这个将军的演讲点燃全美：如果你想改变世界，就从整理床铺开始（完整中字视频）
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就算你不是军事迷，至少也听说过海豹突击队。世界上最精锐的特种部队，或许没有之一。上天入海，刺杀营救。他们的生平，是最接近好莱坞大片的现实版。今天英语演讲君和大家分享的演讲就是海豹突击队的前大Boss威廉·麦克拉文（William McRaven）在卸任军职，德克萨斯大学系统（University of Texas System）的校长时候的一场精彩演讲。
高级将领当大学校长，在美国社会是一项传统，也是一项殊荣。德克萨斯大学，是麦克雷文的母校。36年前，他从这里走进军营。面对8000名毕业生，老学长兼新校长麦克雷文要对他们发表一番演讲。
尽管是一位英雄，麦克雷文并不是扎克伯格、J.K. 罗琳那样的明星嘉宾。但谁都没有想到，这会成为美国历史上最精彩的大学毕业演讲之一。连麦克雷文本人都意想不到，这场演讲会引爆美国，两周内网络点击突破2000万次。
英雄的麦克雷文将军，在这场人山人海的演讲上，讲了一个让所有人都意想不到的主题：如果你想改变世界，就要每天早上起床叠被子。
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很多人光听到这句话就笑了。但麦克雷文在演讲所说的一切都是认真的：在世界上要求最严苛的特种部队，起床后折好被子是海豹突击队员每天要完成的第一项任务。
麦克雷文说：是叠被子，让他学会自律，让他专注细节。更重要的，是从完成这样一件小事开始，获得一天中的第一份成就感。
以下为中文演讲全文：
总统府长，教长，院长，教职员工，家庭和朋友，最重要的是2014年的班级。祝贺你的成就。
从UT毕业的那一天已经差不多已经37年了。 我记得当天有很多事情。 我记得我前一天晚上从派对中头痛。 我记得我有一个严重的女朋友，我后来结婚了 - 这很重要，记得那一天 - 我记得当天在海军被委任。
但是我记得所有的事情，那天晚上，我没有一个线索，开始的演讲者，我当然不记得他们说的话了。 所以，承认这个事实，如果我不能让这个开始讲话难忘，我至少会尽量简短。
大学的口号是“这里开始改变世界”。 我不得不承认 - 我有点喜欢 “这里开始改变世界”。
今晚有来自UT的近8000名学生毕业。 分析严谨的大问题Ask.Com表示，一般美国人一生中将会遇到一万人。 这是很多人。 但是，如果你们每个人都改变了10个人的生活 - 每个人都改变了另外10个人的生命 - 只有10个 - 然后是五代 - 125年 - 2014年的班级将改变生活8亿人。
8亿人 - 想想 - 超过美国人口的两倍。 再多一代，你可以改变世界的全部人口 - 八十亿人。
如果你认为很难改变10个人的生活 - 永远改变自己的生活 - 你错了。 我在伊拉克和阿富汗每天都看到这样的事情：一名年轻的军官决定向左走，而不是在巴格达的一条路上行驶，而他的阵容中的10名士兵则从近距离伏击中得救。 在阿富汗的坎大哈省，一名来自女性参与队的非执勤官员感觉到一些不正确的事情，指示步兵队远离500磅的IED，挽救了十几名士兵的生命。
但是，如果你想到这个，那么这些士兵不仅可以通过一个人的决定而得救，而且还没有出生的孩子也得救了。 他们的孩子们被救了。 一个人通过一个决定节省了一代人。
但改变世界可以发生在任何地方，任何人都可以做到。 所以，这里开始的确可以改变世界，但问题是 - 改变世界后，世界将会如何？
嗯，我有信心看起来好多了， 但是，如果你只是稍等一下幽默这位老水手，我会提出一些建议，帮助你改善世界。 虽然我在军事期间学到了这些经验教训，但我可以向你保证，重要的是你是否曾服过制服的一天。 重要的不是你的性别，你的种族或宗教背景，你的方向或你的社会地位。
我们在这个世界上的斗争是相似的，克服这些斗争和前进的教训 - 改变我们自己和我们周围的世界 - 将同样适用于所有人。
我已经是海军海豹已经36年了。 但是，当我离开UT在加利福尼亚州科罗纳多进行基本SEAL培训时，这一切都开始了。 基本的SEAL训练是在软沙期间长达六个月的长时间的曲折运动，午夜在圣地亚哥的冷水中游泳，障碍课程，无休止的健美操，无睡眠的日子，总是感冒，湿润和悲惨。 经过专业训练的战士不断受到六个月的伤害，他们寻求心灵和身体的弱点，消除他们不再成为海军海豹。
但是，这次培训还试图找到那些能够处于不断的压力，混乱，失败和困难的环境中的学生。 对我来说，基本的SEAL培训是一生中遇到的六个月的难题。
所以，这里是从基础的SEAL培训中学到的10个课程，希望在你在生活中向前迈进时，对你来说是有价值的。
每天早上在基本的SEAL培训中，我当时都是越南退伍军人的导师，都会出现在我的营房里，他们首先检查的是你的床。 如果你这样做的话，角落会是正方形的，盖子拉紧，枕头正好位于床头板下方，而额外的毯子整齐地折叠在机架的脚下 - 这就是海军谈话的床。
这是一个简单的任务 - 平凡的一切。 但每天早上，我们都要求我们的床完美。 当时看起来有点可笑，特别是鉴于有志于成为真正的战士，强硬的战争密封的事实，但这种简单的行为的智慧已经证明了我多次。
如果你每天早上起床，你将会完成今天的第一项任务。 它会给你一个小小的自豪感，它会鼓励你做另一个任务和另一个任务。 到最后，完成的一个任务将完成许多任务。 使你的床也会加强事实，生活中的小事情是重要的。 如果你不能做小事情，你永远不会做大事情吧。
而且，如果偶然你有一个悲惨的一天，你会回到床上，这是你制作的 - 一张床是给你鼓励，明天会更好。
如果你想改变世界，开始你的床。
在海豹训练期间，学生被分解成船员。 每个船员都是七名学生 - 三条小橡胶船的两边，另一只是帮助引导笨蛋。 每天，您的船员在海滩上形成，并被指示通过海岸几英里的冲浪区和桨。 在冬天，圣地亚哥的冲浪可以达到8到10英尺高，除非人人都在挖，否则很难穿过冲浪冲浪。每个桨都必须与coxswain的冲程数同步。 每个人都必须发挥同等的作用，否则船只会反对波浪，不由自主地扔回海滩。
为了使船到达目的地，每个人都必须桨。 你不能单独改变世界 - 你将需要一些帮助，真正从你的起点到你的目的地，让朋友，同事，陌生人的良好意愿和强大的coxswain指导他们。
如果你想改变世界，找个人来帮助你。
经过几个星期的艰苦训练，我的SEAL课程从150人开始，下降到35人。现在有6艘船员，每人7人。我和那些高个子的船在船上，但是我们所拥有的最好的船员是由小伙子们组成的，我们称之为他们的munchkin船员，没有人超过五英尺五。
米奇金船员有一名美国印度人，一名非洲裔美国人，一名波兰裔美国人，一名希腊美国人，一名意大利美国人和两名来自中西部的艰难的孩子。 他们外面散步，跑出去，游泳了所有其他船员。 在每次游泳之前，其他船员中的大个子将总是让这些小 fl子放在小小的小脚上的小小的脚 蹼很好玩。 但不知何故，这些小家伙，从国家和世界的每个角落，总是有最后的笑声 - 游泳比每个人都快，在我们其他人之前长时间到达岸边。
海豹训练是一个很好的均衡器。 没有什么重要，但你的意志是成功的。 不是你的颜色，不是你的种族背景，不是你的教育，而不是你的社会地位。
如果你想改变世界，衡量一个人的心脏的大小，而不是他们的脚蹼的大小。
