Since the Beijing Winter Olympics were held, the Chinese team has repeatedly achieved good results and broken historical records, which undoubtedly makes us in front of the screen also boil with blood.
Before the game, she had given up her American citizenship, joined the Chinese nationality, and represented China, and her excellent results and her own "protagonist aura" also made the Chinese audience give her high expectations.
Remember last December, a winter sports analysis blogger released a video of "Gu Ailing Winter Olympic Prediction", hoping that everyone will reduce their expectations for Gu Ailing, do not use "three gold" to ask Gu Ailing, in case it does not meet everyone's expectations and is "network violence".
Unexpectedly, after this "protective" prediction was seen by 5G surfer Gu Ailing himself, he commented on "why do you have no confidence in me", accompanied by a laughing and crying expression.
(Screenshot of TikTok comment area)
However, she did not disappoint everyone, on February 8, 2022, Gu Ailing won the gold medal in the women's big jump of freestyle skiing at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics with 188.25 points.
Before this, the video blogger had said that the "weakest" of Gu Ailing's three projects was the big jumping platform project, and due to the strong strength of the opponent, she may "only have the opportunity to compete for the bronze medal".
With the victory, more and more people began to pay attention to this confident and optimistic girl who spoke fluent Beijing dialect, and her life can be called a "chicken baby legend".
First of all, in order to prepare for the Winter Olympics, Gu Ailing condensed the four-year high school curriculum to three years, took exams while studying, and took a lot of time to train, and finally entered Stanford University, the world's top university, with a SAT score of 1580 points (out of 1600 points).
Secondly, some people also pulled out the education level of their family members, which made people have to admire:
Father: Graduated from Harvard University
Mother: Graduated from Peking University and Stanford University
Grandma: Graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Grandpa: Graduated from Peking University
Grandpa: Graduated from Stanford University
In addition to this skiing genius, 10 years ago, there was another girl who had a similar experience with her.
She is Zhang Anqi, the "Fudan Goddess" who is 178 tall and resembles Miss World Zhang Zilin. He is also an all-round scholar of Fudan University undergraduate + Harvard University master's and doctoral degree + Stanford University postdoctoral degree.
Take another look at her resume: freshman year GRE, TOEFL, sixth grade are close to full marks, just turned 21 years old to become the first author of 5 SCI papers, was admitted to harvard university research institute with a full scholarship, New Oriental's youngest TOEFL teacher, Mensa Club member and several times as Mensa entrance test chief examiner, national certified translator, Chinese Translation Association member...
(Left Angel)
There are still many excellent results that cannot be displayed one by one, but the above is already difficult for most of us to achieve, whether it is her or Gu Ailing, their excellence is inseparable from the influence of their parents.
Zhang Anqi's parents are both high school English teachers. Compared with her peers, Zhang Anqi's knowledge enlightenment is very early. Her parents began teaching her to read when she was 10 months old, reading independently at the age of 5, and learning addition and subtraction within 20 years.
(Angel Zhang and her parents)
Her mother also conducted education from the aspects of stimulating interest, imparting knowledge, developing intelligence, and cultivating emotions, and worked with her to build blocks, draw, practice calligraphy, practice spoken English, etc., and cultivate good learning habits from an early age.
Early enlightenment coupled with her mother's interesting guidance methods have made Zhang Anqi's learning always easy and enjoyable. On the other hand, many of our parents are basically "cramming" education, which makes many students tired of school very early.
In addition to the guidance and education of parents, what is more inseparable is their own diligence and hard work, perhaps some people will say that she is talented, but you can't deny that excellent people often work harder.
Since she was a university, Zhang Anqi has joined the research group of Professor Chen Meng of the Department of Chemistry to do scientific research. At that time, the teacher suggested that she write a review to try her hand, summarizing the reductive and stable polymers used in the synthesis of nanoparticles.
In the following month, Zhang Anqi read thousands of relevant papers and completed the first draft, but the evaluation was that the structure and words of the article were too green. So she consulted a large number of materials, and almost every sentence in the review was deliberated and revised, and the results were still unsatisfactory.
In the next two years, Zhang Anqi invested a lot of time in scientific research, and after revising the paper more than a dozen times word by word, she also read thousands of literature and mastered the basic knowledge of nano and other fields.
Another paper cost Zhang anqi more effort. The inspiration of reading literature in her sophomore year made her excited, and she began to get up early and do experiments in the dark, working 16 hours a day, even soaking in the library during the Spring Festival, and teaching herself programming languages and independently developing new programs.
Later, in 2014, Zhang Anqi also published a book with her mother Wang Fei, "The Legend of Family Education to Harvard- The Road to the Growth of Mensa Girl Zhang Anqi".
If you've seen Gu Ailing's growth documentary or related interviews, you know that success is no accident.
Unlike traditional Chinese parents, Gu Ailing's mother, Gu Yan, never forced Gu Ailing to do something she didn't like, nor did she impose her will on Gu Ailing. From choosing to ski to daily training, Gu Ailing is almost all arranged by herself, and her mother will only assist from the side.
As for skiing, she once had a fever of 40 degrees and risked her life to participate in the competition to compete for the opportunity to participate in the world rankings, skiing is a very challenging high-risk sport, in a training, Gu Ailing also had a brief amnesia after falling, but these difficulties were overcome by her one by one, and faced strong academic pressure, and finally was admitted to a prestigious school and won the gold medal for China.
Both girls sparkle in their respective fields, and from them we see the commonalities and characteristics of good people.
Maybe we can't have the same family background or educational conditions, but their learning spirit is worth learning from each of us, to borrow a phrase "chicken baby is better than chicken themselves first", instead of blaming children for poor learning, it is better to start from themselves and improve themselves.