新生衔接课 | 从高中到大学，打赢你的内外比赛

• Sense of self-responsibility: Transitioning from dependence to independence and gaining a strong sense of self-responsibility.

• Self-motivation: Engaging in self-exploration, clarifying your passions, strengths, and values to gain an internal drive for personal development.

• Systematic thinking: Going beyond personal perspectives and learning to think and observe the world from the perspective of others and with a larger context.

• Inner strength: Cultivating inner qualities such as confidence, tolerance, resilience, and courage.

  
  

• 自我责任感：从依赖走向独立，强化自我负责的意识

  
  

• 自我动力：自我探索，明确自己的热爱，擅长和价值观，获得内在发展的自我动力

  
  

• 系统性思维：超越个人视角，学会从他人视角和更大的格局视角来思考和观察世界

  
  

• 内在力量：培养内在的信心，包容，韧性，勇敢等内在力量

  
  

• 其他目标等等

One of our slogans at UNNC reads "Unlock Your Potential." Each person is a vast treasure, full of potential. 

From learning to speak and walk, to acquiring new skills - all are proof of the manifestation of our potential. Throughout the growth process, you may notice bursts of potential under difficulties that have propelled you to deal with challenges, overcome problems, and take leaps to become a better self.

From a physiological perspective, each of us is born with 100 billion neurons, and we utilize only a small fraction of them. Possessing such a vast number of neurons implies that we have the capacity to learn and develop tremendous abilities. The principle of neuroplasticity enables us to adapt to new environments. It involves growing new connections between neurons, which become stronger through practice, thereby forming our habits and abilities. It can also change established patterns and habits by reducing connections. 

For example, when you start practicing English, the neural connections responsible for language begin to form and become stronger with practice. Similarly, when you want to give up a habit or change a behavior, if you then stop doing it for a long time, the corresponding neural connections begin to weaken until they break.

So, the first piece of advice is to believe that everyone has great potential, have more confidence in yourself, open up, be brave in trying new things, and continue to invest in the pursuit of your goals, allowing your potential to manifest itself as abilities and advantages.

宁诺有一个标语是“Unlock your potential”。每个人都是一个巨大的宝藏，我们都富有潜能。你的成长过程中所完成的每一次挑战，实现的每一次跨越，在困难情境下的每一次爆发都是潜能在支持你的成长。

从生理学角度出发，我们每个人出生的时候有1000亿个神经元细胞，而我们目前使用的只是其中的一小部分。拥有这样庞大的神经元细胞，意味着我们可以学习和发展出巨大的能力。 

因为神经可塑性原理会帮助我们去应对新的环境，神经元之间长出新的连接，并通过练习变得更强，成为我们的习惯和能力，也可以通过减少连接，去改变固有模式和习惯。

比如，当你开始练习英语时，负责语言的神经元链接开始产生，然后他们会随着练习而增强。同理，当你想改变一种习惯时，如果长时间不去做，相应的神经元链接就会开始减弱，直至断联。

所以，第一个锦囊是希望大家能够相信，每个人都有巨大的潜能，对自己多一些信心，打开自己，勇于尝试新的事物，并在追逐目标的过程中，持续投入，让潜能显现为能力和优势。

Timothy Gallwey proposed an interesting formula: P = P - I (Performance = Potential - Interference). We have tremendous potential, but sometimes we fail to achieve our goals, partly due to interference, and being judgmental is one of sources of interference that can be damaging in this way.

Being judgmental is characterized by a tendency to judge harshly (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). We may have preconceived notions, thus losing our curiosity for exploration. Saying I can't when facing challenges or I'm not good enough when facing failures might be manifestations of being judgmental which can also cause harm to oneself and others.

Curiosity, on the other hand, means the desire to know (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). The I don't know in curiosity is actually a neutral and peaceful attitude, allowing us to explore, try, and even fail.

University life and learning will open up a broader field for you - please remember to explore with curiosity, try bravely, practice persistently, and remain curious even in failure, asking what this failure is telling you.

Curiosity will open up a larger world for you.

提摩西·加尔韦提出了一个有趣的公式：P = P - I（Performance = Potential - Interference）。我们拥有巨大的潜能，但有时却未能实现目标，部分原因是受到了干扰，而评判正是干扰中的一种。

评判是有明显倾向性的判断（来源：汉语辞海），它可能会使我们先入为主，从而失去探索的好奇心。面对挑战时的“我不行”，面对失败时的“我不好”，都可能是评判的体现。

而好奇是指，对自己所不了解的事物觉得新奇而感兴趣，有意愿去调查和学习和询问他人意见（来源：汉语辞海）。好奇中的“我不知道”，反而是一种中正、平和的态度，让我们去探索，去尝试，哪怕是去失败。

大学的生活和学习将向你展开更大的领域，请用好奇去探索吧，勇敢尝试，持续练习，哪怕在失败也去好奇 “这失败在告诉我什么呢？”