Assignment 6-TED Talk

Matt Cutts: Try something new for 30 days

https://www.ted.com/talks/matt_cutts_try_something_new_for_30_days#t-28275

I had learned a similar idea from a test. I also wrote that sentence down and pasted it on my desk. The sentence is “if a person repeats his/her behavior twenty-one times, and it would become a habit; if he/she repeats this habit the same times, and it would be personality. Personality makes destiny; therefore, bad habit can’t make good achievement.” I want to share an example about my daily life to you. I used not to wear lotion, so my skin is dry. One day, my friend looked my legs; she told me my legs were too dry and looked terrible. After that, I tried to wear lotion day by day. It works and now I wear lotion every day. Although this example can’t be regarded as a great achievement; it makes my skin much better. 

Assignment 5-My story

Connect the dots

As Steve Jobs said,” you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.” When I was about nine or ten, my parents took me to a cram school for learning English. Spending extra time and learning English in the cram school made me got good grades in English tests. I also found English is an interesting subject and I like it. After becoming a junior high school student, I still got high scores in this subject. Among all the subjects, I always did well in English. Three years later, I graduated from junior high school and I chose to attend the Applied English of San-Chung Commercial and Industrial Vocational High School. Now, I major in the Department of Applied Foreign Language in NTUB. If my parents had never had me studying English from an early age, I couldn't find that I am interested in English and good at it.

Assignment 4-Steve Jobs’ Talk

This is the second time I watch this video. The first time was last semester. The teacher briefly introduced this speech to us, but I didn't catch the key points clearly. This time teacher gave us the scripts of this speech, so I have the second chance to learn from this renowned commencement address. The following are the five points that impress me a lot.

1."biological" mother : Before listening to this speech, I never thought of a word which can describe a mother gave a birth to a baby.
2.I learned many new words and phrases from this speech such as "stumble into," "dawn on," "fall out," "drown out," "gut," "naive," and so on.
3.You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
4.It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.
5.Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc