ted李丹玲练习题答案.pdf

Unit 1: Grit and Success 1. According to Angela Duckworth, what struck her most when she was teaching a New York public school? Answer: What struck her most was that I.Q. was not the only difference between her best and her worst students. Some of her strongest performers did not have stratospheric I.Q. scores. Some of her smartest kids weren’t doing so well. 2. What was the lesson she learned from her teaching experience? Answer: After several more years of teaching, I came to the conclusion that what we need in education is a much better understanding of students and learning from a motivational perspective, from a psychological perspective. In education the one thing we know how to measure best is I.Q., but in most time what do well in school and in life depends on much more than your ability to learn quickly and easily. 3. According to Angela Duckworth, what is grit? How to build grit? Answer: Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years, and working really hard to make that future a reality. Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint. The best idea about building grit in kids is something called “growth mindset”. It is the belief that the ability to learn is not fixed, that it can change with your effort. When kids read and learn about the brain and how it changes and grows in response to challenge, they are much more likely to preserve when they fail, because they don’t believe that failure is a permanent condition. 4. Can you think of other ways to build grit? Answer: Yes, I think there are two ways to build grit. The one is making a suitable plan which obeys your dream in your heart. Solid instructional plan offers people small successes along the way and makes large projects manageable. The other is to value the progress timely, even a slight improvement. Celebrating people’s smaller achievements on the way to a larger goal bring fulfillment, enjoyment and happiness to their lives. These ways contribute to build grit by improving mental recognition. 5. Do you agree / disagree with the speaker? Why? Answer: I agree with the speaker. Indeed, talent is very important to come up with a good idea. And high I.O. makes people learn something faster and easier. But a task usually continues for some time. Grit is the key point to guarantee the task can be finished completely. In particular, to succeed to do what’s never been done before requires an enormous amount of fight grit and unrelenting tenacity. In the belief of growth mindset, the ability to learn can be changed with effort. When people don’t believe that failure is a permanent condition, they are much more likely to persevere, and as a result, they build grit. Unit 3: Happiness and Human Relationships 1. What is the goal of the Harvard Study of Adult Development? How is the study carried out? Who are the subjects of the study? Answer: The goal of the Harvard Study of Adult Development is to study people from the time that they were teenagers all the way into old age to see what really keeps people happy and healthy. For 75 years, we have tracked the lives of 724 men, year after year, asking about their work, their home lives, their health. And the study is now beginning to study the more than 2000 children of these men. There are two groups of men as the subjects of the study. The first group started in the study when they were sophomores at Harvard College. And the second group that we have followed was a group of boys from Boston’s poorest neighborhoods. 2. What are the lessons drawn from the study? Answer: The lessons aren’t about wealth or fame or working harder and harder. It is good relationships that keeps people happier and healthier. 3. What are the three important lessons to be learned about / in human relationships? What is your understanding of them? Answer: There are three big lessons about relationships: the first is that social connections are really good for people, and that loneliness kills. The second big lesson is that it’s not just the number of friends you have, and it’s not whether or not you’re in a committed relationship, but it’s the quality of your close relationships that matters. And the third big lesson about relationships and health is that good relationships don’t just protect our bodies, they protect our brains. I think human relationships are very important in our daily lives. As a quote from Mark Twain, “there isn’t time, so brief is life”. Whether wealth, fame or work can’t bring us happiness alone. The reason why we pursue them in the lifetime is that we believe we can get good social connections through them. Happiness makes us healthier. Don't put the cat before the horse. We should replace screen time with people time from now on, such as long walks or date nights. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that. 4. Do you 。