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超过2,200名青少年提交了 how to do everything 从修理厕所到与袋鼠搏斗的所有事情的文章。学生们以《纽约时报》的“ Tip ”专栏为本次比赛的灵感来源。

Winners

按作者名字的字母顺序排列

“How to Befriend an Introvert”: Ashley Zhang, 14, Collingwood School, West Vancouver, British Columbia

“How to Do the Worm”: Camille Gonzales, 18, Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Houston

“How to Find Your Balance”: Chelsea Hu, 18, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.

“How to Make Bubble Tea”: Hanyi Zhou, 14, Chinese International School, Hong Kong

“How to Make the Perfect Sandwich”: Jackson DeNichilo, 15, Fallston High School, Fallston, Md.

“How to Wrap a Dumpling”: Jacob Wang, 16, Charterhouse School, Godalming, England

“How to Conduct a Podcast Interview”: Matthew Jeong, 17, Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Houston

“How to Be a Kid Forever”: Raniya Chowdhury, 17, John Fraser Secondary School, Mississauga, Ontario

“How to Become Friends With a Wild Bird”: Shannon Hong, 16, Herricks High School, New Hyde Park, N.Y.

“How to Host Unexpected Guests”: Sofia Fontenot, 18, Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Houston

“How to Make Fear Your Friend”: Zoe Brown, 14, Summit High School, Bend, Ore.

Runners-Up

“How to Recover After Yet Another Disappointing Season by Your Favorite N.F.L. Team”: Alden Comes, 13, Briarcliff Middle School, Mountain Lakes, N.J.

“How to Tell the Ugly Truth”: Alex (Hayoung) Jung, 16, Seoul Foreign School, Seoul

“How to Remember Names”: Anahita Driver, 13, Gregory Middle School, Naperville, Ill.

“How to Find Gratitude in Everyday Life”: Andrew Coraggio, 16, Arrowhead Union High School, Hartland, Wis.

“How to Antique Shop”: Callisto Lim, 17, Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Houston

“How to Build an Optimal Environment for Your Fish”: Chasity Rolon, 16, Deer Park High School, New York, N.Y.

“How to Snowball Attack Your Sister”: Harper Mooney, 14, Marblehead High School, Marblehead, Mass.

“How to Achieve Inner Peace by Washing Your Dishes”: Jackson Cooke, 18, Briarwood Christian High School, Birmingham, Ala.

“How to Spot Counterfeit Currency”: Kaylie Milton, 17, West High School, Iowa City, Iowa

“How to Pee On a Hike”: Lauren Acker, 17, Lakeside High School, DeKalb County, Ga.

“How to Mimic an Accent”: Michael Noh, 14, Korea International School Pangyo Campus, Seongnam, South Korea

“How to Speak Like a British Person”: Owen Wilde, 16, Maynard High School, Maynard, Mass.

“How to Ask a Teacher for Help”: Sarah Harris, 15, Boothbay Region High School, Boothbay Harbor, Maine

“How to Spin Pens”: Siddharth S., 16, Peepal Prodigy School Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

“How to Make Kids Excited About History”: Vivian Wenan Chang, 17, BASIS Chandler, Chandler, Ariz.

“How to Ride a Roller Coaster Without Fear”: Wang Ziyun, 16, Raffles Girls’ School, Singapore

“How to Make a Three-Point Shot”: Will Peña, 17, Academy at the Lakes, Land O’ Lakes, Fla.

“How to Play Darts”: Xizhe Yang, 15, Shanghai High School International Division, Shanghai

Honorable Mentions

“How to Survive Middle School Hallways”: Alice Liang, 13, Islander Middle School, Mercer Island, Wash.

“How to Learn a New Language”: Andrew Chen, 14, International School of Beijing, Beijing

“How to Let Go of Someone”: Ariel Ting, 16, Taipei American School, Taipei, Taiwan

“How to Cope With Your Anxiety”: Ava Cho, 18, Daegu International School, Daegu, South Korea

“How to Live Openly As a Lesbian”: Ayco Phlypo, 17, Atheneum Gentbrugge, Ghent, Belgium

“How to Make Homemade Pasta”: Bella DiBernardo, 16, Alta Vista Middle College, Santa Barbara, Calif.

“How to Prepare for Running a Marathon”: Brett Barker, 17, Arrowhead Union High School, Hartland, Wis.

“Keep the Sandman at Bay”: Bryant, 18, Bandung Independent School, Bandung, Indonesia

“How to Fix a Toilet!”: Carla Lopez, 16, Jose Marti STEM Academy, Union City, N.J.

