【推荐1】Throughout my 41 years at General Electric, I’ve experienced a lot. In the media, I’ve gone from prince to pig and back again. And I’ve been called many things.

In the early days, some called me a crazy, wild man. When I became CEO two decades ago, Wall Street asked, “Jack who?”

When I tried to make GE more competitive by cutting back our workforce in the early 1980s, the media called me “Neutron Jack.” When they learned we were focused on values and culture at GE, people asked if “Jack has gone soft. ” I’ve been No. 1 or No. 2 Jack, Services Jack, Global Jack, and, in more recent years. Six Sigma Jack and e-Business Jack.

When we made an effort to acquire Honeywell in October 2000, and I agreed to stay on through the transition (过渡期), some thought of me as the Long-in-the-Tooth Jack hanging on by his fingertips to his CEO job.

Those characterizations said less about me and a lot more about the stage our company went through. Truth is, down deep, I’ve never really changed much from the boy my mother raised in Salem, Massachusetts.

When I started on this journey in 1981, standing before Wall Street analysts for the first time at New York’s Pierre Hotel, I said I wanted GE to become “the most competitive enterprise on earth.” My objective was to put a small-company spirit in a big-company body, to build an organization out of an old-line industrial company that would be more high-spirited, more adaptable, and more flexible than companies that are one-fiftieth our size. I said then that I wanted to create a company “where people dare to try new things, where people know that only the limits of their creativity and drive, their own standards of personal excellence, will be the ceiling on how far and how fast they move. ”

I’ve put my mind, my heart, and my courage into that journey every day of the 40-plus years I’ve been lucky enough to be a part of GE.

【推荐2】Is it by luck or strength that Jackson Yee, who has been an actor for a few years, has achieved such eye-catching results? The answer can be found in The Battle at Lake Changjin.

The entire film took more than 180 days to shoot. Jackson Yee was just 20 years old when he entered the set and never left for a single day during filming. The 176 minutes of The Battle at Lake Changjin are just the period of time during which we sit in the cinema, but they are the 180 days he spent groping (摸索) around in the snow and ice. Apart from taking time off to attend the Spring Festival Gala, not once did he take time off to shoot another film or attend a show.

Thus, we see Wu Wanli change from a coward holding a knife with his hands trembling on the battlefield and not daring to stab the enemy, into a fearless soldier shooting enemies on the battlefield, and saying “There are 8 short of 20” (because one of his comrades says that killing 20 enemies makes him a hero). From a brash and unruly (傲慢无礼的) boy to an outstanding soldier, Jackson Yee makes us understand “How can a teenager grow old fast? Living through a war can make a teenager become thirty years older than he is quickly.”

Even when competing with a group of senior actors who have spent most of their lives in the acting world, Jackson Yee, a new actor in his early 20s, received the favorable comments.

However, the more praise Jackson Yee wins, the more it has caused some netizens to hate him, and thus controversy (争论) about his acting skills has arisen.

Anyhow, Jackson Yee has always been calm and awake; he once said, “No matter how noisy the world is out there, I have to be calm.” Therefore, you can always trust Jackson Yee.

【推荐3】After serving as a backup crew member for 24 years, Chinese taikonaut Deng Qingming’s dream finally came true—he performed his first space mission onboard the Shenzhou XV spaceship along with two other astronauts on Nov. 29.

Deng is the last one of the country’s first group of 14 astronauts to be sent into space. The name of Deng, 56 years old, was not known by many people until China launched the Shenzhou XIII spaceship in October last year. The story of the veteran (老战士) who relentlessly pursued his space dream despite serving as a backup for years moved many, and for which he was praised as a “hidden hero”.

In 1996, Deng began to take part in the PLA Air Force’s selection of astronaut candidates and was finally selected with another 13 aviators. In the following years, Deng dedicated almost all of his time to training and has spared no efforts to strive for an opportunity to fly into space. He was a backup crew member for the Shenzhou IX, X and XI, XII missions.

“Being a backup doesn’t mean you don’t need to work. I must watch closely in the control center and offer all I know about the mission and the spacecraft in case of emergency,” Deng said during a previous interview. “Only when the crew returns to Earth will my mission be complete”.

When training for Shenzhou XI mission carried out in 2016, Deng was confined in a spacecraft simulator no bigger than 10 square meters for 33days. They had no showers and endured loud noise and piercing light as they tried to sleep.

No matter how difficult the road to space flight is, Deng never once thought of giving up. He was awarded the title “Role Model of the Times” by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee in 2018.

“Be it a crew or a backup, it is the job. And the success of the mission comes before my personal wishes,” Deng once said.