There are three main theories of what happiness is.
Hedonism Theory:
It is believed that a happy life maximizes feeling of pleasure and minimizes pain. A happy person would smile a lot, have a lot of energy and so forth. The problem with this theory is whose life it is actually talking about. Is it the experiencer or the observer?
Consider this. A person hosts a Christmas party. When asked how her Christmas was, the person might say it was fantastic and it was nice to be with the family. However, this statement would disregard the hard work and fights that came about from the party preparations.
Desire Theory:
This theory is simple. If you get what you desire, you will be happy.
One might ask, however, if fulfilling the desire of something that harms your health and well-being would truly bring you happiness.
Objective List Theory:
It is believed that achieving certain things from a list of worthwhile pursuits would make you happy.
I believe each theory on its own is not enough to make use genuinely happy, but a balanced combination of the 3 theories could possibly help us achieve what we call authentic happiness.
What do you think?
2012年1月6日金曜日
2011年12月3日土曜日
Procrastination
Procrastination from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.
What is procrastination according to the video?
What examples does the video give of things people do when procrastinating?
What do you do when you procrastinate?
2011年12月2日金曜日
Work-Life Balance
Work-life balance is something that we working people need to think about. What is your lifestyle like? Do you find yourself working too much and not spending enough time with your family and friends? Here is a speech by an author Nigel Marsh.
Up until 40, what was Nigel Marsh's lifestyle like?
What did he realise when he took a year off work?
What are his 4 observations about work-life balance?
What can you do to improve your work-life balance? Remember, small things matter.
Source: http://www.ted.com/talks/nigel_marsh_how_to_make_work_life_balance_work.html
Up until 40, what was Nigel Marsh's lifestyle like?
What did he realise when he took a year off work?
What are his 4 observations about work-life balance?
What can you do to improve your work-life balance? Remember, small things matter.
Source: http://www.ted.com/talks/nigel_marsh_how_to_make_work_life_balance_work.html
2011年11月17日木曜日
10 Golden Trading Rules
Read and comment:
1. Some traders consider trading as a sort of gambling. Without planning and calculations, they throw money at the market. They should distance themselves from gambling behavior. Why a scientific approach is applicable? Markets echo similar patterns over and over again. It allows identify reliable trends and select good trading vehicles.2. Think in terms of probabilities and act upon them.There are no certainties in trading. You can keep yourself out of trouble by thinking in terms of probabilities. Get comfortable with approximate predictions and interpretations.3. Hope, fear and greed are not strategies: they are emotions. Simple emotions are not an effective strategy. Positive emotions could cause us to fail to apply riskprecautions. Negative emotion could cause us to hesitate. |
Vídeo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEArG8ebxAg
List the 10 golden trading rules he mentions.
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Listen again and discuss about the explanation he gives for each rule.
What are your trading rules?
2011年11月9日水曜日
Prepositions
A preposition describes a relationship between other words in a sentence. In itself, a word like "in" or "after" is rather meaningless and hard to define in mere words. For instance, when you do try to define a preposition like "in" or "between" or "on," you invariably use your hands to show how something is situated in relationship to something else. Prepositions are nearly always combined with other words in structures called prepositional phrases. Prepositional phrases can be made up of a million different words, but they tend to be built the same: a preposition followed by a determiner and an adjective or two, followed by a pronoun or noun (called the object of the preposition). This whole phrase, in turn, takes on a modifying role, acting as an adjective or an adverb, locating something in time and space, modifying a noun, or telling when or where or under what conditions something happened.
Consider the professor's desk and underline all the prepositional phrases.
You can sit before the desk (or in front of the desk). The professor can sit on the desk (when he's being informal) or behind the desk, and then his feet are under the desk or beneath the desk. He can stand beside the desk (meaning next to the desk), before the desk, between the desk and you, or even on the desk (if he's really strange). If he's clumsy, he can bump into the desk or try to walk through the desk (and stuff would fall off the desk). Passing his hands over the desk or resting his elbows upon the desk, he often looks across the desk and speaks of the desk or concerning the desk as if there were nothing else like the desk. Because he thinks of nothing except the desk, sometimes you wonder about the desk, what's in the desk, what he paid for the desk, and if he could live without the desk. You can walk toward the desk, to the desk, around the desk, by the desk, and even past the desk while he sits at the desk or leans against the desk.
All of this happens, of course, in time: during the class, before the class, until the class, throughout the class, after the class, etc. And the professor can sit there in a bad mood
Prepositions of Time: at, on, and in
1. We use at to designate specific times.
The train is due at 12:15 p.m.
2. We use on to designate days and dates.
My brother is coming on Monday.
We're having a party on the Fourth of July.
3. We use in for nonspecific times during a day, a month, a season, or a year.
She likes to jog in the morning.
It's too cold in winter to run outside.
He started the job in 1971.
