Having care of your mind

Steven.Paul "Steve" Jobs was.an.American entrepreneur marker,

and inventor
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who was the co-founder (along with Steve
Wozniak and Ronald Wayne), chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. Through
Apple, he is widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of
the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the
computer and consumer electronics fields, transforming "one industry
after another, from computers and smartphones to music and
movies".He is a very intelligent man and during a speech at the
university Stanford he brought to the graduates some
recommendations
Keep looking, dont settle Our current generation is hungry for
many things greed, love, travel, play, technology, food, and the list
goes on. We have acquired a tonne of knowledge that our forefathers
did not have access to. Google, Apple, Samsung, Yahoo, Microsoft.
These names have became staple brands in our household. Walmart,
Loblaws, Wholefoods, NTUC, Marks & Spencer our grocery and
household shopping place. Remember the travel agents? Who?! Oh,
you mean, Expedia.com? Our generation has been spoilt, to the extent
that we cant imagine life without access to such commodities. Can
we survive without them?When it comes to jobs and financial security
how much does one need to survive in an urban city? Society has
evolved to the point that we look up to those who can afford big cars,
houses, constant vacations, and expensive clothes. Is this a skewed
mindset of ours, or have we lost the essence of the meaning of life?
Another friend of mine is completely torn at her job and absolutely
hates it. She is doing it because of societal pressure and is afraid that
she wouldnt be able to find a job should she quit right now. Perhaps I
am idealistic and because I havent ventured out into the corporate
world. What happens if this girl fits a companys values, mission
statement, etc, but quit her previous job because she wasnt happy
with her work? Is that wrong? Why people judge others in such a
materialistic and close minded manner is beyond me.
Stay HungryEntrepreneurs by nature, are people who think
and see outside of the proverbial box. We look at a problem, a product,
or an idea and the gears of innovation and imagination begin to turn
fiercely within our heads, almost automatically. Sometimes, though,
we can get so used to seeing the world from this perspective that we
forget how unique and valuable of a thing it really is. People often give
into the foolish urge to become quite complacent, even while doing
something great. This, it seems, can be a downfall to progress,
success, and even living life. In order to combat this, we have to stay
hungry.As I see it, hunger is the drive that keeps us coming back for
more, instead of thinking that what we have is sufficient for the long
term. Whether you are talking about a marriage relationship, a
business career, or a tech product, the logic is the same. You have to
constantly feed the beast. If, or when, the hunger ends, the feeding
stops as well resulting in weakness and eventually death in that
area. Simply put, if you lose the hunger, you lose the passion and the
game is over, whether you acknowledge it or not.
Stay FoolishStaying foolish, it seems, is simply always having the
courage and the guts to follow something that looks or seems stupid
to other people. Follow your heart, follow your intuition, and follow
your dreams no matter how foolish they might appear to others.
You cant connect the dots forward only backward ..This is
another gem from the 2005 Stanford speech. The idea behind the
concept is that, as much as we try to plan our lives ahead in advance,
theres always something thats completely unpredictable about life.
What seems like bitter anguish and defeat in the moment getting
dumped by a girlfriend, not getting that job at McKinsey, wasting 4
years of your life on a start-up that didnt pan out as you wanted can
turn out to sow the seeds of your unimaginable success years from
now. You cant be too attached to how you think your life is supposed
to work out and instead trust that all the dots will be connected in the
future. This is all part of the plan.



His marked my childhood..
I never really consider myself an adult. People of my age are
considered young adults, but I never thought I was mature enough to be seen
as someone who is capable of handling the legal responsibilities that fully
grown adults have to bear. However, there was a moment when I felt a
transition. I never thought it turned me into an adult, but I could say I was no
longer an unaware girl.
I would not say I became more responsible, even until this point, but I
became mature enough to understand what was happening around me. That
was when my family went through a financial crisis. Before my parents were
considered successful in Japain, but a major fire damaged most of their work
and it was a hard time my parents had to pay a huge debt which took them
years to recover.
I was ten and had no idea what was going on; they never said a word
about the accident. Only a few years later when I overheard a conversation, I
found out my father would have been persecuted if anyone was killed from
the fire.
I dug deeper and looked up a few articles about the fire which later
made me realized there was much more than just school and my irritable
teacher who I would have considered the biggest bully throughout my
student life. I became more observant and capable to see the world broadly.
It was no longer only about video games, bad grades, good food or cartoons;
it became important to me that the people around me are comfortable.
This not only made me mature, but also gave me a quality, a
personality that distinct me as a person. I learnt that there are moments
when everything you ever work for seem shattered, but it is your choice
whether to give in or bounce back up.
Even until today, this incident is involved in making me a grown up; I
often give up on something as soon as a sign of difficulty is visible, but there
are times when I choose to carry on because I know a great man has done
that before, and if he could do it, then I can conquer any obstacles.

