[Music]
[Laughter]
you
[Applause]
speaking debate has been a
quintessential part of my life for all
of high school as a member I have made
innumerable friends and learned even
more lessons
many of these lessons come from fellow
competitors and rounds I compete in an
event called original oratory where I
write and perform an original speech now
imagine being a competitor sitting in a
high school on a Saturday here in
calvess Beach on any number of subjects
like you are here today so without
further ado an original oratory
competitive humility so my friend and I
are rapidly approaching the end of the
unit two biology tests being fairly
confident in the material we were both
hoping for high scores but which would
be higher I turn in my scantron and wait
for it to be graded sooner than expected
it’s back at my desk
ready to be viewed and so is his quickly
glancing in both papers I feel my heart
swell by just one point I got the higher
score I tended to stay calm I looked
down at my desk a smile pulling at the
corners of my mouth when I next look up
my teacher is standing right before me
wearing a smile just as wide now he is
your average teacher and what he would
next declare was perhaps the weirdest
statement I have ever heard he said I
love it when hard work is aptly rewarded
congratulations but do you know it’s
incredibly sexy and he handed me a
sticky note with one word written on it
humility naturally I was confused and
later he and I discussed the out
statement his use of the word sexy
taught me completely off-guard it
provided ample amounts of hilarity but
also acted as the catalyst for analysis
around the idea of being humble I myself
am a very competitive person and find
ways to compete about anything under the
Sun anyone interested in a race to the
cafeteria my teacher on the other hand
does not support such mentality your
favor of a more cooperative and humble
path both stars alone leads to various
benefits but why should we settle for
just one
we so often set competition and humility
at odds with each other
treating them as though we are only
permitted to possess one at a time when
this is sim
not true let’s first examine competition
and the benefits of having a competitive
spirit
we will then explore the concept of
humility in its many advantages and
finally we can combine these two
qualities because at the end of the day
competition and humility are not
mutually exclusive
rather they mutually inclusive once we
learn this we walk away from every
victory or defeat as true winners
competition now the activity or
condition of competing or the person are
people with whom when it’s competing the
opposition speeching debate is the
quintessential example of a competition
and a very difficult one at that yet
many of us still go why as Gianni
Versace stated it is nice to have valid
competition it pushes you to do better
competition brings out the best we can
offer when faced with opponents that
prove especially difficult to take on
one was put in their best effort for
example every speech that’s given in
original oratory and every other event
at a speech meet is a product solely of
the competitors best work after all
I’m gonna win this remains true for
competitions of any and all magnitude
take the race to space for instance in
the 20th century two superpower nations
and Cold War rivals the United States
and Soviet Union were engaged in a tight
competition for superior spaceflight
capability now this was literally rocket
science
so achieving such a feat could have
taken a very long time but the looming
threat that the other country might
succeed first pushed both nations to
work as quickly and efficiently as
possible
thus they both gained space light
technology and the fuel that powered
these space shuttles was not liquid
hydrogen the competition in the end
competition is about you after all life
is competitive we are constantly
striving to provide for ourselves to get
the best opportunities and achieve as
high as possible whether we are
searching for a job engaging in sports
are applying to college we are
surrounded by competition a driving
force to do our best so that we might
finish on top but a competitive spirit
can rapidly evolving to Eakins
see that spirit while being focused on
ourselves may help us get ahead in the
absence of humility it can easily become
an excess of arrogance and a lack of
compassion for others through
competition I managed to score highly on
my biology test but how I acted after I
received my score was just as important
if not more than the score itself
humility is the highest virtue the
mother of them all has said that poet
Alfred Tennyson and it’s very basic
humility is possessing a modest or low
view of one’s own importance easier said
than done right my mom always told me
the ink conversation people like to talk
about themselves instead of provoked
conversation asked about them and let
them do the work for you simple except
I’m the person to you I like to talk
about me finding a balance between
focusing on ourselves and focusing on
others proves an internal struggle but
putting in the effort is more than worth
it dr. Jeremy Dean on his popular web
page beside log lists eight
psychological benefits of being humble
