Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Though we have lived in this world for a long time, it is hard to understand what we are doing with our life as life always make us feel tired and confused. There are millions of things make you distraction, your family, your relationship, your job etc.. It is easy to get lost if we are trapped in it, so we need to look at our life from outside. If we assume that we can live to 100 years old, that means we had a total of 5,200 weeks of life at our disposal when we were born. Let’s separate different stages of 5200 weeks, about 600 weeks of our life being a kid and 400 being a teenager. During this time, we cannot make our own decisions, and the payoff is that we were somewhat spared from the consequences and responsibilities of adulthood. By the time you are 20, the amount of fun you can have in this phase of your life varies a lot. After that, in your twenties at the latest, you start working which begins your soul crushing period. And from that on, you may tent to work until the age of 65 which means you will spend at least 2000weeks of your life with serious adult work, it is a long period that we will look at work. And this is the main block of life for you as you might have kids and climb the career ladder and own your house, also you may experience a new relationship. And this phase you transfer from young to middle age to old. At 65 years old we will use up 3400weeks of our life. And the last phase of your life will begin, it is about 1800weeks, if you manage your health and wealth well, you can do anything what you want. The formula is calculated based on 100 years, if you die earlier, that means you cannot enjoy the freedom life for so long， so it brings us a new question: how to spend our life, how to make our life more fun and meaningful.

Though we have lived in this world for a long time, it is hard to understand what we are doing with our life as life always make us feel tired and stressed / life can be tiring and full of unexpected things. There are millions of things which make you distracted / things which can distract you, your family, your relationship, your job etc.. It is easy to get lost if we are trapped in it, so we need to look at our life from outside. If we assume that we can live to 100 years old, that means we had a total of 5,200 weeks of life at our disposal when we were born. Let’s separate the 5200 weeks into different stages, with about 600 weeks of our life being a kid and 400 being a teenager. During this time, we cannot make our own decisions, and the payoff is that we were somewhat spared from the consequences and responsibilities of adulthood. By the time you are 20, the amount of fun you can have in this phase of your life varies a lot. After that, in your twenties at the latest, you start working which begins the soul crushing period of your life. And from then on / from that time on, you may tend to work until the age of 65 which means you will spend at least 2000 weeks of your life with serious adult work. I think it is a long period that we will be working. And this is the main block of life for you as you might have kids and climb the career ladder and own a house / have your own house, also you may experience a new relationship. And in this phase you change / transition from young to middle age to old. At 65 years old we will have used up 3400 weeks of our life. And the last phase of your life will begin, which is about 1800 weeks, if you manage your health and wealth well, you can do anything / what you want. The formula is calculated based on 100 years, so if you die earlier, that means you cannot enjoy the free life / enjoy freedom for so long， so it brings us a new question: how to spend our life, how to make our life more fun and meaningful.

Vocabulary

I have a block of time tomorrow during which maybe we could meet…

tend / tendancy 
eg. I tend to drink coffee with breakfast

vary – change to lots of differet types

it’s soul crushing 

somewhat – kinda / a bit / not 100%
eg. I am somewhat tired today
eg2. You are somewhat of a world traveller

distraction – sth that takes your attention away from sth

pay off – rewards / benefits
eg. the pay off for quitting my job was freedom

main block / part / section / period

overly cautious

he wants assurances / he wants guarantees

if you want to hang out, if you want to go overseas – if you want to go out / if you want to go overseas

hang out – just do whatever
eg. I like to hang out with friends

Grammar

it’s not security – it’s not secure / there’s not much security 

if you want to live with free style – if you want to live a free lifestyle 

quit from the daily work – quit my job 

in a city / country / world / universe