F2F Class Notes (Ben) [S]

Vocabulary

standard practices = a specific way of doing things in business

The standard practices at SE are to ask students if there is something specific they wanna do and offer them a personalized course.

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The testing company took the wrong set of standards to run their tests, and unsurprisingly came back with negative results.

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Chinese Literature
Maths
English
Politics
History
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Maths
Physics
Chemistry
Biology, Geology
French Literature
English Literature
English
Philosophy
Economics
Spanish
Sports
History
Geography
Personal Project

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Predicting the future –

Do you think it is good or bad to predict the future?

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If I would have a chance to ask for God for a super power, the last thing I would ask for would be predicting the future.

It would be very boring if you knew what is going to happen to you, just like you won’t be interested in a puzzle if you already know the answer.

If you can predict the future, you will probably pay too much attention to the result there will be and and disregard the entire process of getting the result.

It can be good or bad. If you can predict the future, it doesn’t mean you only predict the positive or good things. There will be also negative and bad ones.
If you already know the bad things, you might be sad before it happens.

It’s not a contradiction. I just said I don’t want to predict the future. But if I have these superpower, and I have to do it, I would change the future if I knew something bad is happening.

I would avoid bad things happening or stop them happen. I would make my big choices correctly. I would try as many things to find out which is my favorite.

I prefer waking up at 10 years old.

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If I had the chance to ask for God for a super power, the last thing I would ask for would be predicting the future.

It would be very boring if you knew what was going to happen to you, just like you won’t be interested in a puzzle if you already know the answer.

If you can predict the future, you will probably pay too much attention to the result (there will be) and disregard the entire process of getting to it.

It can be good or bad. If you can predict the future, it doesn’t mean you only predict the positive or good things. There will also be negative and bad ones.
If you already know (about) the bad things, you might be sad before they (even) happen.

It’s not a contradiction. I just said I didn’t want to predict the future. But if I had this superpower and I had to use it, I would change the future if I knew something bad were happening. (=was)

I would avoid bad things happening or stop them from happening. I would make my big life choices better. I would try as many things as possible to find out which ones are my favorite.

I prefer waking up at the age of 10.