# The Key to Success: Grit

stratospheric: very high or great 

• The project had proved a stratospheric success.

decimal:  a number expressed using a system of counting based on number ten

• Three fifths expressed as a decimal is 0.6. 

grit: courage and determination despite difficulty 

• It takes true grit to stand up to a bully.  

drop out: to stop doing something before you have completely finished

• He dropped out of the race after two laps. 

rookie: a person who is new to an organization or an activity

• These rookie cops don't know anything yet. 

What do you think is the key to success?

   effort, insist, think of failure as experience

# Inside the mind of a master procrastinator

 

procrastinator : someone who keeps delaying things that must be done

• I never buy my gifts until Christmas Eve because I'm a procrastinator.

propagate : to produce a new plant from a parent plant

• Plants need certain conditions to propagate.

epiphany : a moment when you suddenly feel that you understand, or suddenly become conscious of, something that is very important to you

• I had a little bit of an epiphany.

This talk is about procrastinator, the person who always starts work when the deadline is approaching. The procrastinator's system consists of three characters -- Rational Decision-Maker, Instant Gratification Monkey,  Panic Monster. There's two kinds of procrastination with deadline and no deadline. And the speakers think everyone is a procrastinator.

# If you can choose, do you prefer to work from home, or to work in the office with your colleagues?

 I prefer to work in the office with my colleagues. Because I think work in the office can discuss problems with my colleagues immediately. I like face to face rather than using the Internet. Although working from home also has advantage, like it can be more relaxed, eat whatever you want.  But in order to prevent me from eating more and getting fatter, I still choose work in the office.