhan, which touched the hearts of people all over the country. When I heard that Luo Pang chose Wuhan as the venue for his speech, I wanted to know how he would start.
Unexpectedly, he began with such a story:
There is an artist named Gonzalez who shows a very special work of art in exhibition halls all over the world.
This work of art is a pile of candy, but it is not ordinary candy. The weight of this pile of candy is exactly 79.4 kilograms, which is the weight of his wife before her death.
This pile of candy is displayed in the exhibition hall, and there is no guardrail around it. Visitors can take some as souvenirs at will.
However, every day after the exhibition, Gonzalez will re-weigh the pile of candy and then make up the part taken away.
In this way, day after day, without interruption, the weight of this pile of candy is always 79.4 kilograms.
Gonzalez commemorates his lover in this special way. It is sweet to express life through candy, but life will eventually die, just like candy will always be taken away. But the most important thing is that no matter what happens, people who love her will always make her reborn again and again.
At this point in the story, Luo Pang said affectionately:
This story is very similar to the beauty, process and rebirth that Wuhan people have experienced in the past year, and also witnessed the power of love. Here, I pay tribute to you, to the people of150,000 Wuhan.
Such an opening brings people into a scene with temperature. If you are from Wuhan, you may be inexplicably moved after hearing it.
A speech, the opening can produce the same frequency vibration as people, and it is half the battle.
Part of Luo Pang's New Year speech this year was mentioned in his previous "Inspiration Club", which didn't stimulate my brain enough.
After watching the live broadcast for more than four hours, I asked myself if I could sum up my intuitive feelings in one sentence. One sentence that comes to mind is: Luo Pang's 2020 New Year's Eve speech is more like a long textbook-level open class of ideological and political education.
I am an educator and the head of a grass-roots party organization. I know that in order to have an interesting and dry ideological and political course, I have high requirements on the knowledge and expression ability of the lecturer.
More importantly, the lecturer should first believe what he says, and then speak it in a passionate way, so that the audience will be infected.
Luo Pang did it completely. He deserves to be a top ideological and political teacher. From him, our ideological and political teachers can learn three teaching skills:
1. Change the angle
There are at least two ways to look at anything-positive or negative, optimistic or pessimistic, positive or negative.
In the annual New Year's speech, Luo Pang always talks about a topic-the judgment on the future trend of China's economy. There are at least two ways to look at China's economy-optimism or pessimism.
Luo Pang is an optimist. He believes that China's economy will continue to grow in the future. He thinks pessimism is a liar, it attracts our attention, but it doesn't let us participate in the change.
Optimists don't complain about the environment, dare to face the challenges of the real world, use the limited resources around them to solve other people's problems and solve their own problems.
As an ideological and political teacher, you must look at something from a positive, optimistic and positive perspective. You should learn from Luo Pang.
If you are a pessimist, if you can't change the perspective of looking at a thing-read the optimistic elements from seemingly pessimistic things, then you are not suitable to be an ideological and political teacher.
Choose facts
The same half glass of water is placed in front of you, and the optimist sees "there is still half glass of water", thanking those who leave half a glass of water for themselves; Pessimists see that "there is only half a glass of water left" and complain who drank half.
Different perspectives on things will affect your choice of different "facts" to prove your point of view.
Will India replace China as the center of global supply chain in the future? How does China have super social organization ability? What kind of new relationship between local government and enterprises in China ... As an optimistic Luo Pang, he chose some convincing facts (cases) to illustrate that when China grew up, it not only had a huge economic scale, but also an organized cooperation network. This network is large in scale and rich in layers, with both strength and flexibility. This is our generation.
As a teacher of ideological and political course, we should learn to choose vivid cases that are happening now and tell them vividly with our own experiences, leaving a deep impression on students.
3. Can reason
Let's look at how Luo Pang uses induction and deduction's reasoning to tell how individuals solve the survival dilemma trapped in the system.
First of all, Luo Pang uses inductive reasoning to start with various phenomena of "trapped in the system".
"Trapped in the system" is a popular phrase in 2020, which originated from someone writing an article about the takeaway brother trapped in the digital system.
All the actions of the takeaway brother, what order to take, where to pick up the meal, what to eat, where to send it, how to go, and what punishment he will face if he delivers the food over time are strictly controlled by the background system.
From the takeaway brother to the employees who work at home because of the epidemic, and even the bosses, there are similar dilemmas trapped in the digital system.
Starting from one phenomenon after another, Luo Pang re-examined the connotation of the concept of "digitalization" and summed up a cognition: in the past, digitalization represented clearer, more transparent and more efficient; But now it has another flavor, representing tension, depression and helplessness.
Subsequently, based on the exploration of the true face of "digitalization", Luo Pang adopted deductive reasoning and quoted the research results of financial scholar Xiang Shuai: the trend of digitalization was irreversible and was greatly promoted by the epidemic; The digital future is a divided future. Some people will be trapped in the digital system or even replaced by the system; And some people will become more powerful because of the digital system.
Luo Pang further focused on "what is the watershed of digitalization", which led to Xiang Shuai's answer: Whether digitalization is honey or poison to you depends on whether you are responsible for people or things.
