Consciousness How to be happy?A good way to be happy is to buy something new(e.g car,phone,book,home,clothes), but it's a worst way to be happy in long-run and I'm going to explain why.Recently I started to read a book about consciousness where I encountered the idea that we live too much in our thoughts and do not experience our live directly without judging or estimating or comparing.The first time I came across that idea, it was a podcast episode with Naval Ravikant,but this time I was ready to get the message.We maintain our expectations and try to match them with real life but our expectations are often unsatisfied.One bad event can empower itself so that you ruminate about that all day long.Researchs show that our aspiration to suppress thinking about bad events makes situation even worse. So what is the way out of this trap?Meditations! What you should do while meditating?Watch your mind. A little part of ourselves let's say it "monkey mind" is always chattering in our head and trying to destroy your peace of mind.I think, peace can always be converted to happiness.While meditating, you should only watch your thoughts and not try to suppress or criticize yourself.Watch yourself.

Some thoughts on reading and learning 'Read what you love until you fall in love with reading'-this is a quote, which I have discussed with so many friends and changed their attitude toward reading.When we are children,we always taught that it's mandatory to finish the book, eventually,because of that,reading becomes a torture.Now I'm trying to get rid of concept that you have to finish every book you started to read.Another situation is when you are stuck somewhere in a book and can't get further.That's because we taught to read one book at a time.Therefore,when it gets a little boring with reading one book,you can feel free to move on to some other book.I think I have a book for every my mood,so when I'm stressed I read psychology or philosophy,when I have a lot of energy I read books on math or computers.People often say that books are not honest and describing the world completely different than it is,but I think they haven't read books that they really need. 'How much of learning is just having the confidence to ask stupid questions?' - I came across this tweet couple of days ago and it made me pounder.Ultimately,I draw myself to conclusion that love of reading is just love to analyse, observe and understand things going on around you.The tools to learn are abundant, it is actual learning that scares.

What I did this year? As the end of this year are coming I want to make a summary of my achievements in 2018.Also I want to describe changes in my attitude and views for 2018 .At first I'm very happy that I fell in love with learning languages.I have never could imagine that I will understand so well and furthermore even speak.Due to English I opened my eyes and saw beauty in foreigners.I opened minimalist as a way to live a meaningfull life and to focus on something one at the time.As side effects I noticed that I had conversations in my head all the time.I was dreaming about future that will never come true,constantly judging other people for no reason.Soon I realized that I have to cease doing some things and to change my habits.This year taught me a lot about how to manage my time and how to work hard. When I say in a conversation that I wrote couple sentences ago I feel like I'm trying to get social approval.But that's not true. Currently I read a book by Isaac Asimov called "I,robot" and I found it really wonderful even though I understand only about 60-70% of the text.Once I have time and want to relax I definitely going to pick up this book.

My story of learning English I started to learn English when I was 4 grade child and I hated English lessons so mush considering that they are pointless.My attitude has changed at the beginning of this year.In fact,I have been learning English 11 months.I remember on March of this year I couldn't catch anything from speech of native speakers.Afterwards,I got used to listen to a podcast when I walk home even though it brought no information in my head.Time passed by and at once I realized that I can understand some words that I learned not a long time ago.That was crucial thing for me to continue to learn.As I have written in my previous entries I'm learning English completely by myself,therefore I don't have much speaking practice.I'm trying to find an opportunity to talk to others.I participate in English club every week,but unfortunately there are no native speakers and I'm tired of listening to people with strong Russian accent.Also I'm trying to find somebody online to talk to. When it comes to writing skills I started a diary in English a long time ago.It's such a funny time when you reread the diary and notice a lot of mistakes)

Random text I became a regular member of an English club in my city. There were no native speakers from Europe or America so far. Regardless of that I always looking forward every tonight of Wednesday to go there. I don't afraid of opening mouth on public now. I bought a membership on Medium and very satisfied by represented content there.It would be perfect if I would know English well enough to read articles faster,because I can get stuck on some very interesting one.

My new experience I went to an English club last week.It's was a huge challenge because I didn't speak face to face with others before.There were a lot of people like myself.They spoke with mistakes as well.Also, there were native speakers that didn't correct us too frequently.You should pay 200рублей=$2.5 for enrolling and you can order as many cups of coffee as you want.Personally,I don't like coffee and a cup is enough for me.In that English club you can talk about anything that you are interested in.So yesterday I went there for the second time and can't wait for the following wednesday to. Finally,I finished adapted for intermediate level Fight Club.On the one hand the book is very fastinating and it's pleasure to read it,on the other hand the book adapted a little awkwardly.Anyway,I got a lot of pleasure along with reading

My "report" At the beginning of this academic year I was very inspired and wanted to learn,but now it's all gone.I think, a lot of people have faced that problem.To handle with that I come up with some time-menagement rules.For example,every morning I write down my daily tasks and I gradually get them done during a day. Finally I solved a task in electrical engineering that I couldn't get done for 2 days.Also I found an awesome website where anyone can get smarter in couple minutes,it's called Khan Academy.I knew about existence of Khan Academy for a long time,but my English was not good enough to listen to their lessons)

Description of my day I want to write something in this entry,but I can't come up with a theme.Therefore I picked up the most common one.I have been learning English for eight months and feel like I'm still at the beginning. At the start of this day I wanted to read a lot pages from my study book,called "CODE" by Charles Petzold,but I found myself procrastinating. Eventually I did nothing. There is a good news too.It may be weird, but I have done a doghouse. When it comes to weather in my village,it's rainy for a long time. Because of such weather I couldn't have a jog.

The thoughts that were in my head Hi)Please correct my sentences. Finally I have a free time when I can improve my English writing skills. After seven months learning my listening and reading skills are really high but when it comes writing I have very low level. You can give me a piece of advice :)I have almost read the book written by Jules Verne and called "A journey to the centre of the Earth".I have been reading this book for two weeks. In spite of I have already read this book in Russian it's really interesting. Of course the book is adapted for intermediate level. Also I have found an awesome podcast for English learners. The podcast is called "culips English podcasts"I hope this entry will useful not only for me