Hans and Ola Rosling: How not to be ignorant about the world

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_and_ola_rosling_how_not_to_be_ignorant_about_the_world#t-1112604

(Abstract)

How much do you know about the world? Hans Rosling, with his famous charts of global population, health and income data (and an extra-extra-long pointer), demonstrates that you have a high statistical chance of being quite wrong about what you think you know. Play along with his audience quiz — then, from Hans’ son Ola, learn 4 ways to quickly get less ignorant.

Opinion:

I believe we are ignorant on the present because most of us focus on what we see around us and take it as a general condition around the world.  With this ted video we can clearly see that personal bias.

Besides, most of us don’t realize news is a point of view. The news bias lets us see what they want us to see in the way they want. We need to be critical and compare different newspapers. Like this our global vision will widen.

In fact, what I just said before, I’m sure most of us know it. The things we forget are the outdated facts. Things, years ago, were in a way but nowadays they not still being that way. We must not forget that things change as time passes. That’s why we have to know that what we think is what we are, including the world. If we think positive our world will be healthy.

Laura Vanderkam: How to gain control of your free time

http://www.ted.com/talks/laura_vanderkam_how_to_gain_control_of_your_free_time#t-702240

(Abstract)

There are 168 hours in each week. How do we find time for what matters most? Time management expert Laura Vanderkam studies how busy people spend their lives, and she's discovered that many of us drastically overestimate our commitments each week, while underestimating the time we have to ourselves. She offers a few practical strategies to help find more time for what matters to us, so we can "build the lives we want in the time we've got."

Opinion:

Must of us usually say “I don’t have time” but we should know this means “it’s not my priority”. I’m sure we all know that we can do what we spelling ourself to do, taking the time to doing it. Time isn’t a problem and Laura Vanderkam let us see how much we are underestimating the time.

After all, we just need to know what are our goals, what are our priority in each present  moment. At the end we find time for what we want. We just don’t have to be afraid to make a little step, and I mean with the first step is, you have to say that you can.

A little anecdote !

Which girl has never dreamed of being a top model?

I'm studying in a model school and a friend who studying with me told me last Saturday a little anecdote that was quite shocking. That's why I wanted to explain it today.

During a Parisian fashion week, an American model, didn't want to share a car with other models to go to parade to parade, so she asked for a private car with a chauffeur. The appointments came one after one, breakfast was short, time was running out, the endless days, like it used to happen in this fashion week. Soon, the chauffeur and the model were sharing dinners together. As the days went by, a rapport started. Living far from Paris, the model had invite one night her chauffeur to sleep at her hotel where the couple got intimate! At the end of the week, the model had the unpleasant surprise to be charged not only the hours of breakfast, but also the nights, with a higher hourly working rate! No matter if she tried to protest and say it was out of work hours, she had to pay an astronomical amount. And the chauffeur maintains that he had only made himself available 24 hours a day, at the express request of the model.

Did you know... (HARIBO)

... that a chain of Gold Bears produced in a year would go around the earth 4 times! That's 160,306 Km!

Next week, the 3rd of January 2017 I will have my first interview and it will be my first job. Is true that every summer I work at my parent's boat renting agency helping them. But this year won't the same.
I will have an interview with the Haribo industry; founded by Hans Riegel in Bonn -a city in the state of North Rhine, Westphalia in Germany- in 1920.
Do you know that we use to say: "first work experience for lifelong success". I decided to think about this quote for didn't stress and be natural. Like this I hope to match with the profile they are searching for.

Wearing nothing new (Jessi Arrington)

https://www.ted.com/talks/jessi_arrington_wearing_nothing_new

(Summary)
Designer Jessi Arrington packed nothing for TEDActive but 7 pairs of undies, buying the rest of her clothes in thrift stores around LA. It's a meditation on conscious consumption — wrapped in a rainbow of color and creativity.

(Point of view)
I'm a person who loves brands. Because of the idea that a brand lets us think we look as beautiful as the photo of the model that promote the brand. Because of the quality they should have in regards of the high price. Because the price should confirm that those who work in this brand work in good conditions. Because people say: "tell me what you wear and I will tell you who you are".
The case is that watching this TED talk, I realise that I have an erroneous idea. We have to realise that the price of the clothes do not always mean the condition of those that manufacture the clothes are decent. The price doesn't mean people that are looking at you will always think you know how to dress well.
The truth is that those who dress in a way they feel confident, even if it's out of the tendance, they will smile hand if you're smiling, any outfit will look beautiful. 

https://audioboom.com/posts/5549139-short-story

Scenario Two sisters watching a Christmas film.
Characters Jessica (sister 1), Rebecca (sister 2)

JESSICA Rebecca the film on T.V is starting !
REBECCA Yeah, I'm coming ! (Few minutes later) I'm here !
                Did I miss something interesting?
JESSICA Nothing much for the moment. So far the main character has just met the man of her dreams in a police station. Or it's looks like! And right know she is just cooking some stuff before her meeting arrive.
REBECCA Okey !
JESSICA Tell me, why you take so much time for come?
REBECCA I was waitting for a call. An important call! But anyway it seems they'll not going to call                  me today...
JESSICA Important call?
REBECCA Yeah... You know, to get an interview appointment.
JESSICA Oh, yeah, I remember! You ready told me about it.
REBECCA Anyway! Let see this loving film!
JESSICA Yep!
Watching the film Rebecca suddenly said:
REBECCA Waouh she's so beautiful, isn't she ?
JESSICA That's crazy ! You know, I didn't think people would like these kind of films if they weren't full of beautiful stereotypes.
REBECCA Could be...
JESSICA I'm sure of it ! The influences of publicity on the perfect and artificial image of woman are also in these innocent Christmas films.

SELF EVALUATION

First step: chooses a topic. About the topic, it hasn’t been difficult to decide. In fact, one day I read in a newspaper that heels has been wearied by men at first. This surprises me and catches my attention, that’s why I suggested to Iman, my partner for this presentation, to make our presentation about heels. She liked it and this is why we chose to talk about heels.

Found information didn’t bring any problem. It was the case of the timing and the information we wanted to give.

We wanted to expose interesting information and some details that people could remember. That was the hardest part.

I would like to talk about memorizing too. Remembers your text takes time and is not so easy, but makes it fluent and spontaneous takes even more time. That’s why I’m happy that we could do our presentation later than it has been decided. Like this, our presentation could get almost all the punctuation, thank you for the two more days we had that let us integrate all the information and present our topic speaking fluently and catching the audience’s attention.