He's going to quit in August.
Prepositions of Place: at, on, and in
1. We use at for specific addresses.
Grammar English lives at 55 Boretz Road in Durham.
2. We use on to designate names of streets, avenues, etc.
Her house is on Boretz Road.
3. And we use in for the names of land-areas (towns, counties, states, countries, and continents).
She lives in Durham.
Durham is in Windham County.
Windham County is in Connecticut.
Prepositions of Movement: to
and No Preposition
1. We use to in order to express movement toward a place.
They were driving to work together.
She's going to the dentist's office this morning.
2. Toward and towards are also helpful prepositions to express movement. These are simply variant spellings of the same word; use whichever sounds better to you.
We're moving toward the light.
This is a big step towards the project's completion.
3. With the words home, downtown, uptown, inside, outside, downstairs, upstairs, we use no preposition.
Grandma went upstairs
Grandpa went home.
They both went outside.
Prepositions of Time: for and since
1. We use for when we measure time (seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years).
He held his breath for seven minutes.
She's lived there for seven years.
The British and Irish have been quarreling for seven centuries.
2. We use since with a specific date or time.
He's worked here since 1970.
She's been sitting in the waiting room since two-thirty.
Exercises
1. My friend lives _______ Brazil Road.
2. I will be ready to leave ______ about twenty minutes.
3. The child reacted to her mother’s demands ________ throwing a tantrum.
4. I think she spent the entire afternoon __________ the phone.
5. I am not interested ______ buying a house right now.
6. My husband is named _________ his father.
7. My birthday is ________ 19th May.
8. I was visiting my friend ________ the hospital.
9. There is more and more violent _______ the television.
10. I go to work _______ car.
Consider the professor's desk and underline all the prepositional phrases.
You can sit before the desk (or in front of the desk). The professor can sit on the desk (when he's being informal) or behind the desk, and then his feet are under the desk or beneath the desk. He can stand beside the desk (meaning next to the desk), before the desk, between the desk and you, or even on the desk (if he's really strange). If he's clumsy, he can bump into the desk or try to walk through the desk (and stuff would fall off the desk). Passing his hands over the desk or resting his elbows upon the desk, he often looks across the desk and speaks of the desk or concerning the desk as if there were nothing else like the desk. Because he thinks of nothing except the desk, sometimes you wonder about the desk, what's in the desk, what he paid for the desk, and if he could live without the desk. You can walk toward the desk, to the desk, around the desk, by the desk, and even past the desk while he sits at the desk or leans against the desk.
All of this happens, of course, in time: during the class, before the class, until the class, throughout the class, after the class, etc. And the professor can sit there in a bad mood
Prepositions of Time: at, on, and in
1. We use at to designate specific times.
The train is due at 12:15 p.m.
2. We use on to designate days and dates.
My brother is coming on Monday.
We're having a party on the Fourth of July.
3. We use in for nonspecific times during a day, a month, a season, or a year.
She likes to jog in the morning.
It's too cold in winter to run outside.
He started the job in 1971.
He's going to quit in August.
Prepositions of Place: at, on, and in
1. We use at for specific addresses.
Grammar English lives at 55 Boretz Road in Durham.
2. We use on to designate names of streets, avenues, etc.
Her house is on Boretz Road.
3. And we use in for the names of land-areas (towns, counties, states, countries, and continents).
She lives in Durham.
Durham is in Windham County.
Windham County is in Connecticut.
Prepositions of Movement: to
and No Preposition
1. We use to in order to express movement toward a place.
They were driving to work together.
She's going to the dentist's office this morning.
2. Toward and towards are also helpful prepositions to express movement. These are simply variant spellings of the same word; use whichever sounds better to you.
We're moving toward the light.
This is a big step towards the project's completion.
3. With the words home, downtown, uptown, inside, outside, downstairs, upstairs, we use no preposition.
Grandma went upstairs
Grandpa went home.
They both went outside.
Prepositions of Time: for and since
1. We use for when we measure time (seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years).
He held his breath for seven minutes.
She's lived there for seven years.
The British and Irish have been quarreling for seven centuries.
2. We use since with a specific date or time.
He's worked here since 1970.
She's been sitting in the waiting room since two-thirty.
Exercises
1. My friend lives _______ Brazil Road.
2. I will be ready to leave ______ about twenty minutes.
3. The child reacted to her mother’s demands ________ throwing a tantrum.
4. I think she spent the entire afternoon __________ the phone.
5. I am not interested ______ buying a house right now.
6. My husband is named _________ his father.
7. My birthday is ________ 19th May.
8. I was visiting my friend ________ the hospital.
9. There is more and more violent _______ the television.
10. I go to work _______ car.
2011年11月4日金曜日
Out of 7 billion people, what number are you?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515
Find out what number you are.
Find out what number you are.
2011年11月1日火曜日
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