Entering the cabin of the plane, as soon as he took a seat, Xu Xincheng chatted with Lucy, he excitedly talked about the harvest and feelings of visiting the exhibition, and put forward some of his suggestions and ideas on technology and products, and finally he said: "I will make a detailed analysis and summary of the good technologies and products I saw at the exhibition, and share them with General Manager Li, Director Qiao, all the project leaders and technical directors after I go back, I believe they can get some useful inspiration from it." ”

"Very good," Lucy said. That's what I mean. On the 1st and 8th of this month, after receiving the information you gave me, I did in-depth research, although, in the past two years, some of the technologies, applications and products developed by Hongfei AI Division are okay, but in general, most of them are still lagging behind the most advanced international level. During this time, my technical team in the United States and I have put forward a lot of suggestions and suggestions for improvement and optimization to General Manager Li and the project leaders, and you will also help follow up on the optimization and breakthrough of various technologies, applications and products. ”

"Good. I have read all the improvement and optimization emails that were sent to General Manager Li, Director Qiao and others and copied to me, and I have been following up. General Manager Li said that the improvement opinions and optimization suggestions are very good, and many of them are extremely innovative and breakthrough. Every time I talk to him about this, I can feel his excitement and excitement, and he said that under the guidance of these opinions and suggestions, our technology, applications and products will definitely achieve great optimizations and breakthroughs, and he has great confidence in this. ”

"Another point, in this exhibition, you also saw, in addition to technology and performance, all large enterprises have very high requirements for the design of products, you have to emphasize with General Manager Li that we must put more effort into the design of products, and our products must also do their best in terms of design. ”

Xu Xincheng jotted down this point in his notebook, nodded, and said, "Yes." I took a lot of photos of the products on the booth of large enterprises, and after I went back, I would also sort out these photos and related information, make a separate analysis and summary, and require our team to achieve great optimization and breakthroughs in product design. ”

"The appearance of a product is a visual symbol in itself, and a well-designed appearance is sometimes even more important and valuable than the brand's logo, because they are easier to identify than the logo. For example, the curved glass bottle of Coca-Cola, as long as people see the shape of the bottle from a distance, before they see the LOGO, everyone can recognize it as Coca-Cola, and even as long as they see the silhouette of the bottle, most people can immediately recognize that it is Coca-Cola. There are also Hermès bags, even if you see them from a hundred meters away, you can immediately know that they are Hermès bags. ”

Xu Xincheng suddenly realized when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, that's right! Appearance and modeling are so important, we didn't pay enough attention to this before, and we didn't even realize the importance of this." ”

Xu Xincheng paused, an inspiration flashed in his mind, and he said happily: "Lucy, I just came up with a good idea, I suggest that we add a design project team and hire a group of design experts to specialize in researching, designing and developing the appearance of all our products. In addition, in order to make this team more grounded, I recommend that the members of this team only work together for two or three hours a day, and the rest of the time is arranged to work in various project teams in the R&D department, and their work is only one task, which is to design and develop the best appearance for each product of the company. ”

Lucy nodded approvingly and said, "This is a very good idea, only by adding a dedicated post can we truly achieve special responsibility, and only in this way can we achieve greater optimization and breakthroughs better and faster." After going back, I would like to discuss this matter with General Manager Li, come up with a specific plan as soon as possible, and quickly establish this group. ”

"Good. We aim to get the project team up in two weeks and then two months to complete it. ”

"Steve, let's talk about another topic. Lucy smiled, looking quite interested, and said: "I knew that your English was very good, yesterday your performance in front of the four officials such as the minister in Dubai, and today's performance when you communicate with the heads of those small business teams, are very good, spoken English is very fluent, especially rare is that the pronunciation is very standard and authentic, people who don't know, will think that you are a returnee from the United States." ”

Xu Xincheng was very happy, you know, Lucy's English is at the top level, and she can get her affirmation and praise for his English level, which is the highest affirmation he can get, he said gratefully: "Thank you! Thank you for affirming me!"

