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comma, however, conjunctions

Comma Comma splice You can not use comma to directly connect two sentences. I really appreciate your willingness to help, I’m excited to get more feedback from you. Here comma need to be something stronger: ., or maybe ; However Same as the above, you can not use a , before however. Between two independent clauses. Before However, it is ...

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Green GrassLand and Blue Sky

How long have you not seen a blue sky with green grassland? For me it has been almost two weeks. It was always raining these days until today. And I feel lucky that I decided to go out for a hiking. We originally decided to visit the Coyote Hills but it was closed, probably due to the flood as it is the Bay. As a result, we went to the Quarry La...

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The Red Desert

This Christmas break, I want to the Monument Valley within the territory of the Navajo Nation Reservation, a Indian reservation. It was a cloudy day but the air is still dry. We arrived in the late afternoon right before the park was closed. After we passed the park gate, there was an unpaved road called 17-miles, where we drove around 17 mile...

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Interleave

Interleave If information is studied so that it can be interpreted in relation to other things in your memory, learning is much more powerful. Make sure the mini-skills you interleave are related in some higher-order way. If you’re trying to learn tennis, you’d want to interleave serves, backhands, volleys, smashes, and footwork – not serves, ...

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Learn Better - Learning Pitfall

Learn Better How I want to live the rest of my life? live it wisely I want to live it wisely. I need to continue learn new techniques and philosophy so I can be a wise man and live my life wisely. Some example of using my time: Architect of Time Allocate the time when you have most of the energy to the task that means most to you. All times ...

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Learn Better - Learning Pitfall

Learn Better Here is a summary of the idea in the book Learn Better Re-reading and highlighting are particularly ineffective forms of learning. They’re too passive, and you are just kind of skimming that material. It makes you feel better. You feel more comfortable with the material, but you don’t really know the material. Doing things that ...

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Better at Getting Better with Deliberate Practice

“Practice, Practice, Practice” is not correct This is a note of what I learnt from the course Good with Words. Anders Ericsson, whose research leads to the 10,000 hours rule, clarified that 10,000 hours rule is not a correct abstraction of his research. “Practice, Practice, Practice” is also not correct. The real key is not how long you practi...

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start create, don't wait, and what do you want to create

这个冬天很感恩导师的邮件,在我最担心被裁员的时候back me up。 我在想,我在三十多岁的年纪,我还接受自己被别人荫蔽,被别人help/cover。但是,总有一天,我也要保护别人,保护我自己,保护我的family,保护我的父母,朋友,老师。 如果我有能力。我最好能有。 所以我要努力。 今天看了一个视频 he not busy being born is busy dying by Bob Dylan - It’s Alright, Ma。 在人生没有目标的时候,我也是每天忙碌,但是maybe是活在别人的dream中。我想要有自己的目标,能够有更高的影响力(impact? or influence?),能够influence more people that matter...

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