among these are better work performance
and relationships higher grades and less
prejudice these stem from a lower sense
of entitlement and high regard and
acceptance of others and the concept of
humility is far from hidden or obscure
in today’s society the Christian faith
uses humility as a vehicle to God’s
forgiveness is one of the five pillars
of Islam and in Buddhism is the core
Avenue of the Four Noble Truths the
major religions of the world all preach
the central message that humility is of
the utmost importance outside of
religious practice modesty’s Ali died as
well but perhaps one of the greatest
examples of a humble person comes from
religion Siddhartha Gautama
better known as the Buddha was raised in
the palace never leaving its walls or
traveling the world thus he was ignorant
of the pain that peasants around him
relentlessly endured when he finally
witnessed all his pain and suffering and
hardship and death he gave up all
worldly possessions in favor of teaching
others the path to enlightenment the
Buddha left behind not only lasting
impacts on this world but also a model
of what Jaime
humility might look like a focus on
others valuing of himself is equal or
even below though is with which
interacted and yet being too humble can
be a detriment as well someone who is
excessively modest cares so much for
others that their own agenda is never
attended to they become shy unimpacted a
doormat on which other people can walk
all over no one wants to be you on that
and no one wants to be overly arrogant
through competition either that’s the
best way to avoid these two extremes is
to combine competition and humility to
become the humble competitor this past
August Olympic swimmer Katie ledecky
obliterated the world record and the
women’s 800 meter freestyle finishing
more than six and a half seconds ahead
of her competition a very impressive
margin but immediately after the race
the Decker did not brag about her
victory she focused on others in her
interviews one that you spoke only of
her teammates and of the experience in
Rio I just had a lot of fun this week
she said not only in the pool which is
with my teammates the memories mean more
than the medals to me here I’m just so
proud of my teammates and all that we
have accomplished this last week latexes
humility is just as inspiring as her
ability to swim in the same way humility
was the name of the game at the Academy
Awards for the final Oscar a mistake was
made and the wrong movie was announced
as the winner the team behind this movie
made their way to the stage and the
producers began to speak but there was
commotion in the background soon word
got out a different movie titled
moonlight had won the award but the
losing group did not salt off the stage
instead this man Jordan Horowitz went up
to the microphone and said I’m going to
be really thrilled to hand this to my
friends at Mike Horowitz had just lost
the award but regardless he showed the
power and the grace behind true humility
on the other hand good competitors who
lack you believe are difficult for us to
support because while they may be good
at their craft putting up with their
arrogance is no easy
tasks take my song-song for instance
this road racing cyclist was found to be
using performance-enhancing drugs and
was the stripped of his seven Tour de
France victories reporter Julie McCoy of
the New York Times frequently covered
Armstrong’s races and stated that the
bicyclist was arrogance itself there’s
an obvious difference here between
Armstrong’s competitiveness alone
focusing only on himself and the humble
yet competitive spirit of Horowitz and
Levesque be focusing on others as well
as themselves in moderation these two
qualities can be beneficial but without
the other competition can evolve into
conceitedness and humility can evolve
into obscurity
hence balancing the two is not only
beneficial but necessary because in the
end you say both wants to run the
fastest Tom Brady wants to win the
Superbowl Leonardo DiCaprio wants to win
another oscar hillary clinton wanted to
win the election and I want to win
original oratory we are all driven to
succeed the desire to come out
victorious motivates competitors to do
their best but when we win staying
humble is the true mark of not only a
great competitor but of a great person
by not bragging accepting our own
weaknesses and valuing the strengths and
opinions of others we can better
ourselves through humility we gain
something we gain perspective both out
of ourselves and the perspective of
others how we perceive a situation
enriched with an understanding of how
others are affected by it imagine what
the world can be like not if but when we
combine a sense of self-worth in
competition and a sense of others within
humility I may have gotten the better
test form biology and that felt pretty
awesome but staying humble about my
success difficult – it was a lot of my
friend to feel confident about his own
score and now I am learning the most
valuable lesson that has nothing to do
with biology the lesson that the best
victories are those are some carry your
peers along with yourself the lesson but
being the humble competitor is
incredibly sexy thank you
Oh
you
[Laughter]
you
[Applause]