The Article
An article is a word (or prefix or suffix) that is used with a noun to indicate the
type of reference being made by the noun. Articles specify grammatical definiteness of
the noun, in some languages extending to volume or numerical scope. The articles in
the English language are the and a/an, and (in some contexts) some. 'An' and 'a' are
modern forms of the Old English 'an', which in Anglian dialects was the number 'one'
(compare 'on', in Saxon dialects) and survived into Modern Scots as the number 'ane'.
Both 'on' (respelled 'one' by the Normans) and 'an' survived into Modern English, with
'one' used as the number and 'an' ('a', before nouns that begin with a consonant sound) as
an indefinite article.
Traditionally in English, an article is usually considered to be a type of adjective.
In some languages, articles are a special part of speech, which cannot easily be
combined with other parts of speech. It is also possible for articles to be part of another
part of speech category such as a determiner, an English part of speech category that
combines articles and demonstratives (such as 'this' and 'that').
In languages that employ articles, every common noun, with some exceptions, is
expressed with a certain definiteness (e.g., definite or indefinite), just as many languages
express every noun with a certain grammatical number (e.g., singular or plural). Every
noun must be accompanied by the article, if any, corresponding to its definiteness, and
the lack of an article (considered a zero article) itself specifies a certain definiteness.
This is in contrast to other adjectives and determiners, which are typically
optional. This obligatory nature of articles makes them among the most common words
in many languagesin English, for example, the most frequent word is the.
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Articles are usually characterized as either definite or indefinite.
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A few
languages with well-developed systems of articles may distinguish additional subtypes.
Within each type, languages may have various forms of each article, according to
grammatical attributes such as gender, number, or case, or according to adjacent
sounds.
Definite article
A definite article indicates that its noun is a particular one (or ones) identifiable to
the listener. It may be something that the speaker has already mentioned, or it may be
something uniquely specified. The definite article in English, for both singular and plural
nouns, is the.
The children know the fastest way home.
The sentence above refers to specific children and a specific way home; it
contrasts with the much more general observation that:
Children know the fastest way home.
The latter sentence refers to children in general and their specific ways home.
Likewise,
Give me the book.
refers to a specific book whose identity is known or obvious to the listener; as
such it has a markedly different meaning from
Give me a book.
which does not specify what book is to be given.
The definite article can also be used in English to indicate a specific class
among other classes:
The cabbage white butterfly lays its eggs on members of the Brassica genus.
The definite article is sometimes also used with proper names, which are already
specified by definition (there is just one of them). For example: the Amazon, the Hebrides.
In these cases, the definite article can be considered superfluous. Its presence can be
accounted on the assumption that they are shorthands of a larger phrases in which the
name is a specifier, i.e. the river Amazon, the overture Hebrides. Some languages also
use definite articles with personal names. For example, such use is standard
in Portuguese: a Maria, literally: "the Maria". It also occurs colloquially
in Spanish, German and other languages, and is sometimes heard in Italian. In Hungary it
is considered to be Germanism.
Indefinite article
An indefinite article indicates that its noun is not a particular one (or ones) identifiable to
the listener. It may be something that the speaker is mentioning for the first time, or its
precise identity may be irrelevant or hypothetical, or the speaker may be making a
general statement about any such thing. English uses a/an, from the Old English forms of
the number 'one', as its primary indefinite article. The form an is used before words that
begin with a vowel sound (even if spelled with an initial consonant, as in an hour),
and a before words that begin with a consonant sound (even if spelled with a vowel, as
in a European).
She had a house so large that an elephant would get lost without a map.
Before some words beginning with a pronounced (not silent) h in an unstressed first
syllable, such as hallucination, hilarious, historic(al), horrendous, and horrific, some
(especially older) British writers prefer to use an over a (an historical event, etc.).An is
also preferred before hotel by some writers of British English (probably reflecting the
relatively recent adoption of the word from French, where the h is not pronounced). The
use of "an" before words beginning with an unstressed "h" is more common generally in
British English than American.American writers normally use a in all these cases,
although there are occasional uses of an historic(al) in American English.According to
the New Oxford Dictionary of English, such use is increasingly rare in British English
too Unlike British English, American English typically uses an before herb, since the h in
this word is silent for most Americans. The correct usage in respect of the term
"hereditary peer" was the subject of an amendment debated in the UK Parliament.
The word some is used as a functional plural of a/an. "An apple" never means more
than one apple. "Give me some apples" indicates more than one is desired but without
specifying a quantity. This finds comparison in Spanish, where the singular indefinite
article 'un/una' ("one") is completely indistinguishable from the unit number, except
where it has a plural form ('unos/unas'): Dame una manzana" ("Give me an apple") >
"Dame unas manzanas" ("Give me some apples"). However, some also serves as a
quantifier rather than as a plural article, as in "There are some apples there, but not
many."