“How to Order at a Specialty Coffee Shop”: Cassandra Garcia, 16, home school, Portland, Texas

“How to Trip Gracefully”: Eileen Kim, 15, Urbana High School, Ijamsville, Md.

“How to Drive Your Siblings Mad”: Elaine Kim, 15, West Ranch High School, Stevenson Ranch, Calif.

“Being Objective”: James Yi, 17, Orange County School of the Arts, Santa Ana, Calif.

“How to Accept Failure”: Jamie Park, 16, Yongsan International School of Seoul, Seoul

“How to Cope With a Panic Attack”: Jason Kim, 15, Georgetown Preparatory School, North Bethesda, Md.

“How to Escape a Night Market”: Joyce Chang, 16, Stella Matutina Girls’ High School, Taichung City, Taiwan

“How to Overcome Assault: A Survivor’s Guide on Trauma-Related Shame”: Juliana Segal, 17, The Montessori School of Raleigh Upper School, Raleigh, N.C.

“How to Play Out of Tune On the Flute”: Kavya Muralidhar, 13, Islander Middle School, Mercer Island, Wash.

“How to Write a Poem”: Lareina Yuan, 14, YK Pao School, Shanghai

“How to Make Tanghulu”: Lehan Gu, 15, Northwood High School, Irvine, Calif.

“How to Be When Meeting New People”: MaryEden Rall, 13, Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School, Montgomery, Ala.

“How to Make the Perfect Playlist”: Rachel Wieland, 17, Arrowhead Union High School, Hartland, Wis.

“How to Talk to Your Crush Without Sounding Like a Talking Potato”: Roxanne Wu, 16, International School of Beijing, Beijing

“How to Help a Child With Autism”: Sarah Zeng, 15, Victoria Park Collegiate Institute, Toronto

“How to Deal With Nerves”: Sasha Luhur, 14, Northwood School, Lake Placid, N.Y.

“How to Watch Clouds”: Shio Kim, 14, North London Collegiate School Jeju, Seogwipo, South Korea

“How to Discuss Controversial Issues With Parents”: Siyao Feng, 18, Linden Hall School for Girls, Lititz, Pa.

“How to Write a Song”: Sophia Kim, 15, Chadwick International School, Incheon, South Korea

“How to Write a Song”: Stephanie Ma, 16, The Webb Schools, Claremont, Calif.

“How to Be a Good Dukjil-er”: Suevean (Evelyn) Chin, Asia Pacific International School, Seoul

“How to Win an Argument”: Suri Boryang Kim, PTGMS, South Korea

“How to Tie a Shoe”: Vivian Olivera, 17, Academy at the Lakes, Land O’ Lakes, Fla.

“Grilling Pork Belly For the Best Flavor”: Yoonseo Cho, 17, Portola High School, Irvine, Calif.

This essay, by Zoe Brown, 14, of Bend, Ore., is one of the Top 11 winners of The Learning Network’s new “How To” Informational Writing Contest for Teenagers.

How to Make Fear Your Friend

“The best part about fear is that it’s the only emotion that will bring out your true potential,” says Matthias Giraud, a big mountain skier and BASE jumper. His “ethos” highlights the shift in perspective that occurs when one refuses to let fear dictate one’s limits.

Giraud, otherwise known as Super Frenchie, is an extreme athlete who skis off mountains, such as the Matterhorn for fun. Not only is he an expert at leaping off mountain peaks in the Alps Trilogy — the Matterhorn, Eiger, and Mont Blanc — he’s also an expert on harnessing fear.

“I try to breathe in fear,” explains Giraud, 40, who talked to me from his home in Bend, Oregon. Giraud, originally from Evreux, France, spent his childhood at a ski academy. Now he regularly attempts death-defying feats that seem to require fearlessness but actually he uses fear to his advantage. “You have to listen to your fear, not overcome it,” says Giraud.

Fear is not a bad emotion, says Giraud. Rather than ignoring one’s instincts, a systematic analysis of your environment and the factors involved will help you move into a better place. “It’s not about talking yourself into doing what you’re afraid to do,’‘ says Giraud. It’s about understanding personal limits and accepting the risks.

Once you understand that fear is a result of uncertainty, you can embrace it as a tool, according to Giraud. The action is less “fearful” if you assess the unknown variables and make an informed decision to accept specific risks. For example, on numerous occasions, Giraud has spent a lot of time, money, and effort in planning ambitious expeditions but turned around due to unacceptable risks such as bad weather.

