Twelve Outstanding Young Persons Award Winners Share Their Paths in Overcoming Adversity
Text: Chia-Yi Lee
Photo: Jung-Hui Hsu
Translation: Steve J. Lin
The 54th Awards Ceremony of Outstanding Young Persons was held on November 12, 2016 at TCU. In the morning, award winners shared information about their efforts with TCU’s faculty and students. The chair of the selection committee, Liang-Chen Ming encouraged students to initiate dialogue with these winners. Students asked them whether they had experienced any confusion or not, whether they thought about changing their goals, and how they got through challenges.
第54屆十大傑出青年頒獎典禮11月12日在慈濟大學舉行，早上先由12位得獎者與慈濟大學師生以「進擊的青年巨人」為主題，與同學分享一路奮鬥的過程。中華民國第54屆十大傑出青年選拔委員會總幹事明良臻鼓勵現場觀眾們把握機會，從得獎者身上獲得寶貴的經驗和金玉良言，現場觀眾反應熱烈，詢問包括是否曾經迷惘過？有想要改變目標嗎？如何突破困境等。
Time magazine twice reported about Andre Chiang’s culinary skills, praising his creations as “the greatest food in the Indian Ocean.” He shared three keys for his success: “First, is to focus energetically and inquisitively on the thing that he is interested in. Another is to ask himself what he really wants to leave to this world after his passing, or what does he wish for younger generations to learn from him? The third one is to have a big dream and pursue it, and never underestimate his potential for reaching it. Chiang kept on doing one thing firmly as hard as a solid rock. He shared that he received many resumes before, and most of them had a long list of applicants’ past employment, yet he believed that one should focus on doing one thing, and doing one thing very well is good enough. Many had read Chiang’s book before; a female audience member was inspired by Chiang’s book, and decided to focus on preparing potato cuisines. Now she is very good at doing it.
被《時代》雜誌二度譽為「印度洋上最偉大的廚師」江振誠分享，三件他覺得很重要的態度和想法。「第一，積極好奇的專注在一件你有興趣的事情上，第二這一代年輕人想要留下甚麼?想要讓下一代的青年從我們身上學習到什麼？第三不要認為自己渺小，要有偉大的目標。」江振誠覺得要像頑石一樣堅持完成你覺得很重要的事。他比喻，像現在常會收到很多人的求職履歷，看到很多人的就業經驗很多，很長，但他覺得用擅長的工具去表現同一件事，一輩子可以做一件對的事就夠了。會場上有很多江振誠的粉絲，一位媽媽特別感謝江振誠，因為看得他的書，自己很努力的專注在馬鈴薯料理上，現在煮的馬鈴薯各種料理，非常好吃。
Angel Chan is a renowned professional tennis player, and her elder sister Latisha is also a professional tennis player. Thus, her father played with Latisha quite often, but Angel was not able to practice frequently with her father. Often time she could only hit the ball directly off the front wall. She said: “I have learned to endure adversity since I was young, and see many possibilities in everything. As long as I carry out my own decisions, and turn negative to positive, I will be abundantly bestowed.”
網球好手詹皓晴表示，因為有一個很會打網球的姐姐詹詠然，所以自己沒有得到太多與父親練習的機會，多數時間是對著牆壁打球，但他沒有放棄，而是讓家人看到他的堅持。「吃苦就有很多機會，一個事情有很多面向，為自己的決定負責，如何將負面轉成正面，爭取讓別人看到你的認真。」
Marshall Siao, a colleague working for the Tzu Chi Foundation, turned his eco-friendly inventions to popular products, and received the Red Dot Design Award for his Jing Si multi-purpose folding bed. His inventions have received more than 30 patents, 7 design awards, and 42 innovation awards. Marshall indicated that Master Cheng Yen reminded him “never be arrogant, and be humble,” and “regard each compliment as a reflection.” As an inventor and a designer, he chooses to be pragmatic, and less idealistic.