每周多次，导师将排班，并进行统一检查。 这是非常彻底的 你的帽子必须是完美的，你的制服被完美压制，你的皮带扣有光泽，没有任何污迹。 但是，无论您将多少努力放入帽子，还是按制服或抛光皮带扣，这似乎都不够好。 教练会发现“什么”错了。
为了不统一检查，学生必须跑步，充分穿入冲浪区域，然后从头部到脚趾湿润，在海滩上滚动，直到身体的每一个部分都被沙子覆盖。 这种效果被称为“糖饼干”。 你在那天剩下的时间留在那个制服 - 冷，湿和沙。
有很多学生不能接受所有的努力是徒劳的事实。 无论他们如何努力使制服正确，这是不被欣赏的。那些学生没有通过培训。 那些学生不了解演习的目的。 你永远不会成功 你永远不会有一个完美的制服。
有时候，无论你准备好多好，还是表现得如何，你仍然会以糖饼干的形式出现。 这只是生活有时候的方式。
如果你想改变世界，变成一个糖饼干，继续前进。
在训练过程中，每天都会遇到多次身体事件 - 长跑，长时间游泳，障碍课程，健身时间等等，这些都是为了测试你的灵魂而设计的。 每个事件都有标准 - 你必须达到的时间。 如果你没有达到这些标准，你的名字就会被列在名单上，而在结尾的那一天，这些名单被邀请到一个“马戏团”。 一个马戏团是两个小时的额外的健美操，旨在穿你，打破你的精神，迫使你戒烟。
没有人想要一个马戏团。
马戏团意味着那天你没有测量。 马戏团意味着更多的疲劳 - 更多的疲劳意味着第二天会更加困难，而且更多的马戏可能会更多。 但在SEAL培训的某个时候，每个人都是马戏团的名单。
但一个有趣的事情发生在那些不断在名单上的人。 随着时间的推移，这些学生 - 谁做了两个小时的额外的健美操 - 变得更强大。 马戏团的痛苦建立了内在的力量，建立了身体的弹性。
生活充满了马戏团。 你会失败。 你可能会经常失败。 这将是痛苦的 这将是沮丧的。 有时它会测试你的核心。
但如果你想改变世界，不要害怕马戏。
每周至少两次，受训人员必须运行障碍物。 障碍物包括25个障碍物，包括10英尺高的墙壁，30英尺的货物网和铁丝网的爬行等等。 但最具挑战性的障碍就是生活的幻灯。 它的一端有一个三层30英尺的塔，另一端有一层塔。 之间是一条200英尺长的绳索。 你不得不爬上三层塔，一次在顶部，你抓住绳子，摆在绳子下面，把手伸直，直到你到另一端。
障碍课程的记录多年来一直在1977年，我的课程开始训练。这个记录看起来是无与伦比的，直到有一天，一个学生决定先滑下生命。 他不用挥动他的身体在绳子下面，而是向下弯曲，他勇敢地安装了绳索的顶端并向前推。
这是一个危险的举动 - 看起来很愚蠢，充满风险。 失败可能意味着受伤，并从训练中掉下来。 毫不犹豫地，学生快速滑下绳索。 而不是几分钟，他只花了他一半的时间，在课程结束时，他打破了记录。
如果你想改变世界，有时你必须首先向下滑动障碍物。
在陆战训练阶段，学生们飞往位于圣地亚哥沿岸的圣克莱门特岛。 圣克莱门特岛的水域是大白鲨的滋生地。 要通过海豹训练，必须完成一系列漫长的游泳。 一个是夜游。
在游泳之前，教练们快乐地向学员介绍了居住在圣克莱门特海域的所有鲨鱼种类。 然而，他们向你保证，没有一个学生从来没有被鲨鱼吃过 - 至少不是最近。 但是，你也被教导说，如果鲨鱼开始绕过你的位置 - 站在你的地面上。 不要游泳。 不要害怕 如果鲨鱼饿死了一个午夜小吃，向你飞去 - 然后召唤你的力量，把他打在鼻子里，他会转身游泳。
世界上有很多鲨鱼。 如果你希望完成游泳，你将不得不处理他们。
所以，如果你想改变世界，不要从鲨鱼中退缩。
海军海豹作为我们的工作之一就是对敌方航运进行水下攻击。 我们在基础训练中广泛地练习了这种技术。 船舶攻击任务是一对海豹潜水员从敌方港口外面掉下来，然后在水下两公里内游泳，只使用深度计和指南针来达到目标。
在整个游泳过程中，甚至在表面以下，还有一些光线通过。 知道你上面有开放的水是安慰的。 但是当你接近与码头绑在一起的船只时，灯光开始消失。 船舶的钢结构阻挡了月光，阻挡了周围的路灯，阻挡了所有的环境光线。
要在你的使命中取得成功，你必须在船下游泳，并找到龙骨 - 船的中心线和最深的部分。 这是你的目标。 但龙骨也是船舶最黑暗的部分，在那里你无法看到你的手在你的脸前，船上的机器噪音是震耳欲聋的，容易迷失方向和失败的地方。
每一个SEAL都知道，在龙骨的最黑暗的时刻，你必须冷静下来，组合起来 - 当你的所有战术技能，你的身体力量和所有的内在力量都必须承受时，
如果你想改变世界，你一定是最黑暗的时刻。
第九周的训练被称为“地狱周”。 泥泞的六天不睡觉，身体和精神上的骚扰不断，还有一个特别的日子。 泥地是位于圣地亚哥和蒂华那之间的地方，那里的水流下来，并创造了蒂华纳水es，这是泥土吞噬你的地形的沼泽地块。
在地狱周的星期三，你们踩到泥地，然后在接下来的15个小时里尝试生存冷冻的冷泥，嚎叫的风和不断的教练的压力。 随着星期三晚上的太阳开始，我的训练班已经犯了一些“严重的违规违规”，被排入泥潭。
泥土消耗每个人，直到没有任何可见但我们的头。 教练告诉我们，如果只有五个人退出 - 只有五个人，我们可以离开泥土，我们可以摆脱压迫感冒。 看着泥土平坦，显然有些学生即将放弃。 太阳升起还有八个多小时，还有八个小时的寒冷寒冷。
学员的颤抖的牙齿和发抖的呻吟声如此响亮，很难听到任何声音。 然后，一个声音开始在夜里响起，一首声音在歌声里扬起来。 这首歌是非常失调的，但是热情洋溢。 一个声音变成了两个，两个变成了三个，并且很久以前，班上的所有人都在唱歌。 我们知道，如果一个人可能超过苦难，那么其他人也可以。
如果我们继续唱歌，导师们会在泥泞中威胁我们更多的时间，但歌唱持续下去。 不知何故，泥似乎有点温暖，风一点点，也没有这么远的黎明。
如果我在旅行世界的时候学到了什么，那就是希望的力量。 一个人的力量 - 华盛顿，林肯，国王，曼德拉，甚至来自巴基斯坦的一个年轻女孩，马拉拉 - 一个人可以通过给人们的希望改变世界。
所以，如果你想改变世界，开始唱歌，当你在泥泞的脖子上。
最后，在SEAL培训中有一个钟声。 一个黄铜铃挂在复合材料的中心，供所有学生看到。 所有你要做的戒烟是响铃。
敲钟，你不再需要在5点钟醒来。 敲铃，你不再需要做冷冻的游泳。 敲铃，你不再需要做运行，障碍课程，PT - 你不再需要忍受训练的困难。 只是敲钟
如果你想改变世界，永远不要敲响钟。
对于2014年的毕业班，你离毕业生不远。 从开始你的生命之旅开始的时刻。 从开始改变世界的时刻 - 为了更好。 这不容易
但是，你是2014年的课程，这个课程可以影响下个世纪8亿人的生活。
每天开始完成任务。 找人来帮助你一生。 尊重每个人
知道生活不公平，你会经常失败。 但是，如果你带走一些风险，那么当时代最艰难的时候，要加强，面对恶霸，抬起压倒性的，永远不要放弃 - 如果你做这些事情，那么下一代和后代将会生活在一个比我们今天更好的世界。
而这里开始的确会改变世界 - 更好。
非常感谢你。
以下为英文演讲全文：