When you shift your paradigm to understand fear is an advantage instead of an obstacle, “fear will unleash super powers,” says Giraud. It can change how you see the world. His philosophy allows one the freedom to set ambitious goals and give opportunities to move out of one’s comfort zone.

“Once you push through your fear enough you are able to reach a place of serenity where your experience and confidence in yourself is high enough that you reach a ‘quiet’ in your mind,” says Giraud. “Breathing becomes easy and you have achieved serenity.”

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This essay, by Sofia Fontenot, 18, from Houston, is one of the Top 11 winners of The Learning Network’s new “How To” Informational Writing Contest for Teenagers.

How to Host Unexpected Guests

“It’s a little delight, a little bonbon of a thing,” says Miah Arnold, the 51-year-old co-founder of Grackle & Grackle, a business hosting creative writing classes out of Arnold’s backhouse in Houston. Visitors drop in often at the dual business/residence; sometimes guests walk directly into Arnold’s living room by mistake. From childhood, Arnold’s home has always been a public space. She grew up behind a bar in small-town Myton, Utah, where her father owned a saloon, and she learned how to listen to — and ask for — the stories of unexpected guests.

First, don’t let your house be too clean. Don’t let it be filthy, either. “Having that in-between state of a house puts people at ease,” Arnold says. “Your house is in a certain state of the world. And that helps you decide the stories that you’re going to tell.” You want your guest to have a place to sit, but you also want enough tchotchkes and knickknacks strewn on side tables and hung on the walls that there’s always something to talk about. Offer your guest tea, snacks, leftovers, water at the minimum. “Go in and find whatever crackers you have,” advises Arnold. “Then ask them what stories they have.”

Be open to letting guests into your home at a moment’s notice. You may not always have the dishes cleaned or your schedule cleared, but saying “Yes, and,” to these social situations opens the door to once-in-a-lifetime relationships and experiences. “You have to let yourself be thrown off course,” says Arnold. “The guests can feel you make that decision and that makes them happier.”

In today’s world, when productivity and “the grind” are so highly prioritized, it can be difficult to dedicate a half-hour or hour of your schedule to building a new relationship, but it brings casual connection and a change in routine that we’ve been missing since the pandemic started. “When someone new comes, it turns everything off balance in a way that it needs to be,” Arnold says.

To post-guests and potential guests, remind them that they are always welcome. “You have to let people know that you enjoy it when they stop by,” says Arnold. “Just reiterating it. Just to remind each other that you live in a world together.”

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This essay, by Raniya Chowdhury, 17, of Mississauga, Ontario, is one of the Top 11 winners of The Learning Network’s new “How To” Informational Writing Contest for Teenagers.

How to Be a Kid Forever

“The best part of being a kid is getting candy when you’re sad,” says eight-year-old Lolia Almasri, who is a Mickey Mouse-loving third grader living in the sleepy suburbs of southern Ontario, and a leading expert on all things kid-related. For many teenagers like myself who dance on the cusp of “adulthood” — in the legal sense, anyway — grappling with growing up has felt like an impending apocalypse of responsibilities. To those counting down the doomsday clock of turning 18, you might be hoping to hold onto the feeling of youth and postpone the inevitable. Or maybe you’ve already been a grown-up for some time and long to reclaim that balmy, magical, wide-eyed wonder of childhood.

Well, according to Lolia, it’s not hard to keep being a kid, as it revolves around the core tenets of remembering the value of kindness and having fun. Empathy is the bedrock of her ethos and she expresses its importance through a personal anecdote: “When my friend needed scissors, I gave him mine and got another one.” The economy of kids is barter-based (e.g. if you give me your Pokémon card, I’ll give you my strawberry-scented eraser). Their transactions are exchanges of happiness, so a good place for you to start is by sharing things with others, even though that grows difficult with age.

Once you’ve mastered this, it’s time for the fun part. “Kids have to behave nice and also play,” Lolia says, which is a facet of childhood that I wonder why we ever let go of. A return to playing outdoors is imperative. Suspend your disbelief. Instead, make-believe! Don your light-up sneakers and search the woods for fairies, play hopscotch in the backyard, kick a ball around — allow yourself to sincerely enjoy it, the little things.

But, truly, what strikes me most about Lolia’s philosophy on living life like you’re in Neverland is her final step: a gentle reminder that “even if you’re a grown-up, if you’re scared at night you can still snuggle your parents.” After all, in Lolia’s world, there is no reality in which there won’t be someone to console her after a nightmare. To her, unicorns and dragons exist, and so does love, always. Ultimately, the best advice Lolia gives on being a kid forever is to have faith that you aren’t alone in life and to turn to someone when you’re afraid of the dark.

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