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💡 The link of ted talk --   What makes a good life   💡 Vocabulary：         1.  Millennial ： (noun)   2000 年左右出生的人，千禧世代 a person who was born around the time of the millennium, that is around the year 2000 👉🏻 Millennials have grown up with the internet and can't imagine a world without it. 2.   Hindsight ： (noun)   後見之明，事後孔明 the ability to understand an event or situation only after it has happened 👉🏻In hindsight , it would have been better to wait. 3.Tenement ： (noun) （常指城市貧民區的）公寓大樓 a large building divided into apartments, especially in the poorer areas of a city 👉🏻 I still officially resided in four tiny rooms on the first floor of a West Village tenement .  4. Schizophrenia ： (noun)  精神分裂症 a serious mental illness in which someone cannot understand what is real and what is imaginary 👉🏻 He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia .  5. Magnify ： (verb)  放大，擴大 to make something l...

I think I’m a serious procrastinator. I often feel that I have a lot of time, so I postpone what I should do. Every time I have to wait until my panic monster comes out before driving me to do what I should do. Whenever I feel that I have to do a complicated thing and feel pressured, I choose to avoid and delay it, such as homework and reports. Why I build the habit of procrastination? Sometimes it's because of laziness, sometimes because I want to do things well. For whatever reason, I cannot use this as an excuse for procrastination. In fact, there are many ways to deal with procrastination, and these are the strategies I use. First, list the to-do items. Let me know what I have to do, and then divide the goals into smaller goals to make myself feel that things are not that difficult. Second, Minimize distractions. For example, when I do my homework, I keep my mobile phone far away and avoid sitting next to the TV at work!  Finally, reward yourself. Give yourself snacks to stay m...