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他,是一个出生在“智慧之城”波士顿的土生土长的“ABC”;16岁时就去TED Talk做演讲嘉宾,跟世界人民分享自己的故事;高中时创业赚了50万美元,赢得美国媒体的纷纷报导;后来又成功迈进了殿堂级名校麻省理工大学(MIT),就读自己最爱的计算机专业,而19岁的他却毅然放弃求学,再次创业!
他,就是Eddy Zhong ,中文名为锺德华。这个刚刚满20岁的帅气小伙,拥有着比同龄孩子都丰富许多的精彩人生。与香港天王刘德华拥有同样名字的Eddy,也不辜负父母的期望,年纪轻轻就成为创业界的冉冉新星!
今天通过他在TED舞台上的演讲来更进一步了解一下这位帅气男孩,在演讲中, 他用自己的例子证明,学习成绩的好坏并不能衡量孩子的能力与潜力。相反,现有的教育还会削弱孩子的创造力,局限了他们的人生道路,让其变得平庸。
Eddy认为每一位家长、每一位老师,都拥有能力去影响和激发孩子们的创造力,在倡导要好好学习、努力考大学、找份好工作才能算成功的年代,他鼓励我们大胆想象不一样的未来!因为,能够改变世界的人,他的人生轨迹一定不是由别人安排好的。
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初次创业
智能手表拿下50万美金
Eddy自小热衷于玩电脑游戏和编程,高一时就有了自己的business。他与其他7名成员一同创立了智能手錶公司Blanc。
对于人生中的第一次创业尝试,Eddy原本只是玩票,但却获得了成功。“这款智能手表可以说是防司机疲劳驾驶、避免出车祸的神器。手表有多重功能,比如智能震动闹钟功能、记录运动数据功能、运动分析数据等。司机戴上后行驶在路上,一旦疲惫想打瞌睡时,手表可以及时发出预警。因此,我们很顺利就找到了客户——一些货运公司。”Eddy对记者说。
令Eddy骄傲的是,Blanc Watchs产品问世后,成功拿到美国两家大投资公司的投资。高中毕业前,他将其卖给了一家台湾公司,赚得了50万美元,这也算是他真正意义上的第一桶金。
回国创业
不走寻常路的“ABC”
现在, Eddy已经回到了家乡中国武汉继续创业之路,希望通过自己的努力帮助更多的青少年完成梦想。
很难想像,操着一口流畅标准普通话的Eddy是个“ABC”(外界对新生代华裔的称呼)。“从小,父母就告诉我,我的根在中国,我一直在学习中文。我很喜欢武汉这座城市,几乎每年假期都会到武汉看望外婆和奶奶等亲人。”
父母割舍不下的乡愁也让Eddy深深爱上了武汉这座城市,因此当他决定回国创业时,首选城市便是武汉。尽管对儿子的选择,母亲一开始有过顾虑,在她看来,Eddy在美国已经打下了一定的事业基础,在美国创业的资源丰富,相形于回国创业的从零开始,应该事半功倍。
做创业加速器项目并不是Eddy一时头脑发热,事实上,他已经有过一次成功的创业经历。“我出生于美国波士顿,在国外孩子们从小就会接受创业教育。我喜欢打篮球也爱玩电脑游戏,热衷于编程。从高一开始,我就尝试着创立了自己的智能手表公司Blanc,团队一共8名成员,基本都是同龄小伙伴。”
2015年做出二次创业的决定时,Eddy刚刚踏入麻省理工大学,就读他从小就感兴趣的计算机科学专业。但在求学和创业之间,Eddy选择了后者。他说,将来事业稳定发展后可能还会继续完成学业,但眼下,他最大的兴趣还是创业。
他随后成立了Leangap教育科技有限公司,据Eddy介绍,这个品牌最初于2013年在波士顿成立,创始人分别毕业于麻省理工和哈佛大学,有丰富的创业经验和成功的创业实例。当他萌生了做年轻人创业加速器的想法后,波士顿大学同意将Leangap的资源和品牌给他使用。“我们旨在美国波士顿大学帮助优秀的高中生和大学生创立自己的公司,由我们提供丰富的创业资源。2016年暑假时,我们就成功在全球挖掘了40名优秀的高中学生进入了我们的创业夏令营,这并不是普通的游学性质的夏令营,我们请来了全球知名的企业家讲创业,同时这些来自世界不同国家的高中生在这儿将自由选择组成团队,在为期6周的时间内,必须要将创意变成产品,进行一次创业的实操。”令Eddy开心的是,一名韩国女生在此期间做出的一款APP最终在苹果上应用,如今已被下载了逾10万次。这个女生还和小伙伴一起成立了公司,并成功拿到10万美元的投资。
在Eddy看来,创业已经过了单打独斗的年代,“一项统计数据显示,单独创业的成功率只有10%至15%,但如果是团队创业成功率往往升至50%,国外的名校更看重社会实践和活动能力,经过创业历练的学生被名校录取的机会大大增加”。
采访最后,记者还无意间知道了Eddy的一个小秘密:原来他的女朋友也是祖籍武汉的华裔美女,和他一样是学霸。如今,女友也回到武汉创业,两人事业上既各自独立,又相互激励。

英文演讲稿
I want to share with you a big secret today. And it’s not one that a lot of you are going to want to hear. But at the same, time it’s so important that I have to tell you.