speaking debate has been a
quintessential part of my life for all
of high school as a member I have made
innumerable friends and learned even
more lessons
many of these lessons come from fellow
competitors and rounds I compete in an
event called original oratory where I
write and perform an original speech now
imagine being a competitor sitting in a
high school on a Saturday here in
calvess Beach on any number of subjects
like you are here today so without
further ado an original oratory
competitive humility so my friend and I
are rapidly approaching the end of the
unit two biology tests being fairly
confident in the material we were both
hoping for high scores but which would
be higher I turn in my scantron and wait
for it to be graded sooner than expected
it’s back at my desk
ready to be viewed and so is his quickly
glancing in both papers I feel my heart
swell by just one point I got the higher
score I tended to stay calm I looked
down at my desk a smile pulling at the
corners of my mouth when I next look up
my teacher is standing right before me
wearing a smile just as wide now he is
your average teacher and what he would
next declare was perhaps the weirdest
statement I have ever heard he said I
love it when hard work is aptly rewarded
congratulations but do you know it’s
incredibly sexy and he handed me a
sticky note with one word written on it
humility naturally I was confused and
later he and I discussed the out
statement his use of the word sexy
taught me completely off-guard it
provided ample amounts of hilarity but
also acted as the catalyst for analysis
around the idea of being humble I myself
am a very competitive person and find
ways to compete about anything under the
Sun anyone interested in a race to the
cafeteria my teacher on the other hand
does not support such mentality your
favor of a more cooperative and humble
path both stars alone leads to various
benefits but why should we settle for
just one
we so often set competition and humility
at odds with each other
treating them as though we are only
permitted to possess one at a time when
this is sim
not true let’s first examine competition
and the benefits of having a competitive
spirit
we will then explore the concept of
humility in its many advantages and
finally we can combine these two
qualities because at the end of the day
competition and humility are not
mutually exclusive
rather they mutually inclusive once we
learn this we walk away from every
victory or defeat as true winners
competition now the activity or
condition of competing or the person are
people with whom when it’s competing the
opposition speeching debate is the
quintessential example of a competition
and a very difficult one at that yet
many of us still go why as Gianni
Versace stated it is nice to have valid
competition it pushes you to do better
competition brings out the best we can
offer when faced with opponents that
prove especially difficult to take on
one was put in their best effort for
example every speech that’s given in
original oratory and every other event
at a speech meet is a product solely of
the competitors best work after all
I’m gonna win this remains true for
competitions of any and all magnitude
take the race to space for instance in
the 20th century two superpower nations
and Cold War rivals the United States
and Soviet Union were engaged in a tight
competition for superior spaceflight
capability now this was literally rocket
science
so achieving such a feat could have
taken a very long time but the looming
threat that the other country might
succeed first pushed both nations to
work as quickly and efficiently as
possible
thus they both gained space light
technology and the fuel that powered
these space shuttles was not liquid
hydrogen the competition in the end
competition is about you after all life
is competitive we are constantly
striving to provide for ourselves to get
the best opportunities and achieve as
high as possible whether we are
searching for a job engaging in sports
are applying to college we are
surrounded by competition a driving
force to do our best so that we might
finish on top but a competitive spirit
can rapidly evolving to Eakins
see that spirit while being focused on
ourselves may help us get ahead in the
absence of humility it can easily become
an excess of arrogance and a lack of
compassion for others through
competition I managed to score highly on
my biology test but how I acted after I
received my score was just as important
if not more than the score itself
humility is the highest virtue the
mother of them all has said that poet
Alfred Tennyson and it’s very basic
humility is possessing a modest or low
view of one’s own importance easier said
than done right my mom always told me
the ink conversation people like to talk
about themselves instead of provoked
conversation asked about them and let
them do the work for you simple except
I’m the person to you I like to talk
about me finding a balance between
focusing on ourselves and focusing on
others proves an internal struggle but
putting in the effort is more than worth
it dr. Jeremy Dean on his popular web
page beside log lists eight
psychological benefits of being humble
among these are better work performance
