VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [W]

A New Earth – Eckhart Tolle

Today I read an article about psychology, and the writer is a marriage counselor. In this article she introduced a type of person that have the thought of victim.

In the beginning of this article she told a story about a small boy student in her class when she was in the primary school. She said the talk boys liked to bully the small boy, but he never fought for this or told teachers, and he just said”you will not bully me for long time, because I won’t be here soon.” Definitely Less than one semester, he really didn’t appear. She didn’t understand why he said this in that time. But after she did her work for a long time and she realized this thought.

In a relationship, when a part get hurt, then they will think sooner or later, you will pay for this and you will regret for you have done.

The writer said that have this thought’s people didn’t do something to fix the problems, but most care about the other party if they felt regret.

Actually the writer said the people who have this thought like to fix problems in a way of hurt themselves, and this didn’t work.

The small boy didn’t go to school, at first maybe the tall boys curious about this, but later they never looked like feel regret, and the finished their study smoothly.

Today I read an article about psychology, and the writer is a marriage counselor. In this article she introduced a type of person that has the mindset of being a victim / person that has a victim mindset.

In the beginning of this article she told a story about a small boy / male student in her class when she was in primary school. She said the tall boys liked to bully the small boy, but he never fought this or told the teachers, and he just said “you will not bully me for a long time, because I won’t be here soon.” In the end, he only stayed at school for less than 1 semester / In fact, after less than 1 semester, he left. She didn’t understand why he said this at that time. But after she did her work for a long time and she realized this idea / concept.

In a relationship, when a party gets hurt, then they will think sooner or later, you will pay for this and you will regret what you have done.

The writer said that people who have this thought don’t do anything to fix the problems, but mostly care about whether the other party feels regret.

Actually the writer said the people who have this thought like to fix problems in a way that hurts themselves, and this doesn’t work.

The small boy didn’t go to school, at first maybe the tall boys were curious about this, but later they never seemed to feel regret, and they finished their studies smoothly.

Vocabulary

you look like you are happy = when i look at you i think you are happy
you seem happy = when i talk to you / look at you / read what you say, i think you are happy.

what = the thing that

i feel bad than before – i feel even worse

mindset / attitude / way of thinking 

i want to know if you are happy / i want to know whether you are happy

if you are happy is important to me – whether you happy is important to me 

studies = education /  the activity of studying
eg. after i finished high school i continued my studies
eg2. my studies have taken me all over the world… i went to high school in australia, university in china, and I did my masters in the UK.

kick – use your foot to hit something
kick off – to start

insular – closed, not much experience etc.

hung up – stop a phone call

portfolio – professional examples of your work

quote – something someone said

safety net