2019西雅图圣诞记&12/27读书笔记

Kerry Park夜景

    11月干脆利落定下去西雅图过圣诞节的机票和Airbnb，终于要去见一位四年的朋友，即使没有樱花在。站在与Space Needle对望的山顶Kerry Park，俯瞰整个西雅图的万家灯火时，我们无法免俗地感慨时间匆忙。突然意识到这一切都不是四年前18岁的我们能够料想到的场景，那份简单真挚的情谊能在时间长河里被保存地如此完好，从机场门口见到她的那一刻我就知道，我们都没变。

仰望Space Needle

从Space Needle俯瞰西雅图

    她带着我从Bellevue到Seattle走街串巷，带我认识了这个她离开CC后生活了三年多近4年的地方。她问我觉得她改变了吗？在她熟练穿梭在城市高速toll way、车里大声播放Christian男声rap的那一刻，竟觉得眼前的一切熟悉又陌生。如她所说，也算是个驾龄有几年的“老司机”了。可她的侧脸在光影里和几年前那个雷雨天开车到海边去看闪电时的那个姑娘分毫不差。她问我玩的开心吗？我看着她的眼睛，认真的回答：开心呀！她：可是为什么我都看不出你开心或者不开心呢？我心想：大概是因为过去这几年时间对我的洗礼吧，不辨好坏，喜怒哀乐不再溢于言表。

    其实内心深处，我还是那个偶尔会有疯狂念头想做一件事却踟蹰、在朋友的鼓励陪伴下才能勇敢行动的那个姑娘，她也还是那个会尽力照顾朋友的义气小孩，即便她自己可能有时也需要被照顾。想对她说：I will be here for you whenever you need.很高兴重新遇见你，谢谢和我分享你这些年的过去。

转盘上捕捉到的夫妻背影

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Exactly What to Say - Phil M Jones, purchased in Seattle Airport on 12/27/2019

Exactly What To Say - Cover

(Almost three hours' reading. )

As the author stated in the opening words section, there were several reasons you might find this book useful and informal, at a surprisingly unique perspective (techniques based on persuading subconsciously). No matter if you are a professional sales, who want to sharpen your skills; or you are building your own business and feeling the obligation and necessity to take a closer look inside of the tactics of business language. If not, I guess you are like me, together with most other readers, hoping to learn some methods to express yourselves in an accurate way and make effects with your ideas. The vocabulary of this small book should be friendly to beginners of English originals.

I will make some examples with what I have learnt from Exactly What to Say below:

1. I'm not sure if it's for you, but... [no pressure here, but you would want to check this out] I'm not sure if it's for you, but I really find this book interesting and easy to follow.

2. Open-minded [everybody wants to be open-minded] How open-minded are you about spending only 15 mins a day reading this book?

3. What do you know? [you might want to use this question when you're attempting to introduce new concepts; to question the knowledge on which the other person's opinion was found] What do you know about our organization?

4. How would you feel if? [give people motivations to start, usually people will work far harder to avoid potential losses] How would you feel if you would make more money, utilizing these language skills from this book?

5. Just imagine... [he points out that we make every decision at least twice, "In fact, for a decision to come true, you must have first at least imagined yourself doing it."] Just imagine the look on your kids' faces when they see you achieve this.

6. When would be a good time? [people just postpone timing to make decisions and being procrastinated. This open question would lead other person to assume there will be a good time and "no" is not an option] So, when would be a good time to start investing in yourself?

I am guessing you haven't got around to this book yet? For more astonishing business language skills, definitely check this one out. I believe that you won't regret it!