#9 What makes a good life?

     The Harvard Study of Adult Development study people about what really keeps people happy and healthy.The clearest message is : Good relationships keep us happier and healthier.
     The first is that social connections are really good for us.The second is that it's not just the number of friends you have, and it's not whether or not you're in a committed relationship, but it's the quality of your close relationships that matters.And the third big lesson that we learned about relationships and our health is that good relationships don't just protect our bodies, they protect our brains.
The good life is built with good relationships.
     I think relationship for family or friend is important. Every time together to talk and share life, sometimes celebrate some achievement or festival. We get together taking an interest in each other’s lives, shareing stories and memories. And a gentle greetings even can bring caring and happiness.

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#8 Do you procrastinate sometimes? Why do you procrastinate? How to stop procrastinating?

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     I would procrastinate occasionally, and I think most people do the same thing sometimes.  I think people who procrastinate is because of poor time management.
     Sometimes I watch the video and go out to play which uses much time for fun and leisure. And sometimes I used too much time to focus on only one thing like making a presentation. When I need to do another route if it approaching the deadline, I would feel a lot of stress.
     So I think people who have  high capacity for self-control can make good use of time. We can planning times and following the itinerary to ameliorate procrastination first.

# Six minute English project

#7 Inside the mind of a master procrastinator

keywords I learn from the talk ：

1.procrastination (n) 拖延
     to keep delaying something that must be done, often because it is unpleasant or boring
2.rational (adj) 理智的
     based on clear thought and reason
3. mayhem (n)混亂
     a situation in which there is little or no order or control

Summarize the talk ：

The speaker Tim Urban talk about procrastinator who always lives entirely in the present moment and seldom think about past or future at that time. The panic inside their mind will put pressure to them if the things they need to do have deadline. But in non-deadline situations,  they have nothing to wake up.  And it can be the source of a huge amount of long-term unhappiness, and regrets.

#6 The power of passion and perseverance

5 keywords I learn from the talk：

  

  1.grit  (n) 毅力

     courage and determination despite difficulty

  2.perseverance  (n)堅持不懈

      continued effort and determination

     persevere       (v)不屈不饒

      continue doing something in a determined way, despite having problems

  3.stamina       (n)耐力

     the physical or mental strength to do something that might be difficult and will take a long time

  4.inversely   (adv)相反地

     in the opposite way

  5.intuitions    (n)直覺

     an ability to understand  something immediately based on your feelings rather than facts

Introduce the talk ：

    Grit is passion and perseverance in our future, living life like a marathon, not a sprint. Carol Dweck developed the idea called "growth mindset", it shows  that the ability to learn is not fixed, that it can change with your effort.  They're much more likely to persevere when they fail, because they don't believe that failure is a permanent condition. 

#5 Can you trust a smart speaker ?

Q : Do you have a smart speaker at home? 

A : Yes, I have. My smart speaker is Google Assistant. Although I didn't use it  very often, It can bring convenience to life when I used it.

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Q :  What is a smart speaker? 

A : A smart speaker is a device that can give the answers from the questions we ask, or it can  control some home appliance like playing music and switching the light.
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Q :  How does a smart speaker work? 

A : When a smart speaker listen to what we say and catch some key word, it works. Like the system setting instruction, it  search some data from Internet  or follow  the instructions we commend.

#4

#4 I think the Hyperloop can be realistic in the future. By putting it in a vacuum tube, it drastically reducing travel times, and these technologies are more efficient and they save energy. Although  the Hyperloop has not completed yet, and it has several unknown risks, but from small beginnings comes great things. I believe that it will have amazing results in the future.

#3 Transport of the future

1. prevalent：common at a particular time 流行的

    

  E.g. Flu is most prevalent during the winter months.

2. prototype ：the first form that a new design before it is produced 原型

  E.g. Pilots have begun testing a prototype of the new aircraft.

3. intervention：the act of becoming involved in situation in order to change what happens 干預.介入

  E.g. He opposed U.S. military intervention overseas.

4..far-fetched：extremely unlikely to be true or to happen 牽強

  E.g. The story seems to be far-fetched, yet it happened.

5. maglev：an advanced type of transport system in which a train travels on a magnetic track,

    often at very high speeds:  磁浮列車

  E.g. The prototype maglev has notched top speeds of 320 mph.

#2 Are the speaking and listening tasks difficult for you? What are the challenges you often face when you listen and speak in English?

It isn’t difficult for me to read aloud a short paragraph or a conversation, but It’s a little hard when I express my thought .

I was a little nervous when I was talking so that my mind's gone blank after I finished some simple sentence.

I feel that speaking is harder than listening when retell the story. I have taken note of the story when I was listening, but I couldn't description the story accurately. when I repeat the story with a simple vocabulary and omit some content, the details of the original story are omitted.

＃1 My new plan this year

This new semester is the beginning of my sophomore year. I want to prepare for the financial insurance related license. And I always stayed up late last semester, so I want to get into the habit of going to bed early. Hope I can improve myself whether in learning or in all aspects.