2017年8月26日，来自新加坡的演讲者从35000+名演讲高手中脱颖而出成为了2017年度全球英语演讲的总冠军，你很难想象，他曾经是一个非常害羞的人。
他曾经在参访中说过，他克服害羞和舞台紧张（Stage Fright）是从2008年加入一个专注锻炼演讲能力和领导力的Toastmasters俱乐部开始的，他不仅在俱乐部做演讲很活跃，在此期间，他也自愿为社区活动做过主持人来锻炼自己公众演讲的能力。

功夫不负有心人，在2015年全球英语演讲比赛中，他荣幸获得了全球第三名的成绩，而就在昨天他成为了2017年度全球英语演讲的总冠军，现在先和英语演讲君看看他的精彩演讲吧。

2017年全球演讲冠军稿英文版
I was 24 years old.I had nice job, nice car, nice hair,Still my girlfriends didn't take for long.
Have you have problems in your relationship with others.What was wrong [pause] with them?  
Contest chair, ladies and gentleman. When I was 24, I was living in Indian. I was still waiting Cupid to shoot his arrow and find me the perfect partner.
Guess what? It seems Cupid doesn't live in Indian.
So I went to another angel, who had all the answers, my mama. "Mama, I can't find good girls, how could i get married."
She said: "no problem, we can fix it."

My mama offered introducing me to some good girls.Nice mama.
Soon arrangement was made for my meeting with first prospect, Sindhu.
That she was. Wow... in a beautiful blue address, she looked like a star form Bollywood.
She looked at me like I was George Clooney. 
Cupid shot his arrow, and we fell in love.
Do you remember the time when you got into a new relationship? What were you expecting?
I'm imaging spending the rest of my life holding her hand, listening to music and doing hot Yoga. 
Few weeks later, on the 4th of July, we got married. On American Independency day, I lost my independency. 
We sailed through our honeymoon. Then differences started to emerge.
She liked outdoors, I liked indoors. She loved swimming, I felt drowning. She liked cooking, I liked to tell her how i missed mama's cooking. 
Hey, I didn't want to follow her ways.  And she wasn't ready to change.
We argued over big things, over small things, even for nothing. 
I used logic, I used emotions, I even showed her a role model. 
"Darling, why don't just you be perfect like [pause] me" 
Within 6 months, we grew apart. Under one roof, we are to people living in solitude. No holding hands, no music, only silence.  
Looking for solutions, I asked my friend Jay.He just had his divorce. He was expect.
Jay said, "Men, life is short, don't suffer, separate" "No! Jay. I just want to fix it." "Exactly, my lawyer will fix it."
I called [pause then throw away the name card] my mama. 
Next day, she spoke to both Sindhu and me.She said, "You will never find a partner who is 100 percent perfect."
"You fall in love because of Cupid's arrow. But what keeps you love is Cupid's bow. You see the bow and string have great partnership."
"The more the string pulls back, the more the bow bends."  "Ego is what pulls the string. Still the mighty bow bends because it cares for the partner."
"When she pulls, you bend. When you pull, she bends.""If you pull to hard, your relationship will break."
"If you want to fix it, both of you need to pull less and bend more."
Pull less and bend more.Have you seen anyone who pulls too hard, have you pulled too hard.
Since then during argument, I became more flexible.  When Sindhu wanted to go out, I joined her.  When she wanted to swim, I joined her, [pause] at the shallow end.When I became nice, she became nicer.Soon she started to cook better than mama.
In my search for the perfect partner, I discover that perfect partners are those who keeps perfecting their partnerships, by choosing to pull less, bend more. 
You can see problems in any relationships within family, between friends, between colleagues, between races, cultures, and nations. 
Today, it seems that the world is breaking apart, isn't it? 
When you look this room, you see peoples from more than one hundred and forty two different nations, sitting together, shoulder to shoulder and getting around fine. 
How is that possible? Toastmasters, you all prove that no matter what different we are, by choosing to pull less, bend more, we can stay together.
Last month, my wife and I celebrated our 19 anniversary. 
Yes, that's the same wife. Do you think we still argue?
Yes, but now even when we argue, we are still holding hands.
My mama is no more with us, but her word still rings in our ears. Pull less, and bend more.
Pull less, and Bend more.
Contest chair. 
Top public speaker used to be a shy person
He was the first representative from the Toastmasters Club of Singapore to reach the finals of the competition, organised by Toastmasters International, and even went on to win the trophy for finishing as second runner-up.
First held in 1938, the public-speaking championship is the world's largest speech competition, drawing more than 35,000 contestants from 135 countries.
In front of an audience of 2,500 people and 10,000 more via livestreaming, Mr Vasudevan spoke about resolving marital problems, in a speech titled "Can we fix it?"
Toastmasters International is a non-profit organisation that aims to help its members improve their public-speaking and communication skills.
It has more than 300,000 members in clubs across 135 countries.
For Mr Vasudevan, 41, the win was an affirmation of his hard work over the years to conquer his shyness. By his own admission, he used to be a quiet and reserved man.
"I remember the time when I had to (speak) in front of an audience and I couldn't," he recalled. "(It was) just to answer a simple question on what I wanted to do in life."
The turning point came about 12 years ago.
Mr Vasudevan said his career came to a standstill in 2003, despite several years of promotions and salary increments.
Then a management consultant at audit firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Mr Vasudevan even pursued a Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Imperial College London, in the hope that the additional qualification would help him to advance in his career.
From observing the colleagues whom he considered to be successful, Mr Vasudevan realised, even as he worked towards his MBA, that he needed to shed his reserved nature and become more confident and outspoken.
Determined to make a personal - and career - change, Mr Vasudevan left PwC in 2004 to start his own company. He also became interested in personal development.
Mr Vasudevan joined the Toastmasters Club of Singapore in 2008 after developing an interest in public speaking, prompted by the realisation that his children - son Advaith, 11, and daughter Aditi, 10 - were too shy to speak up.
To hone his skills, Mr Vasudevan started speaking at local Toastmasters events and even volunteered as an emcee for community events.
He also practised at home in front of his wife and children, and watched speeches online to pick up tips on public speaking.
His wife, Ms Sindu Sreebhavan, 40, is the editor of The Kidz Parade, a magazine with content created by children.
Public speaking has improved his life tremendously, Mr Vasudevan said.
"It improved my personal and professional relationships by leaps and bounds. It greatly helped me to build large networks and in running my business," he added.
Mr Vasudevan has been competing in the World Championship of Public Speaking since 2010, reaching the semi-finals in 2012 and 2013. The third placing on Aug 15 was his first win in the championship.
Through his company, Thought Expressions, he coaches people who need help in communicating with others. His clients range from school children to chief executive officers.
Mr Vasudevan also coaches his own children. They are now comfortable with public speaking, he said, even though they were not extroverts or good at networking with others to begin with.
His tips for effective public speaking? Make sense of various sources of information and turn it into something meaningful, he said. Then use it to persuade, communicate with and entertain the audiences.
"The key is how you communicate information to the other person, and get people on your side," added Mr Vasudevan.
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