Shakespeare wrote this title in Julius Caesar.
My enthusiasm for the cognitive science is still going on. I have learned a lot Shawn Achor’s books. I am going to review some of books I ever read and I want to look at some of books from references of “Happiness Advantage” and “Before Happiness”. I just finished reading “Before Happiness”, I did not want to finish. This book has changed my life completely. Some of this idea is not new at all, some of them are my beliefs actually, but he explains better, prove with the data. I would love to read relevant subjects and books, There are too many books to read!!
Let me review a bit, I learned the cost of fear. Fear has trapped our mind though out our life. Shakespeare wrote in Julius Caesar,
“Cowards die many times before their deaths”
Also Tupac says,
”A coward dies a thousand deaths, a soldier dies but once.”
The fear we are feeling prevent us from actions. But we tend to fail to estimate the real cost of fear. Like Dale Carnegie said, ’95 percent of event we imagine never happen’ Do not worry so much. We have to know how to manage our fear. Will Smith also says, ‘The danger is real, the fear is a choice’
Let’s change the subject. I would like to talk about Paraphrasing. When I was in Japan, one of my teacher told me if you want to write paper, you should imitate someone native speaker’s writing. To be honest, this is wrong. We should not imitate other’s writing easily. Actually , paraphrasing is good excise. You have to rewrite sentences without changing meaning with using as much as possible different words. I will write some examples later.
And we are working on Adjective and vocabulary with my writing tutor. To learn new words and vocabulary, following lesson is good.
For example: Write a paragraph which describe your favorite place in detail as possible as you can with using 5 new adjectives (adverse). Mine is like this (before editing), 150 words??
My favorite place in Charlotesville is Mille Joe coffee. When I go to this coffee shop, I always order a latte. At Mile Joe, Lattes are always made with elaborate patterns. (I do not know how they make it ) Sometimes, the pattern looks like real leaves, sometimes looks like an adorable cat’s face. I love them. Mille Joe is full of cozy furniture, which makes the place fabulous. What I am really into at Mille Joe is their bookshelf. There is a lot of stuff on it: a chess board, books, and an antiquated coffee maker, and so on. And Mille Joe is not only the place for coffee. They have two more booths in the shop. One sells chocolate, the other sells cheese. In each booth, a neatly dressed sales person is talking to their costumer. We can taste coffee with cheese or chocolate at the coffee shop. Sounds fun, doesn’t It?
Those who are English learner as a 2nd language this cite also helps you. This web site teaches us “Adjective Order and Punctuation”. I have never worried about the order of adjective because I did not notice. I just have used adjective with random in the way I feel right.
http://www.esl-library.com/blog/2013/03/07/adjective-order-and-punctuation/