Wednesday 13 November 2019

#6 TED Talk 1- The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Introduction:-

We need to take our strongest intuition and test them. We need to measure whether we've been successful and we have to willing to be fail, to be wrong to start over again with the lessons learned. In other words, we need to be gritty about getting our future grittier.


5 keywords I've learnt from this talk:-
(1) Grit

Definition- Passion and perseverance for long-term and meaningful goals

Example- Through grit and wits, the pioneers were able to survive the blizzard.

Chinese- 恆毅力

(2) Emerged

Definition- Move out of or away from something and become visible

Example- United have emerged as bookies' clear favourite.

Chinese- 出現

(3) Persevere

Definition- To persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite on counterinfluences, opposition or discouragement

Example- Even though he was tired, he persevere and finished the race.

Chinese- 堅持不懈

(4) Intuition

Definition- The ability to acquire knowledge without recourse to conscious reasoning

Example- Intuition was telling her that something was really wrong.

Chinese- 直覺

(5) Stratospheric

Definition- Extremely high

Example- The detection of living cell in stratospheric samples.

Chinese- 很高的


Link to the talk:-

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