about thinking I just noticed the notebook entries at the italki website are so useful, because people here help each other to point out mistakes. This is a quite good platform to learn from each others. I want to talk a little bit about ‘thinking’. There is an idiom in Chinese ‘吾日三省吾身’, which is derived from “曾子曰：吾日三省吾身——为人谋而不忠乎？与朋友交而不信乎？传不习乎？” in The Analects of Confucius(论语). This is a part of dialogue from Confucius’s students. One student asked Zengzi (曾子), who is one of Confucius's favorite students due to his diligent and longing for knowledge, why he had fast progress in the academia. Zengzi said, it was because I made introspection many times everyday— asked myself if I tried my best to provide the valuable advice, if I was honest with my friends, and if I reviewed my learning regularly. ( I am not sure if the grammar is correct above. ) And so do I. I mean I think about my words, behaviors and the future several times each day. Yet, it may not be very helpful as I don’t have a good memory, but I tried. However, I am still not as good as I expect, so I doubt what’s wrong. Until one day I read a sentence from Yang Jiang (杨绛), a famous writer in China, who wrote ‘’ 你的主要问题在于读书不多而想的太多“ . This is a part of a letter in reply from Yang Jiang to younger generations, which pointed out that their major problem was resulted from thinking too much, and not focused on reading books and learning knowledge. So that’s it. ;) (Here I wanted to show that I might waste much time in thinking before, rather than spend time in learning knowledge and reading books. It's ironic because people hope to be as successful as Zengzi, so they superficially follow what he said, with neglect of his hardworking.)