chapter1-rejection proof
guiding questions
Why did the author sob for hours?
The author had fantasized about being an entrepreneur since he was very young. However, instead of being an entrepreneur he at last chose to take a strong and staple job in a fortune 500 company under the pressure of his family and society. He felt sad for selling out his dream.
Did you have dreams in your childhood?
Yes. I had a musical dream when I was 16. An awesome song arouses my enthusiasm to establish a band. It took me half a month looking for people who treated music as faith like me and were willing to sacrifice his time to practice. It is a good memory to be memorized.
If you were Jia Jiang, what would you do after seeing the content in the email?
I would be depressed and give up. It’s my responsibility to take good care of my wife and my new-born son. If my pursuit of dream let them down, I would think it’s not an exact time for me to make a company, all I need to do is going back to a fortune 500 company to wait the second chance.
佳句摘录
Not a day went by that I didn’t realize how lucky I was to be loved by such an amazing woman.（双重否定）
We were weeks away from the birth of our son.（表达时间距离）
What if I could develop an app that would issue some kind of points or credit for fulfilling a promise? （what if？句式 如果…？）
I wanted it so badly that I actually dreamed about getting a yes from the interviewer five different times, each time waking up thinking that the offer had come through. （觉得这句话写得很好，精炼，传神。作者很擅长用比喻）
words
Fantasize about
I had fantasized about being an entrepreneur.
Vow
If you vow to do something, you make a serious promise or decision that you will do it.发誓
I vowed to become the next Bill Gates and invent an amazing technology product that would take the world by storm.
I make a silent vow to do my utmost learning English.
Folk
人们 You can refer to people as folk or folks .（folk和folks都指“人们”，不是一个人）
I turned out pretty all right which might surprise a lot of folks considering the fact that 36 years ago my life started with you leaving me on a fire station doorstep. (FROM this is us S01E01)
During the Spring Festival, folks always have interests to ask you endless private questions.
Embed
嵌入，非常形象
The goal was so deeply embedded in my heart that I don’t think I could have shaken it if I tried.(写的太好了 和前面的fantasized about呼应，体现出了这个梦想对作者的重要性)
Excited, I pulled out my sketchbook and started drawing out various ideas for how to functionally embed wheels into a shoe.
That memory is deeply embedded in my heart.
Channel
专注于;集中；If you channel your energies or emotions into something, you concentrate on or do that one thing, rather than a range of things
I held the phone for a long time without opening the e-mail, trying to channel all kinds of positive mental energy into its content.
when you lift weights in gym, it’s necessary for you to channel all your energies into the muscle you are using.