Xu Xincheng thought about it and decided to tell her: "However, I still don't think it's good enough, it's not good enough to reach the highest level I want to achieve, and my highest goal now is to reach the level of an American talk show host." ”

This goal is actually a new goal he set for himself when he flew abroad for the first time on the plane yesterday. He had achieved that goal, and now he did need to improve his English even further, so it was time to set a new goal for himself, a higher goal.

"This goal is not easy to achieve, even for those returnees who have studied in the United States since childhood, there are not many people out of a thousand people who can reach that level. ”

"I know this, I just like to set myself higher goals, bigger challenges. Of course, I am well aware that it will take a lot of effort to achieve this goal. Still, I'm confident that I'll be able to achieve it, because I've achieved a goal that has been more difficult than ever. ”

Xu Xincheng and Lucy then told Lucy about how he couldn't speak a few words and his pronunciation was very non-standard in the first oral English class of his freshman year, which made the class laugh. He knew it was a mess, but he felt that he should hide it from Lucy, whether it was something funny, happy, proud, or something like that, he could tell her without reservation.

Lucy didn't laugh when she heard this, she asked curiously, "Then how did you learn English to this level in just four or five years?"

"Just two words, die. On the same day, I set myself a goal of 5,000 hours of English. I know that the biggest dead end in my English is pronunciation and speaking, so I spent those 5,000 hours on pronunciation and speaking.

In order to standardize my pronunciation, I started practicing and correcting my pronunciation from ABC again from the second day after my freshman year. As a perfectionist, I demand 100% of every English word I speak, and to do this, I spent about 1,000 hours learning intonation, correcting my pronunciation thoroughly, mastering standard American pronunciation, and then spending about 1,000 hours practicing and memorizing the phonetic transcription of 10,000 commonly used English words.

In order to practice my speaking well, I spent about 1,000 hours reading aloud and memorizing 3,000 of the most basic sentences, and about 2,000 hours reading aloud the 100 most famous English speeches in history, including the speeches of the ten most famous speeches, especially the winning speech delivered on the night of the 2008 victory, I memorized the entire speech, and then learned*** I have spoken 500 times during the speech, and I can still recite it word for word.

Every morning after I wake up around 6 a.m., I go to the school playground for a 30-minute run, and when I run and exercise, my headphones are not music, but English audio, such as professional audio for learning American English speaking and intonation. After the run, I went to a small forest on the edge of the playground and practiced frantically.

Every day when I go to that grove, I will stand in front of a small tree, imagine it as a foreigner, and practice speaking in front of it. Every day there is an hour in the morning, an hour and a half after school in the afternoon, and on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, at least twice as many hours. ”

Speaking of this, Xu Xincheng saw Lucy smile slightly, and he said with some embarrassment: "At that time, there was really no other better way, my speaking was so bad at that time that I couldn't find someone who was willing to practice speaking with me." In this way, I made friends with the little tree for half a year, and chatted with it in English for half a year. ”

Xu Xincheng smiled slightly when he saw Lucy, but he noticed that Lucy's smile did not mean any ridicule, but sincere appreciation.

Xu Xincheng continued: "Half a year later, on the first Saturday evening after the start of the second semester of my freshman year, a young foreigner passing by came over and greeted me and asked me what I was doing. After laughing for about ten seconds, he finally stopped and told me that he was an American who came to Guangzhou to learn Chinese, and he said that he appreciated my spirit and wanted to make friends with me, and that he would teach me spoken English and I would teach him Chinese, and I would immediately agree to him.

He and I quickly became good friends, and for the next two and a half years, we spent the next two and a half years learning each other's languages, drinking coffee and chatting together, and reading books together in the library. Through him, I also met many foreigners who studied Chinese with him, including British, Canadians, Germans, French, etc., so I also personally understood the accents and characteristics of some foreigners in various countries when speaking English, and because of the opportunity to practice speaking, my speaking level improved rapidly.

In short, because of the stubbornness and the opportunity to communicate with foreigners, my English pronunciation and speaking skills have improved by leaps and bounds, and by the first half of my junior year, I have achieved the goal I set for myself on the first day of my freshman year: to reach the level of Native English Speaker. ”

Lucy listened, looked at him with admiration, and said, "If you want to achieve great things, you need to have your spirit of stumbling to the end." ”