Zero article
The zero article is the absence of an article. In languages having a definite article, the
lack of an article specifically indicates that the noun is indefinite. Linguists interested
in X-bar theorycausally link zero articles to nouns lacking a determiner.In English, the
zero article rather than the indefinite is used with plurals and mass nouns, although the
word "some" can be used as an indefinite plural article.
Visitors end up walking in mud.

The reported speech
Here's how it works:
We use a 'reporting verb' like 'say' or 'tell'. If this verb is in the present tense, it's easy.
We just put 'she says' and then the sentence:
Direct speech: I like ice cream.
Reported speech: She says she likes ice cream.
We don't need to change the tense, though probably we do need to change the 'person'
from 'I' to 'she', for example. We also may need to change words like 'my' and 'your'.
But, if the reporting verb is in the past tense, then usually we change the tenses in the
reported speech:
Direct speech: I like ice cream.
Reported speech: She said she liked ice cream.
Tense Direct Speech Reported Speech
present simple I like ice cream She said (that) she liked ice cream.
present
continuous
I am living in London She said she was living in London.
past simple I bought a car
She said she had bought a car OR She said she
bought a car.
past
continuous
I was walking along the
street
She said she had been walking along the street.
present perfect I haven't seen Julie She said she hadn't seen Julie.
past perfect*
I had taken English
lessons before
She said she had taken English lessons before.
will I'll see you later She said she would see me later.
would* I would help, but.. She said she would help but...
can
I can speak perfect
English
She said she could speak perfect English.
could*
I could swim when I
was four
She said she could swim when she was four.
shall I shall come later She said she would come later.
should*
I should call my
mother
She said she should call her mother
might* "I might be late" She said she might be late
must
"I must study at the
weekend"
She said she must study at the weekend OR She
said she had to study at the weekend
* doesn't change.


Occasionally, we don't need to change the present tense into the past if the information
in direct speech is still true (but this is only for things which are general facts, and even
then usually we like to change the tense):
Direct speech: The sky is blue.
Reported speech: She said that the sky is/was blue.
Reported Questions
So now you have no problem with making reported speech from positive and negative
sentences. But how about questions?
Direct speech: "Where do you live?"
How can we make the reported
speech here?


In fact, it's not so different from
reported statements. The tense
changes are the same, and we keep
the question word. The very
important thing though is that,
once we tell the question to
someone else, it isn't a question any
more. So we need to change the
grammar to a normal positive
sentence. Confusing? Sorry, maybe
this example will help:
Direct speech: "Where do you live?"
Reported speech: She asked me
where I lived.
Do you see how I made it? The direct question is in the present simple tense. We make a present
simple question with 'do' or 'does' so I need to take that away. Then I need to change the verb to
the past simple.

Another example:
Direct speech: "where is Julie?"
Reported speech: She asked me where Julie was.
The direct question is the present simple of 'be'. We make the question form of the present
simple of be by inverting (changing the position of)the subject and verb. So, we need to change
them back before putting the verb into the past simple.
Here are some more examples:

Direct Question Reported Question
Where is the Post Office, please? She asked me where the Post Office was.
What are you doing? She asked me what I was doing.
Who was that fantastic man? She asked me who that fantastic man had been.

So much for 'wh' questions. But, what if you need to report a 'yes / no' question? We don't have
any question words to help us. Instead, we use 'if' :
Direct speech: "Do you like chocolate?"
Reported speech: She asked me if I liked chocolate.
No problem? Here are a few more examples:

Direct Question Reported Question
Do you love me? He asked me if I loved him.
Have you ever been to Mexico? She asked me if I had ever been to Mexico.
Are you living here? She asked me if I was living here.