"The hard choices — what we most fear doing, asking, saying — these are very often exactly what we most need to do." — Tim Ferriss
From Longman Business Dictionaryinˈflection ˌpointa time when there is an important change in a business or industryThe business has reached an inflection point, and we may even see a drop in profits over the next financial year.
file
phrasal verb
咖啡和茶中所含的咖啡因是輕度興奮劑。
drivenadjective
UK /ˈdrɪv.ən/ US /ˈdrɪv.ən/
Someone who is driven is so determined to achieve something or be successful that all of their behaviour is directed towards this aim.
執著的，鍥而不捨的；奮發努力的
terseadjective
UK /tɜːs/ US /tɝːs/hiccup noun (PROBLEM)
fray verb (BECOME ANNOYED)
intangibleadjective
UK /ɪnˈtæn.dʒə.bəl/ US /ɪnˈtæn.dʒə.bəl/atrociousadjective
UK /əˈtrəʊ.ʃəs/ US /əˈtroʊ.ʃəs/base hit in American English
US
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get into sth
— phrasal verb with get UK /ɡet/ US /ɡet/ verb present participle getting, past tense got, past participle got or us usually gotten
fork over/up sth
us informal
— phrasal verb with fork UK /fɔːk/ US /fɔːrk/ verb
easy-peasyadjective
UK /ˌiː.ziˈpiː.zi/ US /ˌiː.ziˈpiː.zi/ uk informal or child'swordon file in American English
(kept) in or as in a file for reference
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stave sth/sb off
— phrasal verb with stave UK /steɪv/ US /steɪv/ verb staved orstove
put sth off
— phrasal verb with put UK /pʊt/ US /pʊt/ verb present participle putting, past tense and past participle put
incessantadjective
UK /ɪnˈses.ənt/ US /ɪnˈses.ənt/
never stopping, especially in an annoying or unpleasant way
連續不斷的，沒完沒了的
incessant rain/noise/complaints沒完沒了的雨／噪音／抱怨
1. adjective
If you feel trapped, you are in an unpleasant situation in which you lack freedom, and you feel you cannot escape from it.
He follows me everywhere and it makes me feel so trapped.
...people who think of themselves as trapped in mundane jobs.
phrasal verb
[informal]
I regularly have a drink to wind down.
plaquenoun
UK /plɑːk/ /plæk/ US /plæk/
plaque noun (FLAT OBJECT)
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishhigh stakesa) if the stakes are high when you are trying to do something, you risk losing a lot or it will be dangerous if you fail Climbing is a dangerous sport and the stakes are high.b) if the stakes are high when you are doing something such as playing a card game, you risk losing a lot of money We’re playing for high stakes here.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishun‧a‧bat‧ed /ˌʌnəˈbeɪtɪd◂/ adjective, adverb continuing without becoming any weaker or less violent The storm continued unabated throughout the night. his unabated ambition
fly off the handle
impassiveadjective
UK /ɪmˈpæs.ɪv/ US /ɪmˈpæs.ɪv/stoicismSo around 300 BC in Athens, someone named Zeno of Citium taught many lectures walking around a painted porch, a "stoa." That later became "stoicism." And in the Greco-Roman world, people used stoicism as a comprehensive system for doing many, many things. But for our purposes, chief among them was training yourself to separate what you can control from what you cannot control, and then doing exercises to focus exclusively on the former. This decreases emotional reactivity, which can be a superpower.noun [ U ]
UK /ˈstəʊ.ɪ.sɪ.zəm/ US /ˈstoʊ.ɪ.sɪ.zəm/ formalhighlightnoun
UK /ˈhaɪ.laɪt/ US /ˈhaɪ.laɪt/highlight noun (BEST PART)
reel noun [ C ] (DANCE)
Word forms: at bats
countable noun
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methodicaladjective
UK /məˈθɒd.ɪ.kəl/ US /məˈθɑː.dɪ.kəl/
And I did find a quote that made a big difference in my life, which was, "We suffer more often in imagination than in reality," by Seneca the Younger, who was a famous Stoic writer. That took me to his letters, which took me to the exercise, "premeditatio malorum," which means the pre-meditation of evils. In simple terms, this is visualizing the worst-case scenarios, in detail, that you fear, preventing you from taking action, so that you can take action to overcome that paralysis.
Just thinking my way through problems doesn't work. I needed to capture my thoughts on paper. So I created a written exercise that I called "fear-setting," like goal-setting, for myself. It consists of three pages. Super simple.