President Powers, Provost Fenves, Deans, members of the faculty, family and friends and most importantly, the class of 2014. Congratulations on your achievement. It's been almost 37 years to the day that I graduated from UT. I remember a lot of things about that day. I remember I had throbbing headache from a party the night before. I remember I had a serious girlfriend, whom I later married — that's important to remember by the way — and I remember that I was getting commissioned in the Navy that day. But of all the things I remember, I don't have a clue who the commencement speaker was that evening, and I certainly don't remember anything they said. So, acknowledging that fact, if I can't make this commencement speech memorable, I will at least try to make it short. The University's slogan is, "What starts here changes the world." I have to admit — I kinda like it. "What starts here changes the world." Tonight there are almost 8,000 students graduating from UT. That great paragon of analytical rigor, Ask.Com, says that the average American will meet 10,000 people in their lifetime. That's a lot of folks. But, if every one of you changed the lives of just 10 people — and each one of those folks changed the lives of another 10 people — just 10 — then in five generations — 125 years — the class of 2014 will have changed the lives of 800 million people. 800 million people — think of it — over twice the population of the United States. Go one more generation and you can change the entire population of the world — eight billion people. If you think it's hard to change the lives of 10 people — change their lives forever — you're wrong. I saw it happen every day in Iraq and Afghanistan: A young Army officer makes a decision to go left instead of right down a road in Baghdad and the 10 soldiers in his squad are saved from close-in ambush. In Kandahar province, Afghanistan, a non-commissioned officer from the Female Engagement Team senses something isn't right and directs the infantry platoon away from a 500-pound IED, saving the lives of a dozen soldiers. But, if you think about it, not only were these soldiers saved by the decisions of one person, but their children yet unborn were also saved. And their children's children were saved. Generations were saved by one decision, by one person. But changing the world can happen anywhere and anyone can do it. So, what starts here can indeed change the world, but the question is — what will the world look like after you change it? Well, I am confident that it will look much, much better. But if you will humor this old sailor for just a moment, I have a few suggestions that may help you on your way to a better a world. And while these lessons were learned during my time in the military, I can assure you that it matters not whether you ever served a day in uniform. It matters not your gender, your ethnic or religious background, your orientation or your social status. Our struggles in this world are similar, and the lessons to overcome those struggles and to move forward — changing ourselves and the world around us — will apply equally to all. I have been a Navy SEAL for 36 years. But it all began when I left UT for Basic SEAL training in Coronado, California. Basic SEAL training is six months of long torturous runs in the soft sand, midnight swims in the cold water off San Diego, obstacles courses, unending calisthenics, days