今年的華裔青年特別獎得獎者，是慈濟基金會蔡昇倫，他發明了靜思福慧折疊床獲得德國紅點設計大獎，他發明的慈悲科技產品，迄今總共有30幾項專利，7項設計大獎，42項發明獎。蔡昇倫表示，每次得獎，證嚴上人就會提醒他：「不要迷思，要謙卑。」「人家的讚美要當警惕。」身為一個發明家，設計家，他覺得要腳踏實地去做，別空想。
Ta-Hsin Chou, Shao-Yi Chien, Bo-Yu Yang, Mei-Hsuan Lee, Ian Liao, Tzu-Yao Lin, Sung-Ming Hung, Nitrite Lin, and Kimyung Keng were also the award winners. Kimyung Keng’s mother is originally from Indonesia, he was looked down on by his school peers due to his mother’s background, yet he ignored their conduct and concentrated on his studies. Now the relationship between Indonesia and Taiwan is heating up, and Taiwan needs more Taiwanese who are able to speak Indonesian to serve as a bridge. Consequently, he has more opportunities than the average Taiwanese. He never treated those who looked down on him as enemies, and preferred to make friends with them. Ian Liao couldn’t afford to go overseas for his graduate studies, yet he determined to set up House of Dreams to be with young people as they struggle through difficulties, and was unexpectedly invited to give a speech at some renowned overseas universities. Ian said: “You are making your dreams come true, while helping others to fulfill their dreams. Mother Teresa said that never overlooking the small things, we can do no great things, only small things with great love.”
得獎者還包括有周大鑫、簡韶逸、楊博宇、李美璇、廖文華、林子堯、洪松銘、林詠凱、何景榮等。何景榮是新住民的孩子，小時候會被同學笑說，印勞的孩子怎麼來讀書了，那時會努力用成績來證明自己的實力，但隨著台灣與東亞的關係，他因為會印尼語反而成為社會需要的人才，因歷練使他成長，他也學會不要一直想著與歧視你的人為敵，而是幫助你的敵人，讓他成為你的朋友。廖文華分享，自己因為經濟關係，無法出國念書，但因為夢想家之家幫助青少年念書，讓他可以有機會到國外知名大學演講分享他的故事，廖文華Ian Liao說：「幫助別人圓夢的同時，你也正在圓自己的夢。不要怕微小的開始，就像德雷莎修女說的，用偉大的愛去作微小的事。」
At this event, TCU’s Student Association was responsible for operating the audio/video. As for receiving guests, it was taken care of by the Goodwill Ambassadors, and the Media Production & Education Center live broadcast the event. The president of TCU Student Association Yan-Chen Wu was glad to be in charge of this event, and he was happy that the personal experiences of these twelve guests would be very helpful for students to plan for their careers.
慈濟大學學生會，負責這場活動的校內宣傳和場控 audio/video，親善大使負責接待，媒體製作中心負責轉播。學生會活動部吳儼宸表示，很開心能承擔這次活動，他覺得學生都在校園裡，很少有機會看看外面的世界，能夠一次邀請到12位傑出的前輩，與大家分享他們寶貴的經驗，對生活規劃會很有幫助。
The Media Production & Education Center asked sixteen students to handle video recording and news production. Ya-Ting Chen was assigned news reporting, and this was her first time to be a reporter. She asked her seniors for advice beforehand and studied related subjects. Ya-Ting said that these guests were not from prominent families, yet they believed in themselves and made great efforts to achieve their goals, and thus she felt excited in sharing their stories through her report.
媒體中心動員16位學生做全場錄影，並製作新聞，負責文字writing的陳雅渟同學表示，這是他第一次當校園記者，很榮幸就接到這麼大的活動，採訪前有請教學長姐，自己也做了功課，他覺得12位得獎者就和身邊的你我一樣，沒有顯赫的出生和背景，但靠著自己的努力獲得今天的成就，他期待能透過新聞將大家努力的經驗與師生分享。
More than 200 people attended this meeting, and they were inspired by the guests. The audience wrote down many wonderful quotes, such as “work out your passion and interest,” “turn pressure into motivation,” “never give up due to any negative comments from others,” “expend 20,000 hours of practice to achieve mastery in a field,” and “it is easy to give up, yet it is also easy to hold on” were some of them. Wei-Min Lu of Communication Studies said that he felt enthused by these visitors, and he would like to share these wonderful quotes with his friends.
這場論壇吸引了近200位觀眾，「專注在自己的熱情，興趣。」「把壓力變成動力。」「不要因為別人說你不好而放棄。」「累積2萬個小時做一件事，你就能成為專家。」「結束一件事很容易，所以要堅持下去。」觀眾們在筆記本上記錄下分享者的金玉良言，傳播系陸偉敏同學說，學到很多鼓勵自己的話，也可以和同學分享，覺得是非常棒。