That secret is this: What if I told you that every singe day kids go to school, they become less intelligent?
Now, how could that be possible? When kids go to school they learn things, right? And they accumulate more knowledge. So if anything, they should be getting smarter.
How could they possibly be getting less intelligent? What am I talking about? Well, I do hope to illustrate that to you today.
Before I turned 14, I was a kid that did not know what he wanted in life. So usually, when you go up to a 5 or 6 year old and you ask him, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”, he’ll say, “An astronaut,” or “A businessman”.
I wanted to be a professional Call of Duty player. And since I had no idea about what I wanted to be when I grew up, I just listened to my parents almost 100% of the time. I trusted that they knew what was best for me. My parents wanted out of me what any typical parent would want out of his child: go to school, keep up your grades, get out and exercise, once every few years.
And I was trying to do everything they asked of me, except the problem was I wasn’t even that good at school. I was terrible at science, could not write a 5-paragraph essay if my life had depended on it. And to this day I still think I’m the only Asian kid in the world who does not understand math. I really do.
But when I turned 14 that all changed. I was no longer this hot air balloon and floating around in space, I was now like a supersonic jet flying toward my destination at 50,000 miles an hour or however fast those things go.
And this change all started when I received an envelope with the mail. It was an invitation — not to a birthday party, I did not get any of those — not to a playground, but to a business plan competition down in Boston. And I was curious, I was just so curious that I had to go. 
And the program director explained to us that over five months, we would form a team, develop a business idea, and present this idea to a panel of judges, who would be judging us how good our suits are, and how good our business ideas were.
And a long story short, over that five months I formed a team, developed an idea, and we actually ended up winning that competition and taking home a check. And that one event sparked my interest for going to more and more of these competitions.
And over the next two years of my life, I actually went to dozens and dozens of these competitions, and I was winning almost all of them. And I realized that I liked going to them so much not just because I liked winning them but also because I had an unrealized passion. That was a passion for creating things.
Because the one thing that my team would do differently from our other competitors, every single time, was that while everyone would go up and present their idea and their PowerPoint, we would go to a Home Depot, buy supplies, and actually build the idea we were talking about. 
And the judges were just so blown away by the fact that a bunch of teenagers could go and create things, can make prototypes, and minimum viable products. We won almost every single competition just because the judges loved that we had gone and executed it.
At one of these competitions I met a short-tempered, middle-aged Polish guy named Frank. If he is here today I’d better run after this. And he came up to us, and he took a look at our prototype, and he said: “I can help you guys turn this into a real company.” Think about that. Isn’t that cool?
We are 16 years olds, we are going out into the world and creating a real hardware technology startup. At first we were all like, “Time to be Steve Jobs, let’s go build Apple, dropping out of school now.”
But we quickly realized it’s not that easy. So, don’t drop out unless you’re really sure you have a good idea. But… we realized that the first part to building a great company is to assemble a great team. 
And as students, we couldn’t go to bars to network, we couldn’t go to networking events for adults, so we went to our school and set up this little presentation in our auditorium, in which we would present our idea and hopefully kids would join our team. And we sent out an invitation to our entire school.
And the first thing we noticed is that almost no one showed up. There was almost no interest. And those who did show up spread the rumor around the school and throughout that week, we were actually marked, we were made fun of for our ideas and for being wannabe Mark Zuckerbergs.
And what’s funny is, the next week after, we took the exact same presentation, and did it at our elementary school so to kids who were 5 or 6 years younger. And the response was phenomenal. These kids were throwing their lunch money at us asking if they could buy a prototype. 
They were asking for our pre-money valuation, which I know you guys know from watching Shark Tank, but it was amazing that these kids even knew terms like that existed when they were too young to even probably pronounce some of these words. And that just inspired me so much.
And I think this is what our education system has done. Over just these 5 to 6 years in the education system, these creative children have turned into these teenagers that are unwilling to think outside of the box.
So let’s go back to that secret I was talking about. How is it possible that school is making kids less intelligent? The fact is, there is so much more than just one type of intelligence. And while school can make you more academically intelligent, it can teach you physics, algebra, calculus, it is diminishing the children’s creative intelligence. 
It is teaching them to think in a certain way, to go down a certain path in life, it’s telling them: go to high school, get a diploma, go to a good college, find a stable job, and if you don’t do that, you won’t be successful. And if that was true, how am I even standing here today?
How did I, a straight C student, start a technology company at the age of 16? And how is my company, which was featured on a Wall Street Journal last week, doing better than some of the companies started by Harvard and Stanford graduates? It must be something that can’t be measured by academic intelligence alone.
So, here is what I believe. Parents, teachers, educators, you have the power to influence and inspire youth. The fact is, there are way too many people out there right now who are obsessed with telling kids to go to college, to find a good job, and to be “successful”. There are not enough who are telling kids to explore more possibilities, to become entrepreneurs.
And if there’s one message that I want parents, kids, and all of you to take away from what I’ve said here today is that you can open your own doors, that you can stray away from this conventional, limited, and narrow path that education sets us upon. You can diverge and create your own future. You can start your own companies and start your own non-profits. You can create, you can innovate.
And if there’s one message I want you to take away from everything I’ve said, it is this: No one has ever changed the world by doing what the world has told them to do.
Thank you.
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