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Course Code: MASS2113/20

ID: 122598

TED Talks 3 title: “Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss”

Achieving Goals by Facing Fears

He was a senior in college, completely normal student, and a happy person. found his Tim Ferriss found himself in a dark place when he decided he was going to commit suicide. In 1999, Ferriss survived a suicide due to some lucky coincidences.

 After the incident, Ferris decided to start thinking differently and help himself. He was diagnosed with bipolar depression. During the Ted Talk that was published in July 2017 he mentioned that he already had about fifty-plus depressive episodes through his life. But for normal people, they might have about six to ten major depressive episodes in their lives.

 With the death of his close friend and his girlfriend leaving him, Ferriss was also working on his first real business for more than fourteen hours a day, seven days a week. He relied on stimulants and used depressants to go to sleep. And He felt completely trapped. One day he bought a book on simplicity to help him find answers. Fortunately, he found a quote by Seneca the Younger, it said “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”.

 Ferriss started learning more about Seneca who was a famous Stoic writer. He found a helpful exercise called “Premeditation Molorum” which means the premeditation of evils. So he created a written exercise called “Fear-setting” that consist of three pages. First page, titled “What if…?” and it is where you define everything that cause you anxiety or fear. Second page is “What might be the benefits of an attempt or partial success?”. The third and last page is about “The cost of Inaction” physically, emotionally, financially…etc.

 The major tool that Ferriss used to helped him save his live is Stoicism. “So around 300 BC in Athens, someone named Zeno of Citium taught many lectures walking around a painted porch, a “stoa” that later became “stoicism””. People in the past, in the Greco-Roman world, also used Stoicism as a comprehensive system. But today we use it separate what we can control from what we cannot control, and then doing specific exercises. “This decreases emotional reactivity, which can be a superpower”.

Date: November 15, 2020

Words: 350

Description: If you like to know about an interesting story and to also learn more about automobile then this is the kind of story you have been looking for.

Automobile and Museums Relations

It was the same period when automobile, and science museums started to appear in Europe. In the early 1890s, France was the first place to accept the automobile. It was also the first country to present the automobile as a historical object.

 Lane Motor Museum published on its website that in the museum it was going to be displaying about 30 of the most unique French cars from the 100+ French cars in the collection. The struggle was to be reducing 100 cars to 30. The museum picked six of the most interesting French microcars plus the Holocrine. They finally cut it down to thirty unique and special French cars that are a major part of automobile history.

 Around 2015, The exhibition of the French cars had many famous large and small car manufacturer companies. There are four major car makers that France has had, although throughout the history there were other no longer-living automobile makers and less famous ones too. Citroën was one of the most creative and large French manufacturers. In 1955, Citroën introduced the DS at the at Paris Motor Show. “The DS was the first mass-produced car with front-wheel power brakes”. In 1914, Max Friedman offered his first self-built steam car to the Technisches Museum, he said he was experimenting with this vehicle for ten years

 There is hardly any country where at least one individual or a company did not own or tried to establish aa local automobile industry in the last 120 years. In Australia many believed that automobile industry would improve workforce skills, stimulate employment, educe the country’s dependence on primary industry and make Australia more secure in the event of another war.

ID: 122598

Cource code: Mass2113/10

TEDTalks 5 title: Life After Surviving Cancer

Everyone talks about the cancer survivors and that they are heroes and warriors, but no one talks about what they go through after spending days, months or even years in the hospital fighting for their lives. Suleika Jaouad who is an American writer, advocate, and motivational speaker talked about what she went through after cancer.

 She came back to her home and everything seemed different. Jaouad felt like she did not belong to the world and did not know how to live. “because no one had warned me of the challenges of reentry, I thought something must be wrong with me, I felt ashamed” she said.

 In the hospital, Jaouad said that she had to accept her new reality. She adopted, made friends with a group of other young cancer patients. She also achieved her dream of becoming a war correspondent, it started with a blog where she reported from the front lines of her hospital bed, and then she wrote a column for the New York Times called “Life, Interrupted”.

 People from all around the world had read her column and responded with letters, comments, and emails. One of the stories she received was from a teenager girl from Florida, and many others. Jaouad decided to go on a real journey to meet these people and talk with them.

 When Jaouad started accepting the idea to stop expecting herself to return to the person she had been pre-diagnoses. Once She started accepting her body and its limitations, she started feeling better.

 She said the trick is to stop seeing our health as binary, between sick and healthy, well, and unwell, whole, and broken. “Every single one of us will have our lives interrupted… we need to find place to live in the in-between place, managing whatever body and mind we currently have” Jaouad said.

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Date: November 29, 2020

Date: November 29, 2020

Words: 350

                          Tonya Harding on Losing Her Career

Dedicated her life to skating and has won many skating competitions. Tonya Harding was the first American woman to complete a triple axel in competition. Later she was banned for life from the U.S. Figure Skating Association.

 She began skating at the age of 3. Harding was raised by her mother who was a strong but controlling woman. Harding experienced a tough life and had been abused emotionally and physically by her mother and her ex-husband. When she was young Harding claimed that her mom threw a steak knife at her in the middle of a verbal argument.

 Harding ex-husband Gillooly and his friend Eckhart hired a hitman to assault competitor Nancy Kerrigan. The incident took place on January 6, 1994, and it was all over the media. Kerrigan was hit on the right knee with a hard stick by an unknown attacker.

 Gilooly was sentenced to two years in prison and Eckhart was sentenced to 18 months. Harding avoided jail time after she pleaded guilty to hindering the investigation into Kerrigan's attack. In the interview with ABC’s News Amy Robach, Harding said that she never agreed or knew about her ex-husband Jeff Gillooly’s plan to go after Kerrigan.

 After skating, Tonya Harding found a new career in life. She made her first appearance as a boxer in February 2003. She also worked as a commentator on TV. Today, Harding is happy and has her own family, a husband, and a son. “With my husband and my son, I get my second chance in life to be loved and to be happy,” she said.

“And I’ve been nothing several times. But it’s my faith in myself and in my father that comes back to me and makes me get back up off my butt and be something worth being proud of,” she said.