without sleep and always being cold, wet and miserable. It is six months of being constantly harrassed by professionally trained warriors who seek to find the weak of mind and body and eliminate them from ever becoming a Navy SEAL. But, the training also seeks to find those students who can lead in an environment of constant stress, chaos, failure and hardships. To me basic SEAL training was a lifetime of challenges crammed into six months. So, here are the 10 lessons I learned from basic SEAL training that hopefully will be of value to you as you move forward in life. Every morning in basic SEAL training, my instructors, who at the time were all Vietnam veterans, would show up in my barracks room and the first thing they would inspect was your bed. If you did it right, the corners would be square, the covers pulled tight, the pillow centered just under the headboard and the extra blanket folded neatly at the foot of the rack — that's Navy talk for bed. It was a simple task — mundane at best. But every morning we were required to make our bed to perfection. It seemed a little ridiculous at the time, particularly in light of the fact that were aspiring to be real warriors, tough battle-hardened SEALs, but the wisdom of this simple act has been proven to me many times over. If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. By the end of the day, that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed. Making your bed will also reinforce the fact that little things in life matter. If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right. And, if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made — that you made — and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better. If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. During SEAL training the students are broken down into boat crews. Each crew is seven students — three on each side of a small rubber boat and one coxswain to help guide the dingy. Every day your boat crew forms up on the beach and is instructed to get through the surfzone and paddle several miles down the coast. In the winter, the surf off San Diego can get to be 8 to 10 feet high and it is exceedingly difficult to paddle through the plunging surf unless everyone digs in. Every paddle must be synchronized to the stroke count of the coxswain. Everyone must exert equal effort or the boat will turn against the wave and be unceremoniously tossed back on the beach. For the boat to make it to its destination, everyone must paddle. You can't change the world alone — you will need some help — and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them. If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle. Over a few weeks of difficult training my SEAL class, which started with 150 men, was down to just 35. There were now six boat crews of seven men each. I was in the boat with the tall guys, but the best boat crew we had was made up of the the little guys — the munchkin crew we called them — no one was over about five-foot-five. The munchkin boat crew had one American Indian, one African American, one Polish American, one Greek American, one Italian