Notes for Chapter 2

导读问题：

1: Happiness always has a premise which consists of necessary components.

2: Disappointment Panda has the superpower which can tell people harsh truths about themselves that they needed but did not want to hear.

It can better our lives through making us feel worse, strengthen us by tearing us down and brighten our future by showing us the darkness.

3: Emotions tends to help us live and reproduce a bit better.

Many people are taught to repress their emotions, especially negative emotions which is not effective to help a person to solve the problem.

4: I don’t have wonderful physique because I hate physical suffering and sweating in a gym as well as exact calculation of food intake.

感想：

I relate this reading to my daily upbringing of my two-year old son. At this stage, he has his own thoughts and desire to show himself. He doesn’t feel happy when he is deprived of ability to touch, feel or experience himself while you thought this might do good to him, protecting him from danger or injury. For example, My mother-in-law always stays alert when my child climbs the stairs or chairs because she is worried that he might fall down or injure himself, but ignoring that he is actually strong enough to stand on his own feet and feel good about himself by pushing his boundary. After reading this chapter, I realize that genuine happiness derives from encountering problems and solving them. If we are being too overprotective, chances are they will end up being timid.

In our life time, we cannot avoid or escape problems, so does a child. We should encourage our children to face up challenges and solve them on their own starting from their early age. Children will be more confident and much happier by keeping trying and repeating and ultimate achieve their success. Only in this way, can they achieve true happiness.

单词造句

Not all that it was cracked up to be

He prepared his exam fully but unfortunately the exam result was not all that it was cracked up to be.

Be wired to

He is wired to study abroad because he now is preparing for his language exam.

Go so far as to do

She is an amazing actress, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say she is the best in China.

End up doing

If you don’t work hard, you will end up being fired by your boss.