Eat Your Marshmallow Lately

Joachim de posada , who made a excellent lecture in the TED talks , shared an interesting psychological research to us: He crowded lots of 3 or 4 years old children in a room and left each of them a marshmallow . If they could resist themselves and keep the marshmallow for 15 minutes , they would get another one . After that , 2 out of 3 ate the marshmallow . After 14 years old ,what interesting is , another 1 out of 3 achieved their success in the following-up study almost everyone . Because they have already got the most important factor for success: delay gratification .

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Diana Dyad：Never, Ever Give Up

In the pitch-black night, stung by jellyfish, choking on salt water, singing to herself, hallucinating, Diana Nyad just kept on swimming. And that's how she finally achieved her lifetime goal as an athlete, an extreme 100-mile swim from Cuba to Florida, at age 64. Hear her story.

It's the fifth time Diana Nyad stand on the Cuban shore believing again that she’s going to make it all the way across that vast, dangerous wilderness of an ocean.

Life is about the journey, but not really the destination. We've been on a journey. Let's face it, we're all on a one-way street. What are we going to do as we go forward to have no regrets looking back? Teddy Roosevelt quote was floating around in her brain over the past years in training. It says, "You go ahead and sit back in your comfortable chair as a critic or an observer, while the brave one gets in the ring, engages, gets bloody and dirty, and fails over and over and over again. Yet he isn't afraid or timid and lives life in a bold way." When you achieve your dreams, it's not so much what you get as who you have

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Your body language shapes who you are

Your body language shapes who you are. We always make sweeping judgments and inferences from body language. And those judgments can predict really meaningful life outcomes like who we hire or promote, who we ask out on a date. Amy Cuddy, the lecturer, tells us a lot about functions of body language bring to us.

It is true across the animal kingdom that when animals make themselves big, they stretch out, take up space, they are basically opening up and expanding. It's not just limited to primates,and humans do the same thing. Amy Cuddy explains this phenomenon physiologically by cortisol, which is the stress hormone.When we feel powerless, we do exactly the opposite. We close up, wrap ourselves up, and make ourselves small. all we have done because of testosterone, which is the dominance hormone.

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Comments on View from the Top Donna Jensen is a girl from a small town in Nevada who wishes to see the world in order to get away from her unhappy life. One day, she reads a book My Life in the Sky written by Sally Weston a famous successful flight attendant, and decides to follow her destiny by becoming a flight attendant. She firstly goes to a small, seedy California commuter airline; however, the experience encourages her to attend open interviews for Royalty Airlines. Donna passes the interview and she puts herself into the training camp. After meeting her idol Sally Weston, she is determined to get the assignment to Paris. Unfortunately when the assignments are posted, Donna is shocked that she is assigned to a commuter route in Cleveland. On contrary, her friend Christine who didn’t get herself well trained now is inexplicably assigned the high-priority New York route. In Cleveland Donna meets Ted again and fells in love with him. By chance Donna find that Christine steal her paper and made her lose the chance to NY. Finally Donna goes to Paris and leaves Ted, but she is not happy about the life in Paris. With Sally’ inspiration Donna goes back to Cleveland and make a better dream come true there.

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Dan Gilbert: The Psychology of your Future Self

Dan Gilbert explained in a memorable TED talk on how humans are constantly changing.

Change is related to growth. Cardinal John Henry Newman once said, “To be human is to change. To be perfect is to have changed often.” Be willing to let go of present attitudes that sabotage you, no matter how comfortable you are with them. If you do not change, you will not see, hear, feel, know or go toward anything more than what you are now. In any way, you must change what is now in order to gain. No matter what you think you are at present, you are always more than that. Your life is a work in progress. Always be on the lookout for ways to make changes. Each of us is frequently exposed to creative opportunities and new possibilities, but our conditioned mindsets filter them out. Our addiction to comfort zones eventually leads

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The Green Banana

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Although it might have happened anywhere, my encounter with the green banana sta rted on a steep mountain road in the central area of Brazil. My ancient jeep was straining up through beautiful countryside when the radiator began to leak, and I was ten miles from the nearest mechanic. The over-heated engine forced me to st op at the next village, which consisted of a small store and a few houses that we re scattered here and there. People came over to look. They could see three fine streams of hot water spouting from holes in the jacket of the radiator."That's easy to fix,?nbsp;a man said. He sent a boy running for some green bananas. He patted me on the shoulder, assuring me that everything would work out. "Green bananas," he smiled. Everyone agreed.

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Kramer vs. Kramer Today I watched a good movie Kramer vs. Kramer in our class, which I had watched it in my dormitory before. I loved this movie very much. Kramer vs. Kramer was a film about a divorced couple dealing with their family, career and child. The hero of Kramer vs. Kramer was Ted. The heroine was his wife Joanna. They had a lovely child named Billy. Kramer worked as an advertisement clerk in a company to support his family. He was very busy in his work and has little communication with his wife and son. Joanna was a housewife. She didn’t have a job and what she did everyday was to do the housework and took care of their son. Joanna once had a job, but after she got married, she quit her job. Without Kramer’s any care about her inner thought, Joanna felt very upset about her present life. One day, Joanna couldn’t stand her lifestyle any more. So, she turned Ted for help, but Ted refused to listen to her. Though she loved Billy very much, she leaved away alone. Since then, Ted’s life has fall into a mess suddenly. As he couldn’t deal well with both his career and his son, he was always blamed by his boss. Fortunately, his neighbor often came to help him. Through many things, the love between Ted and Billy was very deep and firm .One year later, Joanna came back and

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The Oliver Twist＇s book review

The book Oliver Twist was originally titled:The Parish Boy＇s Progress. It is the second novel written by Charles Dickens.

Charles John Huffam Dickens, regarded as the greatest writer of Britain in nineteenth century, was good at refleting social reality through his works. Defined as “the founder and the greatest representative of critical realism in English literature” by China and fomer Soviet union scholars, he used surperb artistic technique to describe varities of complicated social phenomenons and criticize the dark side of the society. He has created so many dramatic characters that leave his readers deep impressions including Dr.Manette in A Tale of Two Cities, David in David Copperfield and of course Oliver in Oliver Twist. The purpose Dickens wrote this book is to protest social injustice promote reform for the relief of the poor.

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