American, and two tough kids from the midwest. They out-paddled, out-ran and out-swam all the other boat crews. The big men in the other boat crews would always make good-natured fun of the tiny little flippers the munchkins put on their tiny little feet prior to every swim. But somehow these little guys, from every corner of the nation and the world, always had the last laugh — swimming faster than everyone and reaching the shore long before the rest of us. SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status. If you want to change the world, measure a person by the size of their heart, not the size of their flippers. Several times a week, the instructors would line up the class and do a uniform inspection. It was exceptionally thorough. Your hat had to be perfectly starched, your uniform immaculately pressed and your belt buckle shiny and void of any smudges. But it seemed that no matter how much effort you put into starching your hat, or pressing your uniform or polishing your belt buckle — it just wasn't good enough. The instructors would find "something" wrong. For failing the uniform inspection, the student had to run, fully clothed into the surfzone and then, wet from head to toe, roll around on the beach until every part of your body was covered with sand. The effect was known as a "sugar cookie." You stayed in that uniform the rest of the day — cold, wet and sandy. There were many a student who just couldn't accept the fact that all their effort was in vain. That no matter how hard they tried to get the uniform right, it was unappreciated. Those students didn't make it through training. Those students didn't understand the purpose of the drill. You were never going to succeed. You were never going to have a perfect uniform. Sometimes no matter how well you prepare or how well you perform you still end up as a sugar cookie. It's just the way life is sometimes. If you want to change the world get over being a sugar cookie and keep moving forward. Every day during training you were challenged with multiple physical events — long runs, long swims, obstacle courses, hours of calisthenics — something designed to test your mettle. Every event had standards — times you had to meet. If you failed to meet those standards your name was posted on a list, and at the end of the day those on the list were invited to a "circus." A circus was two hours of additional calisthenics designed to wear you down, to break your spirit, to force you to quit. No one wanted a circus. A circus meant that for that day you didn't measure up. A circus meant more fatigue — and more fatigue meant that the following day would be more difficult — and more circuses were likely. But at some time during SEAL training, everyone — everyone — made the circus list. But an interesting thing happened to those who were constantly on the list. Over time those students — who did two hours of extra calisthenics — got stronger and stronger. The pain of the circuses built inner strength, built physical resiliency. Life is filled with circuses. You will fail. You will likely fail often. It will be painful. It will be discouraging. At