2xOnline Class Notes (Mike)

According to research studies coming out of top US universities, having high emotional intelligence, or EQ, can help you to succeed, particularly at work.

The idea of emotional intelligence was introduced by psychologist John Mayer in the 90s and has gained popularity since, especially because it is said to be something that you can improve. Someone with high emotional intelligence can supposedly build strong relationships, achieve their goals and manage their emotions – key areas for success in most jobs!

It’s likely that, during your career, you will need to work in a team. A 2020 Harvard study, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, investigated social skills and team players. They did this by grouping volunteers and giving them a variety of tricky problems. They then compared the top individual performers. Results showed two main reasons why these individuals excelled, both linked to emotional intelligence. The first reason was that they were very good at recognising the emotional state of their teammates. The second was that they helped to improve their team’s performance through motivation.

When researching links between emotion-understanding ability and risk-taking, a 2012 Yale study found emotional intelligence to be critical to decision making. Researchers investigated the way that leaders come to a decision when they are under pressure. The results revealed that participants with a high awareness of why they felt under pressure managed to keep a clearer head and were less likely to take risks. Being able to understand and manage emotions is a key part of EQ.

So, if you’re trying to succeed, work on your emotional intelligence and it may just make a difference!

Police forces have always used technology to help them combat crime, but as collecting data and storing it becomes much easier, more and more police forces are using it to improve crime prevention and therefore to predict crime before it happens.

A   Crime prevention software called PredPol helps the police predict where crimes are likely to occur. The softwave analyses years of data on the location, time and nature of crimes committed and predicts where and when crime is most likely to occur in the future. Police officers receive this information on the computers in their cars and they then spend more time in these areas. As a result, the increased police presence in these neighbourhoods has cut crime significantly. Crime figures for one area of Los Angeles, USA, were reduced by 12% in 2011 when police officers used crime prediction software. In the same year, burglaries were cut by 26% in Manchester, UK, using the same methods.

B   As well as software that predicts crime, companies are also developing technology that will help police patrols catch criminals before they can leave town. By combining information such as the places where crimes frequently take place with the routes that allow the fastest escape, computers will direct patrols to where they can arrest criminals.

C   However, although the makers of this technology claim it will help reduce crime rates, some people are not so sure. Not all crime is reported and if the police just focus on the neighbourhoods where most crime occurs, they will neglect others. Some experts claim that if police officers just pay attention to the information that has been stored in their devices, crime rates could actually rise in some areas.

Last weekend, I and Bob watched a film call 1942 in my house.The film describe happened a famine in HN in 1942, when the government fought against JP. Drought and plague of locusts broke farm crops. Because of road locked, food wasn’t drove to HN and government was forced impose food. In short, a famine have displace around tens of millions of people. They ate only the bark, and even some people ate human flesh.

I talk about famine with Bob.Human are so small in natural disaster. We should cherish food. And we hope world peace no war. People live in peace world at all.

I’m going to the museum next weekend. Did you go together?

Last weekend, I and Bob watched a film called 1942 in my house. The film describes a famine (that happened in HN in 1942), when government against with RB.Drought and plague of locusts damaged farm crops. Because of the locked road/Because the roads were locked, food wasn’t delivered to HN and the government imposed food from farmers by force. In short, the famine have displaced around tens of millions of people. They ate only bark, and some people even ate human flesh.

I talked about the famine with Bob. Humans are so small in natural disasters.We should cherish food. And we hope world would be peaceful and there is no war.

I’m going to the museum next weekend. Will you go together?

Gratitude is more than just saying ‘thank you’ to someone who has helped us or given us a gift. Gratitude is a deeper appreciation for someone or something that makes us feel a positive emotion. And this positive emotion can be good for our health – our emotional and physical health, as well as the health of our relationships.

感谢不仅仅是对帮助我们的人或给我们礼物的人说谢谢。感谢也是对那些让我们感受到积极情绪的事或人的一种更深的感激之情。这个积极的情绪会对我们的情绪和身体的健康以及我们的人际关系的健康有益。

Let’s start by looking at the emotional or mental health benefits of expressing gratitude. There have been many studies, as described in a 2018 paper from the Greater Good Science Center titled ‘The Science of Gratitude’ , showing that writing a gratitude letter to another person or writing in a gratitude journal, if done regularly, improves mental health.

让我们从表达感激的精神或情绪上的好处来开始谈。一直有许多研究，关于在2018年一篇来自Greater Good Science Cente标题为‘感谢的科学’的文件描述，表明写一封感谢的信给别的人或者写一个感谢的日记，如果经常做，可以改善心理健康。

One reason for this, is that gratitude stops us from ruminating on toxic, negative emotions, and writing a ‘thank you’ letter, for example, shifts our attention so that we focus on positive emotions. But even if we don’t share our writing with anyone, like in a journal, the act of completing the exercise alone makes us happier and more satisfied with life. And this gets better with time. As we are essentially training our brain to be more in tune with noticing the positive, after several weeks or months, this becomes more intuitive. And so, the more we express gratitude, the more positive we feel.

原因之一是，感谢能让我们走出那种不良的负面情绪思潮中/感恩能防止我们陷入那种不良的负面情绪中

即使/即便我们不把写出来的东西分享给别人，比如写在日记里，单单只是完成这种练习也能使我们更幸福和。。。

比如说，写一封感谢信，就能转移我们的注意力，以便我们专注于积极的情绪上。但是如果我们没有分享我们的写作给任何人，像在一个日记里，完成的行为单独的运动使我们生活更高兴和更满足。这随着时间会变得更好。因为/由于我们本质上培养我们大脑去更协调注意积极，几周或几月之后，这变得更直观。因此，我们越表达感谢，我们感觉越积极。

Gratitude can also make us feel good in our bodies. There are studies linking a gratitude practice to better sleep quality, better eating habits, and reduced inflammation in people who have had heart problems. So gratitude is clearly good for us, but is it also good for the people in our lives?

