1 Questions
1) Why “happiness is a problem?
Because there is a promise about happiness is algorithmic. The premise itself is a problem, and happiness is not a solvable problem.
2) Why the author invented “Disappointment Panda”? What is it for?
Because the author use the Disappointment Panda as a reminder to tell what people don't want to hear and make people’s life better.
3) What is the role that emotions play in our life? why they are overrated?
Emotions play roles of signposts and suggestions in our life. People overrate about it because everything is justified for no other reason than they felt it.
4) Why you don’t have chiseled abs? (If you do have, how did you make it?)
Because I don't care about my body shape and the most important reason is that I not really want chiseled abs.
2 Expressions
Much as the pain of touching a hot stove teaches you not to touch it again, the sadness of being alone teaches you not to do the things that made you feel so alone again.
Much as means although.
e.g. Much as she wants to hang out with friends, she really needs to finish her assignments first.
Look, I don't mean to make light of your midlife crisis or the fact that your drunk dad stole your bike when you were eight years old and you still haven't gotten over it.
Make light of means to treat some sth as not being important and not serious.
e.g. She always makes light of her younger brother.
A fixation on happiness inevitably amounts to a never-ending pursuit of 'something else'.
Amount to means to be equal to or the same as sth.
e.g. She told her friends that her boyfriend amounts to nothing.
这个词在Who is/was 系列中，已经Charlotte's Web中都出现过，再记不住就要撞墙了。
3 Thoughts
Our struggle determine our successes.
When reading this sentence, the first person came to my mind is Kobe. I guess most people have known his story, so I won't wast time introducing him. He is a really successful basketball player and is known by many people, even if most of them are not sports fanatic. Of course, he had put a lot of effort in playing basketball, such as waking up earlier and practicing harder than his teammates. What he had done is like the textbook example of 'no pain no gain'.
As for me, I always prefer to find the short cut in studying English, maybe that's why I still haven't mastered the English grammar or in other words, I haven't made light of studying it. What a shame.
What I am trying to say is that not being struggled to learn English grammar is the reason why I don't succeed in mastering it. So, it's time to struggle with my laziness and do the things I should have done before.
