Nguồn video: Jay Shetty
"All right students. Please take your ...(1)...".
One day, our professor decided to give us a surprise test with an interesting ...(2)... He handed out the ....(3)...of paper and then told the class:
"You have one hour to ...(4)...the test. You may begin. I want you to write what you see on the piece of paper. Let's go".
After the hour was up, the professor began to read out loud what each student had ...(5)...
"I see a black dot, one of you wrote. A black dot. There's a black dot in middle of the paper".
"I'm not going to ...(6)...these papers. I just wanted to give you something to think about. You see you all wrote about the black dot. What about the ...(7)...of the paper? The white ...(8)... You see the same thing goes with life. There's so much to be happy about, to be ...(9)...for, to celebrate. But we tend to ...(10)...on the negative, and ...(11)...about the things that go wrong".
And then I raise my hand.
"Yes Jay".
"I get it. We all have positives and negatives in life. We go through these ups and downs. But our ...(12)...has this tendency to blow the negatives out of proportion. But actually, we need to focus on the positives to have a happy and ...(13)...life. And that's why they say the ...(14)...is greener where you water it".
"That's exactly it".
Từ mới
handed out: đưa, phát
read out loud: đọc to lên
tendency: xu hướng, khuynh hướng
blow the negatives out of proportion: quan trọng hóa những điều tiêu cực