- [[English Lesson]]
	- https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230120-five-ways-to-be-calm-and-why-it-matters
		- Five ways to be calm – and why it matters
		- serenity - Gelassenheit
		- **Stoic serenity**
			- put all into wider **perspective**
			- stay calm when making decisions
		- **Electronic escape**
			- soundtrack that will promote peacefulness like ambient rainforest sounds
		- **Art of tranquillity**
			- visual art, one viewer's tranquil, meditative experience
		- **Harmony of haiku**
			- Japanese poetry, haiku, which consists of 17 syllables in three lines
			- Zen idea of a oneness with creation
			- the composition of haiku is so intuitive, it is almost unconscious.
		- **Find your flow**
			- absorbed in something we love ...enter an almost trance-like state of calm, mesmerised
			- make a commitment to quiet time
	- Solution
		- look /seek / search work towards solutions
			- search is less formal
		- find / come up with / produce a / reach / work out solution
		- propose a solution
		- complete vs partial
		- agree on / arrive at solution
		- solution for/to sth
		- happy / neat / good / ideal solution - everyone is satisfied
	- Cares and concerns
		- stress you out
		- outwait sth. - wait till it is over
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	- **1. When someone "brings something to the table", it means that he/she _____________________.**
	- **  has something to offer**
	- **  has nothing to offer**
	- **  buy everyone lunch**
	- **2. HP is one of Dell's main _____________________.**
	- **  computers**
	- **  competitors**
	- **  controllers**
	- **3. It's pretty hard to _____________________ against big, established companies.**
	- **  compete**
	- **  complete**
	- **  competition**
	- **4. James _____________________ last year.**
	- **  changed his jobs**
	- **  changed jobs**
	- **  made a change in jobs**
	- **5. It's not good to _____________________ yourself entirely to your career.**
	- **  denigrate**
	- **  detonate**
	- **  dedicate**
	- **6. Bill, I need your _____________________ on this. What do you think of this design?**
	- **  intake**
	- **  install**
	- **  input**
	- **7. I thought you _____________________ at the conference.**
	- **  did a really good job**
	- **  really did a job**
	- **  did really a good job**
	- **8. P1: We've got a meeting in 10 minutes. Do I have to _____________________? P2: Yes, you do.**
	- **  atone**
	- **  attend**
	- **  attain**
	- **9. I'd like you to do a little _____________________ on investment strategies.**
	- **  present**
	- **  presenting**
	- **  presentation**
	- **10. He's away ______________________ at the moment, but he'll be back in an hour.**
		- **  from his desk**
		- **  from a desk**
		- **  from the desk**
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