#6 TED video:Letting go of God

The title: Letting go of God
The link: http://www.ted.com/talks/julia_sweeney_on_letting_go_of_god
The speaker:Julia Sweeney

 I recommend this video and consider it is worth to listen because I really appreciate her speaking skill. The content was not about knowledge or analysis but about her story. Although there was no academic erudition in her speech, she still successfully attracted the audiences.  Making use of abundant facial expression and exaggerative body language was the method Julia Sweeney used. I have watched this video for several times, and every time I was tempted by her funny way of giving a speech. While I didn’t just watch for fun, I tried to learning skills from her. I imitated her and then practiced to combine the way she used with my speak style. To sum up, I really recommend this video:  Letting go of God. 

#5 The reflection of Steve Jobs address and my life story

The first story which is about connecting the dots impress me a lot. I think this is very important to our career now because we can't just have one skill in this competitive society. And we never know how the knowledge we learnt would effect our future; therefore, I think we should to try to learn more skills of different fields. Maybe someday all the specialties will connect together and help us in our business, just like Steve Jobs. 

#4 Learning from Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

I learnt a lot from his talk and below are some expressions which I want to learn the most.


1. drop out of 退出(學校)
    "I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months" 

2. a dorm room 宿舍房間

    "I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms"

3. intuition 直覺

    "And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on."

4.  calligraphy 書法、筆跡

     "Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. "

5. subtle 精巧的

    " It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating."

6. come back to sb. 回想起來

    "But 10 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. "

7. it's likely that 很可能

    "And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. "

8. a falling out 衝突

   "But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out."

9. side with sb. 支持某人

    "When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him."

10. screw up 【俚】把某事弄糟、搞砸了

     "I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly"