2013年10月27日 星期日

Ted's Talk-Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are


Summery

Powerful posture is about take up space and open out while powerless posture is about close up and wrap ourselves up. You will post a powerful posture if you are pride or confident,vice versa. So we can say,"Your mind changes you body." but on the other side, can we say that our body change our mind?
The answer is yes, based on the experiment that social psychologist Amy Cuddy took who was the speaker of this speech. When you post a powerful posture for two minutes, it leads to the hormonal changes, and change how you feel.
She said,"Fake it till make it,then become it!" Your body changes your mind, and your mind changes your behavior and changes the outcome like getting hired after a successful interview.

What can listeners learn from this talk?

Before an interview, you should take two minutes to post some powerful posture
since your body changes your mind.
When you go into the room for interview you might feel confident instead of being nervous.
And there is one more thing  I truly learned for this speech!
That's is,"Fake it till make it,then become it!"
You may think that you can't make it before a presentation but you just need to go there
and stand up then do your presentation acting like you can do it well.
At first, you are faking but as times go by you make it,
finally you become it. You become the person who get appulse because of a great performance.

2013年10月20日 星期日

How to Make Stress Your Friend

Ted talks: How to Make Stress Your Friend



Summary
The speaker is. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal
Stress is usually view as bad for health, but what decides stress is bad or good maybe depend on how
you think about stress. In a study conducted by Harvard University, before they went through the social
stress tests they were taught to rethink their stress response is helpful that pounding heart is preparing you for action if you’re breathing faster, it’s getting more oxygen to your brain and participants who learned to view the stress response as helpful for their performance well. There's another reason is that when you think your
stress as helpful, your blood vessel relaxed which reduce chance of getting heart attack or stroke.
Besides, Oxytocin makes you to do things that strengthen close relationships, it makes you crave physical contact with your friends and family it makes you more willing to help and support the people you care about. When oxytocin releases as a response to stress it’s motivating you to seek support,  to surrounded by people who care about you.And it's in the some point reduce your stress.
Your pounding physical heart working so hard to give you strength and energy and when you choose to view stress in this way you’re not just getting better at stress actually making a pretty profound statement,
you are saying that you trust yourself that you can handle life’s challenges and you don’t have to face them alone.


What can listeners learn from this talk?


I think that whether stress is good for your health or not all depend on how you think about it, this speech has given me a whole new appreciation for stress. Next time, when the situation is out of control, I am going to think to myself,"This is my body helping me rise to this challenge" and when I view stress in that way and my body will  believes me and my stress response become healthier.
Oxytocin, you release more of this hormone then your stress response becomes healthier,and you actually recover faster from stress.
when you think your stress as helpful you create the biology of courage
and when you choose to connect with others under stress you can create stress resilience.

2013年10月4日 星期五

Twilight movie clip - World's Most Dangerous Predator





Which movie does this clip from?
This clip is from the movie Twilight.
(Oh my god! I love this movie so much!!!)

What is this movie about?
A ordinary girl Bella moved into a small wet town named Forks and met a boy named Edward 
who was extraordinary handsome but behaved really weirdly  in the class 
since he seemed to be afraid to Bella and tried to run away from her.
However, based on all the clues, Bella founded that Edward was a vampire!
A most dangerous predator in the world who also want her blood
so badly. However, they fell in love when Edward was still not sure about if he could keep 
himself from killing his love, Bella. 
Bella had an irresistible smell that drove every vampires crazy include the most dangerous
hunter James. He want Bella's blood so Edward need to protect Bella.
In the end, Edward killed James but also let him and Bella in danger
because Victoria, the lover of James, want to take a revenge on them. 

What is happening in this clip?
Edward took Bella to a deep woods to show her his skin would shine if he basked in the sun, 
so he couldn't basked in the sun in front of people because then people would found that he was
a vampire, but Bella thought Edward's skin was beautiful. Edward told Bella he was the most
dangerous predator and killed people before. Everything about him like his face, his voice and even his smell, was designed to seduce people. Although his family didn't hurt people,
 they just took animals'blood, he almost couldn't control himself when they first met
because Bella was like drug to him and Bella was his personal brand of heroin.
 (oh my goodness, am i the only person who thinks this is the most romantic sentence 
have ever heard!!!???) 
And soon as they confessed their feeling to each other, they decided to risk--
Being together even when Bella will probably killed by Edward.