感谢也会使我们的身体感觉很好。有研究发现，具体去实践（实操）感恩/表达感恩和更好的睡眠质量之间是有关联的，同时也能导致更好的饮食习惯，降低有心脏问题人群的炎症情况。因此感谢显然对我们有好处，但是对我们生活中的人也有好处吗？

The simple answer is ‘yes’. When shared – spoken or written – gratitude is about feeling valued and helping others feel valued too. Feeling valued can help build stronger relationships – be it with family, partners, friends or even colleagues. And that’s on top of all the other ways gratitude is clearly good for us. Maybe we should all stop counting sheep or counting calories and start counting our blessings instead?

当分享感恩-无论是口头还是书面形式-是关于感受到有价值和帮助其他人感觉到价值。

一个简单的回答是‘是’。但说或写分享感谢是关于感受到有价值和帮助其他也感觉有价值。感受到有价值能帮助构建和家人，伙伴，朋友甚至同事更强的人际关系。那是超过其他全部对我们有益的感谢方式。也许我们应该全部停止数羊或者计算卡路里反而开始计算我们的祝福?

Online fame

Surely blogging or vlogging must be one of the easiest ways of finding fame and fortune? All you need is a computer and a hobby to talk about, don’t you? Well, although it looks simple, being a success in the blogosphere is actually a lot more difficult than it seems.

线上名气/网络名声

无疑博客或视频日志必须是找到名誉和财富最容易的方式之一？你需要的只是一个电脑和一个用于谈论的兴趣，不是吗？虽然看起来简单，在博客圈成功比看起来要更难。

Kate Ross has been advising brands on how to work with bloggers and vloggers, and believes that if you start a blog or vlog just to earn money, it isn’t going to work. Kate says you need to be passionate about your topic and you need to provide your readers or viewers with interesting content. If you don’t, your vlog or blog isn’t going to get positive feedback and attract subscribers.

Kate Ross一直给品牌建议如何同博主和视频主合作，她相信如果你开始发博客或视频日志只是为了赚钱，那是不行的。Kate 说你需要对你的话题有热情并且你需要提供给你的读者和观众有趣的内容。如果你没有，你的视频或者博客将不能得到积极的反馈和吸引订阅量。

You also need to be aware that cash isn’t going to come rolling in overnight （一夜暴富）. Seventeen-year-old Rosie Bea, who has a YouTube fashion channel, says her blog only started attracting the attention of advertisers after she had put in months and months of unpaid work and built up a big fan base.

她投入数月的时间，进行没有回报的工作/Rosie 说她在那种没有报酬的工作上花了好几个月的时间，建立了一个很强大的粉丝基础，在这之后，她才吸引到了广告商的注意力。

I started to learn English after I joined this company.

I didn’t go to bed until 11pm.
not until: 直到…才
我直到11点才去睡觉。

Rosie was also combining her vlog work with her law studies, and she advises vloggers in the same position to make sure that they plan carefully so that they have time to do both things properly.

R也把做视频和法律学习结合了起来
你也需要意识到，你不可能一夜暴富/金钱不会在一夜之间源源不断地进来。

你也需要意识到 现金在夜间将不能带来滚动。有一个油管粉丝渠道的17岁的Rosie Bea说，她的博客开始吸引广告上的注意之后她投入数月未付款的工作和建立一个大粉丝基地。Rosie 也把她的视频日志和她的律师同学工作。她建议跟她一样的视频主也这样做，以确保他们认真规划，有时间把两件事都做好。

So, while the tabloid press often talks about the instant success of young bloggers and vloggers, it isn’t really instant at all. The people who are successful have done well because they are hard-working and passionate about what they do, and it is this dedication and passion that attracts subscribers and advertisers to them.

The press is only interested in them once they are in the public eye, but they have achieved their celebrity status through hours and hours of hard work.

因此，小报媒体经常谈论年轻博主和视频主的迅速成功，实际上她们的成功并不是那么的快速。成功的人做的好，因为他们工作努力的和对他们做的事有热情，这个奉献和热情吸引订户和广告商找他们。只有当它们进入了公共视野（吸引大众的注意力）的时候，媒体才会对她们感兴趣，但是他们是通过长期的努力才获得名人的身份的。

Vocabulary

toxic (adj.) 有毒的，不良的

on top of 除此之外

fight with 和…共同斗争
fight against 和…打仗

emotion – emotional
psychology-psychological
mental (adj.) 精神上的，情绪上的，大脑的，基于神经系统的
mental disease 精神疾病
spiritual (adj.) 精神上的，灵性的，灵魂的，神灵的
spiritual belief 精神信仰

combine A with B

overnight (adv.) 一夜之间

work (v) 运转，行得通
My AC is not working. 我的空调停摆了。
This way is not going to work. 这种方式是行不通的。
Things are not working for us. 我们之间的一些事行不通/搞不来。

would (v) 虚拟语气
If I were you, I would go to the museum.

break (v) 打破，破损
break a cup/promise/arm/leg/
destroy (v) 毁灭
damage (v) 损伤，损害
damage the economy/friendship/brain/reputation/fame
hurt (v) 伤害，受伤
hurt the arm/leg/emotion
What I said really hurt her.

短语：a famine happened in HN in 1942  一场发生在1942年的HN的饥荒

句子：The movie was called 1942 这个电影叫1942
短语：A movie called 1942 一个叫1942的电影

Pronunciation

decide
decision

consider

record (v)
record (n)

army

engineer (v/n)

enroll (v)