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Beat yesterday's self

Beat yesterday's self

By Dempsey DavisPublished about a year ago 3 min read
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He was born in the northern city of Rouen, France, has a unique political talent from childhood, he attended the school organization of countless speeches in primary school, many teachers said he was born with good eloquence, plus looks dignified, smart, he has been serving as the class monitor.

In high school, he was already a man of the hour, and he would go to almost all the games organized by the school and give it his all.

When he was a sophomore in high school, he had the honor to be the editor-in-chief of the New Year's party. He was responsible for the preparation and editing of the whole party. He locked himself in the dormitory for several days, and the result was that he sorted out a lot of useless words, both the host's lines and the party's string words, which were full of loopholes.

The director of the evening, Mr. Farke, who is the vice president of the Dean's Office, believes that the editing is the backbone of the evening and that if the editing is not in place, or if it is not organized at all, the evening will not be completed. He looked at the once arrogant "devil of the world" in front of him with a very disdainful eye. Without saying anything, he asked the academic affairs office of the school to revoke his qualification as editor-in-chief.

He soon received a notice with a succinct sentence: The editor's job was to be taken by someone else. For a child of just seventeen years old, this is like a thunderclap.

With tears raging against his cheeks, he approached the director and some of the school officials and asked them to take it back and start all over again, sure to succeed the next time.

No one paid any attention to a child's mood, and some good students spread the story widely, their subtext is: don't be too self-righteous, there is someone else, heaven is heaven.

The child thought for a moment, will himself again shut in the dormitory, this time, he organized two students, one has a good vocal talent, a performance genius, two days and two nights time, he will re-organize the text on the general director Farke's bookcase.

Farke was fretting about this because the party was approaching and he could not find a suitable writer soon. He tried to write a few pages but felt vulnerable.

The words placed on the desk like a flash of lightning opened the door of Mr. Falk's heart. While watching, Falk danced with his hands. The lines were outstanding and the string of words was vivid.

Farke's eyes were fixed on the name of the organizer: Francois Hollande.

Hollande simulated the whole program of the party in the dormitory, working with two other students to hone the language, trying to make every line reflect the atmosphere of the scene as vividly as possible. He wowed the school with a classic, legendary remedy, and the school news agency decided he was destined to be an earth-shattering talent.

A week later, Hollande published a column in the school newspaper "Defeat yesterday's self": The biggest opponent is not the enemy, but oneself, people are always fighting with yesterday's self, your goal is to defeat yesterday's you, can't let yesterday's you over today's you and tomorrow's your neck.

After graduating from university, Hollande entered politics, starting from a nobody, and then rising smoothly from a "potential stock" to a "blue chip stock". He is a good speaker and a "firebrand". He has been the leader of the French Socialist Party since 2001. He is running as the Socialist Party's candidate for the French presidency alongside the UMP candidate Nicolas Sarkozy.

In his campaign speech, he put forward the slogan of "calling on the strength of the people to revitalize the economy", he reminded everyone: Learn to reflect on yourself, yesterday I was vulnerable, today and tomorrow I must be the best, our country is the same, although faced with economic stagnation, but as long as the whole people are united, fight against yesterday's country, tomorrow's country will be full of hope, sunrise is in front of us.

On the afternoon of May 6th, Francois Hollande defeated Nicolas Sarkozy in the second round of the election and was widely expected to become France's new president.

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