A Whole New Mind( Chapter 6, 125-141 )

1.what surprised me?
-I was surprised by his drawing. I thought it was his kid's drawing, when I looked at the drawing without reading a book; however, it was his drawing of himself.
-I was also surprised by his improvement in five days. I bet his instructor was quite expensive.

2.what did you already know?
-I had an idea that the world is requiring a person, who can think and work across boundaries.

3.Brand new words

opt - to make a choice

forte - a strong point

hieroglyphic - pictographic script of the ancient Egyptians

hyphenate - to join by hyphen?

elude - to avoid or escape

androgynous - being both male and female; hermaphroditic?

linguist - a person who is skilled in several languages

choreographer - a person who creates dance compositions

marshal - a military officer og the highest rank

dyslexic - any of various reading disorder

deluge - flood

4. what changes are you going to make?
-I will try to combine two existing ideas because the "most powerful ideas come from simply combining two existing ideas nobody else ever thought to unite"(133) like pencil and eraser.

5.Further questions?
- What is negative space? I do not understand it.
- Who makes the real money? the inventors or the one, who uses the inventors?

A Whole New Mind [ Portfolio - Story ](117~124)

1.what surprised me?

-I was surprised to know that there are many story-telling festivals in the world. I want to visit it someday.

3.Brand new words

replica - facsimile

mere - being nothing more

highbrow - a person of superior intellectual interests and tastes.

4. what changes are you going to make?

- I should record other people's story. There are so many things that we could learn from other peoples' life experiences.

5.Further questions?

-Is watching a movie or drama also helpful way to sharpen our story aptitude?

A Whole New Mind (chapter 5, 98~113)

1.what surprised me?
-It was surprising that a young boy can find a information as quickly and easily as the head librarian at Cambridge University.

2.what did you already know?
- I knew that informations are ubiquitous and we can get it easily and quickly.
- I also knew that using story is better than just memorizing.

3.Brand new words

retrieve - recover

peril: exposure to injury

adrift - feeling alone without a direction or an aim in life

flounder - to struggle to know what to say or how to continue with something

abyss - a very deep wide space or hole that seems to have no bottom

lurk - to hide or wait secretly

imbue - to fill something / with strong feelings

factoid - an insignificant or trivial fact

felicitous - well-suited for the occasion

encapsulate - to place in or as if in a capsule

elusive - hard to express or define

irascible - easily provoked to anger; very irritable

glimpse - glance



4. what changes are you going to make?
- ......not sure.... I will try to use stories when I have to memorize something.


5.Further questions?
- "When facts become so widely available and instantly accessible, each one bocomes less valuable"(101). It is true, and we can not stop it. what should we do to make us more valuable?
-Is it good for us that facts become so widely available and instantly accessible?


6.what connection in real life?
-when I do my homework, I rarely read the textbook. Instead, I search on the internent. It is much faster and easier.

A Whole New Mind[ Portfolio - Design ](89-97).

1.what surprised me?
- I went to some of the Web-sites in the book and surprised to see the designs that they made. It was fabulous and I even wanted to buy it. :)

2.what did you already know?
- I knew that it is good to carry a small notebook and when do see or think of a great design, make a note of it.


3.Brand new words

-flawed : having imperfections

-impresario : a person who organizes or manages public entertainments

-fetishize : unquestioning respect

-versatile : having or capable of many uses


4. what changes are you going to make?
- I am not a note-taker, so i will carry a cell phone and take photos of good and bad design.

5.Further questions?
- "choose things because they delight you, not because they impress others. And never let things be more important than your family, friends and your own spirit"(97). However, when we start to think of design and fashion, people tend to buy things to impress others.


6.what connection in real life?
- what about famous brand? Do we need it because it delight us or because it impresses others?...

A Whole New Mind (p.61~86)

1.what surprised me?
-It was surprising to know how the design also can change humans' mind. In the hostipal, improving the design of medical settings helps patients get better faster, and improving a school's physical environment could increase test scores by as much as 11 percent.
-It was also surprising that the sum total of design schools in Japan, South Korea, and Singapore thirty-five years ago was zero.
-The typical Philadelphia public high school has a daily attendance rate of 63 percent, at CHAD it's 95 percent. wow.


2.what did you already know?
- I knew that BMW is not just a car, it is "moving works of art that express the driver's love of quality"(79). I want to buy it~!:) but it is too expensive...:(


3.Brand new words

-crucial: involving an extremely important decision or result

-whimsical: erratic; unpredictable

-rebut: to refuse by evidence; to oppose

-*ubiquitous

-ample: plentiful; enough; abundant

-light-heartedness: carefree; cheerful

-sobriety: seriousness; quiet; gravity

-*atrophy

-deviant: not normal

-lament: to feel or express sorrow or regret for

-banality: devoid of freshness or originalit

-aqueduct: a bridgelike structure that carries a water

-deputy: a person appointed or authorized to act as a substitute for another or others.

-imperative: absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable

-gargantuan: gigantic

4. what changes are you going to make?
- I want to change to other school. my school looks like a prison.. haha...
- I also think that we need more design curriculums.

5.Further questions?
- who designed D.W.Poppy, and R.E.Mountain?? they both look like a prison.


6.what connection in real life?
-Now I understood the importance of the design and the reason that I do not want to go to school. It is because of the design,,,,,, or is it???

7.Quotations from the book that I liked...
-"Design is the only thing that differentiates one product from another in the marketplace"(78).
-Giving the world something it didn't know it was missing(81).

A Whole New Mind (p.48~61)

1.what surprised me?
- I was surprised by the fact that we might entre new age.
-I was surprised that IQ(L-Directed Thinking) only takes 4 to 10 percent portion of career success.

2.what did you already know?
- I kind of knew that we might entre new age, but I was not sure.

3.Brand new words
-lucrative : profitable
-periphery : the external boundary of any surface or area
-credential : evidence of authority, status, rights
-ingenuity : the quality of being cleverly inventive
-dexterity : skill in using the hands
-cognitive : the process of thought
-abstract : thought of apart from concrete realities
-indisputable : uncontestable


4. what changes are you going to make?
- before I choose my job, I will always ask myself these two questions; ' can someone overseas do it cheaper?' 'can a computer do it faster?'

5.Further questions?
- how fast is it going to change?

6.what connection in real life?
-School is requiring too much L-Directed Thinking(math, physics, etc). Schools also should change thier curriculums.