In order to explain clearly what is responsible for people and what is responsible for things, Luo Pang gave an example of education. President Li Xi of Beijing Eleventh Alliance General School tortured the librarian's soul: As a librarian, are you responsible for books? Still responsible for people?
Then, Luo Pang traces back to the story of Kasparov, the chess master, who lost to the supercomputer Deep Blue more than 20 years ago from a systematic perspective, and draws the conclusion that the victory of the machine is always the victory of mankind, and the system is only the support behind us, and human beings can also use the machine to participate in higher-level competition; In the future digital system, a person's value, your friendliness, cooperation and constructiveness can be seen by everyone at any time and place.
Finally, Luo Pang concluded that when we grow up, we must learn to co-evolve with the system.
Only with such clear logical reasoning can your speech be convincing. Our ideological and political teacher lacks the logical expression ability like Luo Pang.
The theme of Luo Pang's New Year's speech in 2020 is "When I grow up", especially the part involving personal growth, which is very suitable for young students' ideological and political lessons.
I'm going to give Huarui an ideological and political course with what Luo Pang said. The name has been decided-"How do you face up to your life problems when you grow up?" 》
I will discuss with my classmates around the following three topics:
1. When you grow up, why do people think differently about you?
What does it mean to grow up? Everyone has their own different experiences. But one thing is the same, that is, people will look at you differently now than when they were children.
When you made a mistake as a child, your parents took the responsibility behind your back. In his New Year speech, Luo Pang recalled a sentence his father told him at the school hostel when his parents sent him to Wuhan for college 30 years ago.
Father Luo told him: "tomorrow you will officially report for duty, and you will be a college student." From tomorrow on, society will no longer treat you as a child. You made a mistake today, so we can stand up and say that the child is too young to understand. Tomorrow, you will be a college student. What is wrong is wrong. You have to find a way to take care of yourself. "
Nowadays, society does not regard your 18 age as the dividing line when you grow up and go to college, but 12. Because, from now on, 12-year-old children who commit intentional homicide or intentional injury, if the circumstances are particularly bad, need to bear criminal responsibility.
Growing up not only means that you are mature in dealing with people, but also can respond to the expectations and pressures given to you with a positive attitude.
2. When you grow up, how will you be responsible for your own project?
When you grow up and enter a complex social system, you will encounter many new topics, such as how to find your favorite lover and how to win the approval of the leaders ... These new topics need to be faced by you alone.
In the process of your growth, you must first learn to choose. Choose what to do, what not to do, what is urgent to do now, and what to do in the long run. Only by choosing again and again can we gain the meaning of growth.
Luo Pang tells that he has a major choice in 2020-to create an "inspiration club" at the entrance of SKP shopping mall in Beijing, hold an offline activity every Wednesday night, share his learning gains for a week with the audience who bought tickets on the spot, and conduct online free live broadcast.
Luo Pang wants to create a humanistic landscape so that all people who like reading can come here to feel lifelong learning.
Luo pang tells the story of a father and son buying tickets to motivate the club:
A father brought his junior high school children to inspire the club on his child's birthday. After Luo Pang saw it, he was very happy to ask if the father and son were heavy users of APP. Father and son said no.
Father said, I just want my children to see what it's like to study hard and take reading as their job. The child said that my father wanted me to come, and on my birthday, I also wanted to talk to my father.
Finally, Luo Pang said that the father and son came to inspire the club not because they wanted to hear what I said, but because I provided a container of meaning here, which the father and son used to define, consolidate and strengthen the relationship between their father and son.
Every time we choose, there will be reasons for choosing, and every time we give reasons, we are creating meaning for ourselves.
When we grow up, we should not only learn to use the existing meaning containers to gain our own value, but also consider creating some new meaning containers for the world, which can be passed on to future generations.
3. When you grow up, how do you use the resources around you to solve problems?
When you grow up, you will find that everyone who does things faces similar challenges: how to achieve the goal under the premise of limited resources?
Luo Pang quoted an educational case from the Global Education Report by Mr. Shen Zuyun.
Deep in the mountains of Huairou District, there is a mountain village primary school with only 23 teachers-Jiuduhe Primary School. Under the leadership of the new principal, Yu Hailong, this mountain village primary school has solved the problem of limited educational resources by hiring local villagers from all walks of life as tutors.
The school has set up various courses such as tofu class, vegetable planting class, woodworking class and chicken raising class, so that children can learn knowledge in the process of solving practical challenges.
For example, students should not only learn to make tofu, but also learn to sell tofu. When they are in grinding bean curd, they need to calculate the ratio of soybean to water, so they study percentage in the sixth grade. In addition, selling tofu to the surrounding villagers and restaurants in the town requires children to learn how to communicate with buyers and write promotional advertisements, which exercises students' comprehensive ability.
You see, if you want to solve the problem, don't forget that resources may be around you.
Learn a "not far" way of doing things and use the limited resources around you to solve problems, then you can really grow up.
At the end of every New Year speech, Luo Pang always quotes a famous person at the end. In 2020, I quoted the writer E·B· White as saying: Be happy in the face of complexity.
In this new era of great change, we can embrace complexity with an open mind and go further.