and relationships higher grades and less
prejudice these stem from a lower sense
of entitlement and high regard and
acceptance of others and the concept of
humility is far from hidden or obscure
in today’s society the Christian faith
uses humility as a vehicle to God’s
forgiveness is one of the five pillars
of Islam and in Buddhism is the core
Avenue of the Four Noble Truths the
major religions of the world all preach
the central message that humility is of
the utmost importance outside of
religious practice modesty’s Ali died as
well but perhaps one of the greatest
examples of a humble person comes from
religion Siddhartha Gautama
better known as the Buddha was raised in
the palace never leaving its walls or
traveling the world thus he was ignorant
of the pain that peasants around him
relentlessly endured when he finally
witnessed all his pain and suffering and
hardship and death he gave up all
worldly possessions in favor of teaching
others the path to enlightenment the
Buddha left behind not only lasting
impacts on this world but also a model
of what Jaime
humility might look like a focus on
others valuing of himself is equal or
even below though is with which
interacted and yet being too humble can
be a detriment as well someone who is
excessively modest cares so much for
others that their own agenda is never
attended to they become shy unimpacted a
doormat on which other people can walk
all over no one wants to be you on that
and no one wants to be overly arrogant
through competition either that’s the
best way to avoid these two extremes is
to combine competition and humility to
become the humble competitor this past
August Olympic swimmer Katie ledecky
obliterated the world record and the
women’s 800 meter freestyle finishing
more than six and a half seconds ahead
of her competition a very impressive
margin but immediately after the race
the Decker did not brag about her
victory she focused on others in her
interviews one that you spoke only of
her teammates and of the experience in
Rio I just had a lot of fun this week
she said not only in the pool which is
with my teammates the memories mean more
than the medals to me here I’m just so
proud of my teammates and all that we
have accomplished this last week latexes
humility is just as inspiring as her
ability to swim in the same way humility
was the name of the game at the Academy
Awards for the final Oscar a mistake was
made and the wrong movie was announced
as the winner the team behind this movie
made their way to the stage and the
producers began to speak but there was
commotion in the background soon word
got out a different movie titled
moonlight had won the award but the
losing group did not salt off the stage
instead this man Jordan Horowitz went up
to the microphone and said I’m going to
be really thrilled to hand this to my
friends at Mike Horowitz had just lost
the award but regardless he showed the
power and the grace behind true humility
on the other hand good competitors who
lack you believe are difficult for us to
support because while they may be good
at their craft putting up with their
arrogance is no easy
tasks take my song-song for instance
this road racing cyclist was found to be
using performance-enhancing drugs and
was the stripped of his seven Tour de
France victories reporter Julie McCoy of
the New York Times frequently covered
Armstrong’s races and stated that the
bicyclist was arrogance itself there’s
an obvious difference here between
Armstrong’s competitiveness alone
focusing only on himself and the humble
yet competitive spirit of Horowitz and
Levesque be focusing on others as well
as themselves in moderation these two
qualities can be beneficial but without
the other competition can evolve into
conceitedness and humility can evolve
into obscurity
hence balancing the two is not only
beneficial but necessary because in the
end you say both wants to run the
fastest Tom Brady wants to win the
Superbowl Leonardo DiCaprio wants to win
another oscar hillary clinton wanted to
win the election and I want to win
original oratory we are all driven to
succeed the desire to come out
victorious motivates competitors to do
their best but when we win staying
humble is the true mark of not only a
great competitor but of a great person
by not bragging accepting our own
weaknesses and valuing the strengths and
opinions of others we can better
ourselves through humility we gain
something we gain perspective both out
of ourselves and the perspective of
others how we perceive a situation
enriched with an understanding of how
others are affected by it imagine what
the world can be like not if but when we
combine a sense of self-worth in
competition and a sense of others within
humility I may have gotten the better
test form biology and that felt pretty
awesome but staying humble about my
success difficult – it was a lot of my
friend to feel confident about his own
score and now I am learning the most
valuable lesson that has nothing to do
with biology the lesson that the best
victories are those are some carry your
peers along with yourself the lesson but
being the humble competitor is
incredibly sexy thank you
Oh
you
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