Jim Rohn—Art of Exceptional Living

In class we listened to three recordings of Jim Rohn’s s speech on the art of exceptional living. The things he said in the recordings are based on simple concepts such as establishing a personal philosophy and daily habits to create the life we want, to reach our goal. They are in fact the very thing that changed his life. He talked about the definition of failure and success. He said “failure” is a few errors in judgment repeated everyday. “Success” is a few simple disciplines practiced everyday. He told us th

at personal philosophy is the cornerstone of your achievement. He said he worked for 6 years without much success until he met this teacher or you can say mentor of his and changed his mind set on things. After that he stared to become successful. He found out that he became successful not because the government became better or the tax was reduced. I think his point here is, we shouldn’t keep blaming other people and other things for excuses for our own failure, it’s our thinking that will change everything. He also told us to read, build our own library, read over and over again. He said “all leaders are readers” lastly he said experience includes failure. He said to learn from other people and our own experience positive and negative. After listening to those three recordings it got me thinking of my goals and my goal of success, and how I will get there. I really like those recordings they are pretty motivating and it will really get you thinking seriously about how we are living and using the time of our lives.

What does success means to me...

Success means a lot of things to me, like achieving a goal I have set for myself. At this time period of my life, the definition of success or you can say my goal of success for myself is mainly focused getting good grades in school and get into a good university. 

Something I enjoyed reading in class—Song of myself by W. Whitman

We read song of myself section 10, 33 and 52 recently. I liked section 33 the most. It talked about Whitman’s perspective of heroism. In the poem he mentioned heroes such as a runaway slave who suffered greatly, a woman who was accused of being a witch, and was sentence to burn to death while her children gazed upon. Whitman described a fireman who sacrificed himself to save other. Same with the dying general on the battlefield who told his mates to “not worry about him” Whitman talked about the heroic actions these people did and the great hardship they suffered through. I really like those three Walt Whitman poems because they all includes nature in it, and I feel like those poems all have a great deeper meaning and it will get people thinking after reading it. Song of Myself is not a poem that is easy to understand, you need to read it more than once or twice to really understand what message Walt Whitman is trying to get to us through the poem. 

University of Toronto

 The University that i would like to go to right after i graduate high school would be University of Toronto.Why? Well first of all, I'm a Canadian, and University of Toronto is in Canada, so that's where i will want to continue my studies. Secondly University of Toronto is ranked tops in Canada and 20th in the world. I also really want to visit and live in Toronto, because when i lived in Canada, i only stayed in Vancouver. I would really like to live in Toronto. Lastly, University of Toronto is Canada's largest university, and i would really like to study my major-- Pharmacy there.

Political Satirical cartoon

This cartoon is basically mocking the U.S. government  for making "empty promises" to their citizens. 

Dr. Heidegger's Experiment

Dr. Heidegger’s experiment is basically about a old man named Dr. Heidegger inviting his four elderly friends over to his study, Colonel Killigrew, Mr. Medbourne, Mr. Gascoigne, and the Widow Wycherly. The author also mentioned the four friends weakness in life. Colonel Killigrew represents alcoholism, gluttony and lust. Mr. Medbourne was a business man with crazy money making ideas. He represents greed. Mr. Gascoigne use to be a ruined politician who makes empty speech. He represents hypocrisy. Last but not least Widow Wycherly, she use to be so beautiful that all three men (Colonel Killigrew, Mr. Medbourne, Mr. Gascoigne) fought over her. She cares a lot about her looks. She represents vanity. The four friends came here to try out one of Dr. Heidegger’s experiment. Their reaction to turning young again was ugly and displayed their true colors again.  The three friends become hostile, fighting over the widow and demanding more and more of the water. I feel like Dr. Heidegger wasn't exactly testing if the water from the fountain of youth works or not. He was testing how his "friends" reacted to becoming young again. After the effect of the water from the fountain of youth wore off, they were left in sadness and bitterness. I really enjoy reading this story. Each page was like luring me into the story plot. It’s my favorite story so far this year. 

Something that interests me in our textbook 

So far, we have read several stories, I like the excerpt from “The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano.” The story described the cruelty and greed of human beings. I was deeply impressed by Olaudah Equiano’s writing, because he wrote the autobiography with such highly educated language. In the excerpt of his autobiography, he is an African boy that was kidnapped from his house with his sister. In the autobiography, he described how he was scared when he was kidnapped, and how he felt hollow and empty when he and his sister were separated. He also described how bad the condition were on the slave ship. I really like this story, is filled with imageries, making me imagine his condition as a slave that have no freedom.

Science fair ideas 

For science fair, I want to do a project that has to do with helping our environment. Like the experiment I did last year, which is about using popcorn instead of Styrofoam filling for our mail packages. It is an experiment that relates to our everyday life and it helps out the environment. I want to do a similar one this year

My Personal Interests 

I have a lot of interests. My interests include drawing, making crafts and reading. I love reading a lot, because it just makes me calm down. It's funny how reading a book is just as fun as watching tv for me.  Making crafts is considered a thing I really like to do. I like to make things myself instead of just buying it at a store. Not only it looks more personalized when I make it myself, it also makes me very happy making them. I like going on pintrest to gather ideas and inspirations for making crafts.