When I was young, one day my mum brought several apples of different colors and sizes. Both my two younger brothers and I wanted the biggest one. My mum picked up the biggest apple and said to us, “It is good to get the biggest apple. Now let’s start a competition. I will divide the lawn in front of our house into three parts, each of you responsible for one respectively. Who could prune his own share of lawn the best and the quickest will be rewarded with the biggest apple.” I won the apple finally.
小時候，有一天媽媽拿來幾個蘋果，紅紅綠綠，大小各不同。我和兩個弟弟爭著要大的， 媽媽把那個最大最紅的蘋果舉在手中對我們說：“誰都想得到這個蘋果，很好。現在，讓我們來比賽，我把門前的草坪分成三塊，你們一人一塊負責修剪好，誰干得最快最好，誰就有權得到它。”我贏得了那個最大的蘋果。

I feel very grateful to my mum because she taught me a very basic but significant wisdom: If you want to get the best, you must compete to be the No.1. She has been teaching us in this way and we followed her advice all the time. At my home, I needed to compete for what I wanted. It is quite fair because what and how much you want should be acquired with equivalent effort and cost.
我非常感謝母親，她讓我明白了一個最簡單也最重要的道理：要想得到最好的，就必須努力爭第一。她一直都是這樣教育我們，也是這樣做的。在我們家里，你想要什么好東西都要通過比賽來贏得。這很公平，你想要什么，想要多少，就必須為此付出多少努力和代價。

The hand rocking the cradle is the one promoting the world. Mother is the first teacher of children, who can teach them to tell the first lie or teach them to be an honest and No.1-pursuing person.
推動搖籃的手，就是推動世界的手。母親是孩子的第一任教師，你可以教他說第一句謊言，也可以教他做一個誠實的、永遠努力爭第一的人。