times it will test you to your very core. But if you want to change the world, don't be afraid of the circuses. At least twice a week, the trainees were required to run the obstacle course. The obstacle course contained 25 obstacles including a 10-foot high wall, a 30-foot cargo net and a barbed wire crawl, to name a few. But the most challenging obstacle was the slide for life. It had a three-level 30-foot tower at one end and a one-level tower at the other. In between was a 200-foot-long rope. You had to climb the three-tiered tower and once at the top, you grabbed the rope, swung underneath the rope and pulled yourself hand over hand until you got to the other end. The record for the obstacle course had stood for years when my class began training in 1977. The record seemed unbeatable, until one day, a student decided to go down the slide for life head first. Instead of swinging his body underneath the rope and inching his way down, he bravely mounted the TOP of the rope and thrust himself forward. It was a dangerous move — seemingly foolish, and fraught with risk. Failure could mean injury and being dropped from the training. Without hesitation the student slid down the rope perilously fast. Instead of several minutes, it only took him half that time and by the end of the course he had broken the record. If you want to change the world sometimes you have to slide down the obstacle head first. During the land warfare phase of training, the students are flown out to San Clemente Island which lies off the coast of San Diego. The waters off San Clemente are a breeding ground for the great white sharks. To pass SEAL training there are a series of long swims that must be completed. One is the night swim. Before the swim the instructors joyfully brief the trainees on all the species of sharks that inhabit the waters off San Clemente. They assure you, however, that no student has ever been eaten by a shark — at least not recently. But, you are also taught that if a shark begins to circle your position — stand your ground. Do not swim away. Do not act afraid. And if the shark, hungry for a midnight snack, darts towards you — then summon up all your strength and punch him in the snout, and he will turn and swim away. There are a lot of sharks in the world. If you hope to complete the swim you will have to deal with them. So, if you want to change the world, don't back down from the sharks. As Navy SEALs one of our jobs is to conduct underwater attacks against enemy shipping. We practiced this technique extensively during basic training. The ship attack mission is where a pair of SEAL divers is dropped off outside an enemy harbor and then swims well over two miles — underwater — using nothing but a depth gauge and a compass to get to their target. During the entire swim, even well below the surface, there is some light that comes through. It is comforting to know that there is open water above you. But as you approach the ship, which is tied to a pier, the light begins to fade. The steel structure of the ship blocks the moonlight, it blocks the surrounding street lamps, it blocks all ambient light.
