VIP Class Notes (Nicholas) [S]

This class we looked at a corporate speaking style. Next week let’s do a TED Talk. They are complex and gives us opportunity to do listening, we can also speak about the topic. TED-ED.

Original

Because I think some work you have to do using intelligence to handle this. In more smart way to one work.

On the base of intelligence, you should hard work to do more than work that you think is reasonable (P) and worse to do. Luck is 10% and hard work is 45%.

I think I’m more book smart. Which is important depends on what kinds of work you do. For example (P) for my job we should focu son many IT systems you have to have many basic knowledge about technology which require you have many book smart, and I responsble for the project management so I should interact with other person in other departments so it also requires some street smart for me.

Corrected

Because I think some work requires intelligence to handle. On the basis of intelligence, you should work hard based on what you think is reasonable. Luck is 10% and hard work is 45%.

I think I’m more book smart. Whether you need book smarts or street smarts depends on what kind of work you do. For example, for my job I focus on many IT systems. You have to have basic knowledge about many different types of technology. Which requires me to be very book smart. And I am responsible for project management, so I interact with other people in other departments — so this requires me to be street smart too.

Vocabulary

Book Smart vs. Street Smart

“How they carry themselves” / How you carry yourself — this is the manner that you act, how you behave, and its the overall attitude that you CARRY, that makes people think good or bad things about you.

e.g. The room was very impressed with Nicholas — he dressed well, he spoke well, he just carried himself in a very professional manner.

Pronunciation

Worth vs. Worse

Example

Grammar

Try to be more direct. Try and begin with your subject first + verb + whatever else you want to say.

Luck vs. Lucky

e.g. I have luck (noun). I am lucky (adj).

Mark Luckie, a digital strategist and former journalist, says he accepted the job offer from Facebook reluctantly.

At first, he didn’t want to move to Silicon Valley from Atlanta, where he had been living, but he said his fiance was able to persuade him, telling him that the job presented an opportunity to make a difference on the influential social network.

“I was really excited. Facebook is an amazing company that reaches a lot of people,” Luckie, 35, said in an interview with The Washington Post. “I didn’t plan to leave.”

But as a black employee, he became disillusioned with his time at the company. After about a year at the company, he decided to quit. And before his last day in mid-November, he wrote a long memo that he sent to the company’s staff. The memo is in the news this week after Luckie made it public on — where else? — Facebook.