To be successful in your mission, you have to swim under the ship and find the keel — the centerline and the deepest part of the ship. This is your objective. But the keel is also the darkest part of the ship — where you cannot see your hand in front of your face, where the noise from the ship's machinery is deafening and where it is easy to get disoriented and fail. Every SEAL knows that under the keel, at the darkest moment of the mission, is the time when you must be calm, composed — when all your tactical skills, your physical power and all your inner strength must be brought to bear. If you want to change the world, you must be your very best in the darkest moment. The ninth week of training is referred to as "Hell Week." It is six days of no sleep, constant physical and mental harassment, and one special day at the Mud Flats. The Mud Flats are area between San Diego and Tijuana where the water runs off and creates the Tijuana slues, a swampy patch of terrain where the mud will engulf you. It is on Wednesday of Hell Week that you paddle down to the mud flats and spend the next 15 hours trying to survive the freezing cold mud, the howling wind and the incessant pressure to quit from the instructors. As the sun began to set that Wednesday evening, my training class, having committed some "egregious infraction of the rules" was ordered into the mud. The mud consumed each man till there was nothing visible but our heads. The instructors told us we could leave the mud if only five men would quit — just five men — and we could get out of the oppressive cold. Looking around the mud flat it was apparent that some students were about to give up. It was still over eight hours till the sun came up — eight more hours of bone-chilling cold. The chattering teeth and shivering moans of the trainees were so loud it was hard to hear anything. And then, one voice began to echo through the night, one voice raised in song. The song was terribly out of tune, but sung with great enthusiasm. One voice became two and two became three and before long everyone in the class was singing. We knew that if one man could rise above the misery then others could as well. The instructors threatened us with more time in the mud if we kept up the singingbut the singing persisted. And somehow the mud seemed a little warmer, the wind a little tamer and the dawn not so far away. If I have learned anything in my time traveling the world, it is the power of hope. The power of one person — Washington, Lincoln, King, Mandela and even a young girl from Pakistan, Malala — one person can change the world by giving people hope. So, if you want to change the world, start singing when you're up to your neck in mud. Finally, in SEAL training there is a bell. A brass bell that hangs in the center of the compound for all the students to see. All you have to do to quit is ring the bell. Ring the bell and you no longer have to wake up at 5 o'clock. Ring the bell and you no longer have to do the freezing cold swims. Ring the bell and you no longer have to do the runs, the obstacle course, the PT — and you no longer have to endure the hardships of training. Just ring the bell. If you want to change the world don't ever, ever ring the bell. To the graduating class of 2014, you are moments away from graduating. Moments away from beginning your journey through life. Moments away from starting to change the world — for the better. It will not be easy. But, YOU are the class of 2014, the class that can affect the lives of 800 million people in the next century. Start each day with a task completed. Find someone to help you through life. Respect everyone. Know that life is not fair and that you will fail often. But if take you take some risks, step up when the times are toughest, face down the bullies, lift up the downtrodden and never, ever give up — if you do these things, then the next generation and the generations that follow will live in a world far better than the one we have today. And what started here will indeed have changed the world — for the better. Thank you very much. Hook 'em horns.
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